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Welcome to Information Management Network
(IMN), the company that arms investors in all fields of finance and commerce
with the knowledge they need to survive and thrive in tomorrow’s world of finance
and investment. IMN provides a forum through which the exchange of unbiased
ideas, information and assistance can lead to more winners in the ‘game
A revolution in the finance and investment markets has constituted
a need for more advanced, explicit information provision. Since May 1994, IMN
has presented executive level conferences of the highest quality to both the
institutional and investment markets worldwide, each one a carefully packaged
event combining excellent guidance with ideal networking opportunities.
The founders of IMN have accumulated over 40 years of combined experience in
organizing and promoting institutional finance & investment conferences.
Through these four founding directors, each specialist division within IMN endeavors
to utilize this experience for custom-built conference structures to ensure
those within the community are truly prepared.
As the leaders in our field, we have now become a source of education for the
global community, producing international conferences in Asia, Europe, North
America, South America, Australia and the Caribbean. Ever improving, ever extending.
To further assist us in our quest for quality, Dr. Frank J. Fabozzi PhD. CFA,
CPA, provides guidance for all IMN events. Currently an adjunct professor at
the Yale School of Management, Dr. Fabozzi is a world-renowned author, editor,
lecturer & consultant and is recognized as a leading authority on fixed
income markets around the world. He has penned over fifty highly acclaimed texts
including such works as, The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities and The Handbook
of Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities. Many of his books are listed by the
AIMR as required reading for Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) candidates. Dr.
Fabozzi is also the editor of ‘Institutional Investor’s Journal of Portfolio
Management’ and sits on the board for ‘Blackrock Financial’ as well as ‘The
Guardian’
Strategic Alliances
Based on its reputation for quality,
IMN has organized conferences on behalf of or in conjunction with many different
market leaders. The most notable of these market leaders is Cornell University.
In March of 1997, the first ever Cornell University Hotel Industry Strategy
meeting (organized by IMN) was held in Florida. The success of this conference
led to a second collaboration between IMN & Cornell. IMN was retained by
Cornell to organize the first annual Cornell University European Hotel Industry
Strategy meeting (May 1998) and the partnership has continued to develop.
Additionally, IMN has established relationships with many leading industry information
sources including Investment & Pensions Europe Magazine, International Securities
Lending Magazine, National Real Estate Investor magazine, Plan Sponsor Magazine,
Asiamoney, Euroweek, Investment Management Weekly, Dow Jones Asset Management,
Progressive Railroading, Realty Stock Review, International Herald Tribune,
Alternative Investment Management Association, among notable others.
Networking
A well-balanced audience composition is
a very important dynamic to a conference, much like any business meeting. The
diversity in our conference audience is also the essence of its success. The
key factor is to balance the audience in terms of practitioners, consultants
and academics, ensuring topics can be presented and disputed while looking through
different colored lenses. Our conferences are not just about learning, they
are also an excellent opportunity to meet potential clients and consultants,
generating new business relationships through our provision of networking possibilities.
For most IMN events, one or more segments of the audience are coveted (i.e.
pension fund investment officers at an investment management program, issuers
& investors at a structured finance program, etc.) IMN conferences attract
these coveted audience segments for two reasons. Firstly, by working with our
conference sponsors, IMN is able to discount their rate for attending the conference.
Secondly, IMN ensures that state-of-the-art technology and materials are on
hand to facilitate our guests in both their learning endeavors and their ability
to communicate. Both quality & affordability help ensure that all IMN conference
audiences are rich with networking opportunities.
Education
Because the core of any conference is
its educational focus, our aim is to deliver timely, cutting edge information
in a manner that is both stimulating and thought-provoking. IMN achieves this
through a process of thorough, in-depth research, interviewing top industry
executives to identify the foremost contemporary issues and once selected, an
agenda is formulated and then streamlined to provide a seamless transition from
one topic to the next.
Following profile analysis and interviews, IMN generate a most wanted list of
top industry executives best suited to address topics outlined in the agenda.
From this list we recruit our distinguished speaking faculty. IMN’s intense
approach to conference development ensures a fruitful conference for all who
attend and as we strive for excellence we understand that our conferences are
a chance for us to learn. We dedicate a considerable amount of time in questioning
how we can improve our presentations, from the location, its quality of service,
its facilities and the effectiveness of particular formats.
Global Presence
In it's eleven year history, IMN’s growth
has been prevalent. With conferences now held in over thirty cities across the
globe, we have become a global provider of information for all actors of the
pension and investment world.
Our expansive nature can only serve our patrons well as we continue to further
embrace more and more of the key actors in this transnational industry as we
approach the 21st Century. As our name suggests, we are a network of multiplying
links, helping our patrons to broaden their horizons through the introduction
of new ideas while presenting countless opportunities to meet their counterparts
from around the world. New relationships are formed and old ones more strongly
forged.
With Europe, Asia, Australasia and now Latin America being active venues for
IMN events, more and more specialists from around the globe are realizing that
everyone is benefitting from this transnational cooperation. As you may know,
IMN has already brought it’s Asset Backed Securities (ABS) conferences to the
four corners of the earth.
Other conferences that IMN has held in multiple venues around the world include
The Cornell Hotel Industry Strategy conference, The Beneficial Owners’ Summit
on International Securities Lending, The World Cup of Indexing, The Superbowl
of Indexing (U.S. counterpart), Asian Indexing and Commercial Real Estate Securitization
& Finance.
Customer Service
IMN is committed to customer satisfaction.
Our goal is to be your choice for information provision within the investment
management community, because that is what we are, a community. We are like-minded
in the pursuit of opportunity, stability and growth inside our marketplace.
IMN is a creation of your people for your people, bringing together the keenest
and sharpest minds from every subject area. In a finance community that demands
absolute quality, we guarantee it.
Our well-trained administrative staff can handle all inquiries quickly and efficiently.
Through the use of technology IMN can access customer information from our company
computer while on site at a conference. By accessing this information on site
we move people through the registration process more quickly making their conference
experience a pleasant one.
We are constantly striving to improve the handling of our customers. Our ever-
expanding business and successful long-running events are testament to our achievement
of customer satisfaction. We have assembled a structured audience development
department that works with previous attendees to ensure their future conference
expectations are superseded. For such reasons we are already the leading international
conference organizer in most institutional financial fields.
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