Emerging Markets Alternatives was founded in September 2017 by Kamal Suppal. Mr. Suppal has over two decades of experience across alternatives investment research and due diligence, institutional and private wealth portfolio management and corporate finance. Mr. Suppal developed his specialization in alternatives research and due diligence on emerging managers in developed and emerging markets at NEPC, a leading institutional investment consulting firm in Boston.

In his endless pursuit of premiums for illiquidity, inefficiency and complexity, Mr. Suppal straddles across the liquidity and asset class spectrums researching niche opportunities globally. To evaluate such opportunities, he has successfully built a due diligence framework (integrating a GP’s sustainability/impact focus) adaptable to various opportunities across varying emerging and developed markets. Sharing his experiences and perspectives on alternative strategies, Mr. Suppal speaks regularly at institutional investment conferences and frequently authors, “Ideas Lab” on ÊMA’s website, and various opinion pieces for institutional publications/portals including LinkedIn.

Mr. Suppal’s alternative strategy experience also extends to constructing multi-asset (including alternative assets, co investments) portfolios, a skill he homed in at NEPC and in prior roles as a Portfolio Manager at Bank of America Private Bank, and at the Private Bank of Royal Bank of Canada. Preceding a career in asset management, Mr. Suppal spent his earlier career as a corporate finance buy/sell side analyst with mid-market corporate advisory firms in Canada and in Dubai, UAE.

Mr. Suppal completed a dissertation on constructing multi-strategy fund of hedge funds towards completing an MBA in Global Asset and Wealth Management from Simon Fraser University, Canada. Mr. Suppal is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a Chartered Accountant designation from India where he articled with an Ernst and Young affiliate. Recognizing the growing importance of sustainability across all investments, Mr. Suppal has earned the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting from the IFRS Foundation, UK as well as completed the Impact Measurement and Management for the UNSDGs from Duke University.