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Center for Asset Management
2009 Finance Conference

AGENDA

 
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Conference Dinner
Location: Murray Room, Yawkey Center, Boston College Campus
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5:00 pm: Cocktail Party

6:00 pm: Dinner

Keynote:
“Madoff & the Math that Uncovered the World's Largest Ponzi Scheme”

Harry Markopolos MSF '97 __________________________________________________________

Friday, June 5, 2009
2009 Center for Asset Management Conference
Location: Boston College Law School, East Wing 115A
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8:00 am - Continental Breakfast

8:30 am: Welcoming Remarks, Dean Andy Boynton, Carroll School of Management

8:45 am - Opening Keynote Address

“Current Conditions in Global Credit Markets: A Tale of Three Periods”
Edward I. Altman, Max Heine Professor of Finance, New York University Stern School of Business

9:30 am
Session 1: Corporate Lending, Defaults and Recoveries

David Scharfstein, Harvard Business School
Tyler Shumway, University of Michigan

10:45 am - Break

11:00 am
Session 2: Corporate Loans  Credit Markets

Moderator:
  Kathleen Corbet, Founder and Principal, Cross Ridge Capital, LLC;
  former President, Standard & Poor's Corporation

Panelists:
  Mark Carey, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
  Meredith Coffey, Loan Syndications and Trading Association
  Michael Epstein, CRG Partners
  David Goolgasian, DDJ Capital
  Richard Lindquist, Guggenheim Investment Management
 
12:00 pm - Keynote Address
Location: Law School, East Wing 115A

Richard Syron, former Chairman and CEO, Freddie Mac

1:00 pm - Lunch
Location: Stuart Dining Room

2:00 pm
Session 3: Investment Vehicles: Who Should Be Regulated & How?

Moderator:
   John Morris, Journalist and Author

Panelists:
  Jonathan Sokobin, Director of SEC Office of Risk Assessment
  Robert Reynolds, President and CEO, Putnam Investments
  Tom Lynch, Managing Director, Cliffwater LLC

3:15 pm - Break

3:30 pm
Session 4: Derivatives and Mortgage Markets

“Revenge of the Steamroller: Asset Backed Commercial Paper as a Window on Risk Choices”
Ricardo Correa, Federal Reserve Board

“Informed & Uninformed Investment in Housing:  The Downside of Diversification”
Philip Strahan, Finance Professor, Carroll School of Management

4:45 pm - Closing Remarks

Hassan Tehranian, Griffith Family Millennium Chair in Finance and Chairman of the Finance Department, Carroll School of Management