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Montréal Morning Research Seminar Agenda
The Challenge of Global Integration
- Adding Value Internationally
- A New View of Risk and Return
- The Essence of Strategic Partnering
Agenda:
8:30 – 9:00 Continental breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 Introduction
9:15 – 10:00 Adding Value in the Face of Change
Speaker: Peter Rathjens, Chief Investment Officer, Arrowstreet
Capital
Abstract: The focus of international managers is shifting from identifying
attractive countries to identifying attractive sectors. We examine the
ongoing importance of countries as a decision by active managers, as well
as the benefits of combining both countries and sectors in a single, integrated
approach.
10:00 – 10:30: Break
10:30 – 11:15 A New View of Risk and Return
Speaker: John Campbell, Director of Research, Arrowstreet Capital
and Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University
Abstract: Predictable movements in stock returns and risks have
far-reaching implications for benchmark allocations to equities, for the
decision between active and passive management, and for the strategies
and risk control of international active managers.
11:15 – 12:00 Have Your Cake and Eat It Too:
The Advantage to a Pension Fund of Broad Diversification:
Speaker: Rusty Olson, Former Director of Pension Investments
Worldwide, Eastman Kodak.
Abstract: How diversification can not only reduce volatility
but also increase expected return, especially if pension funds retain
an open mind to different asset classes.
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
R.S.V.P. : Danièle Flaherty at (617) 547-9999 x228
Venue: The Queen Elizabeth Hotel
900 Réné-Lévesque Blvd West
Montréal, QC H3B 4A5
(514) 861-3511
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