{"id":31018,"date":"2012-08-31T07:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31018"},"modified":"2012-08-31T07:29:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:29:44","slug":"hedge-fund-specialists-to-speak-at-third-annual-etf-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2012\/hedge-fund-specialists-to-speak-at-third-annual-etf-conference.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Specialists to Speak at Third Annual ETF Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge fund research specialist Morningstar announced the speakers and agenda for its third annual <a href=\"http:\/\/advisor.morningstar.com\/products\/conference\/etfinvest_home.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ETF Invest Conference<\/a>\u00a0Oct. 3-5\u00a0at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in\u00a0Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liz Ann Sonders,\u00a0<\/strong>senior vice president and chief investment strategist,\u00a0Charles Schwab, will deliver the opening keynote address on\u00a0Wednesday, Oct. 3; and\u00a0<strong>Christopher Gardner,\u00a0<\/strong>CEO of Gardner Rich LLC and author of the best-selling book\u00a0<em>The Pursuit of Happyness<\/em>, will speak during a keynote luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 4.<\/p>\n<p>General sessions at ETF Invest will feature some of the ETF industry&#8217;s top strategists and thought leaders:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>With the election just around the corner,\u00a0<strong>Russ Koesterich\u00a0<\/strong>, managing director and global chief investment strategist, BlackRock, will kick off the\u00a0Oct. 4\u00a0sessions by discussing the relationship between government and the economy, and what sectors stand to gain or lose depending upon the outcome in November.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Hatch,\u00a0<\/strong>vice chairman, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney; and\u00a0<strong>Mark Wiedman\u00a0<\/strong>, managing director, iShares; will survey the changing landscapes for the advisor practice, and how ETFs and ETF managed portfolios fit in to this new paradigm.<em><\/em><\/li>\n<li>On\u00a0Oct. 5,<strong>\u00a0Vineer Bhansali,<\/strong>\u00a0managing director and portfolio manager, PIMCO; will discuss the future of active ETFs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Hougan,<\/strong>\u00a0managing director of ETF analytics, IndexUniverse;\u00a0<strong>Paul Justice\u00a0<\/strong>, director of passive fund research, Morningstar; and\u00a0<strong>Tom Lydon\u00a0<\/strong>, editor and publisher, ETF Trends; will close the conference with the popular &#8220;Meet the Pundits&#8221; roundtable. Moderated by\u00a0<strong>Jeff Benjamin,<\/strong>senior editor,<em>\u00a0InvestmentNews<\/em>, this wide-ranging panel discussion will review the state of the ETF industry and look at what&#8217;s next for ETF investors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Breakout sessions covering a wealth of timely ETF topics include:<br \/>\nOct. 4:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><strong>Juliana Bambaci,\u00a0<\/strong>senior associate for index research, MCSI;<strong>\u00a0Craig Lazzara,\u00a0<\/strong>product manager, Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s Indices; and\u00a0<strong>Jeremy Schwartz\u00a0<\/strong>, director of research, WisdomTree Asset Management; will discuss the best ways to implement both high-dividend and low-volatility strategies, which have grown in popularity in a low-growth climate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kevin Carter,\u00a0<\/strong>cofounder and CEO, Baochuan Capital Management; and\u00a0<strong>Daniel Rohr\u00a0<\/strong>, senior securities analyst, Morningstar; will talk about investing in\u00a0China, including current opportunities and pitfalls to avoid in the market.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas Crandall,\u00a0<\/strong>portfolio manager and director, Quantitative Advantage;\u00a0<strong>Brian Huckstep\u00a0<\/strong>, portfolio manager, Morningstar Investment Management;\u00a0<strong>Michael Jones,<\/strong>\u00a0chairman and CEO , Riverfront Investment Group; and\u00a0<strong>Michael Vogelzang\u00a0<\/strong>, president and chief investment officer, Boston Advisors; will shine a spotlight on global all-asset ETF strategies and offer insights on these &#8220;go-anywhere&#8221; investments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Mazza,\u00a0<\/strong>principal, State Street Global Advisors; and<strong>\u00a0Rodney Sullivan,\u00a0<\/strong>head of publications, CFA Institute; will focus on rising correlations across asset classes, and how investors can adjust to this new reality.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew Tucker,\u00a0<\/strong>managing director, BlackRock; and\u00a0<strong>Kenneth Volpert\u00a0<\/strong>, principal and senior portfolio manager, Vanguard; will examine the best ways for investors to position their bond portfolios in an uncertain interest-rate environment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sean Clark,\u00a0<\/strong>chief investment officer, Clark Capital Management;\u00a0<strong>Kevin Simpson\u00a0<\/strong>, president and chief investment officer, Capital Wealth Planning; and\u00a0<strong>Christian Wagner\u00a0<\/strong>, founder and chief investment officer, Longview Capital Management; will explore the new crop of alternative ETFs that provide exposure to commodities, currencies, leverage, volatility, and other risk premia factors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Carlson,\u00a0<\/strong>senior vice president and fixed-income investment strategist, Northern Trust;<strong>Christopher Goolgasian\u00a0<\/strong>, vice president, State Street Global Advisors; and\u00a0<strong>Axel Merk\u00a0<\/strong>, president and chief investment officer, Merk Investments; will discuss a variety of methods for investors to shield their portfolios from inflation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sal Gilbertie\u00a0<\/strong>, founder, president and<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>chief investment officer, Teucrium; and\u00a0<strong>Martin Kremenstein,<\/strong>\u00a0chief operating officer and chief investment officer, PowerShares\/DB Commodity Funds, will focus on the best ways to select an investment from the dizzying array of new commodity-focused ETF products that have recently hit the market.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gerald Buetow,\u00a0<\/strong>founder, Innealta Capital;\u00a0<strong>Mitchell Reiner,\u00a0<\/strong>managing partner, Wela Strategies; and\u00a0<strong>Robert Williams,<\/strong>\u00a0principal and director of research, Sage Advisory Services; will debate fixed-income managed portfolio strategies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Philip Guziec,\u00a0<\/strong>derivatives strategist, Morningstar; and<strong>\u00a0Rob Stein\u00a0<\/strong>, senior managing director and head of global asset management, Astor Asset Management;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>will discuss how ETF investors can incorporate options, margin, and short sales to help hedge their portfolios.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brett Manning\u00a0<\/strong>, senior market analyst, Briefing.com; and<strong>\u00a0Kevin Orr,\u00a0<\/strong>senior vice president, F-Squared Investments; will explore how to use momentum indicators as a tactical strategy to increase returns and reduce portfolio volatility.<\/li>\n<li><strong>James Breech,\u00a0<\/strong>founder, Cougar Global Investments;<strong>\u00a0Paul Ingersoll\u00a0<\/strong>, co-CEO and senior portfolio manager, Good Harbor Financial; and<strong>\u00a0Sharon Snow,\u00a0<\/strong>CEO, Metropolitan Capital Strategies; will show how they blend technical and macroeconomic factors into their portfolio construction process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oct. 5:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><strong>David Mann,\u00a0<\/strong>director, iShares; and\u00a0<strong>John Hyland\u00a0<\/strong>, chief investment officer and portfolio manager, United States Commodity Funds; will provide a look into the regulatory and capital market considerations involved in ETF investing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Duda,\u00a0<\/strong>portfolio manager and research analyst, Western Asset;\u00a0<strong>Rick Harper,<\/strong>\u00a0director of fixed-income and currency, WisdomTree Asset Management; and\u00a0<strong>Kevin Petrovcik\u00a0<\/strong>, senior client portfolio manager, Invesco; will provide a glimpse beyond traditional bond markets to find the next frontier in fixed-income investing, such as bank loans, international high-yield, and emerging-markets bonds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Robert Brooks\u00a0<\/strong>, national sales director, Invesco PowerShares;\u00a0<strong>David D&#8217;Amico<\/strong>, president and chief market strategist, Braver Capital Management; and\u00a0<strong>Kian Rafia,<\/strong>\u00a0director of advisory and brokerage investment products, Cetera Financial Group; will survey the future of the ETF managed portfolios industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge fund research specialist Morningstar announced the speakers and agenda for its third annual ETF Invest Conference\u00a0Oct. 3-5\u00a0at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in\u00a0Chicago. Liz Ann Sonders,\u00a0senior vice president and chief investment strategist,\u00a0Charles Schwab, will deliver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16037,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-conferences","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018","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=31018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31020,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018\/revisions\/31020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}