GSB Finance Roundtable

May 12, 2005, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Reaching for Returns: Alternative Investment Strategies for Portfolio Managers

Panelists:

• Mike Jawor, Chief Investment Officer, Glenwood Capital Investments, LLC (wholly owned subsidiary of Man Group plc)
• Stephen C. Vogt, Senior Managing Director, Advanced Strategies, Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.
• Norman Mains, Executive Director and Director of Research, Graystone Research unit of Morgan Stanley & Co.
  

Event Description

Portfolio managers are continually looking for a few extra ideas and strategies to enhance their portfolio returns. This means a regular review of alternative investment tactics, classes and vehicles. Join us as we hear from three professionals as to their latest thoughts and new approaches that offer their firms and their clients the best returns for their client’s risk profiles.

Speaker Slides

Mike Jawor Slides (PDF)
Norman Mains Slides (PDF)

Where:
Gleacher Center
Room 621
450 North Cityfront Drive
Chicago, Illinois
Map on how to reach Gleacher Center

Cost:
No Charge but pre-registration is required.

Program:
5:30PM - 6:00PM: Networking and Sponsor Table Browsing
6:00PM - 7:30PM: Presentation and Formal Discussion
7:30PM - 8:30PM: Refreshments, Informal Discussion and Networking

Questions:
Vern Broders
Contact for Finance Roundtable
(312) 224-8507
vern.broders@chartermast.com

Speaker Bios

Mike Jawor, Chief Investment Officer, Glenwood Capital Investments, LLC

· Mike Jawor has overall responsibility for the oversight and management of Glenwood's investment process. Mike also has specific responsibility for the manager evaluation group, which conducts research on existing hedge fund investments.

· Mike has more than a decade of hedge fund experience at Glenwood (since 2001) and previously as a co-portfolio manager with Sirius Partners, LP, a fund of hedge funds where he was responsible for all aspects of hedge fund manager evaluation. He also has unique knowledge of trading strategies from his eight years as a manager in the First National Bank of Chicago's global derivatives business responsible for product development and market making of over-the-counter portfolios in interest rate, commodity and equity derivatives.

· Mike received a BBA, Cum Laude, from Loyola University of Chicago, a MBA from the University of Chicago and is a CFA charter holder.

Stephen C. Vogt, Senior Managing Director, Advanced Strategies, Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.

· Steve Vogt has expertise in hedge fund evaluation, portfolio construction and quantitative financial modeling. He is responsible for building and testing quantitative models of hedge fund manager performance and risk, as well as asset allocation models across manager styles and hedge fund strategies. With nearly 20 years experience in creating and testing financial and economic models/theories, Steve was previously an associate professor of finance at DePaul University for 10 years where his research focused on empirical tests of financial theories

· Steve is the author of 17 peer review articles appearing in both academic and trade journals, as well as numerous working papers in the area of finance and economics and is a frequent speaker at industry trade conferences He received his B.A. at Bemidji State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington University.

· Steve is a C-Suite member of the Professional Risk Managers Association International (PRMIA), a member of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFA), and a past member of the American Finance Association, Financial Management Association and Midwest Finance Association

Norman Mains, Executive Director and Director of Research, Graystone Research unit of Morgan Stanley & Co.

· Norman Mains is responsible for alternative investment research at Graystone Research, a unit of Morgan Stanley. Graystone Research creates customized fund of hedge funds for high net worth individuals, family offices and foundations. Graystone's expertise is in alternative asset classes (i.e., hedge funds, private equity and real estate).

· Before joining Graystone, Norman held positions as President of the Carr Global Advisors unit of Credit Agricole Indosuez and Executive Director of Product Development and Research for Dow Jones Indexes. Previously, Norman was Chief Economist and Director of Research for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as well as President and Chief Operating Officer of Rodman and Renshaw Capital Group. Before that, Norman was Executive Vice President, Director of Research and Chief Economist for Bateman Eichler Hill Richards, Inc., Vice President and Director of Research for the Institutional Financial Futures unit of Drexel Burnham Lambert Group, Inc. and a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board.

· Norman holds a Ph.D. in economics from Warwick University, Warwickshire, UK and BA and MA degrees in economics from the University of Colorado.

Our 2005 GSB Alumni Finance Roundtable Sponsors:

· Ariel Capital Management, LLC

· The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)

· DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP

· Dow Jones Indexes

· Headstrong

· LaSalle Bank

· McKenna Partners LLC

· Ritchie Capital Management

· Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc.

· Tsunami Capital LLC

· William Blair & Company, LLC