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The Real Story of Core Commercial Real Estate: Challenging Your Assumptions
In the 1970’s, core commercial real estate was introduced to institutional investment portfolios to diversify risk, potentially enhance return, and provide an attractive income return. In the 50 years since, private real estate has become an integral component to investment portfolios of all types and sizes, however, not all real estate is created equal.
Today’s market presents unique challenges, opportunities, and solutions. Financial advisors portfolio managers are facing off with historically low interest rates and high duration, at a time when the spectre of inflation has arguably never been more pronounced. At the same time, equity valuations are historically high and investors are seeking to protect their downside risk.
Please join DWS to hear why we believe an allocation to core real estate should be an essential part of your investors’ portfolios and how we are informing our investment strategy to take advantage of the economy’s rapidly evolving usage of real estate.
Workshop objective
Illustrate the historical benefits of core real estate in a diversified portfolio and provide an alternative solution for the biggest concerns facing today’s investors.
Today’s market presents unique challenges, opportunities, and solutions. Financial advisors portfolio managers are facing off with historically low interest rates and high duration, at a time when the spectre of inflation has arguably never been more pronounced. At the same time, equity valuations are historically high and investors are seeking to protect their downside risk.
Please join DWS to hear why we believe an allocation to core real estate should be an essential part of your investors’ portfolios and how we are informing our investment strategy to take advantage of the economy’s rapidly evolving usage of real estate.
Workshop objective
Illustrate the historical benefits of core real estate in a diversified portfolio and provide an alternative solution for the biggest concerns facing today’s investors.
Speaker:
John Manley is a Client Portfolio Manager for RREEF Property Trust, based in New York. Prior to his current role, John served as a Property Specialist for DWS’s Alternatives platform. John joined the Company in September 2015, focused on the portfolio and asset management activities of the firm's non-listed REIT, RREEF Property Trust. Prior to joining, John was an Analyst on Deutsche Bank’s Private Bank Structured Lending team from April 2014 to September 2015, where he focused on credit solutions for ultra-high net worth individuals, private equity funds and family offices. John joined the bank in the summer of 2013 through Deutsche Bank's Graduate Program, an intensive training and development program.
John holds a B.S. in Applied Accounting and Finance from Fordham University.
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John Manley is a Client Portfolio Manager for RREEF Property Trust, based in New York. Prior to his current role, John served as a Property Specialist for DWS’s Alternatives platform. John joined the Company in September 2015, focused on the portfolio and asset management activities of the firm's non-listed REIT, RREEF Property Trust. Prior to joining, John was an Analyst on Deutsche Bank’s Private Bank Structured Lending team from April 2014 to September 2015, where he focused on credit solutions for ultra-high net worth individuals, private equity funds and family offices. John joined the bank in the summer of 2013 through Deutsche Bank's Graduate Program, an intensive training and development program.
John holds a B.S. in Applied Accounting and Finance from Fordham University.
Representatives:
John Manley
Client Portfolio Manager – RREEF Property Trust
Steve DiMaio
Head of RIA & Bank Trust Channel, U.S. Advisory
Albert Thompson
Vice President, National Accounts – Alternatives
FIRST TRUST PORTFOLIOS
Workshop details coming soon
Speaker:
Jeremiah is a Senior Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of the First Trust Securitized Products Group. Jeremiah has over 16 years of investment, trading and portfolio management experience. Jeremiah manages the First Trust Low Duration Opportunities ETF, the First Trust Long Duration Opportunities ETF, the First Trust Mortgage Income Fund and several other MBS-related sleeves of multi-sector investment strategies. At First Trust, he focuses on interest rate and managed volatility strategies across the yield curve using a wide array of mortgage and securitized products, government securities and hedging instruments.
Prior to joining First Trust in 2013, Jeremiah spent the majority of his career as a Senior Portfolio Manager at Deerfield Capital Management where he helped manage the Deerfield Mortgage REIT. He also held positions at CRT Capital and Piper Jaffray. Jeremiah has extensive experience managing institutional securitized and mortgage-related assets, with an emphasis on fundamental collateral and credit analysis.
Jeremiah holds a BS in Finance from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, and an MS in Real Estate with honors from the Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University.
Representatives:
Jeremiah is a Senior Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of the First Trust Securitized Products Group. Jeremiah has over 16 years of investment, trading and portfolio management experience. Jeremiah manages the First Trust Low Duration Opportunities ETF, the First Trust Long Duration Opportunities ETF, the First Trust Mortgage Income Fund and several other MBS-related sleeves of multi-sector investment strategies. At First Trust, he focuses on interest rate and managed volatility strategies across the yield curve using a wide array of mortgage and securitized products, government securities and hedging instruments.
Prior to joining First Trust in 2013, Jeremiah spent the majority of his career as a Senior Portfolio Manager at Deerfield Capital Management where he helped manage the Deerfield Mortgage REIT. He also held positions at CRT Capital and Piper Jaffray. Jeremiah has extensive experience managing institutional securitized and mortgage-related assets, with an emphasis on fundamental collateral and credit analysis.
Jeremiah holds a BS in Finance from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, and an MS in Real Estate with honors from the Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University.
Representatives:
Jeremiah Charles
Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager, Securitized Products Group
Eric Holsen
Senior Vice Presidenteholsen@ftadvisors.com
WESTERN ASSET
Workshop details coming soon
Speaker:
Travis M. Carr has been a Product Specialist at Western Asset Management, an independent specialist investment manager of Franklin Templeton, since 2000. Before joining Western Asset, Mr. Carr was Senior Associate at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), Secondary Market Analyst at Royal Thrift & Loan Company and Mortgage Broker at Home State Financial Corporation.
Mr. Carr is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and holds the CFA designation.
Travis M. Carr has been a Product Specialist at Western Asset Management, an independent specialist investment manager of Franklin Templeton, since 2000. Before joining Western Asset, Mr. Carr was Senior Associate at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), Secondary Market Analyst at Royal Thrift & Loan Company and Mortgage Broker at Home State Financial Corporation.
Mr. Carr is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and holds the CFA designation.
Travis M. Carr
Product Specialist at Western Asset Management
JENSEN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Uncompromising Quality: Unmistakably Jensen
We believe that long-term wealth is accumulated over cycles by applying enduring principles of investing; principles that provide the discipline to look beyond hot sectors and short-term market trends.
Our investment discipline centers around a distinctly Jensen definition of “quality” and benefits from a deliberate process, refined over the past three decades. Our quality approach to value investing seeks undervalued stocks of high-quality companies that are experiencing a temporary setback in business performance while still maintaining competitive advantages.
Might your clients benefit from an active, high-conviction quality allocation? Join us.
Workshop objective
Help investors understand how quality-oriented strategies may be used in Mid Cap allocations can help limit drawdowns and preserve capital.
Our investment discipline centers around a distinctly Jensen definition of “quality” and benefits from a deliberate process, refined over the past three decades. Our quality approach to value investing seeks undervalued stocks of high-quality companies that are experiencing a temporary setback in business performance while still maintaining competitive advantages.
Might your clients benefit from an active, high-conviction quality allocation? Join us.
Workshop objective
Help investors understand how quality-oriented strategies may be used in Mid Cap allocations can help limit drawdowns and preserve capital.
Speaker:
Joined the firm in 2005. Kurt conducts fundamental research on potential companies as well as monitors portfolio companies. Kurt spent nine years with Columbia Management Group, Inc. as a high yield analyst and co-portfolio manager of the Columbia High Yield Fund. Prior to joining Columbia, he held positions as Portfolio Manager, Analyst and Trader at SAFECO Asset Management in Seattle. Kurt’s career began as a Staff Accountant and Auditor at Price Waterhouse. He earned a BA in Business Administration from the University of Washington. He earned his MBA from Seattle University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.
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Joined the firm in 2005. Kurt conducts fundamental research on potential companies as well as monitors portfolio companies. Kurt spent nine years with Columbia Management Group, Inc. as a high yield analyst and co-portfolio manager of the Columbia High Yield Fund. Prior to joining Columbia, he held positions as Portfolio Manager, Analyst and Trader at SAFECO Asset Management in Seattle. Kurt’s career began as a Staff Accountant and Auditor at Price Waterhouse. He earned a BA in Business Administration from the University of Washington. He earned his MBA from Seattle University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.
Representatives:
Kurt Havnaer
Portfolio Manager
Richard Clark
Director – Sales & Marketing
Chris Neill
Director – Institutional Sales
PRINCIPAL GLOBAL INVESTORS
Real assets real appeal: The case for public and private real assets now
After falling to near-zero during the pandemic, inflation is a significant concern. Yet many investors aren’t prepared for inflation’s effects on their traditional 60/40 portfolio. Hear from Marc Dummer, CAIA, CIMA®, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Principal Global Asset Allocation, on how real assets have historically fared well in different market environments—especially when inflation is rising. Additionally, an allocation to real assets may help deliver inflation mitigation, total return enhancement and diversification benefits to investors’ portfolios.
Principal Global Asset Allocation is a specialized investment group of Principal Global Investors, the investment adviser to Principal Funds.
Principal Global Asset Allocation is a specialized investment group of Principal Global Investors, the investment adviser to Principal Funds.
Speaker:
Marc is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Principal Global Asset Allocation (PGAA), a specialized investment boutique within Principal Global Investors that engages in the creation of asset allocation solutions. He is responsible for co-managing our dynamic outcome suite of strategies. This includes all portfolio construction, asset allocation and manager optimization decisions relating to this suite of strategies. He joined Principal in 2003 and has been in the investment industry since 1996. Previously, Marc was a Senior Relationship Manager for Principal Global Investors, where he represented portfolios to Principal Global Investor’s largest and most sophisticated institutional clients, with mandates spanning the equity, real estate, fixed income, and currency asset classes. Prior to joining Principal, he co-managed fixed-income general account assets for a group of privately held insurance companies. Marc received an M.B.A. and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Utah. Marc has earned the right to use the Certified Investment Management Analyst and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designations.
Marc is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Principal Global Asset Allocation (PGAA), a specialized investment boutique within Principal Global Investors that engages in the creation of asset allocation solutions. He is responsible for co-managing our dynamic outcome suite of strategies. This includes all portfolio construction, asset allocation and manager optimization decisions relating to this suite of strategies. He joined Principal in 2003 and has been in the investment industry since 1996. Previously, Marc was a Senior Relationship Manager for Principal Global Investors, where he represented portfolios to Principal Global Investor’s largest and most sophisticated institutional clients, with mandates spanning the equity, real estate, fixed income, and currency asset classes. Prior to joining Principal, he co-managed fixed-income general account assets for a group of privately held insurance companies. Marc received an M.B.A. and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Utah. Marc has earned the right to use the Certified Investment Management Analyst and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designations.
Marc Dummer, CAIA, CIMA®
Managing Director & Portfolio Manager
NATIONWIDE FUNDS
Workshop details coming soon
Speakers:
James manages a team of professionals responsible for the implementation of asset allocation strategies including global alpha, domestic, active currency, active commodity, and custom rules-based strategies. James is a key contributor to the development, refinement, and risk management of all asset allocation strategies and signals. He has extensive experience and a focus on the use of derivatives in quantitative investment strategies, plus 1940 Act and UCITS III implementations of asset allocation strategies.
He earned an MBA from Rice University.
Mark serves as a leader for Nationwide’s capital markets analysis, where he is responsible for asset class research, market commentary, white papers and topical market pieces.
Mark brings more than 20 years of experience in the asset management industry, including roles in research for both Nuveen and Vanguard Group and as a portfolio manager for Nuveen.
He earned his undergraduate degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Richmond and holds CFA and CMT designations.
James manages a team of professionals responsible for the implementation of asset allocation strategies including global alpha, domestic, active currency, active commodity, and custom rules-based strategies. James is a key contributor to the development, refinement, and risk management of all asset allocation strategies and signals. He has extensive experience and a focus on the use of derivatives in quantitative investment strategies, plus 1940 Act and UCITS III implementations of asset allocation strategies.
He earned an MBA from Rice University.
Mark serves as a leader for Nationwide’s capital markets analysis, where he is responsible for asset class research, market commentary, white papers and topical market pieces.
Mark brings more than 20 years of experience in the asset management industry, including roles in research for both Nuveen and Vanguard Group and as a portfolio manager for Nuveen.
He earned his undergraduate degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Richmond and holds CFA and CMT designations.
James H. Stavena
Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, Mellon
Mark Hackett
CFA and CMTNationwide Chief of Investment Research
VICTORY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC.
Low Yields? Potential for rising rates? No Problem!
Low Yields? Potential for rising rates? No Problem!
Explore an alternative income strategy that seeks to help income-oriented investors navigate the challenging low-rate environment.
Despite all the chatter about inflation and higher interest rates, the yield on 10-Year Treasuries remains stubbornly low, hovering below 1.5%. That’s a problem for many income-oriented investors. So how might investors potentially capture more yield without significantly ratcheting up the risk?
Join Senior Portfolio Manager, Scott Kefer, as he discusses alternative income strategies that seek the trifecta of benefits many investors seek: attractive income, low correlation to both stocks and bonds and a level of volatility in line with traditional bond indexes.
Workshop objective
Why alternative income should be a long-term, strategic position in your portfolio
Benefits of uncorrelated yield as an attractive source of potential income
How to allocate to alternative income as part of a diversified portfolio
Explore an alternative income strategy that seeks to help income-oriented investors navigate the challenging low-rate environment.
Despite all the chatter about inflation and higher interest rates, the yield on 10-Year Treasuries remains stubbornly low, hovering below 1.5%. That’s a problem for many income-oriented investors. So how might investors potentially capture more yield without significantly ratcheting up the risk?
Join Senior Portfolio Manager, Scott Kefer, as he discusses alternative income strategies that seek the trifecta of benefits many investors seek: attractive income, low correlation to both stocks and bonds and a level of volatility in line with traditional bond indexes.
Workshop objective
Why alternative income should be a long-term, strategic position in your portfolio
Benefits of uncorrelated yield as an attractive source of potential income
How to allocate to alternative income as part of a diversified portfolio
Speaker:
Scott Kefer, CFA, is a Senior Portfolio Manager for VictoryShares and Solutions and utilizes his more than 25 years of active management expertise to focus on the continued growth of the firm’s based and custom investment solutions. In addition to his role with VictoryShares, Mr. Kefer is a Senior Portfolio Manager for NewBridge Asset Management, a Victory Capital investment franchise. Mr. Kefer holds a Bachelor of Science in business management from Skidmore College and is a CFA® charterholder.
Representatives:
Scott Kefer, CFA, is a Senior Portfolio Manager for VictoryShares and Solutions and utilizes his more than 25 years of active management expertise to focus on the continued growth of the firm’s based and custom investment solutions. In addition to his role with VictoryShares, Mr. Kefer is a Senior Portfolio Manager for NewBridge Asset Management, a Victory Capital investment franchise. Mr. Kefer holds a Bachelor of Science in business management from Skidmore College and is a CFA® charterholder.
Representatives:
Scott Kefer
CFA Senior Portfolio ManagerT: 212-903-1642E: skefer@vcm.com
Eugene Hsieh, CAIA®
RIA, Bank Trust & Multi-Family Office – West CoastT: 978-944-0503E: Ehsieh@vcm.com
Bret Solnoki, CIMA®
RIA, Bank Trust & Multi Family OfficeT: 917-855-2006E: bsolnoki@vcm.com
VONTOBEL ASSET MANAGEMENT
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Speaker:
Ben Falcone joined Vontobel Asset Management in March 2015 as a Client Portfolio Manager for the firm’s Quality Growth Boutique. He sits within the investment team and is responsible for communicating the firm’s philosophy, process, performance, portfolio positioning and risk management. Prior to joining Vontobel Asset Management, he worked at Echo Point Investment Management from 2010 to 2014 and Morgan Stanley from 2008 to 2010, where he held successive positions as a Portfolio Manager. He spent a decade at Black Rock Inc. as an Equity Research Analyst from 1999 to 2008, and began his financial career in 1996 at Merrill Lynch Asset Management in Operations and Client Servicing.
Ben Falcone joined Vontobel Asset Management in March 2015 as a Client Portfolio Manager for the firm’s Quality Growth Boutique. He sits within the investment team and is responsible for communicating the firm’s philosophy, process, performance, portfolio positioning and risk management. Prior to joining Vontobel Asset Management, he worked at Echo Point Investment Management from 2010 to 2014 and Morgan Stanley from 2008 to 2010, where he held successive positions as a Portfolio Manager. He spent a decade at Black Rock Inc. as an Equity Research Analyst from 1999 to 2008, and began his financial career in 1996 at Merrill Lynch Asset Management in Operations and Client Servicing.
Ben Falcone
Head of Client Portfolio Manager Team, Quality Growth Boutique
WASATCH
The Wasatch Approach in Emerging Markets
The Wasatch Emerging Markets Select strategy seeks long-term capital growth via investments in companies found throughout emerging markets that we see as the highest quality with the best prospects for long-duration success. Important aspects include the strategy’s 30- to 50-stock portfolio and its focus on risk management. We believe the Emerging Markets Select strategy can generate significant alpha while offering a differentiated portfolio of stocks that doesn’t focus on traditional market investments such as cyclical and oriented companies. Wasatch seeks to invest primarily in emerging-market companies benefitting from domestic demand. We seek to capitalize on the lack of correlation between emerging-market countries to provide the strategy with potentially volatile returns than passively managed portfolios. In addition, we seek to invest in companies with market capitalizations below those of companies typically covered by traditional emerging-market managers.
Workshop objective
Our goal is to connect with high quality RIAs seeking a differentiated actively managed strategy within emerging markets and to put the Wasatch Emerging Markets Select Fund on their radar.
Workshop objective
Our goal is to connect with high quality RIAs seeking a differentiated actively managed strategy within emerging markets and to put the Wasatch Emerging Markets Select Fund on their radar.
Speaker:
Mr. Thomas is a Portfolio Manager on the emerging markets and frontier markets research teams. He joined Wasatch Global Investors as a Senior Analyst in 2012. Prior to joining Wasatch, Mr. Thomas was a vice president at Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York City and worked in equity research for six years. He also worked in the M&A consulting group at KPMG LLP in San Francisco and New York. In addition to CFA and CPA certifications, Mr. Thomas holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Brigham Young University. Scott has also lived in Madagascar and La Reunion, France. He speaks fluent French and has conversational knowledge of Malagasy. He enjoys traveling and is an avid golfer and sports fan.
Representatives:
Mr. Thomas is a Portfolio Manager on the emerging markets and frontier markets research teams. He joined Wasatch Global Investors as a Senior Analyst in 2012. Prior to joining Wasatch, Mr. Thomas was a vice president at Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York City and worked in equity research for six years. He also worked in the M&A consulting group at KPMG LLP in San Francisco and New York. In addition to CFA and CPA certifications, Mr. Thomas holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Brigham Young University. Scott has also lived in Madagascar and La Reunion, France. He speaks fluent French and has conversational knowledge of Malagasy. He enjoys traveling and is an avid golfer and sports fan.
Representatives:
Scott Thomas
Portfolio Manager
Chris Grant
Regional Vice President of Sales
AGENDA
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Welcome Address
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Fund Group Workshop
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Buffet Lunch
Conference Session 2- Angie Herbers 'Ask Angie'
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Welcome Address
Conference Session 1
Fund Group Workshop
Fund Group Workshop
Fund Group Workshop
Buffet Lunch
Conference Session 2- Angie Herbers 'Ask Angie'
Fund Group Workshop
Fund Group Workshop
Fund Group Workshop
Fund Group Workshop
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Table Planned Dinner-
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INTRODUCTION
We’re back, baby!
We are thrilled to invite you to join us to our first in-person RIA event of the year. On September 30th and October 1st, at the beautiful Four Seasons in Austin, Texas, we’ll bring together some of the brightest minds in the RIA space.
Meet with peers and fund managers, get inspired by our thought-provoking speeches and panels, and catch up with your peers and the Citywire team.
As a special treat, Austin native and Citywire RIA columnist Angie Herbers will be there to present ‘Ask Angie Live!’ At this in-person seminar, Herbers will use her expert advice to answer the real-life questions asked by you and your fellow attendees. What’s the next step for your RIA? Is it time for you to sell your firm? How do you inspire your employees? All your burning questions will be answered at ‘Ask Angie Live!’
The event is free to attend, with travel and onsite accommodation for two nights provided by Citywire.
Of course, we will be adhering to local safety protocols and guidelines, while providing the face-to-face engagement that we have all so sorely missed.
We hope you can join us at the Four Seasons in Austin. I look forward to seeing you there!
We are thrilled to invite you to join us to our first in-person RIA event of the year. On September 30th and October 1st, at the beautiful Four Seasons in Austin, Texas, we’ll bring together some of the brightest minds in the RIA space.
Meet with peers and fund managers, get inspired by our thought-provoking speeches and panels, and catch up with your peers and the Citywire team.
As a special treat, Austin native and Citywire RIA columnist Angie Herbers will be there to present ‘Ask Angie Live!’ At this in-person seminar, Herbers will use her expert advice to answer the real-life questions asked by you and your fellow attendees. What’s the next step for your RIA? Is it time for you to sell your firm? How do you inspire your employees? All your burning questions will be answered at ‘Ask Angie Live!’
The event is free to attend, with travel and onsite accommodation for two nights provided by Citywire.
Of course, we will be adhering to local safety protocols and guidelines, while providing the face-to-face engagement that we have all so sorely missed.
We hope you can join us at the Four Seasons in Austin. I look forward to seeing you there!
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