In the face of unseen macro-economic uncertainty, GAIM GMA brings together the most influential policy makers, financial market thought-leaders and geopolitical risk experts to provide expert analy
In the face of unseen macro-economic uncertainty, GAIM GMA brings together the most influential policy makers, financial market thought-leaders and geopolitical risk experts to provide expert analysis of the macro-economic changes and geopolitical risks shaping and defining the investment landscape of 2011 and beyond.
Now in its second year, with a unique track record of attracting the most advanced investors and financial market thought-leaders, the GAIM GMA program will address the investment implications of tail risk within an institutional portfolio and examine the critical issues that impact these investments.
Confirmed Speakers to-date include:
– Adam Posen, Monetary Policy Committee Member, BANK OF ENGLAND
– Dr. Burton G. Malkiel, Co-founder, and the Chief Investment Officer, BAOCHUAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT (BaoCap). Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics at PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
– Willem H. Buiter, Chief Economist, CITI
– Peter Orszag, Vice Chairman of Global Banking, Citi, Formerly Director of the Office of Management and Budget
– Nicholas De Monico, Chief Executive Officer, Marketable Alternative Strategies, COMMONFUND ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY, INC.
– Chris Limbach, Head of Quantitative Strategies, PGGM Investments
– Orin Kramer, Member of the Board, NEW JERSEY’S STATE INVESTMENT COUNCIL
– James S. Chanos, President & Founder, KYNIKOS ASSOCIATES
– Manu Kumar, Portfolio Manager, D.E.SHAW
– Stephen L Jen, Managing Partner, SLJ MACRO PARTNERS LLP
– Mark Dow, Portfolio Manager, PHARO MANAGEMENT LLC
– Stephen S. Jamison, President & Chief Investment Officer, JAMISON CAPITAL PARTNERS
– Richard H. Clarida, Executive Vice President Global Strategic Advisor, PIMCO
– Hari Hariharan, Chairman & CEO, NWI MANAGEMENT LP
– John Taylor, Chairman, CEO & Founder, FX CONCEPTS
– Dori Levanoni, Partner, Co-Director of Global Macro, FIRST QUADRANT, L.P.
– Howard Kurz, Managing Partner, CIO & Founder, LILY POND CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC
– Renée Haugerud, Managing Principal & CIO, GALTERE LTD.
– Jason Lemme, HETCO
– Tom L. Ward, CEO, SANDRIDGE ENERGY, INC.
– Howard Cooper, CEO, COOPER FAMILY OFFICE
– Robert C. Doll, Chief Equity Strategist for Fundamental Equities, BLACKROCK, INC
– Mahmoud Mohieldin, Managing Director, WORLD BANK GROUP, Formerly Minister of Investment of the Arab Republic of Egypt
– Carlo Cottarelli, Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
– Robert Litzenberger, Hopkinson Professor of Investment Banking, The Wharton School, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
– Jeremy Hale, Managing Director & Head of Global Macro Strategy, CITI
– Steven Englander, Director & Global Head of G10 Strategy, CITI
– David Lubin, Managing Director & Head of Emerging Markets Economics, CITI
– Erin Browne, Director of Macro Trading, CITI
– Mike Dwyer, Director, Foreign Trade, Global Analysis, Foreign Agriculture Service, USDA
– Guy F. Caruso, Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (CSIS)
To see the full list of speakers, please click here: http://www.iirusa.com/geopolitics2011/speakers.xml
TOPICS FOR DEBATE
– Examining the Key Macro Tail Risks and their Implications
for an Institutional Investment Portfolio
– Exploring the theoretical framework for tail risk, the relative cost of tail risk protection and value to an institutional portfolio given the nature and frequency of fat tail events
– Central Bank exit policies and the end game for sovereign risk
– Global consequences of food and agriculture inflation
– Evaluating the tail risk of a permanent oil supply shock and how this may be traded or hedged in an institutional portfolio
– Assessing the US fiscal condition and whether the political will exists to prevent
a US sovereign crisis
– Determining the status of the dollar as reserve currency
– Investing in a New Multi-Polar Global Landscape
– Resolving the global imbalance between emerging markets and the developed world
– China – the bull and bear debate
– Examining the fiscal condition and outlook for Europe
– The Practitioner’s Approach to Allocating Risk & Assets Globally
– Doing well in global investing – top institutional investors explain how market upheavals are influencing the ways in which they are allocating risk on a global basis
– Macro world or stock pickers’ paradise? Have we reached the inflection point where micro matters, or will investment returns continue to be driven by geopolitical shocks and major global events?
– Investing in the New Risk Paradigm
– Exogenous threats – understanding the limitations of prediction and using vulnerability analysis to protect your investments
– Reassessing the power of governments vis-à-vis an electronically empowered and awakened population – how social media sped the revolution in the Middle East and the implications for the nature and pricing of geopolitical risk
These will be updated closer to the time of the event to reflect market conditions. Due to the changing nature of the geopolitical landscape, these topics are presented as an indication of the subjects which will be addressed by the expert speaker faculty. Running order and specific points for debate will be determined closer to the time of the event.
