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William Anderson
Fischer Francis Trees & Watts, Inc., a BNP Paribas Invesment Partner
Senior Portfolio Manager, U.S. Money Markets
Bill is a Portfolio Manager for Money Markets at FFTW and is responsible for
performance and management of US dollar money market funds firmwide.
Prior to
his current role at FFTW, Bill was a Portfolio Manager for money market fund
portfolios and Head of the US Money Market Group at Fortis Investment
Management. Before joining Fortis Investments in 2004, Bill was a Portfolio
Manager and Director of Global Short-Term Investments at Aon Corporation;
Director of Investment Research for Aon Capital Markets; and Vice President of
Private Equity with Asset Allocation and Management Company. He has 23 years of
investment experience.
Bill has an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg
Graduate School of Management and a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College. He
is a current CFA Charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Security
Analysts.
Topics:
Portfolio Managers Size
Up 2a-7 Changes
Staying Positive in a Zero-Yield Environment Amid 2a-7 Changes
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Viktoria Baklanova
Fitch Ratings
Senior Director, Fund & Asset Manager Rating Group
Viktoria Baklanova is a senior director in Fitch Ratings’ fund and asset manager rating group. Her primary areas
of expertise are money market funds and other managed investment vehicles. Viktoria is responsible for rating money
market and bond funds, local government investment pools, and senior securities issued by closed-end funds. She also
contributes in developing rating approaches and methodologies for managed funds, publishes rating commentaries and special
reports on the subjects pertinent to the investment management.
Prior to joining Fitch Ratings in 2007, Viktoria was at Moody’s Investors Service global managed funds group for 6 years. At
the time of her departure, Viktoria was an Associate Vice President responsible for a large portfolio of rated credits. In
addition, she led research projects on various issues of portfolio management.
Viktoria earned a BS in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science from the Novosibirsk State University in Russia and MS in
Finance from Baruch College, City University of New York. Viktoria was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation
in 2000 and a Professional Risk Manager (PRM) designation in 2004. Viktoria also obtained a Certificate in Financial Engineering
Program at Columbia University, New York.
Topics:
Beyond the Rating: Money Market Fund Monitoring For Corporate Treasurers
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Travis Barker
HSBC, Chairman of IMMFA
Global Business Manager
Travis Barker is currently Chair of the Institutional Money Market Funds
Association (IMMFA), the trade association which represents the European
triple-A rated money market funds industry.
IMMFA maintains a Code of Practice that is binding on its Members, and seeks
to ensure the quality of their funds.
Since its inception in 2000, Members funds have grown from around EUR40 billion
to over EUR450 billion.These funds are used by investors, including corporate treasurers, as a solution for their
short-term cash balances.
Travis works for HSBC Global Asset Management.
He took an MA in Philosophy from Oxford University, an MBA from Imperial College, and is a qualified Chartered
Accountant
Topics:
IMMFA: Setting New Standards to Market MMFs to European Investors
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Ryan Butler
Standard & Poor's
Director
Ryan Butler is a Director in the U.S. Public Finance Ratings Group at Standard & Poor’s Rating Services in New York. Since joining
Standard & Poor’s in 2007 as member of the tax-exempt housing and structured group, Ryan has been responsible for ratings on an array
of municipal obligors. He serves as Sector Leader for structured finance in the Municipal Enterprise group, which comprises not for
profit healthcare, higher education, and housing obligors. His primary focus involves variable rate debt and liquidity within Public
Finance, including tender option bond programs. Additionally, Ryan has developed criteria for structured finance products and
commentaries on alternative financing products, including direct purchase bonds.
Ryan previously worked for the State of New York, where he served as a budget analyst. He holds a M.P.A. from The Rockefeller College of
Public Affairs and Policy at The University at Albany and a B.A. in International Relations from Boston University. Ryan is a member of
the Municipal Analysts Group of New York and National Federation of Municipal Analysts.
Topics:
Issues Facing Tax-Exempt Funds
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Anthony Carfang
Treasury Strategies, Inc.
Partner
As a Partner and Director of Treasury Strategies, Inc.,
Tony sets the strategic direction of the firm and works with our consulting
practice areas to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
Tony helped guide many of the world’s largest banks and securities firms to
position their services effectively in the marketplace, and worked with
corporations to optimize their treasury management strategies. He is a vocal
advocate of clients’ interests surrounding regulatory issues and liquidity
management. He has appeared on several shows including CNBC’s Kudlow Report and
Bloomberg News to debate proposed money market fund regulations and valuation of
auction-rate securities.
Tony received his MBA from Northwestern University and BS from Duquesne
University. He founded the Alpha Phi Delta Foundation, which oversees a
scholarship fund and other philanthropic activities, and is a member of the
board at Duquesne University. He’s also a specialist in Italian genealogy and an
avid chess player and coach.
Topics:
Businesses and Money Funds: Managing Cash Flows
Revisiting Those Investment Guidelines
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Esther Chance
Invesco
Senior Portfolio Manager
Esther Chance is a senior portfolio manager for Invesco Fixed Income and is
responsible for the management of all cash management products, including
institutional, retail and offshore money funds, as well as private accounts.
Ms. Chance joined Invesco in 1987 as a trading assistant in the money market area
and later was promoted to assistant supervisor of portfolio administration. She
assumed her current position in 1996.
Ms. Chance received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston.
Topics:
Portfolio Managers Size Up 2a-7 Changes
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Deborah Cunningham
Federated Investors, Inc.
Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer and Senior Portfolio Manager
As Federated’s cash management spokesperson in the news and at industry
conferences nationwide and throughout Europe, Debbie Cunningham is well
positioned to offer insights into the economy and factors that influence the
dynamic cash marketplace. A 30-year Federated veteran, she works from an
innovative, yet conservative investment philosophy in managing Federated’s
domestic and euro money market funds and the taxable money market group. She
also has oversight responsibility for the firm’s tax-exempt money market and
municipal investment groups. She has been an advisor to the Investment Company
Institute’s Money Market Working Group, which was formed to advance creative
approaches for making money market funds more resilient in the face of extreme
market conditions.
Topics:
Keynote: Current State and Future of the Industry
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Gregory Fortuna
Fund Connect, State Street Global Markets - Global Link
Managing Director (Global Head)
Gregory P. Fortuna, CFA is a Managing Director at State Street Global Markets. Greg is global head of Fund Connect,
State Street’s money market fund execution portal. Greg has been in the electronic execution field since 1998. Over
the past thirteen years, Greg has worked on fixed income, FX, ETF, and money market trading portals. He has vast
experience in both sales and design of leading edge technological solutions in the trade execution arena. Prior to
joining State Street, Greg worked as an analyst and author for Thomson Financial Services Corp and Fidelity Management
& Research Company.
Greg is a cum laude graduate of Boston College. Greg earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He holds NASD
Series 7, Series 63 and Series 3 licenses.
Topics:
Why Use a Money Fund Portal?
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Matt Fabian
Municipal Market Advisors
Managing Director
Matt Fabian is a Managing Director at Municipal Market Advisors, an independent research and strategy firm based in Concord, Massachusetts.
Formerly the lead municipal analyst for UBS Wealth Management Research, Mr. Fabian has nearly 20 years of experience as a credit analyst and
market strategist, with prior positions at Moody’s and FSA. He is the immediate past chair of the Municipal Analysts Group of New York, a
board member for the National Federation of Municipal Analysts, and a contributing editor for the Municipal Finance Journal. He has
testified before Congress on the topics of state bankruptcy and the credit quality of the District of Columbia and is frequently featured
in the national print and television media on municipal-related topics. Mr. Fabian writes MMA's Weekly Outlook, a generalist-oriented
review of the municipal market.
He has a Master of Public Administration degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Political Science from Penn State.
Topics:
Issues Facing Tax-Exempt Funds
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Regina Gill
Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation
VP, Investor Relations
Regina M. Gill is Vice President of the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding
Corporation. The Funding Corporation is responsible for issuing, marketing and
handling the debt securities of Farm Credit System.
Regina has been with the Funding Corporation since 1984. She currently has
primary responsibility for the development and execution of the Farm Credit
System’s investor relations program.
Prior experience at the Funding Corporation includes management of Farm Credit’s
Bond, Discount Note, Investment, Financial Operations, Dealer
Compliance/Surveillance programs as well as System Bank derivative activities.
Ms. Gill holds a BS degree in Business Management from Saint Peter’s College and
an MBA in Finance from Saint John’s University. She resides in New Jersey with
her husband and their three daughters.
Topics:
Presenting the "Other" GSEs
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Jonathan Hartley
Federal Home Loan Banks, Office of Finance
VP, Global Investor Relations
Jonathan Hartley is Vice President of Global Investor Relations at the Office of
Finance, which is the joint office of the twelve FHLBanks established to
facilitate the issuance of FHLBank System Consolidated Obligations. In this
capacity, he is responsible for debt investor relations and securities marketing
to investors domestically and abroad.
Previously, Mr. Hartley held the positions of Vice President, Debt Capital
Markets with Nomura Securities International, Inc. in New York, and
Institutional Sales and Trading Manager at FHLBank Seattle.
Mr. Hartley holds an MBA in Finance from The Johns Hopkins University and a BA
from Hampden-Sydney College.
Topics:
Presenting the "Other" GSEs
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Tory Hazard
Institutional Cash Distributors
Cheif Financial Officer, Cheif Operating Officer
Tory manages the operations and finances of ICD Holdings and its subsidiary companies. Mr. Hazard is intricately
involved in ICD’s overall strategic planning, was project manager on Transparency Plus® (T+®) through its launch
and is co-project manager on ICD Portal.
Prior to joining ICD full time in October 2009, Tory was a business
consultant and CFP at Los Angeles-based Hazard Financial, where he provided strategic and financial advisory services
to companies (including ICD) and high net worth individuals. Previous to Hazard Financial, Tory was Chairman and CEO of
Random/Order, an interactive television software and development company. Random/Order developed proprietary technology
and was named by Red Herring as one of the 20 leading startups in the entertainment industry. Tory started his career
in commercial, television and feature film production. Mr. Hazard was CEO/Executive Producer of Open Films, which produced
national and international campaigns for Fortune 500 companies and visual effects for movies including Men in Black and
Courage Under Fire.
Tory holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from San Diego State University and an MBA from Pepperdine University. Mr. Hazard
is an IRS-certified enrolled agent and FINRA series 28 licensed FinOp. Tory is an active member of the Association of Finance
Professionals.
Topics:
Why Use a Money Fund Portal?
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Ronald Hill
BlackRock
Director
Ronald Hill, Director, and Portfolio Strategist, is a member of BlackRock's Cash
Management team. He is the lead strategist for the cash management group,
developing short-term investment solutions for clients and providing a link
between the investment team and account managers.
Prior to moving to his current role in 2007, Mr. Hill was a member of
BlackRock's Global Client Group, where he was responsible for developing and
maintaining relationships with cash management clients. From 2002 to 2005, he
was in BlackRock's Administration Group. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2002, Mr.
Hill was an Analyst at JPMorganChase where he was responsible for reviewing
portfolio performance for separately managed client accounts. From 1998 to 2000,
he was with Wilmington Trust Company as a relationship manager responsible for
maintaining client relationships for Wilmington Trust's employee benefits
trustee group.
Mr. Hill earned both BA and BS degrees in finance from the University of
Delaware in 1998 and an MBA from Wilmington University in 2008.
Topics:
Money Fund Look-Alikes Coming to Market?
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Rick Holland
Charles Schwab Investment Management
Rick is a Managing Director and Client Portfolio Strategist at Charles Schwab Investment Management, with
responsibility for all of the non investment related activities of the Charles Schwab Money Market Funds products.
Previously, Rick was Vice President/Regional Director and Corporate Treasury Strategist at State Street Global
Advisors, specializing in the sales and marketing of investment strategies to the Treasury marketplace. He
originally joined SSgA in 1998 and rejoined in 2007, after serving as Senior Vice President and Director of Short
Term Strategies for Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management in New York.
A twenty seven year veteran of the investment management industry, Rick has also held senior level positions at Lehman
Brothers, CS First Boston and Goldman Sachs. Rick was a founding member of the institutional investment management firm
Undiscovered Managers, LLC and is presently President of the San Francisco Treasury Management Association.
Rick is a high honors graduate of the State University of New York and an honors graduate of the Plattsburgh School of
Business and Economics. He earned his NASD/FINRA Series 7 and Series 63 licenses in 1984.
Topics:
Staying Positive in a Zero-Yield Environment Amid 2a-7 Changes
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Goran Jankovic
WellCare Health Plans, Inc.
VP, Treasurer
Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer Mr. Jankovic is responsible for the
WellCare’s treasury operations activities, including liquidity and investment
management, debt/financing & capital markets activities, maintaining and
developing banking relationships, risk management & insurance, leasing and is a
primary point of contact for credit rating agencies. Prior to joining WellCare
in 2007, Mr. Jankovic held progressive financial leadership roles in the
publicly traded global Fortune 500 and middle market segments. Before WellCare,
he served as director of treasury/assistant treasurer for then publicly traded
real estate developer WCI Communities. Previously, Mr. Jankovic served in the
treasury and corporate finance capacity at Air Liquide America, one of the
principal operating segments of Air Liquide, the global world leader in
industrial gases with presence in 80 countries. Mr. Jankovic commenced his
career in the banking industry, working as commercial lender at Comerica
(formerly Sterling Bank) where he also completed the Formal Bank Credit
Training. Mr. Jankovic earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and master’s of
business administration from University of Central Florida. He is a Certified
Treasury Professional (CTP).
Topics:
What’s Important to Corporate Investors Right Now?
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Alice Joe
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Executive Director, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness
Alice Joe is senior director of the U.S. Chamber’s Center for Capital Markets
Competitiveness (CCMC). Established in March 2007, the Center advocates for legal
and regulatory policies that advance investor protection, promote capital formation,
and ensure U.S. leadership in our 21st century financial markets. At CCMC, Joe develops
and executes strategic policies to implement the Dodd-Frank Act, focusing on the
Financial Stability Oversight Council, the Department of the Treasury, the Federal
Reserve System, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Prior to joining the Chamber, Joe served on the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and
Government Affairs Committee as senior policy advisor to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and as
professional staff member to Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL). She also served as deputy assistant
secretary for policy of the Employee Benefits Security Administration at the U.S. Department
of Labor, directing the policy, legislative and research functions of the agency that administers
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Before her federal government service, Joe was
active in the private equity arena with senior positions at The Grosvenor Funds and Advantage
Capital Partners.
Joe has an M.B.A from Tulane University and a B.B.A. from Baylor University. She holds the Chartered
Financial Analyst designation and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Topics:
Businesses and
Money Funds: Managing Cash Flows
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Brian Kalish
Association for Financial Professionals
Director, Finance Practice Lead
Mr. Kalish joined the AFP in October 2008. He has responsibility for the Finance
Practice which includes Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Capital Markets,
Investor Relations, FP& A, Accounting and Financial Reporting.
Mr. Kalish has over 20 years experience in Finance, Treasury and Investor
Relations. Prior to joining AFP, Mr. Kalish held a number of treasury and
finance positions with the Federal Home Loan Bank, Washington Mutual, Nat Rural,
Fifth Third Bank and Fannie Mae.
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Colin Kim
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Colin Kim currently serves as the Director of the Office of Debt Management. Prior to the Treasury, he spent 7 years
in Tokyo as a Japanese government bond market-marker and proprietary trader at Merrill Lynch and UBS Securities. After
taking time off for further education, he worked for 5 years as a trader at fixed income relative value hedge funds,
the last of which was Platinum Grove Asset Management, whose chairman Myron Scholes was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize
in Economic Sciences in 1997.
Mr. Kim holds a MS in Financial Mathematics, a MA in Economics, and a MS in Computer Science from Columbia University,
New York University, and University of Chicago respectively, along with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from Princeton
University.
Topics:
Treasury Eyes Floating-Rate Note Program
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Karen Manna
Federated Investors, Inc.
VP, Senior Investment Analyst, Assistant
Portfolio Manager
Karen B. Manna, Vice President, Senior Investment Analyst, Assistant Portfolio
Manager. Responsible for research and analytical support in the fixed income
area concentrating on tax-free money market and bond securities. Previous
associations: Senior Product Manager, Fixed Income & Institutional; Director,
Research and Fixed Income Marketing, Federated Investors; Fixed Income Product
Manager; Real Estate Portfolio Analyst, Fidelity Management Trust Company;
Manager of Investor Relations, Financial Analyst, Meditrust Corporation. B.S.,
Pennsylvania State University; M.B.A., Boston College. Joined Federated 2004;
Investment Experience: 10 Years.
Topics:
Issues Facing Tax-Exempt Funds
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Justin Meadows
MyTreasury
Chief Executive
Justin Meadows is the founder and chief executive of MyTreasury. He was
responsible for securing the initial research and development funding for the
project and putting in place the agreement with ICAP. Meadows is an economist by
training and was a university professor of economics before leaving to set up a
research consultancy, which he ran for 17 years before committing himself full
time to MyTreasury within ICAP. He has led the initial development of the
MyTreasury portal into the European and Asia/Pacific fund markets and has
recently undertaken the same role in the expansion of MyTreasury into the US
market. He has written extensively on many aspects of the MMF portal industry
and is well known to funds and investors in both the onshore and offshore
markets.
Topics:
Why Use a Money Fund Portal?
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Michael Morin
Fidelity Investments
Portfolio Manager
Michael Morin is Director of Money Market Institutional Portfolio Management for
Fidelity Management & Research, the investment arm of Fidelity Investments. In
this capacity, Mr. Morin is responsible for the delivery, implementation, and
oversight of the institutional fixed income investment strategy.
Topics:
Portfolio Managers Size Up 2a-7 Changes
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Lance Pan
Capital Advisors
CFA, Director of Investment Research & Strategy
As Director of Investment Research & Strategy, Lance is
responsible for assessing the risk of various asset classes, in order to
safeguard the investments of Capital Advisors Group’s clients. His role includes
creating advanced credit approval and surveillance procedures, issuing credit
driven investment opinions to the company’s trading desk, and providing credit
based investment strategies to Capital Advisors Group’s portfolio management
team.
Prior to joining Capital Advisors Group, Lance was a Senior Corporate Research Analyst at
Columbia Management Group (FleetBoston Financial) in Boston. In that role, he was responsible
for fundamental analysis and related strategies for the firm’s mutual funds and large
institutional accounts. Earlier in his career, Lance worked for Central Pacific Bank in Honolulu.
Lance is a Chartered Financial Analyst and member of the Boston Security Analysts Society. Lance
received his MBA and M.A. in Communications from the University of Hawaii and a B.A. in English
from Fudan University in Shanghai. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst™ (CFA®) designation
and is a member of the Boston Security Analyst Society and the CFA Institute.
Topics:
Considering Money Fund Alternatives
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Brian Reynolds
Chief Market Strategist
Rosenblatt Securities Inc.
Brian F. Reynolds, CFA is Chief Market Strategist at Rosenblatt Securities Inc., an institutional brokerage firm located in New York.
Prior to that he was Chief Market Strategist at WJB Capital Group, M.S. Howells and & Co., and Kirlin Holdings, Inc. From 2000 to 2003,
he was the fixed income and economic columnist for thestreet.com. He spent the prior 16 years at David L. Babson & Co., an investment
counseling firm in Cambridge, Ma. where he was a Senior Vice President and portfolio manager.
He joined Babson in 1984 as the firm's economic analyst. In addition to his economic work, he was an equity trader at Babson from
1985-1987, was the manager of the company's taxable retail and institutional money market funds from 1986 through 2000 and was part of
the portfolio management team of the company's fixed income separate accounts and mutual funds from 1987 through 2000.
He received his A.B. in economics from Harvard College in 1983 and became a CFA charterholder in 1989.
Topics:
Recent Trends in Money-Market Valuations
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Michael Rice
Matrix Financial Solutions
VP, Program Manager
Coming Soon
Topics:
Why Use a Money Fund Portal?
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Peter Rizzo
Standard & Poor's
Senior Director
Peter Rizzo is a Senior Director in Standard & Poor's Financial Institutions
Ratings Group and serves as the Global Fund Ratings Team Leader. In this
capacity Peter is responsible for analyzing and assigning ratings to fixed
income mutual funds such as money market funds, enhanced cash funds, government
investment pools and ETFs. He currently maintains direct relationships with more
than 20 investment managers and approximately 100 funds while assisting in the
oversight of the weekly and monthly reporting guidelines for over 750 rated
funds. Additionally, since 2001, Peter has served on iMoneyNet’s Money Fund
Report Advisory Board.
Peter joined Standard & Poor's in 1992 and possesses a B.S. and M.B.A. degree in
Finance form St. John’s University, NY.
Topics:
Money Fund Ratings: Current Trends and Recent Developments
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Timothy Robey
Dwight Asset Management, LLC
Senior VP, Senior Portfolio Manager
Tim Robey is a Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager for Dwight Asset Management. He is responsible
for managing short term and cash portfolios and has been with Dwight since 2009. Formerly, Tim was a senior
portfolio manager and Vice President at Lehman Brothers Asset Management and Neuberger Berman. He has managed and
traded US dollar short duration securities as well as euro and sterling short duration products in London.
Prior to Lehman he was a portfolio manager and trader for Allmerica Asset Management. He has 11 years of financial
services experience and holds BS in Finance from Bentley College.
Topics:
Staying Positive in a Zero-Yield Environment Amid 2a-7 Changes
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Alex Roever
J.P. Morgan
Head of Short-Term Fixed-Income Strategy
Alex Roever is a fixed income strategist for J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC, and is Head
of US Short-Duration Strategy. A member of J.P. Morgan's top-rated US fixed income research
team, his analysis appears regularly in Short-Term Markets Outlook & Strategy and U.S. Fixed
Income Markets Weekly.
Alex and his team were recently recognized by Institutional Investor Magazine as part of its
"2011 All-American Fixed Income Research Team" in both the Short Duration Strategy and Municipal
Strategy categories. In addition to his work in short-term fixed income, Alex has previously
worked as a strategist in the municipal securities and the securitized products markets. He also
worked on the buy-side as portfolio manager specializing in securitized and corporate debt. Alex
has also been a contributing author to several books and journals including The Handbook of Fixed
Income Securities.
Alex earned an MBA from Emory University, an MA in Economics from Georgia State University, and a BA
from Vanderbilt University. He is also a CFA charter holder.
Topics:
Outlook for the U.S. Money Markets
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Richard Rokus
Great Lakes Advisors
Director, Senior Portfolio Manager
Richard Rokus is a Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Great Lakes
Advisors. He has over 18 years of experience as an investment professional
dedicated to fixed income portfolio management. As a portfolio manager for Great
Lakes Advisors, Rich is responsible for the management of all taxable
short-duration fixed income portfolios.
Rich has managed numerous fixed income strategies. During his 17 years at M&I
Investment Management Corp. Rich was responsible for managing over $18 Billion
in taxable mutual funds, limited partnerships and separate accounts. In addition
to his portfolio management duties, Rich had oversight responsibility for all
fixed income products managed by the firm. He also managed the securities
lending trading desk. As portfolio manager of the Marshall Prime Money Market
Fund, he received the IBC Money Fund Report award for the highest yielding
taxable money market fund in 1998, as well as the Crane Data and iMoneyNet
awards for the highest yielding AAA-rated taxable institutional money market
fund in 2009.
Rich received a BBA in Finance from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater.
He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the CFA Society of
Milwaukee.
Topics:
Portfolio Managers Size Up 2a-7 Changes
Revisiting Those Investment Guidelines
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Paul Schott Stevens
Investment Company Institute
President, CEO
Paul Schott Stevens has served as president and CEO of the Investment Company Institute
since June 2004. He also is a director of ICI Mutual Insurance Co. Previously, he was ICI's
general counsel. Outside ICI, Stevens' career has included varied roles in private law practice,
as corporate counsel, and in government service. He was a leader of the financial services
practice of Dechert LLP, and general counsel for mutual funds and international enterprise at
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Earlier in his career, Stevens served as special assistant for national
security affairs to President Reagan, as executive secretary and legal adviser of the National
Security Council, and in other senior positions at the White House and the Pentagon. Upon leaving
government service, he received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service,
DOD's highest civilian decoration. His current community and civic activities include service on the
Finance Council of the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, the executive board of the National Capital
Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the Yale University Library’s development council.
A Scholar of the House at Yale, Stevens received his B.A., magna cum laude, in 1974; he received a J.D.
from the University of Virginia in 1978.
Topics:
Keynote: Preserving the Value of Money-Market Funds for Investors and the Economy
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Ben See
Lender Processing Services
VP, Assistant Treasurer, Corporate Treasury
Coming Soon
Topics:
Investor’s Panel - How, Why, What
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Henry Shilling
Moody's Investors Service
Senior VP
With Moody’s since 1992, Henry is a member of the New York-based Managed
Investments Group. He has responsibility for research, analysis and ratings of
money market and bond mutual funds, various other pooled investment vehicles,
pension funds, debt like instruments issued by closed-end funds as well as asset
(fund) management companies. Earlier in his career he was a vice president with
a firm specializing in tracking and evaluating the performance of mutual funds
and an officer in the employee-benefit trust and asset management divisions of
several large banks. Henry is the author of The International Guide to
Securities Market Indices which was published in 1996 by International
Publishing Corp., Chicago, Illinois.
He earned a B.A. in economics from Lehman College, City University of New York
in 1971.
Topics:
The Changing Risk Profile of Money-Market
Fund Portfolios and Outlook
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Mira Stevovich
Waddell & Reed Investment Management Company
CFA, VP, Portfolio Manager
Mira Stevovich is a Vice President of Waddell & Reed Investment Management
Company and Ivy Investment Management Company.
Ms. Stevovich graduated with a BA in German and European studies from Colorado
Women’s College in 1975. She earned both an MA in Soviet and East European area
studies in 1980, and an MBA with an emphasis in fi nance in 1987 from the
University of Kansas. Ms. Stevovich also studied at the University of Belgrade,
Yugoslavia on a Fulbright-Hays Grant. She was previously affi liated with
Boatmen’s First National Bank of Kansas City.
Ms. Stevovich joined Waddell & Reed in March 1987 as an investment-grade money
market credit analyst. Her responsibilities included investing mutual fund cash
reserves and short-term investing of institutional accounts. Ms. Stevovich was
appointed assistant vice president and portfolio manager in January 1997. She
assumed portfolio manager responsibilities for Waddell & Reed Advisors Cash
Management and Ivy Funds VIP Money Market (formerly W&R Target Funds Money
Market Portfolio) in May 1998. She was appointed vice president in January 1999.
Ms. Stevovich also assumed portfolio manager responsibility for the Ivy Money
Market Fund upon its inception in June 2000.
Ms. Stevovich is a CFA charterholder. She is a member of the CFA Institute and
the Kansas City CFA Society.
Topics:
Staying Positive in a Zero-Yield Environment Amid 2a-7 Changes
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Jacob Weinstein
Fidelity Investments
Investment Director, Fixed Income
Jacob Weinstein is an investment director for Fidelity Management & Research
Company (FMRCo.), the investment advisor for Fidelity’s family of mutual funds.
Fidelity Investments is a leading provider of investment management, retirement
planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and other
financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals,
institutions and financial intermediaries. Mr. Weinstein has been with Fidelity
since April 2008 where he has presided in several roles. He assumed his current
position within the Institutional Portfolio Management group in June 2011 where
he is responsible for developing and communicating the investment strategy of
Fidelity’s taxable and municipal money market groups. Prior to his current role,
Mr. Weinstein was a senior portfolio analyst for the Investment Analysis Group.
Prior to joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Weinstein worked for ABN Amro Bank in
Chicago from 2003 to 2007. In his role, he was responsible for administering
corporate, structured and municipal fixed income portfolios for client trust
accounts. He began his financial career in 1999 with the State Street
Corporation in Boston where he was responsible for performing portfolio
administration and fund accounting for the firm’s custodial relationships.
Mr. Weinstein received his Bachelor of Arts degree in quantitative economics
from Tufts University in 1999 and his MBA, with concentrations in analytic
finance, economics, statistics, and econometrics, from the University of Chicago
Booth School of Business in 2008.
Topics:
Money Fund Look-Alikes Coming to Market?
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John Willim, III
PSS World Medical
Senior Director, Assistant Treasurer
Senior Director, Assistant Treasurer since 2003
Joined company in 1998 and has
served in various leadership roles including:
Northeast Regional Operations
Manager, Imaging Division (2003)
Operations Manager, Imaging Division
(Divested) (2000-2002)
Senior Financial Analyst, Budget & Planning (1998-2000)
Prior to joining company served at TD Waterhouse Securities (1995-1998)
Earned a B.A. in Political Science, with a concentration in Economics, from
Hampden-Sydney College.
Topics:
Revisiting Those Investment Guidelines
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Brian Yeazel
Mason Street Advisors
Managing Director
Mr. Yeazel is a senior portfolio manager and head of fixed income trading at Mason Street Advisors, a registered
investment subsidiary of Northwestern Mutual Life. He has over 20 years of experience in fixed income portfolio
management and trading. As a portfolio manager, Mr. Yeazel is responsible for Treasury securities, short-term
investments and securities lending at Mason Street Advisors. He is also head of trading for fixed income, cash
and currencies in which he supervises a staff of traders operating in a multi-client platform.
Mr. Yeazel earned his Bachelors degree in Economics (1987) and an MBA in Finance (1988) from the University of
Wisconsin. He earned his CFA in 1993.
Topics:
Recent Trends in Money-Market Valuations
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Peter Yi
Northern Trust Global Investments
Director, Short Duration Fixed Income
Peter Yi, CFA is the Director of Short Duration Fixed Income at Northern Trust Global Investments
(NTGI). In this capacity, Peter manages the teams responsible for Northern Trust’s registered money
market mutual funds, Short Term Investment Funds (STIFs), separately managed institutional client
mandates and Securities Lending Cash Reinvestment. His daily responsibilities are to develop and oversee
strategies for Short Duration and the money market business. In addition, Peter is a Senior Portfolio
Manager and manages several money market mutual funds. He is the Portfolio Manager for the Northern
Institutional Government Portfolio, Northern Institutional Government Select Portfolio, Northern US
Government Money Market and Northern US Government Select Money Market. Peter is also Co-Manager for
the Northern Institutional Diversified Assets Portfolio, Northern Institutional Prime Obligations Portfolio,
Northern Institutional Liquid Assets Portfolio and Northern Money Market.
Peter is a member of the NTGI Fixed Income Product Council, NTGI Interest Rate Strategy Committee, NTGI OTC
Counterparty and Collateral Risk Committee and the Securities Lending Collateral Committee. Peter also serves
on the Money Market Advisory Committee for the Investment Company Institute and is a frequent speaker at industry
conferences.
Peter received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and an M.BA degree from the University of Chicago
Booth School of Business. He is a CFA Charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and the Investment Analysts Society
of Chicago.
Topics:
Portfolio Managers Size Up 2a-7 Changes
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