2013 Conference Agenda
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Monday - July 22, 2013
| 7:00 am – 5:00 pm |
Registration |
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| 7:30 am – 8:00 am |
Breakfast with Exhibitors David Smith Opening Remarks and Introduction |
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| 8:00 am – 8:10 am |
Chairperson Welcome Michael Weil, American Realty Capital |
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| 8:10 am – 9:00 am |
General Session Barry Ritholtz CEO & Director of Equity Research at Fusion IQ |
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| 9:05 am – 9:55 am |
Breakout Session A Impact Investing Impact investments are blazing hot among the wealthiest of the wealthy. Explore how these investments can be designed for high alpha and low beta approaches, as well as how they can be structured for more mainstream investors
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 9:05 am – 9:55 am |
Breakout Session B ’40 Act Funds Explained A growing number of ’40 Act mutual funds are employing alternative investing strategies. Are these funds "alternative lite" or do they offer a full-bodied alternative experience? Are they worth the cost? Which strategies best lend themselves to a mutual fund approach?
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 10:00 am – 10:30 am |
Morning Networking Break with Exhibitors |
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| 10:35 am – 11:25 am |
Breakout Session A Improving Asset Allocation with Alternatives Carefully selected alternative investments can provide alpha and act as hedges, and can be useful in smoothing returns. Learn what to look for in alternative investments and how they can be used to enhance asset allocation models.
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 10:35 am – 11:25 am |
Breakout Session B Managed Futures: Past, Present And Future The primary benefit of adding managed futures to a diversified investment portfolio is that they may decrease portfolio volatility risk. They are able to reduce portfolio risk because of their low to slightly negative correlation with equities and bonds. Experts discuss their use, how that’s changed and what to consider when including them in client portfolios.
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 11:30 am – 12:20 pm |
Breakout Session A The Many Paths to Real Assets Investing As growth in emerging markets is producing what some view as secular, long-term, global demand for real assets, the question facing advisors are examining how to gain exposure to an uncorrelated asset class. This session will explore a variety of ways to invest in real assets that include investing in securities, futures and long-short strategies.
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 11:30 am – 12:20 pm |
Breakout Session B Tail Risk Management: Using Tactical Strategies to Capture Trends Markets since the financial crisis have been characterized by numerous anomalies, including bouts of unprecedented volatility. In this session, managers will outline strategies with the ability to perform well in normal markets, while dramatically limiting risking down markets, and reducing overall volatility.
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 12:20 pm – 1:30 pm |
Lunch Keynoter Dr. Dambisa Moyo International Economist & Author |
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| 1:35 pm – 2:05 pm |
Dessert Break with Exhibitors |
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| 2:10 pm – 3:05 pm |
Breakout Session A Limiting Downside Risk with Alternative Options-Based Strategies The extraordinary volatility that the financial markets experienced in 2008 and 2009 prompted clients to reassess their risk tolerance levels. It also caused many advisors to explore new ways to control risk. This session examines how advisors can employ options and other derivatives to limit the downside risk to a client’s portfolio.
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 2:10 pm – 3:05 pm |
Breakout Session B Liquid Alternatives: Generating Alpha with ETFs, ETNs and Hedge Fund Mutual Funds While many advisors utilize traditional alternative investments to generate greater returns, “liquid alternatives” in the form of ETFs, ETNs, and hedge fund mutual funds can provide similar alpha with more liquidity. This panel will address how “liquid alternatives” can diversify client assets and improve risk-adjusted returns.
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 3:10 pm – 4:00 pm |
Breakout Session A Understanding Real Estate Alternatives Real estate markets have been improving. Our panel will provide an overview of asset class pros and cons and debate underlying fundamentals that can assist in determining which programs and sponsors are appropriately suited for various clients. These will include trends and potential in rental growth, absorption, tenancy, TIs and LCs, organic growth vs. value creation, intrinsic vs. market force driven stability, and more.
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 3:10 pm – 4:00 pm |
Breakout Session B Diverse Strategies to Generate Income With low interest rates likely to prevail for the foreseeable future, advisors need to investigate ways for clients to earn income from their investments in an environment of financial repression. This session will examine a variety of investment vehicles that are available and explore their pros and cons.
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 4:05 pm – 4:35 pm |
Afternoon Networking Break with Exhibitors |
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| 4:40 pm – 5:30 pm |
Breakout Session A Outcomes-Based Investing Ever since the Great Recession ended, investment advisors have debated what investment scenarios are likely to emerge in its wake. The New Normal environment characterized by financial repression and a scarcity of income-generating investments is one scenario. Others have debated the probability of deflation driven by emerging market competition versus an inflationary world dominated by the debt-laden developed world. This session will examine a variety of macroeconomic outcomes and explore a variety of alternative investment strategies to address them, such as risk parity, which equalizes risk allocation, and lower volatility asset classes
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 4:40 pm – 5:30 pm |
Breakout Session B Evaluating Private Equity and Venture Capital Opportunities Opportunities in private equity and venture capital are always changing. Investment managers discuss how they evaluate these opportunities and describe how they assess risk and reward
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm |
Cocktail Reception Sponsored by Platinum Sponsor  |
Tuesday - July 23, 2013
**Session times subject to change**
| 7:30 am – 8:00 am |
Breakfast with Exhibitors David Smith Opening Remarks and Introduction |
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| 8:00 am – 8:10 am |
Chairperson Recap Lance Johnson, American Realty Capital |
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| 8:15 am – 9:15 am |
General Session CIOs Examine Factors Affecting Markets and Alternatives Participants will share their outlook the U.S. and the global economy, as well as the direction of the financial Chairperson Recap remarks. Other topics include the psychology of both individual clients and professional investors, lessons learned about basic tenets of finance like MPT and buy and hold, and what role alternative investments play in their clients’ portfolios in the future.
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 9:20 am – 10:10 am |
Breakout Session A Beyond Liquidity: Evaluating Traditional Hedge Funds With '40 Act Alternatives Hedge funds structured in a mutual fund format offer investors transparency and liquidity. But there are situations when other features and attributes, including illiquidity, work to the client's advantage. This session will take an agnostic approach to examining the costs and benefits of both vehicles.
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 9:20 am – 10:10 am |
Breakout Session B Business Development Companies 2012 was a year of extraordinary growth for BDCs, which can earn lucrative returns by providing loans to small to mid-sized companies. BDCs pay out 90% of their income and many provide very attractive yields for investors. However, not all BDCs are the same or offer the same quality of investments. Learn what to look for in evaluating these alternatives.
Pending approval from the CFP® Board |
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| 10:15 am – 11:05 am |
Breakout Session A Achieving Tax Efficiency with Alternatives This panel will address how advisors can use tax efficient alternative strategies to generate high levels of tax-free income while maximizing after-tax return and remaining neutral to changes in interest rates. These strategies may also offer significant diversification benefits.
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 10:15 am – 11:05 am |
Breakout Session B Absolute Return Funds Absolute return funds encompass a wide variety of low-volatility styles, from risk arbitrage to global macro to currencies and equity-rotation strategies. In this panel, leading managers will discuss how they try to achieve solid returns that are not correlated to major market indexes.
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| 11:05 am – 11:40 am |
Break with Exhibitors |
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| 11:40 am – 12:30 pm |
Breakout Session A Accessing & Allocating Alternatives You may know why you should use alternative investments in an asset-allocation model, but are unsure of how large of an allocation to make in the average client’s portfolio. Which strategies make the most sense to gain exposure yet remain simple so the client can understand the investment? ETFs? Mutual funds? Panelists also discuss investment minimums, fees and liquidity issues associated with alternatives, as well as the solutions, including feeders, intermediaries and platforms. Come learn what makes the most sense for you and your clients.
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 11:40 am – 12:30 pm |
Breakout Session B MLPs, A Compelling Asset Class Master limited partnerships provide a crucial service that's always in demand — the distribution of energy resources. Most are liquid securities that are easy to track and trade. In the last decade, these investments annually outpaced the S&P 500, and advisors who have put in the time to study them have been able to deliver income and low volatility to clients. This session will provide an overview of MLPs, how they work and how you can use them in client portfolios
Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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| 12:35 pm – 2:00 pm |
Lunch Keynoter Keynote Speaker, Jim Rogers |
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| 2:05 pm – 3:05 pm |
General Session Tom Dorsey, President co-founded Dorsey, Wright & Associates Trend-Following Strategies Trend following is a risk-management strategy that, when used correctly, is quite effective in producing alpha. Its focus is on protecting a portfolio from strong declines, reducing the correlation with a traditional buy-and-hold style. Learn more about different approaches from our panelists. Accepted for 1 CFP® Board CE Credit and 1 CE Hour towards the CIMA®/CIMC®/CPWA® certifications. |
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