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June 2020
Financial and Valuation Modeling Boot Camp – Wall Street Prep
Master financial and valuation modeling in this 3-day intensive virtual boot camp. Wall Street Prep's Financial and Valuation Modeling Boot Camp will teach you how to build models the way it's done on the job. This is the same intensive virtual training used to prepare incoming analysts at top financial institutions.
Communication, Leadership & Public Speaking: hosted by CFANY Toastmasters
Become the Speaker You Want to Be -- Don’t present timid forecasts to CIOs or shy away from telling clients the hard truth: Let CFANY Toastmasters inject confidence and structure into your verbal and written business communication. Participate in our fun and supportive group and gain the skills to make your investment recommendations the ones that get everyone talking!
Sustainable Investing Group Meeting
The Sustainable Investing Thought Leadership Group provides a forum to advance the dialogue around the role of sustainable investing (SI) in today’s markets. Programs focus on current SI issues, including those related to fiduciary responsibility and risk management. Members seek to identify the challenges and rewards of incorporating environmental, social, and governance factors in security analysis.
Value Investing Group Meeting: Sovereign Debt: A Looming Debt Crisis?
The Centennial Speaker Series presents a moderated conversation with Anne-Laure Kiechel, founding partner of Global Sovereign Advisory. Kiechel will discuss sovereign debt and address the question: How should bilateral institutional and government lending partners respond to the need for an efficient resolution of what appears to be a looming debt crisis?
Young Leaders Group Career Fair: Advance Your Career With Raymond James
The Young Leaders Group Career Advancement series offers members an exclusive opportunity to learn from and engage with leading firms across the global financial services industry as they look to strengthen their workforces.
One Local Retirement Fund Investor’s View
Natalie Jenkins Sorrell — Deputy Chief Investment Officer, ERF Dallas — shares her views of the US markets and managing through the volatility.
Alternative Investment Group Meeting
The mission of the Alternative Investments Group is to provide a forum for the discussion and analysis of nontraditional investment approaches, including all forms of hedge funds, funds of funds, private equity, structured products, institutional real estate, and other investments not typically available in the retail marketplace.
Value Investing Group Meeting: A Diplomat’s Perspective: Global Geopolitics After COVID-19
The Centennial Speaker Series presents a moderated conversation with Ambassador Giampiero Massolo, president of Fincantieri S.P.A and president of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). This event is co-sponsored by the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis, the CFA Society of New York, and the Museum of American Finance. Massolo will look to address the questions: is COVID-19 a geopolitical game-changer? Is the pandemic a turning point in global power politics?
[CAIA Association Webinar] The Next Decade of Alternative Investments: Perspectives from CAIA Association & AIMA
The Next Decade of Alternative Investments: From Adolescence to Responsible Citizenship. Both CAIA and AIMA will discuss the research behind the report and CAIA Association’s four-point call to action for the industry: Commit to education, embrace transparency, advocate for diversification, and democratize but protect.
A View of the African Continent
How do asset owners from a sovereign fund, pension plan and infrastructure fund view the impact of the pressures, and the values, on the African continent?
Career Center Resources with CFA Institute – Part I
The Career Development Thought Leadership Group develops programs to help members excel during all stages of their careers and adjust to changes in the financial industry. Through events such as investment professional employment outlook conferences, the Career Development group helps members meet fellow professionals and learn helpful tools for enhancing individual careers. Group programs explore the widely varied career choices within the financial services industry.
Young Leaders Group Career Fair: Advance Your Career With AlixPartners
The Young Leaders Group Career Advancement series offers members an exclusive opportunity to learn from and engage with leading firms across the global financial services industry as they look to strengthen their workforces. Join us on Tuesday, June 30th at 5:30pm for the second of these virtual sessions with AlixPartners as their strategy and private equity teams take center stage.
July 2020
Robert Shiller of Yale University, an economist, author, and Nobel Laureate discusses his book Narrative Economics. Shiller proposes a novel idea —the narratives that people believe and use to understand the world affect their economic behavior and in turn, affect the macroeconomy. Shiller argues that taking these psychological effects into account is a new frontier of economic research and he gives a number of examples of how we might think about these phenomena.
Liquidity Risk: Corporate “Dash for Cash” & the Crash of Bank Stock Prices During COVID19
This discussion will present evidence on the corporate rush for liquidity at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and how it led subsequently to persistent under-performance of bank stock returns. It will provide an understanding both of corporate behavior as well as market's episodic re-pricing of liquidity risk to banks from undrawn credit lines. Finally, it will demonstrate how bank stress tests can be augmented to cover such liquidity risk and what that would imply for additional bank capital requirements going forward.
Race and Inclusion Now: An Investment Industry Call to Action
Join CFA Institute for a special online panel discussion that brings together two investment industry leaders — each of which have clear goals on race and inclusion for our industry — and an identity and diversity scholar and researcher who is an expert on how organizations can foster positive relationships across differences. What should our actions be to confront racism in the investment industry? As responsible investment professionals, what steps can we take as individuals? What commitment to racial inclusion should we expect from our organizations?