AGENDA

5:30 – 6:30 | Registration

5:30 – 6:30 | Networking Cocktail Reception | Antarctic Pre-Function Area & Oceans Ballroom

6:00 – 6:30 | Cocktails & Divers Down | Seating Open & Salad Served | Oceans Ballroom

7:00 – 7:10 | Society Opening Remarks | Dinner Entrée Served

7:10 – 7:20 | ASFIP Foundation Remarks & Grant Presentation

7:20 – 7:30 | Diamond Sponsor BlackRock Presentation  

7:30 – 8:30 | Fireside Chat with Ian Bremmer and Matt Toms, CFA

Business Attire

CFA Society Atlanta will host the 18^th Annual Forecasting Event on February 3 at the Georgia Aquarium | Oceans Ballroom, including a cocktail reception and dinner.  We are excited to announce that Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, Expert on Global Politics & Risk Management and Best-Selling Author is our keynote speaker.  This flagship event, which attracts hundreds of investment professionals and regional financial leaders, will kick off an exciting calendar year of educational programming and networking opportunities.

Ian Bremmer is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policymakers, and the general public make sense of the world around them. He is president and founder of Eurasia Group, the world's leading political risk research and consulting firm, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. Ian is an independent voice on critical issues around the globe, offering clearheaded insights through speeches, written commentary, and even satirical puppets (really!).  He is the host of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, which airs weekly on US national public television. Ian is also a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the BBC, Bloomberg, and many other television stations around the world.  Ian is credited with bringing the craft of political risk to financial markets, creating Wall Street's first global political risk index (GPRI), and for establishing political risk as an academic discipline. His definition of emerging markets—"those countries where politics matters at least as much as economics for market outcomes"—has become an industry standard. "G-Zero," his term for a global power vacuum in which no country is willing and able to set the international agenda, is widely accepted by policymakers and thought leaders.  A prolific writer, Ian is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestseller “Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism” which examines the rise of populism across the world. He also serves as the foreign affairs columnist and editor at large for Time magazine. He currently teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University.  Ian earned a master's degree and a doctorate in political science from Stanford University, where he went on to become the youngest-ever national fellow at the Hoover Institution. He received his bachelor's degree in international relations from Tulane University.  Ian established Eurasia Group with just $25,000 in 1998. Today, the company has offices in New York, Washington, San Francisco, London, Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Singapore, and Tokyo, as well as a network of experts and resources in 90 countries. 

Moderated by Matt Toms, CFA is the chief investment officer of fixed income at Voya Investment Management, leading a team of more than 200 investment professionals, with broad oversight of Voya’s fixed income platform as well as business management responsibilities. As CIO, Matt serves as the chair of the Fixed Income Asset Allocation Committee, a group that formulates the fixed income platform’s strategic investment themes that in turn informs strategy and risk budgeting across public fixed income portfolios. Matt is also a member of the Investment Committee that is represented by the CIOs from across Voya Investment Management. Before becoming CIO, Matt was head of public fixed income at Voya Investment Management, overseeing the investment teams responsible for investment grade corporate, high yield corporate, structured products, mortgage-backed securities, emerging market debt and money market strategies for Voya’s general account and third-party business. Prior to joining Voya, Matt worked at Calamos Investments, where he built their fixed income business. He also has prior portfolio management experience at Northern Trust and Lincoln National. Matt earned a BBA from the University of Michigan and is a CFA® Charterholder.

GA Aquarium Special Events | Face masks are required for entrance into the event and while inside the building unless actively eating, drinking or stationary | Covid-19 Safety Measures

Directions & Parking

Georgia Aquarium | Oceans Ballroom
246 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd NW
Atlanta, GA 30313

The entrance to the parking deck and the Oceans Ballroom is off of Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd. NW.  Please check-in at registration before proceeding to the cocktail reception. 

Self-park in the deck @ $ 12 per Car

Qualifications: Ihr Professional Learning | CFA Institute Competency Framework Skill = Industry Awareness + World Economy

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