October 2021
Centennial Speaker Series: Ted Seides on Capital Allocators- How the World’s Elite Money Managers Lead and Invest
Join us for an afternoon webinar between author Ted Seides as he discusses his new book, Capital Allocators, with Jonathan Brolin, founder and managing partner of Edenbrook Capital LLC, on this opaque corner of the investment landscape.
Introduction to Product Management – Cognitir
A recent Wall Street Journal article highlighted product manager as the new dream job for MBA students. A product manager is the conductor of the orchestra. He/she works cross-functionallywith engineering and design to identify new products to build as well as what features to add and remove from existing ones. Product managers interface a great deal with customers to try to understand their needs with the aim of building things that they actually want.
November 2021
Introduction to SQL – Cognitir
Having a keen understanding of SQL is important as a great deal of corporate data is stored in tabular format . Being able to efficiently work with very large tables to access key information can help professionals add unprecedented value to their organizations as they can better answer various strategic questions after accessing such data. Such information can help organizations develop and sustain competitive advantages .
Veterans Roundtable Group Meeting
The Veterans Committee of CFA Society New York, (a.k.a. Veterans Roundtable) is a special interest group dedicated to supporting prior military service members through professional networking and finance education.
Fintech Leadership Group Meeting
The mission of the Fintech Thought Leadership Group is to provide information and insight to keep members abreast of innovation and technology that will impact their business. Fintech is the technology that is driving the transformation of the financial services industry.
7th Annual Thinking Beyond the Transition for Veterans
Join our Veterans Roundtable group for an evening of conversation and networking that centers the experience and leadership capacity of military veterans. Learn how veterans and military spouses employed in finance can better take inventory of their strengths, preferences, and tolerances to make fulfilling long-term career decisions.
Financial & Valuation Modeling Virtual Boot Camp – Wall Street Prep
This boot camp is an intensive training program where trainees learn financial and valuation modeling in Excel using an intuitive, step-by-step approach.
Performance & Risk Analytics Group Meeting
The Performance & Risk Analytics Group (PRAG) brings together investment performance measurement & investment risk management professionals engaged in the asset management industry.
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!
Quantitative Investing Group Meeting
The Quantitative Investing Group brings together professionals seeking to incorporate cutting edge quantitative investment techniques and alternative data sets in their investing and risk processes.
Value Investing Roundtable
The Value Investing Group provides a forum for the application and modification of Benjamin Graham's principles as well as for other value investment approaches. The group’s focus is on organizing both one-off as well as regular events such as the bi-monthly value investment round-table, the annual Ben Graham conference and the value investing workshop.
Introduction to Python for Business and Finance — Cognitir
This hands-on introductory course teaches students foundational Python concepts and how to use Python’s popular libraries to complete various technical tasks. Students are presented with Python coding challenges throughout the day to test their understanding of the material. The course culminates with a challenging in-class coding project where students apply concepts taught in the course to create a game.
Institutional Asset Management Group Meeting
The Institutional Asset Management Group brings together professionals engaged in the management, oversight, and/or advisement of institutional investments. Its diverse member base includes investment consultants, plan sponsors, insurance professionals, risk managers, derivative product specialists, and portfolio managers and analysts in a wide variety of asset classes. The group nurtures a rich exchange of ideas and information by connecting professionals who are broadly in the same field, but would not otherwise collaborate and network with one another.
25th Annual Insurance Conference
The 25th Annual Insurance Conference will discuss the performance of the insurance sector, as well as the challenges faced by the presenting insurance companies in meeting their liabilities, especially in the face of natural disasters. Panelists will additionally debate whether secular trends, rather than cyclical forces, dampen the sector’s outlook.
XBRL Investor Forum 2021: Data that Delivers
Good quality, granular, machine-readable data is driving greater automation, and producing more dependable and consistent outcomes for researchers, analysts, investors, corporate planners, auditors, regulators, and even standard setters. Structured financial statement data even makes fintech applications like Artificial Intelligence more reliable. Attend this free, half-day event to hear real-world case studies. Find out how corporate financial planners and SEC reporting managers are better able to benchmark against peers, and identify trends when preparing new ASU disclosures.
Private Wealth Management Group Meeting
The Private Wealth Management Thought Leadership Group seeks to enrich and enable finance professionals to meet the modern needs of private clients, and to remain at the forefront of professionalism and knowledge in serving private clients.
Introduction to Data Science for Finance
The amount of data available to organizations and individuals is unprecedented. Financial services sectors, including securities & investment services and banking, have the most digital data stored per firm on average.
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.
Deciphering DeFi: Where Blockchain Meets Wall Street
Delve into the response of traditional centralized finance (CeFi) institutions, hear objective and diverse perspectives on the current state of DeFi innovation, and explore potential game changers that could impact DeFi’s scalability and adoption potential when you attend this discussion.
2nd Annual LatAm & Caribbean Asset Owners Series Virtual Summit
This Asset Owner Series Virtual Summit will take a comprehensive look at topics directly affecting Latin American asset owners. Hear from international investors, asset managers and owners, and other experts on the most pressing issues facing Latin American investments today. Presenters will discuss political considerations on a regional and international scale, changing economic and regulatory policies that are impacting investment decisions, and ongoing risks and opportunities in a post-COVID environment. Learn how ESG trends and infrastructure needs could help determine the stability
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.
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
2nd Annual Niche Investment Strategies Outlook
Learn how to evaluate and manage niche investment strategies, generate return premiums, and think outside the box of traditional investment norms when you attend this focused, thorough panel event addressing the outlook for niche investment strategies.
Day in the Life Career Series: Strategy & Corporate Development
The Young Leaders Group “Day in the Life” Career Event Series aims to provide members with targeted opportunities to meet other professionals in specific business functions in financial services, exchange ideas, as well as promote collaboration or possible career opportunities. The events include a panel discussion of speakers working in the focus industry and a networking session for members to get to know each other.
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!
Presented in Partnership with Collaborative Women In Investment Management (WIM): 2022 Outlook for Female Leaders
Explore the broad outlook for female leaders in a post-pandemic environment when you attend this flagship year-end event, hosted by our Diversity & Inclusion Forum (DIF) as part of the Collaborative Women in Investment Management (WIM) Initiative.
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.
Global Advocacy: Policymakers, Investors and Beyond – EMEA
Hear what CFA Institute's head of advocacy has planned for the EMEA region. Join us for a conversation about the long- and short-term goals and how societies in Europe can get involved.
4th Annual Private Credit Outlook
Deleveraging and newly imposed regulatory restrictions have hindered traditional bank lenders’ activity and restricted the capital available to many segments of the US and global economies. This has created a tremendous opportunity for alternative lenders to step in and fill the void. However, the market for private credit remains highly fragmented and somewhat opaque, complicating optimal entry points for many market participants.
December 2021
CFA Society New York Book Club: Billion Dollar Loser
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.
Performance & Risk Analytics Group Meeting
The Performance & Risk Analytics Group (PRAG) brings together investment performance measurement & investment risk management professionals engaged in the asset management industry.
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!
Quantitative Investing Group Meeting
The Quantitative Investing Group brings together professionals seeking to incorporate cutting edge quantitative investment techniques and alternative data sets in their investing and risk processes.
Financial & Valuation Modeling Virtual Boot Camp – Wall Street Prep
This boot camp is an intensive training program where trainees learn financial and valuation modeling in Excel using an intuitive, step-by-step approach.
Veterans Roundtable Group Meeting
The Veterans Committee of CFA Society New York, (a.k.a. Veterans Roundtable) is a special interest group dedicated to supporting prior military service members through professional networking and finance education.
Value Investing Workshop with Andrew Kahn
Join the Value Investing interest group for a virtual lunch-and-learn featuring Andrew Kahn. Andrew will lead attendees on a journey through the history of value investing, discussing the life and work of Irving Kahn, one of the esteemed founders of CFA Society New York. Within this context, Andrew will examine the founding and investing style of Kahn Brothers Group, which Irving Kahn founded in the late 1970s. Attendees will also have the opportunity to see a selection of real-life investment methodology decisions made by the leadership team at Kahn Brothers Group. Learn how the past informs the present when you join in this exciting historical discussion.
Fintech Leadership Group Meeting
The mission of the Fintech Thought Leadership Group is to provide information and insight to keep members abreast of innovation and technology that will impact their business. Fintech is the technology that is driving the transformation of the financial services industry.
Private Wealth Management Group Meeting
The Private Wealth Management Thought Leadership Group seeks to enrich and enable finance professionals to meet the modern needs of private clients, and to remain at the forefront of professionalism and knowledge in serving private clients.
Third Annual Secondaries Outlook
The Third Annual Secondaries Outlook will address emerging opportunities and innovations within this industry that have the potential to disrupt and shift the market over the next few years.
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.
Global Advocacy: Policymakers, Investors and Beyond – APAC
Hear what CFA Institute's head of advocacy has planned for the APAC region. Join us for a conversation about the long- and short-term goals and how societies in the APAC region can get involved.
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.
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
Institutional Asset Management Group Meeting
The Institutional Asset Management Group brings together professionals engaged in the management, oversight, and/or advisement of institutional investments. Its diverse member base includes investment consultants, plan sponsors, insurance professionals, risk managers, derivative product specialists, and portfolio managers and analysts in a wide variety of asset classes. The group nurtures a rich exchange of ideas and information by connecting professionals who are broadly in the same field, but would not otherwise collaborate and network with one another.
7th Annual Real Estate Outlook: The State of Office Alternatives
After more than a year of working from home, owners, operators, tenants, and employees are all pondering what the future of office space will look like. This comprehensive discussion will explore how real estate stakeholders are balancing their needs with the anticipated return of the workforce: as summer wanes and fall approaches, a new reality will emerge that could impact the ongoing resilience of a historically critical asset class and the future of work as we know it.
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.
January 2022
M&A in the Wealth Management Industry
Investment managers and allocators, as well as service provider partners, are invited to attend a timely panel discussion on the topic of M&A in Wealth Management led by top aggregators, firm owners, and private investors.