The CFA Institute just held its 2012 fixed income conference in San Francisco.
Speakers shared a very broad range of perspectives on fixed income issues over the course of about a dozen sessions.
Session notes and observations (in no particular order) include:
Demographics and Deleveraging -- Rick Rieder, Blackrock
The Best Idea in Light of Demographic and Fiscal Challenges -- Scott Simon, PIMCO
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Mark J. Warshawsky is Director of Retirement Research at Towers Watson.
Dr. Warshawsky served as assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury Department from 2004-2006 and he has held senior level economic research positions at the Federal Reserve Board, the Internal Revenue Service and...
The increasingly popular Finovate Conference Series just completed its spring event in San Francisco.
64 very interesting companies presented brief technology/product demos to a large audience of financial services media, analysts, investors, potential partners, competitors, and other industry participants.
All of the presenting companies are focused on technology innovation in finance, and most of the companies are young.
Below is a recap of some of the more interesting stories at the conference. There are five companies/stories in each category. The categories are intended to represent the perspectives of what could be considered core audience segments for the presenting companies. In other words, each category lists the companies that might be...
Putnam Investments President and CEO Robert Reynolds spoke on the need to address America’s lifetime income challenge at the recent Retirement Income Industry Association (RIIA) conference in Chicago.
While Reynolds has spent most of his career in leadership positions in the investment management industry, his...
