The 7th Annual Great Plains Institutional Forum is an educational initiative designed through close coordination with the region’s leading institutional investors to build peer communities that merge global best practices with local expertise. The forum is designed to bring together fund leadership teams, investment officers, board members, trustees, and their consultants representing the Great Plains institutional investment community.
The forum's agenda was developed through extensive local travel and feedback from the institutional investor community representing institutional asset owners across public and corporate pension plans, endowments, foundations, insurance portfolios, healthcare plans, and investment consultants.
We’re committed to the health and safety of all of our attendees. At each of our events the following COVID-19 related protocols will be in place to ensure a safe and comfortable experience for all guests:
- All attendees are required to be *fully vaccinated
- Modified room set up and seating arrangements
- Temperature check upon entry
- Enhanced cleaning and sanitation stations
- Limited touch food and beverage service
*Fully vaccinated means two weeks after the second dose in two-dose vaccine or two weeks after the first dose in a one dose vaccine.
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Key Discussion Topics
MACRO OUTLOOK AND GLOBAL ASSET ALLOCATION
Could COVID-19 bring
the long-theorized Great Reset of capitalism to bear? Our opening session
will critique and contrast institutional asset allocation before and after the
worldwide pandemic.
GLOBAL FIXED INCOME:
RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Our panel will show
how the difference between fixed income risk and opportunity is simply a matter
of tolerance.
ESG IN PRACTICE FOR
LONG TERM INVESTORS
The panel will
examine specific strategies investors are using to address and integrate ESG
issues in systematic value and multi-factor-based frameworks, among other
ideas.
USING ETFS TO BUILD
AND SCALE INTERNALLY MANAGED PORTFOLIOS
This session will
cover how institutions are addressing the growing execution needs of different
asset classes and newer instruments such as ETFs.
FIXED INCOME:
EVOLVING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE SECURITIZED MARKETS
This session will
discuss areas organizations are exploring including the three primary sectors
of the securitized space: (ABS), (CMBS), and (RMBS).
AN EVOLVING WORLD FOR
ALTERNATIVE CREDIT
The impact of
COVID-19 on alternative credit was swift and severe. Bank and local government
assistance will mitigate publicly traded asset-, commercial- and residential
mortgage-backed borrowing--but for how long? Can structured finance
manage novel coronavirus risk?
ARE THE
BENEFITS OF MULTI-FACTOR INVESTING STILL THERE?
Our panel will
address various aspects of this subject including what it takes to weather the
short-term troughs and deliver long term stable performance.
EMERGING
MARKETS: RELEVANCY AND VALUE IN TODAY'S MARKETS?
For America, the risk
of losing not just a diverse asset class, but a pillar of globalization, is
real. What factors should investors consider when debating whether to
allocate to or diversify within the asset class?
HOW MULTI
STRATEGY PORTFOLIOS CAN DELIVER
This panel will
explore how diversified alternative portfolios may be uniquely positioned to
deliver on what should have been the original promise of institutional hedge
fund programs: positive absolute returns that are uncorrelated to traditional asset
classes.
A CONVERSATION WITH
THE REGION’S LEADING CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICERS
This discussion Chief
Investment Officers will focus on the key investment and management issues
facing their funds, along with what they consider to be their plans' "best
ideas" with regard to investment strategy. regard to investment strategy.
REGISTRATION
INVESTORS: Complimentary Registration for all qualified investors.
Email [email protected] for
more information on obtaining a complimentary ticket.
PRICING
| Sponsorship is only available upon invitation and Markets Group reserves the right to refuse sponsorship from any organization or individual deemed by Markets Group to be incompatible with the event. Markets Group forum sessions are closed to all media/press and video/audio recording is explicitly prohibited within the venue. |
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1300 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN
United States 55403
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