Green Investing Symposium

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Come one, come all to the CAIA New York chapter’s Green Investing Symposium on October 14th at Bloomberg Auditorium.

Covering one of the hottest topics in the industry today, Symposium sessions will focus on the issues and opportunities pertaining to HF's, VC and PE, Government and Law, and Bio-fuels.

Featured speakers include:

  • Angelo Calvello, Author: Environmental Alpha: Institutional Investors and Climate Change;
  • Rob McAndrew, Chicago Climate Exchange;
  • Abigail Laufer, CEO of Virid Capital Management;
  • David Kandehola, Principal & Managing Director, Akeida Capital Management;
  • Peter C. Fusaro, Chairman, Global Change Associates Inc.;
  • Bryan Garcia, Program Director, Center for Business and the Environment at Yale Unversity;
  • Howard Berke, Good Energie;
  • Martin Whittaker, Director, Mission Point Capital Partners;
  • Rosemary Ripley, Managing Director, NGEN; 
  • Daniel J. Byrd, Esq., M.E.M., Founder, DJB Consulting;
  • Dana Hall, Esq., Pace Energy and Climate Center at Pace Law School;
  • Adam Zellner, CEO, Greener by Design;
  • Andrew Hohns, Chairman, Desarrollos Rurales el Encinar S.L.;
  • John Cusack, President, Gifford Park Associates;
  • Steven H. Orlov, Manatuck Hill Partners; and
  • Bruce M. Kahn, Ph.D., DB Climate Change Advisors, Deutsche Asset Management.

Thanks for organizing goes in large part to NY Chapter Head Rob O’Donnell who, as moderator for the panel discussions, promises to pepper the participants with pithy yet provocative questions (a mouthful for all save Robert)!

The event is being hosted by Bloomberg from 2:00-6:00 PM, with reception to follow. See this page for the full agenda.

This unique event is being co-sponsored by the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA), the Connecticut Hedge Fund Association, and the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale University, and promises to bring out some of the industry’s best and brightest.

CAIA staffers Kathy Wilkens, Chris Holt, Nadya Tkachenko, and yours truly will also be present. So don’t delay in registering as space is filling up fast!

Craig Asche
Executive Director

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