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Zurich, Switzerland, 11/04/2008 - The Institute will host a roundtable on finance in the wake of the subprime crisis as part of its November annual meeting. The meeting will reflect on agency conflicts in finance and its implications for risk, investment performance and the markets.
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The full day program features presentations on delegated portfolio management, private banking and industry views on alternative investments. An important theme will be the evaluation of financial intermediaries, and especially of financial institutions. "Accurate performance evaluation, and aligned incentives, will go hand in hand with the re-building of investor confidence," explained Professor Rajna Gibson, Swiss Finance Institute Director of Research.
The roundtable will feature UBS Group CEO Marcel Rohner and Jes Staley of JPMorgan Chase, as well as academic leaders from New York Stern School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University. "We will hear some of the best insights to date about the path to sustained financial stability," said Professor Jean-Pierre Danthine, Managing Director of the Swiss Finance Institute.
The event starts at 9:30am at the Credit Suisse Forum in Geneva, Tuesday November 18th, and is jointly organized by the Swiss Finance Institute, research partner FINRISK (Swiss National Science Foundation centre for research in Financial Valuation and Risk Management) and industry partner Geneva Financial Center. The plenary session, featuring the roundtable on "Finance in the wake of the subprime crisis", will take place between 16:45-18:15.
The Swiss Finance Institute is a private foundation created in 2006 by Switzerland's banking and finance community in cooperation with leading Swiss universities. It supports and advances research, doctoral training and executive education in banking and finance. The Institute is supported by Swiss banks, the Swiss Stock Exchange, Swiss universities and the Swiss Federal Government.
Disclaimer: The statements in this press release that relate to future plans or events are by their very nature forward-looking. The Institute undertakes no obligation to publish the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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