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Investing Themes 2010
After a rollercoaster ride, have the markets rebounded for good? Are optimism and recovery here to stay? If so, where are the best opportunities in alternatives, private equity and hedge funds, in 2010? What strategies, products, sectors and regions are in play for the next phase?
Please join us and our special guest, John Liu, New York City Comptroller, for an evening of lively networking on the current investment outlook, and the best ideas going into 2010.
Proceeds from this event benefit the 2010 AAAIM Toigo Fellowships.
| Date: | Tuesday January 19, 2010 | ||||||||||||
| Location: | Credit Suisse One Madison Avenue 12th floor, Metropolitan Room New York, NY 10010 | ||||||||||||
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| Registration: | Free to current AAAIM members, log in to your AAAIM account Free to staff of trustee members and LPs Non-members $30 upon registration, to benefit the 2010 AAAIM Toigo | ||||||||||||
| Fellowships: | Sign up at www.aaaim.org | ||||||||||||
| Questions? | Please email info@aaaim.org |
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Speaker Biographies
Jimmy Yan is the General Counsel in the Office of Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer and is the first Asian American to serve as General Counsel to a Borough President. He serves as the principal advisor to the Borough President on all legal matters of the 60 staff office including the areas of public policy, legislation, economic development, contracts and operations. Mr. Yan serves as a Board Trustee for the New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS), the largest of the City’s pension funds. He also serves on the NYC Franchise and Concession Review Committee and coordinates the Manhattan Borough President's Immigrant Rights Task Force. Mr. Yan was appointed by the Manhattan Borough President to serve as a member of the eight member New York City Board of Education during a brief period of transition from Mayoral control of public schools in 2009. Prior to working in the Borough President’s Office, Mr. Yan was General Counsel in the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and served as Deputy Chief Counsel to the 2003 New York City Charter Revision Commission. Before entering government, Mr. Yan was a senior attorney and director of the Immigrant Students Rights Project at Advocates for Children and an attorney at the Legal Aid Society. He is a graduate of NYU School of Law and the University of California at Berkeley.
Peter Marber is Head of Global Emerging Markets Debt and has been working in the industry since 1987. Previously, Mr. Marber was President of The Atlantic Advisors, LLC, which was acquired by Halbis in 2005. Prior to founding Atlantic Advisors in 1999, Mr. Marber was a founding partner and President of the emerging market subsidiary of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DKW formerly known as Wasserstein Parella) and the Director of Emerging Markets Trading and Finances at UBS (formerly Swiss Bank Corporation) where he helped organize and grow more than six separate business lines, including the market's first true repo and derivative desks.
Mr. Marber is an acknowledged specialist in global investing and has taught at Columbia University (both the Business School and School of International and Public Affairs) since 1993, and has lectured at Johns Hopkins and Universidad de Francisco Marroquin in Latin America. He is also frequently quoted and featured in periodicals and on TV on various global financial issues. In addition to having written more than 100 articles on international finance, Mr. Marber's book, From Third World to World Class: The Future of Emerging Markets in the Global Economy, was published in 1998. His second book, Money Changes Everything: How Global Prosperity is Reshaping Our Needs, Values, and Lifestyles, was published by FT Prentice Hall in the summer of 2003. His latest book, Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to Tail, was published in February 2009. Mr. Marber also serves on the advisory board of the World Policy Institute. Mr. Marber holds a Certificate from the University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne (France), a BA from the Johns Hopkins University (United States), and an MIA from Columbia University (United States).