Alternative Investment Editor at Bloomberg Television Bob Rice will speak at the Millburn American Association of Individual Investors’ next meeting on Tuesday, June 10.
The lecture is called “The Alternative Answer: The Nontraditional Investments that Drive the World’s Best Performing Portfolios.”
Rice is the segment host of “Bob’s Buzzwords” on Money Moves, a television show devoted to alternative investing. Rice has been involved in Alternatives world for 30 years. He is the founder and managing partner of merchant bank Tangent Capital and serves on boards of investment management firms with more than $2 billion of assets under management, as well as Gust, the leading platform for seed stage companies and investors.
After starting his career at the U.S. Justice Department, he worked on the early generations of derivatives as a partner at premiere Wall Street’s law firm Milbank, Tweed. He then entered the private equity world via Wexford Capital, where he launched a 3D technology startup that later became the publicly traded Viewpoint, of which he served as CEO.
In 2004, Rice founded Tangent, whose principals have raised and invested several billions of dollars for and in alternative funds and transactions. He has appeared on dozens of major media outlets around the world, and frequently presents at professional, educational, and business events on topics concerning successful strategies for rapidly changing environments. His recently published book, “The Alternative Answer: The Nontraditional Investments that Drive the World’s Best Performing Portfolios,” Harper Collins, 2013, hit No. 8 on the Wall Street Journal Best-seller list in its’ first week.
The lecture will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m., in the Millburn Free Public Library, 200 Glen Ave., Millburn. Registration begins at 6:45.
The event is free but a $5 donation to the Millburn library is appreciated.
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