Due to weather, this event has been cancelled
QWAFAFEW presents:
"ETF Investment and Trading Considerations for the New Decade"
Date: Feb 10, 2010 5:15 PM to 7:45 PM
Location: Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ
Moderator: John Prestbo, Editor and Executive Director, Dow Jones Indexes
Panelists: David Abner, Director - Institutional ETF Sales, Wisdom Tree
Douglas McDonald, Quantitative Research Analyst, Marco Polo XTF
Neil Wardley, Director- Bond Indices - MarkIt
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AGENDA
5:15 – 5:50 PM Registration, Refreshments, and Networking
5:50 – 6:00 PM Welcome to QWAFAFEW – J. Barringer & H. Blank
6:00 – 6:15 PM Intro to the ETF Marketplace and Introductions – J. Prestbo
6:15 – 6:30 PM “ETF Research Challenges” - D. McDonald
6:30 – 6:45 PM “Behind ETF Fixed Income Indexes” – N. Wardley
6:45 – 7:00 PM “ETF Trading Strategies” – D. Abner
7:00 - 7:45 PM- Round Table Discussion Panel, Q & A and Adjournment
Panel:
John Prestbo is editor and executive director of Dow Jones Indexes. He has responsibility for the exploration of new index ideas, as well as marketing, public relations and analytical research. He also is chairman of the Dow Jones Index Oversight Committee.
David Abner is currently the Director of Institutional ETF Sales and Trading at WisdomTree Asset Management. He is the author of “The ETF Handbook: How to Value and Trade Exchange Traded Funds.”
Douglas McDonald is a quantitative research analyst (QRA) at Marco Polo XTF Doug has 17 years experience as a data analyst/software developer, 4 years within the financial industry.
Neil Wardley is Director of Fixed Income Indexes for Markit, a leading global information services company. Previously, he was an SVP at Lehman Brothers where he had responsibility for managing groups and projects within fixed income and commodity indices in US and Europe.
ABOUT QWAFAFEW [pronounced quaff-a-few], the Quantitative Alliance for Applied Finance Economics & Wisdom, is an informal professional association with chapters in various cities throughout the globe since 1990.
For more information email: princeton@qwafafew.org or click www.qwafafew.org
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