Today’s fast-paced global financial markets present long-term investment decision-makers with an ever-growing range of challenges. But those same decision-makers are also challenged to make effective use of their time.
These are the motivations driving the Regional Investment Seminar Series presented by Commonfund. These seminars are designed to provide busy institutional investment executives with the information and insight they need to advance their missions and achieve their objectives in today’s investment environment. You can be assured of a superior quality program, as the Regional Investment Seminar Series is brought to you by the same people who create the annual Commonfund Forum, the premier investment management conference for financial officers and trustees of nonprofit organizations and other institutions.
The agenda will include a mix of plenary sessions, featured speakers and concurrent breakout meetings, enabling you to select topics most appropriate for your institution.
Prospective topics include:
- Death, Taxes and Volatility — The challenges of managing long term while still meeting today's current obligations
- Too Long to Read? — A review of the emerging regulatory environment and its impact on the institutional investor
- Inside China — How private equity managers are building value
- The Outsourced Investment Model — What it offers the long-term investor
- Upside Capture and Downside Protection — Pursuing the Holy Grail of hedge fund portfolio construction
- Europe at the Crossroads — What the fate of the euro means for the world economy (and investors)
Sessions are focused, fast-paced, and structured to present and analyze important, timely investment issues. Commonfund Regional Investment Seminars are scheduled for:
- New York — on Monday, October 25, 2010
- Los Angeles — on Monday, January 10, 2011
- Chicago — on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 (tentative)
Commonfund Regional Investment Seminars are designed specifically for senior institutional investment decision-makers and trustees of nonprofit organizations, pension funds and other institutional investors. Our goal is equipping participants with a rich mix of broad concepts and practical know-how that will be useful and applicable to their information needs long term while still meeting today’s current obligations and investment management process.
- Spencer Abraham, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy
- Laurance R. Hoagland, Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Jason Zweig, Columnist, Wall Street Journal
- Ted Fishman, Author, "China, Inc."
For additional information email seminars@cfund.org.