Events for Monday, March 24 - October 10, 2024 › Other Industry Events

The United States is in the longest economic recovery in its history. However, persistent and significant macro risks, including a trade war with China and structural and fundamental issues within credit markets are setting up a cycle that will inevitably present a large and attractive distressed credit opportunity. This half-day conference is geared towards industry professionals who want to learn about one of the last true value investing asset classes – distressed debt.

About Keynote Speaker Stacey Cunningham is the president of the NYSE Group, which includes the New York Stock Exchange and a diverse range of equity and equity options exchanges, all wholly owned subsidiaries of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE). She is the 67th president and the first woman to lead the NYSE Group in [...]

In Money We Trust? is an illuminating one-hour public television documentary that answers the question, “what is money?” In a narrative that begins in ancient times and takes us to the present day, the film explains how, 2,500 years ago, the invention of money provided a shared measure of value that facilitated trade and cooperation between strangers.

Social Value Investing presents a new way to approach some of society’s most difficult and intractable challenges.

Through a series of counterintuitive concepts and contemporary case studies based on her firsthand experience of investing in 50 markets around the globe, Rupal Bhansali describes in her new book, The Need for Non-Consensus Investing, how to perform differentiated fundamental research to uncover mispriced stocks. Bhansali candidly shares her failures and mistakes as well as her successes and triumphs.

Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. No other investor can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance’s signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66%. The firm has earned profits of more than $100 billion—Simons is worth $23 billion.

Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry’s actuarial tables and the gambler’s roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probability theory. Most situations in life, however, involve a deeper kind of uncertainty, a radical uncertainty for which historical data provide no useful guidance to future outcomes.