Invites you

to attend the
Spring 2012 Conference
April 18-19, 2012
The Wynn Las Vegas
3131 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Las Vegas, NV 89109
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 William Ziemba
University of British Columbia
Using Calendar Anomalies
in Investment Management
9:30 James Fang, M.D.
Case Western Reserve
University
Rise of the Machines
10:30 Break
11:00 Nolan Gasser
Pandora
Pandora Radio and the
Music Genome Project:
What Musicology and
Science Reveal About
Our Musical Tastes
12:30 Lunch
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
1:45 Marc Reinganum
State Street Global Advisors
Dan DiBartolomeo
Northfield Information
Services
Single Country vs. Multi
Country Challenges in
International Investing
2:45 Dan Hoffer
Couch Surfing
CouchSurfing: How Couches,
People, and Inspiring
Experiences Unite to Create
a Better World
3:45 Doug Jacobsen
Filmmaker & Writer,
j2f productions
Burning Man and the
Magic of Sub-Cultures
6:00 Cocktails and Dinner
The Hard Rock Caf
Las Vegas Strip
8:00-10:00 pm Welcome Cocktail Reception
at The Wynn Hospitality Suite
Thursday, April 19, 2012
1:30 Jack Brush
Columbine Capital Services
Investment Style Dynamics:
What Causes Fluctuations in
Valuation and Momentum
Style Performance?
2:15 Vijay Chopra
Roosevelt Investments
Investing in Frontier Markets
(the New Emerging Markets)
3:00 Dale Rosenthal
University of Illinois at Chicago
Approximating Correlated
Defaults
6:00 5th Annual Texas Holdem
Poker Tournament
at The Wynn
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:45 Yin Luo
Deutsche Bank
New Insights in
Country Rotation
9:45 Andrea Buraschi
The University of Chicago
Limits to Arbitrage
10:45 Break
11:00 James Rickards
Omnis
Currency Wars: The Making
of the Next Global Crisis
12:15 Lunch
Dan Cardell Chicago Quantitative Alliance
Gregory Forsythe Charles Schwab & Co.
Tim Sargent Markit
Tommy Huie BMO Asset Management
Todd Doersch Independence Equity Management
Sandip Bhagat Vanguard Group
Melissa Brown Axioma
Easton Ragsdale Robeco Investment Management
Dan DiBartolomeo Northfield Information Services
Ed Keon Quantitative Management Associates
Rudi Schadt Invesco
Pankaj Patel Credit Suisse
David Coughenour Chicago Equity Partners
Rosemary Macedo QS Investors
Contact: Melissa Allison
CQA
email: melissa@cqa.org
Questions?
The Wynn Las Vegas
3131 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Las Vegas, NV 89109
(866) 770-7555
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See You at Our Fall Conference in Chicago, September 12-13
Board of Directors