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Other Professional Group Events in Chicago
May
15th
Sixth Annual
Midwest Open Your Hearts to the Children
Benefit
June
17th
Spikes and
Calls: Commodity Markets in 2008
Please see full
details for each event below
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May 15,
2008
Sixth Annual
Midwest Open Your Hearts to the Children
Benefit
Hedge
Funds Care (HFC), established in 1998, is an alliance of alternative
investment industry professionals committed to protecting children from abuse
and neglect. The group includes
money managers, investors, prime brokers, attorneys, accountants and
information providers. Funds are
raised through annual Open Your Heart
to the Children Benefits, held around the globe, and distributed locally
to community-based nonprofit organizations that
provide:
- Prevention
services to at-risk children and families.
- Treatment
for children who have been physically or sexually
abused.
- Support
services to non-offending family members of children who have been
abused.
- Prevention
through training to enhance awareness and understanding of abuse and neglect
for children, parents, and community members.
- Training
for community members such as teachers, social workers, hospital/medical
staff and religious leaders on recognition of abuse and reporting of
abuse.
- Research
on best practices in child welfare.
- Legal
Advocacy to children in crisis.
To
date, HFC has raised over $27.5 million through our annual benefits across the
U.S. and internationally. In the Midwest alone, HFC has
distributed over $2.6 million in 73 grants to 38 social service programs in
the greater Chicago and Minneapolis/St. Paul
areas.
Date &
Time:
Thursday, May 15th at 5:30
p.m.
Location:
Millennium Park
Rooftop Terrace
201 E. Randolph
Chicago, IL
For more
information please visit: www.hedgefundscare.org.
To register for
this event, please do so by May 8th via the following link:
http://www.hedgefundscare.org/2008/sixth-annual-chicago-open-your-heart-to-the-children-benefit/
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June
17, 2008
“Spikes
and Calls: Commodity Markets in 2008”
The IMF
reported a cumulative
10 percent increase in 2008 in its commodity price index. This follows a
30 percent increase in 2007. A
recent Google search on the phrase
“commodity price boom” captures some of the repercussions of higher commodity
prices – the search generates 22,100 hits.
Please join us
on Tuesday, June 17, when three distinguished speakers will share their
insights on commodity markets.
PRESENTERS AND
TOPICS
Robert Tesar,
Director of Commodity Futures & Options, Global Markets & Investment
Banking, Merrill Lynch
“CTAs, Hedge
Funds and Commodity Index Funds”
Gerald R.
Jensen, Ph.D., CFA, Professor of Finance, Northern Illinois University
(joint research
with Mitchell Conover and Jeffrey Mercer)
“Commodity
Futures and Style Investing”
Hilary Till,
Principal, Premia Capital Management, LLC; and Research Associate, EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research
Centre
“Case Studies
and Risk Management in Commodity Futures Trading”
SCHEDULE
5:00
Registration
5:30
Start
5 Minute
introduction
20 Minutes each for three speakers
6:35 Q&A
7:00
Event ends
VENUE
Deloitte &
Touche LLP
111 S. Wacker
Drive
Chicago, IL 60606-4301
Space is limited.
RSVP by 5:00 P.M., Thursday, June 12.
We thank Deloitte &
Touche LLP for their generous support in hosting and sponsoring this
meeting.
Please visit the PRMIA
website to register for this meeting and to read the abstracts of the
presentations and the biographies of the speakers.
Event
URL: http://www.prmia.org/events/view_events.php?eventID=3032
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ADDITIONAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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), and Morningstar, Inc. for providing
the venues for prior meetings.
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Other
news bulletins that may be of interest are as follows:
·
For
information on the PROFESSIONAL RISK MANAGERS' INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION's
(PRMIA's) Certified Risk Manager program, please visit here. Also, for information on "The
Professional Risk Managers' Guide to Energy and Environmental Markets," please
visit here.
·
For
information on the CHARTERED ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT ANALYST (CAIA) program,
please visit here.
· For
leading-edge quantitative research on international financial topics, please
visit the website of the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre
(EDHEC-Risk) here as well as the website of the Center for
International Securities and Derivatives markets (CISDM) here.
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Chicago
QWAFAFEW
Steering Committee (in Alphabetical Order):
• 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.
Michele Gambera, Ibbotson Associates, mgambera@ibbotson.com
• Mr. Matthew Moran, Chicago Board Options
Exchange
•
Mr. Ranga Nathan, InvestMatrix Inc., RNathan@InvestMatrix.com
• 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.
Barry Feldman, Russell Investment
Management and Prism Analytics,
barry@prismanalytics.com
• Dr.
Peter Jankovskis, OakBrook
Investments
• Mr. Richard
Seefeldt
• Ms. Melissa Van Hees,
Ore Hill
Partners
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on 5/08/08.
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