CFA Institute European Investment Conference 2017 | CFA Institute | 16 November 2017 | InterContinental , Budapester Street 2, 10787 Berlin, Germany

Attracting delegates from more than 70 countries and regions,* the CFA Institute European Investment Conference is the annual must-attend gathering for Europe’s leading portfolio managers, analysts, chief investment officers, and chief executive officers.

Under the central theme of Embracing Change: Creating Opportunity in Uncertainty, attendees will consider and analyse the European climate and the changing political landscape and dig deeper into the most pressing issues for the profession, including the following topics:

• geopolitics
• the future of investment advice
• private debt as an asset class
• activist investing
• equity valuation
• the role of technology in transforming industries in the 21st century

Hosted by CFA Society Germany, this focused, interactive conference provides a unique opportunity to engage with Europe’s leading investment professionals.

2017 Speakers:

Ellen Frauenknecht
Business journalist and anchorwoman for leading European media groups in both German and English.

George Friedman
Founder and chairman of Geopolitical Future.

Karolien Notebaert
Founder and CEO of One Step Ahead—Notebaert Consulting.

Aswath Damodaran
Kerschner Family Chair Professor of Finance at
the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University

Brigitte Baumann
Founder and CEO of Go Beyond Early Stage Investing

Jochen Felsenheimer
Managing director at XAIA Investment GmbH.

Foad Forghani
Founder and owner of Forghani Negotiations.

Michael Fraikin
Global head of research for Invesco Quantitative Strategies.

Richard F. Hokenson
Founder of the independent consulting firm, Hokenson & Company

Klemens Höppner, CFA,
International partner at the Conscious Business Institute

Lena Komileva
Managing partner and chief economist at G+ Economics

Hendrik Leber
Founder of ACATIS Investment GmbH. Previously

Karolien Notebaert
Founder and CEO of One Step Ahead—Notebaert Consulting

Christophe Roehri
Managing director and deputy CEO at TOBAM.

Florian Schuhbauer
Founding partner of Active Ownership Capital (AOC).

Omar Selim
Founder and CEO of Arabesque, the environmental, social

Roger Urwin
Global head of investment content at Towers Watson

Theo Weber
Managing director and head of origination of private debt at
BlackRock International Fixed Income

Gary Baker, CFA
Managing director of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)

2017 Sponsors:

PLATINUM:
• S&P Global Market Intelligence

SILVER:
• MSCI
• Scope Group

MEDIA:
• Financial News
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• CAIA Association
• CMT Association
• Global Financial Data
• Kaplan Schweser
• Mainfirst
• Morning Star
• MVIS
• StatPro