Alex Cavalieri
Company: CAIS | Position: Chief Marketing Officer
CAIS Live Conversations
Welcome to CAIS Live Conversations: Building With Alternatives, the podcast that dives into individual journeys and big ideas shaping wealth management with alternatives. Listen to RIA leaders and asset management executives share unique stories about how they are working to increase access to alternative investments—powered by leading-edge technology.
Latest Episode | September 8, 2026
Model portfolios, private markets, and portfolio constructions are converging, and financial advisors may be rethinking how they build and scale portfolios. Sam Miller, who leads investments and research at Signature Estate & Investment Advisors (SEIA), joins host Alex Cavalieri to discuss his objectives-first approach to incorporating alternatives into model portfolios. He also shares the questions he believes advisors should ask before allocating to private markets and how his team uses AI to work faster while keeping decision-making in human hands.
CAIS Live Conversations: Building With Alts addresses ways independent financial advisors may be able to harness the power of alternative investments and potentially boost client portfolios.
In Their Words
Join CAIS for candid conversations with founders, RIAs and IBD leaders who’ve taken the plunge into the alts universe. Pull up a chair and dive into stories about wealth management, and insights from asset managers that may inspire your own journey to build your practice.
Join CAIS Live Conversations: Building with Alts hosts Alex Cavalieri and Brad Walker as they bring on leaders of RIA and IBD firms, and asset management executives to shed light on alternative investments, discuss ways of accessing hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure funds, address new technologies and share experiences.
Company: CAIS | Position: Chief Marketing Officer
Company: CAIS | Position: Partner, Co-President