Somerset,
NJ May 6, 2008 The Spaulding Group, Inc. (TSG), the leading provider
of investment performance measurement products and services, announced
today that its Sixth Annual Performance Measurement, Attribution and
Risk (PMAR VI) Conference will draw over 160 attendees and include
15 exhibitors. The conference will be held at the Philadelphia Sheraton
City Center on May 21- 22, 2008.
"We
continue to define the investment performance measurement conference
experience by attracting the top speakers in our industry, keeping
the topics timely, engaging the audience, and by changing the way
the information is presented by adding touches of fun and entertainment
to the process" said David Spaulding, president of The Spaulding
Group. "We strive to improve the conference each year by incorporating
creative ideas to make the event more enjoyable for everyone. Our
increasing attendance shows that we are doing a lot of things right.
PMAR has grown every year and continues to be the number one performance
conference in our industry."
The
2007 Dietz Award winner Philippe Gregoire, Ph.D., will serve as the
conference's keynote speaker with his presentation on Risk Adjusted
Performance Attribution. Other speakers include Carl Bacon, CIPM from
StatPro; Jonathan Boersma, CFA from the CFA Institute; Douglas Lempereur,
CFA, CIPM, FRM from Franklin Templeton; Cinda Whitten from Principal
Global Investors; John D. Simpson, CIPM from The Spaulding Group;
Seth Armitage, Ph.D., from the University of Edinburgh; Stephen Campisi,
CFA from Intuitive Performance Solutions; Robert Mackay, Ph.D. from
NERA; Neil Riddles, CFA, CIPM from Hansberger Global Investors; Jason
Totedo, CFA from Wilshire Associates; William Meck, CPA, formerly
with the SEC and now with Meck Compliance Consulting; Meredith Jones,
from Pertrac; Michael Caccese, Esq., from K&L Gates; Ann Putallaz,
Ph.D., CIPM, from Munder Capital Management; Ron Surz, CIMA, from
PPCA; James Edmonds, from AllianceBernstein; and David Spaulding,
CIPM, from The Spaulding Group.
With offices in the New York City and Los Angeles metropolitan areas,
The Spaulding Group, Inc. is the leader in investment performance
measurement products and services. TSG offers consulting services;
publishes The Journal of Performance Measurement, a quarterly publication
we launched in 1996; and hosts the Performance Measurement Forum.
The firm also sponsors the annual Performance Measurement, Attribution
and Risk (PMAR) Conference as well as the annual Trends in Attribution
Symposium (TIA), which have come to be recognized as the leading performance
measurement conferences in the industry. TSG's Institute of Performance
Measurement offers performance measurement training, including an
introductory course on performance measurement, a course on performance
attribution, and CIPM exam preparation courses. Additional details
about TSG's services may be found on our website www.SpauldingGrp.com.
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