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Investment Symposium–Financial Opportunities in a Changing World
Below you will find presentations from various sessions at the Investment Symposium–Financial Opportunities in a Changing World, held on March 25–26, 2008 in New York, NY. Please note that some have multiple presentations from different authors/presenters and that some are not available.
Final Program 
- General Session–Pension, Finance and Investment Theory

- Moderator: Mark Abbott
- Presenter: Zvi Bodie
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- Concurrent Sessions 1
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- P/R1–Why do Financial Intermediaries take ALM risk? An examination of the ALM practices of Pensions, Life Insurers and Banks

- Moderator: Gary Hatfield
- Presenters: Joshua Zwick, Jeremy Gold
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- A1–Alternative Investments–Combining Alpha with Active Beta
- Moderator: Jingsu Pu
- Presenters: John Schumacher, Anthony Gould
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- I1–Hedging Market Risks in Insurance Products
- Moderator: Daniel Hui
- Presenters: Stephen Stone, James Lloyd
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- Concurrent Sessions 2
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- P/I2–Investment Assumptions–How Long is Long–Term?

- Moderator: Nicola Barrett
- Presenters: Lisa Schilling, Richard Mattison
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- A2–Success in Replicating Hedge Fund Returns
- Moderator: Tze Ping Chng
- Presenters: Michael Connors, Mark Hadley
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- R2–Measuring Risk: Realities, Illusions and Worse
- Moderator: Matthew Halperin
- Presenters: Mikhail Foux, Andrew Kalotay
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- Keynote Luncheon–Financial Markets: Past, Present and Future (Handouts Not Available)
- Moderator: Ross Bowen
- Presenter: Peter Bernstein
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- Concurrent Sessions 3
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- P/R3–Risk Budgeting

- Moderator: Charles Gilbert
- Presenter: Jorge Mina
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- A3–The Bid/Ask of CPI and Qx–Can Inflation and Mortality Be Hedged?
- Moderator: Nicola Barrett
- Presenters: Valdimar Armann, Antony Mott
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- I3–Challenges in Implementing and Managing a Derivatives Program
- Moderator: Stephen Stone
- Presenters: Jason Steigman, Frank Zhang, Ernie Tang
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- Concurrent Sessions 4
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- P4–Strategic Asset Allocation
- Moderator : Doug Andrews
- Presenter: Charles Gilbert
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- A/I4–Managing Assets for Insurance Companies

- Moderator: Mark Abbott
- Presenters: James Bachman, Fred Weinberger
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- R4–Securitization: Issuer, Investor, Regulator & Administrator

- Moderator: Ken Griffin
- Presenters: Jeff Bamundo, Chris Brockwell
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- Concurrent Sessions 5
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- P5–Implementing a Liability Driven Investing Framework for Pension Plans

- Moderator: Doug Andrews
- Presenters: Aaron Meder, Wendy Brodkin
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- A5–Insurance Linked Securities–Investing, Managing & Trading

- Moderator: Jie Dong
- Presenters: Benjamin Rockmuller, Jose Siberon
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- R5–Measuring a Hedge Program's Effectiveness

- Moderator: Stephen Stone
- Presenters: David Hopewell, Chrif Youssfi
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- I5–Investing for Deferred Annuities

- Moderator: Ross Bowen
- Presenters: Jason Zhou, Sergio Benedetti
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- Concurrent Sessions 6
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- P6–Liability Driven Benchmarks

- Moderator: Charles Gilbert
- Presenters: Bryan Boudreau, Christopher Wittemann
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- A6–Darling or Deadly? Life Settlements & the Secondary Insurance Market

- Moderator: Nicola Barrett
- Presenters: Chris Macklem, Hasham Malik
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- R6–New Strategies for Asset Allocation

- Moderator: James Tunkey
- Presenters: Mark Kritzman, Joe Wong
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- I6–Structured Credit Products and Investment Strategy

- Moderator: Jingsu Pu
- Presenter: David Yan
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- Concurrent Sessions 7
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- P7–Portable Alpha/Overlay Strategies

- Moderator: Charles Gilbert
- Presenters: Thomas Picciochi, Francois Bourdon
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- A7–Subprime Market Implosion–Current and Future Implication

- Moderator: Ross Bowen
- Presenters: Dennis Kraft, Karen Weaver
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- R7–Trends in Variable Annuity Risk Management

- Moderator: Tze Ping Chng
- Presenters: Matthew Wion, Eric Henderson
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- I7–Contingent Capital

- Moderator/Presenter: Larry Rubin
- Presenters: Josee Deroy, Stelian Dragan
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- Keynote Luncheon
Investment and Retirement Product Strategies: Issues, Successes and Challenges 
- Moderator: Jeb Doggett
- Presenters: Robin Lenna, Scott Sleyster
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