Managing Director, Americas, CAIA Association
Adele Kohler, CFA, joined CAIA Association in 2025 as its first Managing Director of the Americas. She leads the Association’s efforts across Canada, the United States, and Latin America, some of the largest and most dynamic capital markets in the world, advancing CAIA’s Vision 2035 and helping to redefine what it means to be an investment professional in a world where everything is now an alternative.
With over 25 years of leadership in global asset management, Adele brings deep expertise across both passive and active strategies, spanning traditional and alternative asset classes. Her work has consistently focused on bringing innovation to market—designing, developing, and scaling investment solutions that meet the evolving demands of allocators, institutions, and advisors. At Wellington Management and State Street Global Advisors, Adele led product innovation across more than 250 strategies, launched transformational initiatives in private markets, and helped pioneer new structures in SMAs and ETFs that bridged the gap between institutional and wealth clients.
Her ability to think across asset classes and investment disciplines positions her as a key driver of CAIA’s educational programming, Member experience, and thought leadership strategy as modern portfolios continue to evolve.
She holds a BA in Economics from Smith College.