NYSSA Annual Dinner 

2009 Annual Dinner event information.

The Annual Dinner is the premier event on the NYSSA calendar. It attracts more than 300 of NYSSA’s most active and senior members as well as VIP’s within the New York financial community. The dinner affords NYSSA an opportunity to raise funds to support education and student outreach programs, host distinguished guests and – together with friends and supporters - honor the achievements of NYSSA members, the Volunteers of the Year, and student scholarship recipients.

In 2008, the guest speaker and recipient of the inaugural NYSSA Lifetime Achievement Award was Byron Wien, Chief Investment Strategist, Pequot Capital Management, Inc. Speakers of past Annual Dinners include Barton Biggs, author of Hedgehogging and managing partner of Traxis Partners LLC; and Paul E. Steiger, then managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and vice president of Dow Jones & Company.

Sponsorship of NYSSA’s Annual Dinner is an excellent way to support NYSSA’s mission to educate and inform the next generation of professionals. These programs are designed to grow with students through their academic career, starting in highschool with the Multicultural Outreach program and seeing it through to graduate school by way of the SEMI program and Investment Research Challenge.

Your financial contribution will help fund the following NYSSA Student Programs:

Multicultural Outreach
The Multicultural Outreach Program was started in 2004 by Gary Ross and Neal Zephyrin to educate high-school students about the role of capital markets and helps them understand the basics of finance. The target high schools are academically rigorous schools in New York City with large populations of minorities that are underrepresented on Wall Street. The recently expanded program will include a student managed portfolio and scholarship awards.

SEMI (Scholarship Education, Mentoring and Internship) Program
The objective of this program is to provide undergraduate college students who are pursuing degrees in finance or other related studies greater exposure to and understanding of the finance and investment fields.  Students given a mentor and attend presentations covering various financial industry-specific topics.  In addition, as NYSSA members, students have access to the extensive contacts and resources of NYSSA. The result is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for NYC-area students who want to get a leg up on their careers.

Investment Research Challenge
The Investment Research Challenge is a way to advance NYSSA's twin goals of informing and educating investors and advancing the professional competence of investment professionals including portfolio managers, security analysts, investment advisors, and others involved in the investment process. The Challenge, now in it’s seventh year,   is a six-month educational initiative in which leading industry professionals teach business and finance students how to research and report on a publicly traded company.

Sponsorship Levels

Platinum: $20,000
Benefits include:

• Branding at the Annual Dinner
• Three corporate branded table of 10 Sponsor representatives/guests per table with prime location at front of room
• Full page Sponsor announcement in prime placement (front inside cover, back inside cover, back cover) in Annual Dinner program distributed to all attendees
• Company materials included in give-away bags handed out to all attendees
• Branding in NYSSA Marketing Materials
• Sponsor logo with link to Sponsor website featured on the Annual Dinner page of the NYSSA website
• Sponsor announced in NYSSA’s e-newsletter, NYSSA NEWS, distributed to 30,000 financial professionals
• Sponsor named in a thank you announcement in the July edition of NYSSA NEWS
• Sponsor logo with link to Sponsor website on the Annual Dinner page of the NYSSA website
• Sponsor logo included in all marketing announcements for Annual Dinner
  

Gold:  $15,000
Benefits include:

• Branding at the Annual Dinner
• Two corporate branded table of 10 Sponsor representatives/guests per table
• Full-page Sponsor announcement in Annual Dinner program distributed to all attendees
• Branding in NYSSA Marketing Materials
• Sponsor logo with link to Sponsor website featured on the Annual Dinner page of the NYSSA website
• Sponsor announced in NYSSA’s e-newsletter, NYSSA NEWS, distributed to 30,000 financial professionals
• Sponsor named in a thank you announcement in the July edition of NYSSA NEWS
• Sponsor logo with link to Sponsor website on the Annual Dinner page of the NYSSA website
• Sponsor logo included in all marketing announcements for Annual Dinner
  

Silver:  $10,000
Benefits Include:

• Branding at the Annual Dinner
• Corporate branded table of 10 Sponsor representatives/guests
• Full-page Sponsor announcement in Annual Dinner program distributed to all attendees
• Branding in NYSSA Marketing Materials
• Sponsor logo with link to Sponsor website featured on the Annual Dinner page of the NYSSA website
• Sponsor announced in NYSSA’s e-newsletter, NYSSA NEWS, distributed to 30,000 financial professionals
• Sponsor named in a thank you announcement in the July edition of NYSSA NEWS
• Sponsor logo with link to Sponsor website on the Annual Dinner page of the NYSSA website
• Sponsor logo included in all marketing announcements for Annual Dinner
  

Bronze:  $5,000
Benefits Include:

• Branding at the Annual Dinner
• Corporate branded table of 10 Sponsor representatives/guests
• Full-page Sponsor announcement in Annual Dinner program distributed to all attendees
• Branding in NYSSA Marketing Materials
• Sponsor logo with link to Sponsor website featured on the Annual Dinner page of the NYSSA website
  

Partner: $2500
Benefits Include:

• Branding at the Annual Dinner
• 5 Sponsor representatives/guests
• Half-page Sponsor announcement in Annual Dinner program distributed to all attendees
• Branding in NYSSA Marketing Materials
• Sponsor logo with link to Sponsor website featured on the Annual Dinner page of the NYSSA website

Corporate Announcement in Annual Dinner Program
Full-page: $800
Half-page: $500

For more information on the Annual Dinner and other sponsorship opportunities, please contact Brian Stype at 646-871-3406 or sponsorship@nyssa.org.