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ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

We would like to welcome Melanie Angers to the Chicago QWAFAFEW Steering Committee.  We look forward working with Melanie on future Chicago QWAFAFEW meetings.   Welcome, Melanie! 

 

Special Thanks:

 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Ranga Nathan for all his hard work as Chicago QWAFAFEW Steering Committee Member.  Ranga will be becoming our newest Steering Committee – Emeritus Member. Ranga was one of the five founding members of Chicago QWAFAFEW and was also the first president of the Chicago chapter.  We are very grateful for his support over the years in arranging speakers and organizing meetings.  We look forward to seeing Ranga at future Chicago QWAFAFEW meetings as an active member.  Thank you, Ranga! 

 

We would like to thank Mr. Michael Wilcox, President of Alford Associates, for his continued support of the Chicago chapter of QWAFAFEW.

 

We would also like to thank Chicago QWAFAFEW members, Dr. Evita Vulgaris and Mr. Michael Newsham, for their past assistance at our meetings.

 

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Chicago QWAFAFEW meetings are normally held from 5 to 7 pm on a day during the third or fourth week of the month. 

 

We would like to thank the CBOE, the CME, DePaul University, Mesirow Financial and BRI Partners, UBS, IIT Stuart Graduate School of Business, Goldman Sachs, the Union League Club, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Alumni Global Finance Roundtable (Chicago),  Morningstar, Inc., and the New York Institute of Finance - Chicago for providing the venues for prior meetings.

  

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QWAFAFEW in the News

 

Please click here to read an article in Bloomberg Personal Finance magazine on QWAFAFEW.

 

Please click here to read a nice reference to QWAFAFEW in Financial Engineering News.

 

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Chicago QWAFAFEW Steering Committee (in Alphabetical Order):

 

•        Ms. Melanie Angers, mangers@chicagobooth.edu

 

•        Mr. Sanjay Arya, Morningstar, sanjay.arya@morningstar.com

 

•                Mr. Keith Black, Ennis Knupp + Associates, kblack@ennisknupp.com

 

·                     Mr. Adam Cohen, Zacks Investment Research, Inc.,

          adamc@zacks.com

 

·                     Dr. Barry Feldman, Russell Investments, bfeldman@russell.com

 

·                     Dr. Michele Gambera, Ibbotson Associates, mgambera@ibbotson.com

         

•        Mr. Matthew Moran, Chicago Board Options Exchange

           

 •       Mr. David O’Brochta, Goldman Sachs

 

 •       Ms. Hilary Till, Premia Capital Management, LLC, and

          Co-editor, Intelligent Commodity Investing, 

            info@premiacap.com

 

  

Chicago QWAFAFEW Steering Committee Members – Emeritus:

 

 •        Mr. David Barone, Collins Stewart, Inc.

 

 •        Dr. Peter Jankovskis, OakBrook Investments

 

 •        Mr. Ranga Nathan, InvestMatrix Inc., RNathan@InvestMatrix.com 

 

 •        Mr. Richard Seefeldt, Meritage Capital, L.P.

 

 •        Ms. Melissa Van Hees, Ore Hill Partners

 

           

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Site last updated by Katherine Farren of Premia Capital Management, LLC on 12/18/09.

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