Michael Barry of Georgetown University Investment Office and Liesel Pritzker Simmons of Blue Haven Initiative have wrestled with ESG data and investments in their long run planning. Hear what has worked for them.
This 3-day boot virtual camp is designed to fill the knowledge gaps we’ve seen FP&A and corporate finance professionals exhibit again and again in our years of training at top financial institutions.
Active managers face three headwinds – declining fees, outflows, and the increasingly difficult task of delivering consistent alpha in a competitive market. Our industry has the opportunity to address these issues by modernizing investment research. The Society of Quantitative Analysts (SQA) and CFA Society New York are pleased to present a series of timely panel discussions on this opportunity. Each featured panel will focus, respectively, on one of four key steps identified as fundamental to the modernization of investment research.
Climate change will affect economies and markets in the coming decades at an accelerating rate if we do not bend the PPM curve back toward the x-axis. Even if we eventually do bend that curve, certain changes to our climate in our lifetimes, our children’s lifetimes, our grandchildren’s lifetimes, and our great-grandchildren’s lifetimes are already set and likely irreversible. It is true that CO2 PPM levels have been much higher in the history of earth than they have been in human history. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are estimated to have reached nearly 7,000 PPM about 500 million years ago and are estimated to be in the low thousands during the age of the dinosaurs.
CFA Society New York’s Annual Celebration (formerly Annual Dinner) will honor Sallie Krawcheck, founder of Ellevest with the 2020 Irving Kahn Lifetime Achievement Award. We will have a keynote presentation from John Rutledge, PhD, Chief Investment Officer of Safanad. He was a “Principal Architect” of President Reagan’s economic policies in 1980-81. Finally, a panel from many corners of the investment management industry will address change the industry is facing.
Stephen Dunne, Director of Construction and Building Industry Superannuation Fund (Cbus), will be interviewed by Maria Wilton, CFA.
Transitioning military veterans enter the workforce with diverse experiences and tremendous leadership capacity. The November 2nd event explores how veterans focused on financial fields can better take inventory of their strengths, preferences, and tolerances to make fulfilling choices that give them greater staying power in their Wall Street roles.
CFA Society Peru and CFA Society New York will head a fantastic three day event that will go deep into the issues facing Latin American asset owners. Discussions will cover: post COVID-19 risks and opportunities, infrastructure, economic and regulatory policies that will impact investments, ESG and more. All views will be provided by asset owners and international investors.
Overlay strategies are investment strategies that use derivative instruments to gain portfolio exposures beyond those provided by the underlying physical investment portfolio. Such strategies can add alpha, but also value through the management and diversification of risk. During this event, we will hear from a panel of industry experts on how overlay strategies have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and what we may expect from such strategies going forward.
Active managers face three headwinds – declining fees, outflows, and the increasingly difficult task of delivering consistent alpha in a competitive market. Our industry has the opportunity to address these issues by modernizing investment research. The Society of Quantitative Analysts (SQA) and CFA Society New York are pleased to present a series of timely panel discussions on this opportunity. Each featured panel will focus, respectively, on one of four key steps identified as fundamental to the modernization of investment research.
LIBOR is referenced in $350 trillion of contracts. The LIBOR Transition implementation is in full speed now and there is no respite from the regulator to pause on plans. Despite COVID-19, financial institutions are facing challenging implementation timelines. Join CFA Society New York as we examine the major implications of the transition.
We will discuss the key challenges firms are dealing with when moving to the 2020 GIPS Standards. Senior verifiers will provide some insight on what the challenges are and how to manage them.
Hear the CIO of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Malaysia and Edphawin Jetjirawat, MD, Temasek interviewed by Sharinee Shannon Kalayanamitr, Gobi Partners.
The 24th Annual Insurance Conference will discuss the performance of the insurance sector, as well as the challenges faced by the presenting insurance companies in meeting their liabilities, especially in the face of natural disasters. Panelists will additionally debate whether secular trends, rather than cyclical forces, dampen the sector’s outlook.
Learn how research professionals approach earnings releases and quarterly model updates, how they formulate the investment thesis, what adjustments they make to normalize financial metrics to arrive at adjusted EBITDA, and best practices when working with quarterly models.
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