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2010 EXCELLENCE IN INVESTING: SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE
ANNOUNCES SPEAKER LINEUP FOR 1ST ANNUAL EVENT
Renowned Speakers From
Wall Street to Silicon Valley Converge to Share Investment
Insights at New Conference Formed in Partnership With the
Ira Sohn Research Conference Foundation; Funds Raised Will
Support Students From Low-Income Areas and Other Children's
Causes
Event to Include Auction
of Rare First Edition of
The Intelligent Investor Autographed by Warren Buffett
San Francisco, CA -
The Excellence in Investing for Children's Causes Foundation
and the Ira Sohn Research Conference Foundation today
announced the speakers for the
1st Annual Excellence in Investing: San Francisco,
a financial conference to take place October 6 from 2:30 -
6:00 pm at San Francisco?s Herbst Theatre, part of the San
Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center. The
Excellence in Investing for Children's Causes Foundation is
also partnering with The Guardsmen, an all-volunteer group
of Bay Area men that aims to enrich the lives of at-risk
local youth, in its sponsorship of the conference.
Inspired by and patterned
after the celebrated Ira Sohn Investment Research
Conference, held annually in New York, the Excellence in
Investing: San Francisco conference will provide portfolio
managers, asset allocators and private investors an
invaluable opportunity to hear stock perspectives and market
predictions from some of the world's elite financial voices.
In addition to top investors, the San Francisco event's
lineup will also include venture capitalists, academics and
other prominent thinkers from Wall Street to Silicon Valley.
A special component of the
conference will be the auction of a rare first edition of
Benjamin Graham's value investing classic The Intelligent
Investor, signed by Warren Buffett. All proceeds raised
from the auction and from the event will benefit education
and other children's causes, with the primary beneficiaries
to include Leadership Public Schools, which prepares
children from low-income, urban neighborhoods in the San
Francisco Bay Area to thrive in college and assist their
communities. A portion of the event's proceeds will also be
donated to those organizations that combat pediatric cancer
supported by the Ira Sohn Research Conference Foundation,
which to date has raised approximately $20 million for those
causes.
The speaker lineup for the
1st Annual Excellence in Investing Conference in
San Francisco is:
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John H. Burbank III,
Passport Capital LLC
Christopher Chabris,
author, The Invisible Gorilla
Richard Farber, Kayne
Anderson
Mitch Julis, Canyon
Partners, LLC
Arthur Patterson, Accel
Partners
Barry Rosenstein, JANA
Partners LLC
Robert M. Rosner,
Buena Vista Fund Management
Thomas A. Russo,
Gardner Russo & Gardner
John B. Taylor, Mary
and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford
University
Jeffrey W. Ubben,
ValueAct Capital
Brian Zied, Charter
Bridge Capital Management, L.P.
The Ira Sohn Investment
Research Conference in New York has included notable
presentations by such investors as Bill Ackman, who
predicted the rise of General Growth Properties Inc., David
Einhorn, who presciently forecasted the downfall of Lehman
Brothers, and Sam Zell, who anticipated the collapse of the
Internet bubble. This spring's conference, held May 26,
took place before a sold-out audience of nearly 1,500 people
and raised about
$3 million for pediatric cancer charities.
" The
investment insights and charitable efforts of the Ira Sohn
Conference have long been an exemplary model for all
financial conferences," said Patrick Wolff, principal and
co-founder of the Excellence in Investing for Children's
Causes Foundation. "We're extremely pleased to bring this
tremendous event to the West Coast and to provide a forum
for the eclectic and insightful perspectives our speakers
will surely share."
" We're
honored to support such a worthy cause as children's
education and to partner with the Ira Sohn Research
Conference Foundation and The Guardsmen," added Jack Selby,
principal and co-founder of the Excellence in Investing for
Children's Causes Foundation. "We hope this inaugural event
will launch a successful and enduring tradition."
About Ira Sohn Excellence
in Investing: San Francisco
The Excellence in Investing conference brings together
some of the world's top investors and other prominent
thinkers from Wall Street, Silicon Valley and everywhere in
between. The speakers have generously agreed to share their
time and ideas to benefit the Excellence in Investing for
Children's Causes Foundation. The conference allows
portfolio managers, asset allocators and private investors
an opportunity to learn from the insights and specific
investment ideas of these highly successful speakers.
The conference was inspired
by and is patterned after the Ira Sohn Investment Research
Conference in New York City. It acts in partnership and
cooperation with the Ira Sohn Research Conference
Foundation.
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