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
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
