Past Programs

Past Events
3/10/2010 Real Estate Investment Through Publicly Traded REITs: Long-Term Investment Characteristics and the Current Market Situation
Brad Case, Ph.D., Vice President, Research & Industry Information
3/3/2010 24th Annual Market Outlook Dinner
Mr. Jack A. Ablin, CFA
2/25/2010 Refocusing On Credit Fundamentals
Edward Cerny, Managing Partner
2/4/2010 What Social Media Means to Companies and Your Career Management
Gil Yehuda, Industry Analyst and Web Strategist
GilYehuda.com

Colin Moor, Senior Vice President
Keystone Associates
2/2/2010 Using the Five Secrets to Communicate with Your Clients More Effectively
Beverly Flaxington, Founder & Principal
1/28/2010 The "Five Re's" System for Job Search Success
Fredia Woolf, MBA
1/27/2010 Is Washington Politics Getting in the Way of Good Economics?
A Panel Discussion
1/25/2010 Frontier Stock Markets: The Next to Join the Emerging World
Lawrence S. Speidell, CFA, Chief Investment Officer
1/20/2010 Venture Capital at a Crossroads
A Panel Discussion
1/19/2010 Members-Only
Winter Networking Event


1/14/2010 Jason Trennert's Market Outlook for 2010 & Beyond . . .
Jason DeSena Trennert, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Strategist
1/12/2010 Municipal Bonds and the Great Financial Crisis
Matt Fabian, Managing Director
Municipal Market Advisors (MMA)

Adam A. Weigold, CFA, Vice President
Eaton Vance Management
1/11/2010 Boston Celtics vs. Atlanta Hawks
Join BSAS for the game!
1/7/2010 Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System
Robert C. Pozen, Chairman
12/15/2009 Wealth and the Family: Asking Essential Questions
Charles W. Collier
12/8/2009 US Economic Outlook
Dean Maki, Managing Director and Chief US Economist
12/7/2009 How To Get From Here To There: A Session With A Career Strategist
Kathy Graham
12/3/2009 Out of the Crisis: Early Winners in Alternative Assets
Half-Day Seminar
11/19/2009 Quantitative Investing
A Full-Day Seminar
11/18/2009 Trends Amid Turmoil in the Wealth Management Industry
Elizabeth Nesvold, Managing Partner
11/17/2009 The Secret of Development: Growth in Emerging Markets
Ricardo Hausmann
11/5/2009 The State of Private Equity: Opportunity through Crisis
A Panel Discussion
10/15/2009 The Cyclical and Secular Outlook for Emerging Market Equities: A Globalizing or Relocalizing World?
George R Hoguet, CFA, FRM
10/8/2009 Thinking of Starting Your Own Investment Advisory Firm?
Half-Day Seminar
10/1/2009 CFA Institute and BSAS Present...
Fixed-Income Management 2009

Panel of Speakers
9/29/2009 Staying on Top...
A BSAS series focusing on
what's new in the CFA Program

Derivatives
9/25/2009 The Housing Crisis: Why There is More Pain to Come and Investment Implications
Whitney Tilson
9/24/2009 Inflation or Deflation?
Connie Everson, CFA, Managing Director
9/22/2009 Members-Only
Networking Event


9/17/2009 So You Want To Be A CFA Charterholder...

9/14/2009 The New Bank Regulatory Environment: What Will It Look Like?
Donald Powell
6/25/2009 The Worst Financial Crisis in 75 Years:
Origins, Magnitude and Response

Jeffrey A. Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor
of Capital Formation and Growth
6/17/2009 The Evolution of the Next Fixed Income Strategy
Leonard J. Santow, Managing Director
6/15/2009 Behavioral Finance: So What?
Gayle H. Buff, CFA, President
6/11/2009 Networking and Re-Branding Yourself
in Today's Environment

A Panel Discussion
6/8/2009 63rd Annual Meeting and Banquet
Seth A. Klarman, President, The Baupost Group, LLC
6/4/2009 International Investing
A Full-Day Seminar
5/21/2009 The Hedge Fund
Discussion Group

Moderated by:
John A. DeTore, CFA, Chief Investment Officer
5/20/2009 Afternoon Coffee Break With...
Paul McCulley, Managing Director and
Generalist Portfolio Manager, PIMCO

Playing Solitaire with a Deck of 51...with Number 52 on Offer
5/14/2009 Members-Only
Spring Networking Event


5/13/2009 Alternative Investments:
Industry Dynamics at an Inflection Point

Half-Day Seminar
5/7/2009 Vicious Cycles, Investor Behavior, and
Dealer-Centric Financial Markets

Kenneth A. Froot, Andre R. Jakurski Professor
of Business Administration
5/5/2009 Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) Challenges and Opportunities: Are CMBS Securities Mispriced?
Mark P. Snyderman, CFA, Portfolio Manager
4/16/2009 The 4th Annual
Peter M. O'Farrell Lecture on Original
Thinking in Investing and Finance

The Current Financial Crisis:
Why did it happen and what should we do?

4/8/2009 Adding Alpha Through Environmental,
Social and Governance (ESG) Screening

Panel Discussion

4/7/2009 Commercial Real Estate Outlook:
Is That the Light at the End of the Tunnel...Or a Train?

Hans G. Nordby, U.S. Strategist
4/2/2009 Madoff: The Whistleblower's Story
Harry M. Markopolos, CFA
3/31/2009 Members-Only Networking Event
BSAS goes to the suburbs!


3/26/2009 Responsible Investing: Institutional Client Perspectives
  • Kyle Johnson, Investment Consultant, Cambridge Associates
  • 3/25/2009 Endowment Management in a Changing World
    Jane L. Mendillo, CFA, President and CEO
    3/18/2009 From Froth to Correction: Commercial Real Estate
    Raymond Torto, CRE, Ph.D., Global Chief Economist
    3/17/2009 The State of the Municipal Market
  • David J. Madigan, Portfolio Manager, Breckenridge Capital Advisors
  • 3/12/2009 Alternative Investments and Asset Allocation:
    A New Reality?

  • William Peck, CFA, Consultant, Fiduciary Investment Advisors, LLC
  • 3/11/2009 Career Tips for Investment Professionals
    Dana Hopkinson, Partner
    3/5/2009 Fixed Income Attribution: An Introduction
    David Spaulding, CIPM, President
    3/2/2009 The Mark-to-Market Debate: Are Fair Values Foul?
  • Anthony Cope, CFA, former member, International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
  • 2/26/2009 Alternative Investments in Uncertain Times
    Jack D. Schwager, Portfolio Manager and Partner
    2/25/2009 Economic Successes and Challenges in the Caucasus
    Lado Gurgenidze
    2/11/2009 23nd Annual Market Outlook Dinner
    Mr. James Grant
    2/3/2009 Trading Places: Country Promotions in MSCI Indices
    Arun Kumar, Ph.D., Executive Director
    1/28/2009 Members-Only
    Networking Event


    1/22/2009 Future of the Fixed Income Markets
    Half-Day Seminar
    1/21/2009 Waiting Out the Storm:
    House Prices, Financial Melt Down and Who Knows What Else?

    Karl E. Case, Katherine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics
    1/15/2009 The New Roadmap to International Accounting Convergence
    Jack T. Ciesielski, CFA, CPA, President
    1/14/2009 Alternative Careers for CFA Charterholders
    A Panel Discussion
    1/12/2009 A Quantitative View of the Stock Market
    Richard Tortoriello, Equity Analyst
    1/8/2009 Achieving a Sustainable Global Economy
    Mindy S. Lubber, President
    12/18/2008 The Role of News Analytics in Quantitative Modeling
    Armando Gonzalez, Co-Founder, President and CEO
    12/8/2008 Liquidity Risk
    Joseph Cherian
    12/2/2008 Holiday Networking Event
    Members-Only


    11/24/2008 The Bond Market Outlook
    Daniel J. Fuss, CFA, Vice Chairman
    11/18/2008 Corporate Performance, Valuation, and Market Performance
    Rafael Resendes, Cofounder
    11/13/2008 The Big Tax Unknown: Tax Law Changes for Investors, Estate and Wealth Transfer Strategies
  • Martin Hall, Partner and Chair, Private Client Group, Ropes & Gray LLP

  • Christopher Houston, Counsel to Private Client
    Group, Ropes & Gray LLP

  • Anthony D. Werley, Managing Director, JPMorgan Private
  • Bank
    11/7/2008 The Panic of 2007
    Gary B. Gorton, Professor of Finance
    7/16/2008 Selected Topics in High Frequency Investing
    An evaluation from the perspective of Boston's multi-trillion dollar, predominantly buy-and-hold investment community
    7/7/2008 Boston Red Sox vs. Minnesota Twins
    Join BSAS for the game!
    6/24/2008 The How, Why, and Why Not of "What If?"
    Dan diBartolomeo, President and Founder
    6/23/2008 Is Global Capitalism in Trouble?
    Lessons for the Future from the Past

    Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace
    6/5/2008 The History and Future of Socially Responsible Investing: Perspectives from Two Industry Leaders
    Joan L. Bavaria, President, Trillium Asset Management
    6/4/2008 Ethical Leadership in the Investment Firm
    James Ware, CFA, Founder and Jamie Ziegler, Principal
    5/21/2008 Basel II
    Kimberly A. DeTrask, CFA, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
    5/14/2008 Hedge Fund-of-Funds: Alternative Beta and Beyond
    Jerome Abernathy, Stonebrook Structured Products, LLC
    5/13/2008 Tax Benefits of Charitable Trusts
    Nadia Yassa, The Boston Foundation
    5/5/2008 Networking for Career Success
    Diane Darling, Effective Networking
    4/29/2008 Half-Day Seminar: To Hedge or Not to Hedge
    Panel of Speakers
    4/14/2008 Is Executive Coaching for You?
    Catherine Manning, BeingReal
    4/10/2008 Emissions Trading: Using Markets to Solve Environmental Problems and Create Wealth
    Chicago Climate Exchange
    4/9/2008 Hedge Fund Discussion Group Dinner
    John DeTore, GRT United Alpha Funds and Kevin Maloney, Gottex Fund Management
    4/8/2008 The Commercial Real Estate Cycle: What Next?
    Bret Wilkerson, CEO, Property & Portfolio Research
    4/4/2008 3rd Annual Peter M. O'Farrell Lecture: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places
    Michael Mauboussin, Legg Mason
    4/3/2008 Research Management in Today's Regulatory Environment
    Panel of Speakers
    3/20/2008 The Global Bear Market: A True Trader's Perspective
    Dennis Gartman, The Gartman Letter
    3/13/2008 Asset Allocation and Security Selection
    Adrian Cronje, Wilmington Trust
    3/12/2008 Active Extensions in the Fund Level Context
    Martin Liebowitz, Morgan Stanley
    3/10/2008 Distressed Debt
    George Siguler, Siguler Guff
    3/4/2008 The New Job Security
    Pam Lassiter, Lassiter Consulting
    2/28/2008 Creative Cash Flow Reporting
    Dr. Charles Mulford, CPA
    2/27/2008 Prospective on Current State Finances
    Massachusetts State Treasurer Tim Cahill
    2/25/2008 Global Economic Challenges
    Stephen King, HSBC
    2/14/2008 The Changing Landscape of Retirement in the U.S.
    Alicia Munnell, Center for Retirement Research, Boston College
    2/7/2008 War Stories from Emerging Markets
    William Browder, Hermitage Fund
    2/4/2008 Measuring Corporate Integrity
    Jack Zwingli, CEO, Audit Integrity
    1/29/2008 Optimal Rebalancing: A Scalable Solution
    Mark Kritzman, Windham Capital Management
    1/24/2008 Job Markets for Investment Professionals
    Robert Gorog, CT Partners
    1/23/2008 The New Frontier of Emerging Markets
    Larry Speidell, Frontier Market Asset Management, LLC
    1/16/2008 We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us
    Langdon Wheeler, Numeric Investors
    1/10/2008 Investment Technology for Money Managers
    John Shea, CIO, Eaton Vance
    12/11/2007 Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
    Glenn Costello, Fitch Ratings
    12/10/2007 Alternative Energy Investing: Myths and Reality
    Panel Discussion with Armond Cohen, Clean Air Task Force; Jack Robinson, Winslow Management; Joe Sannicandro, Wood Mackenzie
    12/6/2007 Interviewing: Hidden Clues
    Janet Britcher, Transformation Management
    12/4/2007 Prime Brokerage and Hedge Funds
    Terry Travis, Goldman Sachs
    11/29/2007 Managing the Complete Firm in a Brave New World
    John Casey, Casey, Quirk & Associates
    11/26/2007 Aerospace Investment in a Skittish Market
    Cai von Rumohr, Cowen and Co.
    11/15/2007 Commodities: Real Asset Beta in Your Portfolio
    David Burkart, Barclays Global Investors
    11/14/2007 Are All Quants Alike ... or Not?
    Matthew Rothman, Lehman Brothers
    11/12/2007 XBRL: Adding Interactive Data to Digital Toolkit
    Glenn Doggett, CFA Institute and Michelle Savage, XBRL US
    10/29/2007 What Happened To The Quants in August 2007?
    Andy Lo, MIT
    10/25/2007 Wealth Management Seminar Day Two
    Panel of Speakers
    10/24/2007 Challenges and Opportunities in Global Custody
    Ron Logue, CEO, State Street Corp.
    10/24/2007 Wealth Management Seminar Day One
    Panel of Speakers
    10/18/2007 Historically Based Default and Recovery Models
    Ed Altman, NYU Stern School
    10/4/2007 Dispersion Trading/Basket Trading Strategies
    Geoff Wakeling, Bloomberg
    9/27/2007 Closing the GAAP
    Tony Cope
    9/24/2007 Writing Investment Commentary
    Susan Weiner, InvestmentWriting.com
    9/20/2007 How Long Can the Equity Bull Market Last?
    Allen Sinai, Decision Economics
    9/10/2007 Consultants and Money Managers
    Dick Charlton, CEO, NEPC