Institutional Quality Private Portfolios for Accredited Investors: New Practical Solutions: A 3-Part Workshop

Advisors to accredited Investors have been challenged to build institutional caliber portfolios of private investments for many legal and practice management reasons. Now, a new wave of products aims to change that. Hear from institutional fiduciaries, advisor practice experts, and product design professionals as they explain the opportunity across various private markets asset classes; the risk/reward benefits they typically deliver; and how you can, for the first time, practically deploy genuinely institutional caliber private portfolios into accredited investor and tax-exempt accounts.

Moderated by Bob Rice, Partner, Tangent Capital, and featuring 7 Leading Experts

Part 1: Private Asset Classes, Performance and Outlooks

Marc Friedberg, CFA Managing Director, Wilshire

Mark Perry, CFA Managing Director, Wilshire

Part 2: Accredited Investor Products: Interval to Auction Funds

Athena Ole, Head of Private Funds, Nasdaq Private Market

Mike Beattie, Managing Director, President, The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund®, SEI

Part 3: Private Markets Solutions In Your Practice

Rachel Jacobs,
Managing Director, Head of US Intermediary Distribution, Macquarie Asset Management

Neil Siegel,
Global Head of Marketing and Product, Macquarie Investment Management

Jason Schwarz,
Chief Operating Officer, Wilshire

Is Service a Sustainable Competitive Advantage?
In light of the Coronavirus “new normal” Wealth Managers are competing with world class service providers like Amazon and Google more than ever. Understand how high the virtual service bar is and engage your team to ensure you are equipped to compete and excel in the new virtual service environment.

Dave Patchen, SVP, Education & Practice Management, Raymond James Private Client Group Education & Practice Management

What's the Next Big Thing?
Your clients are going to have new questions for you in this new decade. Will you be able to answer them? Join Dani Fava as she shares her thoughts on the emerging trends and perhaps you’ll discover what might be “the next big thing” for your business. From Income Sharing Agreements to the non-financial trends that may overhaul the housing market, to Artificial Intelligence that will help mold the conversations that you’re having with your clients; the next big thing may already be well under way.

Dani Fava, Product Strategy & Development, TD Ameritrade Institutional

Redefining A Global Marketplace

The state of people’s savings and retirement is one of the most serious investment challenges the world currently faces. For most clients, portfolios have consisted of stocks and bonds with nothing in between, forcing investors to take the body blows of the market, highlighted by the recent volatility from COVID-19. For the select few, however, alternative investments such as Structured Notes can provide downside investment protection against market declines, but they remain out of reach for 99% of the world. In this session you will hear Halo Investing's co-founder and President Jason Barsema discuss the changes happening in this $3 trillion global market. From being a highly manual and time-consuming process to find, purchase and manage structured notes, new technology is lowering investment minimums and disrupting the space to make it more accessible for investors of all portfolio sizes. Structured notes can provide flexible return and protection options. An investor can target a level of expected returns over a defined time period, using this powerful portfolio tool. Structured products can offer capital protection, yield enhancement and upside participation – providing a middle ground between bonds and stocks.

Jason Barsema, Co-founder and President, Halo Investing

Semi-Transparent ETFs: The Next Evolution of the ETF Industry

In 2019, the SEC granted approval to several firms that had filed semitransparent ETF structures. Learn about the basics of these investment vehicles, how they fit within the ETF landscape, the potential benefits for investors and key differences among the various structures.

Ed Rosenberg, VP, American Century Investments® and Matt Lewis, Vice President, Head of ETF Implentation and Capital Markets, American Century Investments

Finding Growth in a Slow-growth World
Despite the COVID-19 outbreak and its impact on the economy, there are still companies with substantial longer-term growth prospects throughout the world. This session discusses the current backdrop for international equities, how indexes can potentially skew impressions of non-U.S. markets, how global consumer behaviors are changing, and provides examples of industries where growth opportunities may exist.

Gerald Du Manoir
Equity Portfolio Manager, Capital Group

Modeling Securitized Credit: A Framework To Determine Strategic Allocations
The evolution in securitized credit markets post the financial crisis highlights the diverse array of opportunities spanning the securitized and structured finance universe. At the same time, the fragmented nature of the securitized credit universe has challenged index providers, as Securitized Credit encompasses a diverse range of subsectors traversing investment grade, to below investment grade and non-rated securities, as well an array of fixed and floating rate coupons. The confluence of these events has “broken the mold” for index creation, and hampered efforts to model and conduct asset allocation studies. With investors and asset allocators searching for ways to model and identify appropriate strategic allocations to this important part of the fixed income market, the course endeavors to address this challenge and highlight that investors have strategically under-allocated to this opportunity.

Chris Wilson, CFA
Senior Client Portfolio Manager, Voya

This Is Your Time
This is an unprecedented time for us all. Navigating client conversations in this “new normal” is paramount and Eaton Vance is here to help. David will provide six actionable ideas to deepen client connectivity, bring value to tomorrow’s clients and fortify relationships with your “inner circle.”

David Richman, National Director, Eaton Vance Advisor Institute

7 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Registration Open

7 – 8 a.m.

Breakfast in Exhibit Hall/Ed Talk 7

8 – 9:15 a.m.

General Session 6: What Goes Down Will Come Back Up — What's Ahead for Markets Now
Financial markets are always full of uncertainty, and today’s environment is no different. But maintaining a long-term, optimistic view of the world economy can be the difference between successfully meeting your clients’ goals or coming up short. Called the “Wizard of Wharton” and one of the world’s keenest financial minds, he has an unshakable belief that brighter days are ahead for Wall Street. He shares his incredible insights on today’s latest financial news and what is ahead for not only Wall Street, but for investors and business.Financial markets are always full of uncertainty, and today’s environment is no different. But maintaining a long-term, optimistic view of the world economy can be the difference between successfully meeting your clients’ goals or coming up short. Called the “Wizard of Wharton” and one of the world’s keenest financial minds, he has an unshakable belief that brighter days are ahead for Wall Street. He shares his incredible insights on today’s latest financial news and what is ahead for not only Wall Street, but for investors and business.

Jeremy Siegel, PhD
Professor of Finance, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

9:15 – 9:45 a.m.

Break in Exhibit Hall

9:45 – 10:45 a.m.

General Session 7: A Feasible Blueprint for Meeting the Challenges of Funding Retirement with a Seamless Transition from Accumulation to Pay-down Phases

Robert Merton, PhD
Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management

10:45 a.m. – 12 p.m.

General Session 8: Ethics/What Business Ethics Is Not
Anyone who has ever sat (bored) through a required business ethics or compliance seminar has been prompted to wonder: what is the point of this? The question does not challenge the importance of leading ethical lives in business, but does question our approach to teaching and discussing business ethics throughout our industries. In this session, Peter Conti-Brown—a scholar of financial regulation and teacher of business ethics at The Wharton School—leads participants in a process of deprogramming. Ethics is not and cannot become marketing, compliance, law, or even assertions of universal morality. Instead, ethics is about personal values and organizational culture--where those reinforce each other and, more importantly, where they conflict.

Peter Conti Brown, PhD
Assistant professor, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania