Follow CFA Institute Annual Conference Online for Insight, Ideas to Shape the Future of Finance

The 67th CFA Institute Annual Conference, to be held May 4-7 in Seattle, will bring together up to 1,800 of the world’s leading financial professionals to focus on shaping the future of finance. More than 30 scheduled sessions will examine market trends, uncover new investment opportunities, and deliver practical advice to shape the future of finance for generations to come.  

For those unable to attend in person, CFA Institute is offering premier access to content before, during and after the conference on the Annual Conference website. You can also follow the conference remotely through the following channels:

• Read the conference blog
• Follow the conference on social media

CFA Institute will live stream the following key sessions in their entirety.

• Monday, May 5th, 8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PDT – Opening Remarks by John D. Rogers, CFA, President and CEO of CFA Institute; “Safeguarding the System: Promoting Stability and Minimizing Systemic Risk”– Sheila Bair, chair of the Systemic Risk Council and senior advisor to the Pew Charitable Trusts. Watch here.
• Monday, May 5th, 11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. PDT – “Past, Present, and Future Financial Thinking: A Conversation with Bill Sharpe”– William F. Sharpe, TANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Watch here.
• Tuesday, May 6th, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PDT – “The Economics of Good and Evil”- Tomáš Sedláček, chief macroeconomic strategist at ČSOB. Watch here.
• Wednesday, May 7th,9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PDT– “Central Banking, State Capitalism, and the Future of the Monetary System”Ann Pettifor, director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) and an honorary research fellow at the Political Economy Research Centre of City University, London. Watch here. Watch here.

As the conference progresses, CFA Institute will provide a variety of written and video content summarizing key developments and sessions. CFA Institute content directors Jason Voss, CFA, and Ron Rimkus, CFA, will offer daily video updates on the most insightful investment commentary from the sessions. CFA Institute blog posts will cover more than half of the sessions to summarize insights and ideas shared by the following speakers:

• Nate Silver, Editor-in-Chief, FiveThirtyEight.com
• Cliff Asness, Co-Founder, Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer, AQR Capital Management
• Carl Richards, Director of Investor Education at the BAM ALLIANCE
• Simon Lack, CFA, Founder, SL Advisors, LLC
• Arjun Divecha, Chairman of the Board of Directors, GMO
• Kristin Ceva, CFA, Managing Principal, Payden & Rygel

These posts will be published on the conference blog and CFA Institute social media channels on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Weibo.

Those who wish to engage on Twitter can search #FutureFinance for live tweets throughout the conference or follow @CFAInstitute or @CFAEvents. During the conference, attendees will record short individual videos explaining how they personally put investors first in their day-to-day jobs. These videos will be shared by CFA Institute during and after the conference as part of Putting Investors First Month, a global initiative created to encourage financial professionals to place the interests of investors above their own and build awareness of the fiduciary duty to protect investors.

Credentialed journalists are invited to register now for one of a limited number of press passes. Please contact [email protected] to request a press pass and to learn more about phone and video interviews with conference speakers, attendees, sponsors, and CFA Institute leaders. Those unable to attend the conference in person are invited to check annual.cfainstitute.org for session summaries and highlights, and to follow @CFAInstitute, @CFAEvents, and #FutureFinance on Twitter for updates throughout the conference.