7th Annual Strategies in Wealth Management Summit

DATE:
Thursday, November 13, 2008

TIME:
8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

LOCATION:
NYSSA
1177 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor
(between 45th and 46th Streets), NYC (Directions)
Photo ID required for access to the building.

SPEAKERS:
Richard Adler, Co-founder, Strategist, European Investors Inc. (International Real Estate)
Gregory Brousseau, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Central Park Group
Natalie Dempster, World Gold Council
George Gatch, President & CEO, JPMorgan Funds
Paul A. Lieberman, Associate Director, Litigation, MarketCounsel^®; Managing Counsel, Hamburger Law Firm
Charl Malan, Van Eck Global
Elizabeth Nesvold, Managing Partner, Silver Lane Advisors
Walter Sall, Chairman, Gateway Investment Advisers
Ray Sclafani, President & Founder of ClientWISE LLC
Nainesh Shah, MBA, CFA, Senior Securities Analyst, Roosevelt Group Inc.
Mark Ukrainskyj, CFA, American Economic Group

REGISTRATION/FEES:
Early Registration by October 30, 2008
Members $495 | Nonmembers $675
Registration November 6, 2008
Members $565 | Nonmembers $745
After November 6, 2008
Members $615 | Nonmembers $795
Register at the door: Additional $50 due (space permitting)

CREDITS:
CE/CPE =7

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  8:30

Check-in and Continental Breakfast

  8:55

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mark Ukrainskyj, CFA, American Economic Group

  9:00

Keynote Address: Risks & Opportunities in Tumultuous Times
Elizabeth Nesvold, Managing Partner, Silver Lane Advisors

  10:00

Private Equity and Hedge Funds: What are the Risks & Opportunities?
Gregory Brousseau, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Central Park Group

  10:45

Break

  11:00

Hedged Long Only Panel
Walter Sall, Chairman, Gateway Investment Advisers
Nainesh Shah, MBA, CFA, Senior Securities Analyst, Roosevelt Group Inc.

  12:15

Keynote Luncheon Address: Dealing with Market Conditions & Managing a Fund Company
Through These Turbulent Times
George Gatch, President & CEO, JPMorgan Funds

  1:15

The European Investor’s Perspective on Global REITs
Richard Adler, Co-Founder and CIO, European Investors, Inc.

Managing Your Hard Assets 
Natalie Dempster, Head of Investment, North America, Investment Research & Marketing, World Gold Council
Charl Malan, Senior Metals & Mining Fund Analyst, Van Eck Global

Break

Client Communication: Emotional Intelligence in Turbulent Times
Ray Sclafani, President & Founder of ClientWISE LLC

Closing Remarks & Adjournment

Richard J. Adler, Managing Director, co-founded European Investors in 1983. Richard serves as investment strategist for the firm’s real estate securities, equity and fixed income activities. In the mid 1980’s Richard was jointly responsible for performing the initial due diligence on the investment opportunity of securitized real estate and spearheaded the firm’s entrance into real estate securities investment management. From 1973 to 1983, Richard was a Vice President of Goldman Sachs, & Co. where he acted as a liaison between the firm’s research department and foreign investors. Richard received his BA in Economics from Yale in 1968 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1973, where he was a Baker Scholar. He is the President of the EII Realty Securities Fund, the EII International Property Fund and the EII Global Real Estate Securities Fund. Richard is a former US Navy officer.

Gregory Brousseau is a founding partner of Central Park Group with over 20 years experience in alternative investments including merger arbitrage and fund-of-funds portfolio management. Most recently he served as co-head of UBS Financial Services Alternative Investment Group and was a member of the firm’s Operating Committee. Before UBS, Brousseau spent 13 years at Oppenheimer & Co., as an analyst in the firm’s merger arbitrage department and ultimately co-managing Oppenheimer's alternative investment department. He began his career at Procter & Gamble and his financial services career at E.F. Hutton & Co.

Brousseau is a board member of the Connecticut Hedge Fund Association and, since 1997, has served as an executive board member of the Hole in the Wall Gang, a children's charity located in New Haven, Connecticut. He earned a BS in business at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Natalie Dempster is the manager of Investment Research at the World Gold Council, an organization formed and funded by the world’s leading gold mining companies with the aim of stimulating and maximizing the demand for gold. Her team is responsible for augmenting gold’s investor base. She speaks at a number of conferences and publishes research papers and investment statistics on the council’s website. Dempster came from an investment banking background where she worked as an economist at both the Royal Bank of Scotland and Chase Manhattan Bank. She also worked as a foreign-exchange trader at Chase Manhattan Bank. Dempster holds a BSc in economics from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and an MBA from City University Business School (CASS), London.  

George Gatch is president and CEO of JP Morgan Funds, overseeing over $300 billion in assets. Gatch leads JPMorgan’s U.S. mutual fund and retail businesses, including the firm’s sub-advisory and managed account activities. He also oversees JPMorgan’s global money market fund business and its position as the largest institutional money market fund complex, globally.

He was previously president and CEO of DKB Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank. Prior to this, Gatch established JP Morgan Asset Management’s sub-advisory and institutional mutual funds business. He has also held numerous positions throughout the firm in business management, marketing, and sales. In 2006, he was named “Fund Leader of the Year” by Institutional Investor for overseeing the largest mutual fund merger in U.S. history between Banc One and JPMorgan. Gatch obtained a BA in political science and economics from Washington University and is a member of the Investment Company Institute Executive Committee and Bank of Governors.

Paul A. Lieberman serves as Associate Director, Litigation at MarketCounsel^® and as Managing Counsel at the Hamburger Law Firm, an affiliated boutique law firm providing the securities industry with unparalleled legal counsel.  At MarketCounsel he is primarily engaged in regulatory and business counseling to financial advisers. 

Lieberman, a former general counsel and member of senior management, has over 30 years of industry expertise supporting institutional and retail firms involving all products and services for companies including: Merrill Lynch, Citicorp/Citibank, the New York Stock Exchange and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  He has served as legal counsel for broker-dealers and investment advisors, and has overseen sales and trading divisions, executive management, internal audit and controls, and operation and compliance departments. 

Charl Malan joined Van Eck in 2003 as a precious metals and mining analyst. He currently serves as an investment team member of Van Eck International Investors Gold Fund, Van Eck Global Hard Assets Fund and Van Eck Worldwide Insurance Trust’s Worldwide Hard Assets Fund. From 2000 to 2003, he was an equity research sales analyst specializing in South African mining, natural resources and financial sectors at JPMorgan Chase.

From 1997 to 2000, he was an equity research analyst and junior portfolio manager at Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank (Asset Management), South Africa where he developed and applied various fundamental and quantitative models within the natural resources, mining and consumer sectors. Malan received an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa (1999); honours in business administration from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa (1997); and a BA in arts from the University of Pretoria in South Africa (1992).

Elizabeth Nesvold is Managing Partner of Silver Lane Advisors, an M&A advisory firm specializing in the investment and wealth management industries. Prior to that, she was a managing director and partner at Cambridge, where she headed their Wealth Management practice. Nesvold also spent 15 years at Berkshire Capital as an investment banker and as a partner for 10 years. At Berkshire, Nesvold co-founded the firm’s wealth management practice—the first such specialist M&A advisory group in the investment banking industry — in 1998, and led the wealth management initiative until her departure. She also led numerous transactions involving institutional and alternative managers.

During her 17 year career, Nesvold has advised on 131 completed merger, acquisition, valuation and strategic advisory assignments for a variety of clients including trust companies, multi-family offices, institutional and alternative managers, investment counselors, financial planners and investment consultants. Nesvold is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences and seminars, and has authored several articles, including How to Make Money in Wealth Management, Trust & Estates Magazine, and How to Sell the Family Business (without Losing Your Sanity), Private Wealth Management.

Nesvold earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Economics from Binghamton University and an MBA in Finance, with high honors, from Fordham University Graduate School of Business. She is also a General Securities Principal.

Nesvold is a member of Young Presidents’ Organization, the Edward L. Rose Conservancy, Junior League of Bronxville (sustainer), and Working Woman of Bronxville. She is also a Tiburon Fellow and a member of 100 Women in Hedge Funds.

Walter G. Sall, Chairman of Gateway, founded the firm in 1977. Prior to founding Gateway, he served as a senior investment officer with the Irving Trust Company in New York, New York. Gateway Investment Advisers, LLC managed over $7.8 billion as of June 30, 2008.

Mr. Sall is a member of the Cincinnati Society of Financial Analysts. He has been a speaker at numerous regional and national conferences and has served as a guest lecturer at various colleges and universities. In addition, he has made presentations to the New York Federal Reserve Board, New York State Banking Commission and the Department of Labor.

He is a graduate of Syracuse University and holds an M.B.A. degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ray Sclafani is a leading consultant, coach, keynote speaker, columnist, and educator. He launched ClientWise to help companies build stronger relationships with their clients and use industry trends to their advantage. Sclafani is formerly the founder and managing director of The Advisor Institute at AllianceBernstein. He was responsible for developing and executing an extensive curriculum of interactive programs designed to help advisors improve their practice and better serve their clients.

During his 20-year tenure at AllianceBernstein, he served as the national sales director for both the Financial Advisor and Financial Institutions Divisions. Sclafani also served as the southern division sales director for mutual funds, retirement solutions, college savings plans, separately managed accounts, variable annuities, and offshore products. He is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), where he has participated in The Strategic Coach Program for eleven years. He received his BA from Baylor University and a Masters Certification in neuro-linguistics from the IANLP.

Nainesh Shah has over 14 years of experience with the Roosevelt Investment Group, Inc. He covers a broad spectrum of industries with a particular focus on the financial, communication and technology industries. Mr. Shah’s responsibilities also include quantitative analysis employed to balance the firm’s portfolio for both risk and expected return. His quantitative skills assist in identifying investments using empirical data to evaluate the investment potential of Themes and economic trends identified by the firm’s portfolio managers.

A native of Bombay, India, Mr. Shah holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Baroda, India, and started his career running a manufacturing facility. Drawing from this experience, Mr. Shah brings a unique perspective to the companies he analyzes. His first- hand knowledge of the inner workings of the manufacturing process, including cost and valuation analysis, efficiencies of scale and technology, performance monitoring and management, are all valuable tools that Mr. Shah uses in his fundamental securities analysis.

Mr. Shah holds a Master in Business Administration in Finance from the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A Chartered Financial Analyst, Mr. Shah is a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts and was active in evaluating exam results of Chartered Financial Analyst candidates.

Mark Ukrainskyj, CFA, is chief investment officer for American Economic Planning Group Inc. (AEPG). His responsibilities include supervision of the firm's investment operations, investment research, portfolio analysis and design, monitoring of client portfolios, and formulation of investment strategy. He chairs the firm's Investment Committee. Previously he spent over six years as an institutional securities analyst and assistant portfolio manager at Capital Builders Advisory Services Inc. Prior to that he was a securities analyst at Amas Securities and a financial analyst on the chief investment officer’s staff at Mutual of New York.

He is a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts where he is the Chairman of the Private Wealth Management Committee and a member of the Investment Strategy Committee. Mark holds a BS in economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California.

NYSSA reserves the right to change any part of its published program or list of presenters due to unforeseen circumstances.