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December 2019
Alternative Investments 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.
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!
Young Leaders Group Meeting
The Young Leaders Group focuses exclusively on creating an ecosystem for CFANY’s millennial generation (university students, exam candidates, and recent charterholders) to develop their professional and leadership skills, facilitate in the building of new relationships, and cultivate an environment to learn from and work with one another.
Dancing Elephants: Can China and the U.S. Create Long-Term Global Stability?
Our modern global economy has grown and been driven by a strategic understanding between the United States and China. The latter now challenges the former for regional hegemony and global influence.
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.
The Search for Returns: Niche Investment Strategies
Niche Strategy Investing could be defined as any investment that doesn’t fit neatly into a defined category or traditional set of parameters. It requires unique expertise and sophistication to pursue it, to manage it and to evaluate it. It’s likely to involve investments that are harder to understand, complex, go against traditional norms/ trends and are often private and relatively illiquid.
Business Management Group Meeting
The Business Management Group will focus on the non-portfolio management issues that typically confront the COO and other leaders within a money management firm, such as how to successfully launch and operate a business. A key goal of BMIG’s will be to understand the business and other risks associated with running a money management, while serving as a bridge between the “buy” and “sell” sides.
Investment Strategy Roundtable
The CFA Society New York Investment Strategy Roundtable (the Roundtable) is a series of monthly meetings on current events and market insights.
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!
CFANY Book Club: Principles: Life and Work
The CFA Society New York Book Club® meets every other month and is designed to be an informal group discussion on a multitude of investment related topics.
January 2020
2020 Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of members will serve to officially elect candidates to the 2019 Board of Directors and confirm appointees to the Nominations Committee.
Data Science in Finance: From Theory to Practice
Overview Hear from academics and practitioners on how data science techniques can be used in your investment process. Topics include: using machine learning for stock selection and for risk forecasting, machine learning explainability, predicting returns using textual analysis of news articles, measuring the state of the economy by analyzing business news, using loan [...]
American Gas Association Luncheon Presentation
Overview An American Gas Association Luncheon The American Gas Association, founded in 1918, represents more than 200 local energy companies that deliver clean natural gas throughout the United States. There are more than 74 million residential, commercial and industrial natural gas customers in the U.S., of which 95 percent — more than 70 [...]
5th Annual Insurance Company Chief Investment Officers Roundtable
Even though we’re no longer in a Zero Interest Rate Policy environment, interest rates remain “lower for longer” in the United States and Insurance companies are faced with some key questions on how to sustain investment premiums, targeted spreads and profitability.
How Millennials Should Choose a Financial Advisor
Continuing our success with Alpha in the Millennial Era in January 2019, the Young Leaders Group and potentially the PWM would like to host an event geared towards helping our generation make one of the most important decisions of their financial lives, choosing the right advisor.