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7:30 REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 8:15 CONFERENCE OPENING Albert Neubert, Senior Vice President Business Development, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT NETWORK 8:20 ROUNDTABLE: AN OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT ETF LANDSCAPE AND WHAT WE CAN EXPECT IN THE NEAR FUTURE New product introductions in 2006, their acceptance and formulated trends Asset class coverage Investment strategy and style, i.e. active, passive, enhanced A look ahead 2007, including products in registration and development Moderator: Jim Wiandt, Publisher, EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS REPORT Panelists: Bob Tull, Managing Director, MACROMARKETS LLC Darek Wojnar, Head - Product Strategy, BARCLAYS GLOBAL INVESTORS Dodd Kittsley, Vice President and Director of ETF Research, STATE STREET GLOBAL ADVISORS Jeff Margolin, Vice President - CEF and ETF Analyst, FIRST TRUST PORTFOLIOS L.P. 9:15 ROUNDTABLE: PASSIVE VERSUS PASSIVE AND THE MERITS OF ALTERNATIVE WEIGHTING SCHEMES CAPM and traditional weightings Equal weighting, modified cap weighting, fundamental based weighting, and dividend weighting approaches Weighting schemes and the affect on market cycles Transaction costs and turnover Moderator: Richard C. Kang, Independent Investment & Risk Consultant and Contributing Writer, THEBETABRIEF.COM Panelists: Kenneth Marschner, Head Program & ETF Trading, UBS Srikent Dash, Index Strategist, STANDARD & POOR'S Stephen Sachs, Director of Trading, RYDEX INVESTMENTS 10:10 REFRESHMENTS 10:25 ROUNDTABLE: SECTOR AND INDUSTRY BASED PRODUCTS AND STRATEGIES US based sectors Global sector products Traditional economic sector approaches Industry index ETFs Concentration issues and index methodologies Diversification and overweighting exposures Moderator: Mike Woods, CEO, XTF LP Panelists: Harry Tutwiler, Vice President - Financial Products, THE NASDAQ STOCK MARKET Jeremy Held, National Sales Manager, SELECT SECTORS SPDRS Richard Ciuba, Senior Director - Americas Sales, DOW JONES INDEXES 11:10 ROUNDTABLE: INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE AND THE BRIC CONUNDRUM Emerging markets for diversification High growth with high volatility China ETFs and limitations on the underlying indexes Brazil Russia and India as riddles to be solved ETF or ETN Moderator: Tom Lydon, Proprietor, ETFTRENDS.COM Panelists: Corin Frost, Senior Portfolio Manager, BARCLAYS GLOBAL INVESTORS Hartmut Graf, Director - Head of Issuer Data & Analytics, DEUTSCHE BOERSE AG John Prestbo, Editor, DOW JONES INDEXES Richard C. Kang, Independent Investment & Risk Consultant and Contributing Writer, THEBETABRIEF.COM 12:05 LUNCHEON  LUNCHEON PRESENTATION: THE FUTURE OF ETFS
Ronald J. Ryan, CFA, Founder and CEO, RYAN ALM, INC. One of the great financial achievements of the twentieth century was ETFs. The explosion of growth and product line is almost unparralled. What lies ahead for ETFs in the twenty first century? What areas are prime target markets for ETFs? Will ETFs ever become an institutional product? 1:30 PRESENTATION: STATE OF THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY Evolution of the health care industry How the big pharma companies invest and how you can learn from them Owning the history of health care or the future of health care Presenter: Jeffrey L. Feldman, Vice Chairman and Founder, XSHARES ADVISORS LLC 2:00 ROUNDTABLE: INVESTING IN HEALTH CARE Finding the alpha opportunity in health care Overweighting in health care Diversifying using health care related ETFs Moderator: Brian Orol, CFP, President, STRATEGIC WEALTH GROUP Panelists: Anthony W. Welch, CFP, ChFC, Partner, SARASOTA CAPITAL STRATEGIES Don Aven, Executive Vice President, XSHARES SECURITIES Ian Naismith, Portfolio Manager, SARASOTA CAPITAL STATEGIES 2:40 ROUNDTABLE: REAL ESTATE EXPOSURE USING ETFS The domestic REIT market International REITS Index methodologies US Housing market ETF product comparisons Moderator: Ronald DeLegge, Editor, ETFGUIDE.COM and Contributing Writer, RESEARCH MAGAZINE Panelists: Amos Rogers III, Managing Director, THE TUCKERMAN GROUP James L. Bicksler, Professor Finance & Economics, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Jerry Moskowitz, Managing Director, FTSE AMERICAS 3:20 REFRESHMENTS 3:35 ROUNDTABLE: ALTERNATIVE INVESTING USING COMMODITY ETFS The low correlation characteristic of commodities/commodity equities to the broad equity market Direct investment in commodities versus stocks of commodity producers Commodities as an inflation hedge Individual commodity ETFs versus pooled commodity ETFs ETF structures based on underlying assets Diversification, high volatility and liquidity Management fees versus alternative investments Moderator: Kirk Kinder, CFP, President, PICKET FENCE FINANCIAL Panelists: Adam Phillips, Director - ETF Sales, VAN ECK GLOBAL Chris Meek, Vice President - Equity Derivatives, GOLDMAN SACHS Kevin Rich, CEO of Commodity Services, DEUTSCHE BANK 4:15 ROUNDTABLE: ADVISORS AND THE ETF ADVANTAGE Selling clients on the merits of ETFs What is the value proposition? With expanding product offerings, does anything else make sense? Tax benefits to clients Moderator: Richard Ferri, CFA, President, PORTFOLIO SOLUTIONS, LLC Panelists: Anthony Rochte, Senior Managing Director, STATE STREET GLOBAL ADVISORS Christian W. Magoon, Senior Managing Director - Product Development, CLAYMORE SECURITIES Rudy Aguilera, Principal, HELIOS LLC 5:00 SHUTTLE SERVICE BEGINS FOR "A NIGHT AT THE OPEN" HOSTED BY:
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7:45 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 8:30 DAY TWO OPENING Albert Neubert, Senior Vice President - Business Development, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT NETWORK 8:40 ROUNDTABLE: LEVERAGING THE ETF OR LEVERAGING THE INDEX Long/short strategies using ETFs ETFs based on leveraged underlying index (futures) Leveraging the leverage and potential risks Management fees Asset flows and liquidity Moderator: Albert Neubert, Senior Vice President - Business Development, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT NETWORK Panelists: Matthew Hougan, Senior Editor JOURNAL OF INDEXES and Editor, INDEXUNIVERSE.COM William E. Seale, Chief Investment Officer, PROSHARE ADVISORS LLC 9:20 ROUNDTABLE: FIXED INCOME ETFS Current product offerings Product gaps Hybrid products including preferred stocks, convertibles and blended portfolios Moderator: Robert G. Smith III, President and CIO, SAGE ADVISORY SERVICES, LTD. CO. Panelists: Brian Orol, CFP, President, STRATEGIC WEALTH GROUP Kirk Kinder, CFP, President, PICKET FENCE FINANCIAL Rick Genoni, ETF Product Manager, VANGUARD Scott Ebner, Vice President - Product Development, AMEX 10:20 REFRESHMENTS 10:40 PRESENTATION: MARKET CONDITIONS AND ETF STRUCTURE - THEIR IMPACT ON TAX EFFICIENCY One of the main factors supporting the upsurge of interest in ETFs is their tax efficiency relative to similar mutual funds. Various approaches were used in prior research to verify this widely accepted premise, including comparing over time the distributions by component of taxable income of the SPDR 500 ETF and the Vanguard 500 mutual fund, which are both based on the S&P 500 Index. This presentation covers the reassessment of the tax advantage in the light of: The bear market of the early 2000s - which helps to establish whether ETFs are capable of delivering tax saving regardless of the direction of the markets. The introduction of BGI's iShares S&P 500 ETF - which allows the assessment of whether any tax advantage of ETFs still holds when the ETF has an open-ended structure as opposed to a UIT structure. Presenter: A. Seddik Meziani, Ph.D., Professor - Economics and Finance, MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY 11:15 SPECIAL PRESENTATION: THREE APPROACHES TO ONE PROBLEM REAL WORLD CLIENT PORTFOLIOS BASED ON ETFS In the second installment of this popular session, three experienced professionals, but new to this session, will each present a unique ETF portfolio they have constructed based upon the same hypothetical client profile. The moderator of the session is an alumnus of last years panel and will take an active role, questioning the logic and reasoning behind each portfolio. Audience questions and comments will be encouraged at the end of the session. Moderator: Rudy Aguilera, Principal, HELIOS LLC Panelists: Richard Ferri, CFA, President, PORTFOLIO SOLUTIONS, LLC Robert D. Williams, Partner and Investment Committee Member, SAGE ADVISORY SERVICES, LTD. CO. Tom Lydon, President, GLOBAL TRENDS INVESTMENTS and Proprietor, ETFTRENDS.COM 12:30 CONFERENCE CLOSING | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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