The Practising Law Institute's Institutional Investor Summit 2009 is a first-time program to explore the unique issues that investors face in successfully managing their investment portfolios.The program will take place on Monday, January 28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the PLI New York Center, 810 Seventh Avenue, New York City.
Among the speakers are Nir Yarden, program chair, Bryan Cave LLP; Ben Adler, managing director and general counsel, Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking, Goldman, Sachs & Co; Corinne Ball, Jones Day; Karl J. Ege, vice chairman and senior adviser, Russell Investment Group, and Senior Counsel, Perkins Coie LLP; Jeffrey W. Ferguson, general counsel and managing director, The Carlyle Group; Bruce J. Franzese, vice president and general counsel, Verizon Investment Management Corp; Orly Lax, head of U.S. Legal and Product Structuring, Man Investments; Benjamin M. Levy, vice president and counsel, AllianceBernstein L.P.; Karen Ostad, Morrison & Foerster LLP; and Michael M. Pastore, senior vice president and deputy general counsel, Alternative Investments, GE Asset Management.
Institutional investors, including pension plans, endowments, foundations, family offices and high-net-worth investors, face complex challenges in successfully managing their investment portfolios. Ensuring critical funding needs, a focus on liability management, a dramatic increase in alternative investments, and first-time allocations to new asset classes are some of the critical issues institutional investors face today.
This program is designed for attorneys, compliance officers and other regulatory professionals working at and servicing institutional investors, including private and public pension plans, endowments, foundations, family offices and high net worth investors. In addition, service providers to institutional investors, including outside counsel, will find this program extremely valuable.
For information about available CLE credits and registration fees, see CLE Events on The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel website at www.metrocorpcounsel.com.
For reservations call (800) 260-4PLI or visit www.pli.edu.