{"id":22581,"date":"2011-05-19T07:49:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T11:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22581"},"modified":"2011-05-20T04:39:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T08:39:02","slug":"paypal-founder-to-headline-the-2011-gaim-gma-hedge-fund-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2011\/paypal-founder-to-headline-the-2011-gaim-gma-hedge-fund-conference.html","title":{"rendered":"PayPal Founder To Headline the 2011 GAIM GMA Hedge Fund Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/163_118_crop_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22584\" title=\"163_118_crop_resize\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/163_118_crop_resize.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; GAIM USA and Citi announced that PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, economist and hedge fund manager Burton Malkiel, Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates and Bank of England\u2019s Monetary Policy Committee Member Adam Posen will headline the 2nd Annual GAIM GMA (Geopolitical Risk, Macro Economic Insight and Alternative Investment) Event on October 11th and 12th at the Sentry Towers in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>GAIM GMA is the New York-based sister event of the flagship hedge fund industry conference GAIM USA held each January in Boca Raton, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the over 80 speakers who have already confirmed their participation include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Institutional Investors<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00b7       Jeffrey Scott, Chief Investment Officer, ALASKA PERMANENT FUND INVESTMENT BOARD<br \/>\n\u00b7       Maxime Tessier, Vice-President, Tactical Portfolio and Currencies, Overlay Strategies, CAISSE DE D\u00c9P\u00d4T ET PLACEMENT DU QU\u00c9BEC<br \/>\n\u00b7       Chris Limbach, Head of Quantitative Strategies, PGGM INVESTMENTS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Economists<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00b7       Willem H. Buiter, Chief Economist, CITI<br \/>\n\u00b7       Adam Posen, Monetary Policy Committee Member, The Bank of England<br \/>\n\u00b7       Eric Chaney, Chief Economist, AXA GROUP, Head of Research, AXA INVESTMENT MANAGERS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hedge Funds<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00b7       Dr. Burton G. Malkiel, Co-founder, and the Chief Investment Officer, BAOCHUAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT (BaoCap), Chemical Bank Chairman\u2019s Professor of Economics at PRINCETON UNIVERSITY<br \/>\n\u00b7       James S. Chanos, President &amp; Founder, KYNIKOS ASSOCIATES<br \/>\n\u00b7       Mark Dow, Senior Portfolio Manager, PHARO MANAGEMENT LLC<\/p>\n<p><strong>Policy Experts<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00b7       Peter Orszag, Vice Chairman of Global Banking, CITI, Formerly Director of the Office of Management and Budget<br \/>\n\u00b7       Carlo Cottarelli, Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF<br \/>\n\u00b7       Mahmoud Mohieldin, Managing Director, WORLD BANK GROUP, Formerly Minister of Investment of the ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT<\/p>\n<p>The GAIM GMA conference will provide an opportunity for hedge funds and investors to engage in an important dialogue with leading economists, strategists, policy makers and central bankers and to hear their prescriptions for navigating the risks and opportunities in the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; GAIM USA and Citi announced that PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, economist and hedge fund manager Burton Malkiel, Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates and Bank of England\u2019s Monetary Policy Committee Member Adam Posen will headline the 2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16025,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22581"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22583,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22581\/revisions\/22583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}