BCIC & CFA Beijing & CAIA Online Conference

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US-China Annual Investment Conference 2020（Virtual）

BCIC & CFA Society Beijing & CAIA Association
The US China annual investment conference co-organized by the Boston Chinese Investment Club (BCIC), CFA Society Beijing, and the CAIA association will be held online from Oct 1-4, 7pm to 9pm EST. The conference will bring together investment professionals and scholars from top institutions in China and the U.S. Through talks and panel discussions, we will explore the opportunities and challenges in investing in China, covering topics from US election, macro overview, asset allocation, pandemic and healthcare, technology, ESG investing and etc. There will be multiple rounds of lottery draws during the conference for prizes including two CAIA Global Gateway Scholarships and one year of VIP access to WIND financial data platform (andmore to come). Join the community of investment professionals for four days of informative, practical sessions to learn strategies to navigate the evolving financial markets and fast-changing world!

Please register by the following linkthrough Eventbrite. Profit from ticket sales will be donated to a charity based on participants selection. There is a 33% off discount for students.

波士顿华人投资协会携手CFA Beijing（特许金融分析师北京协会),CAIA（特许另类投资分析师协会）于美东时间10月1日至4日晚7点到9点，于线上举办年度中美投资论坛峰会。本次峰会将聚集来自PIMCO等中美业界的资深基金经理人，CEO以及合伙人。峰会将通过主旨演讲、小组讨论的形式探讨经济、美国选举、疫情、资产配资、量化投资、社会责任投等话题并展望未来投资机会。会议期间我们将通过抽奖的方式提供2份CAIA奖学金以及多份一年期Wind VIP access (或将有更多奖品）。欢迎大家踊跃报名参加！访问下方链接报名参加！

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-china-2020-annual-investment-conference-tickets-117604701829

【Time】

EST: 7-9PM, October 1-4, 2020

PST: 4-6PM, October 1-4, 2020

CST: 7-9AM, October 2-5, 2020

【Key Topics】

●     China Macro Outlook

●     US Election and its implementation

●     ESG Investing

●     Asset Allocation / Sector Allocation

●     Equity /Fixed Income (Investment Opportunities across asset classes)

●     Predicting Covid from a quantitative finance perspective●     Quantitative Investing●     Alternative Investing

【Agenda】

Day 1

Welcoming and Introduction

●      John L. Bowman, CFA, Senior Managing Director, the CAIA Association

US Election and its implication

●      Moderator:

Lillian Lin, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager, PIMCO

●      Speaker:

Libby Cantrill, Managing Directorand the Head of Public Policy, PIMCO

China in the next five years

●      Yan Wang, CFA, Partner and the Chief Emerging Markets & China Strategist, Alpine Macro

Day 2

Policy and Markets

Panelists:

●      Tony Crescenzi，CFA, Executive Vice President, Portfolio Manager, PIMCO

●      Bill Smith，CFA, Executive Vice President, Portfolio Manager, PIMCO

●      Lillian Lin, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager, PIMCO

●      Eden Simmer, Executive Vice President,  Head of Global Trading, PIMCO

China Investments and Allocation Strategies ( Mandarin)

●      Yidong Zhang, Chief Macro Strategist, Industrial Securities Co. Ltd.

Day 3

Global ESG investing: from Europe to America to China

●      Hua Cheng, Phd, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Mirova US

Private Credit Investing

Moderator:

●      William J. Kelly, CEO, the CAIA Association

Speaker:

●      Jerry Wang ,CFA, CAIA, Founder and CEO of Haitou Global

Day 4

Predicting COVID-19 from a Quantitative Finance perspective

●      Jian Chen, Phd, Founder and CEO of CreditWise Technologies

Make Sense of Chinese Data

●      Bin Shi, Phd, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Acadian Asset Management

Speakers and Panelists (TBC)

更多惊喜嘉宾，敬请期待！

Biography in alphabetical order by last name

John L. Bowman,

CFA, Senior Managing Director, the CAIA Association

John serves as Senior Managing Director for the CAIA Association, overseeing the industry leading CAIA charter, thought leadership and content development, and CAIA's Asia Pacific strategy. John previously served as Managing Director forthe Americas for CFA Institute, a region comprised of 40+ countries from Canada, the U.S., Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Bowman joined CFA Institute in 2004 after holding several industry positions. He served as a portfolio manager at Mellon Growth Advisors (MGA), where he was responsible for portfolio construction and stock selection for the MGA International Growth and MGA Global Growth strategies. Bowman also served as a portfolio manager for the International Growth Opportunities Strategy at State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) in its Global Fundamental Strategies Group.

Libby Cantrill

Managing Director and the Head of Public Policy, PIMCO

Ms. Cantrill is a managing director and the head of public policy for PIMCO. In her role, she helps to coordinate the firm’s response to public policy issues and analyzes policy and political risk for the firm’s Investment Committee. She is also a member of the firm’s Americas Portfolio Committee. Additionally, she is the co-head of PIMCO’s NewYork Office and is a founding member of PIMCO Parents and PIMCO Women. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2007, she served as a legislative aide in the House of Representatives and also worked in the investment banking division at Morgan Stanley. She has 16 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and received her undergraduate degree in economics from Brown University. Ms. Cantrill is a CFA charterholder and a regular contributor to Bloomberg and CNBC. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jian Chen(陈剑)

Phd, Founder and CEO of CreditWise Technologies

Dr.Jian Chen is the founder and CEO of CreditWise Technologies, Co. Ltd. He also serves as the senior advisor of MSCI’s China business, the committee chair of the information disclosure committee of China Securitization Forum, and the senior advisor of Caixin Insight Group, a prestigious think tank in China. He previously held the positions of Managing Partner of RQuest Financial Services Group, Managing Director in IFE Group, Risk Modeling Director in Freddie Mac, Director of Credit Risk Management in Fannie Mae. He recently created the COVID-19 Global Risk Index (http://covid19-risk-index.com/) to assess the risk of each country in the pandemic, together with Dr. Zhang, Wenhong of Huashan Hospital.

Hua Cheng

Phd, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Mirova US

Hua Cheng, CFA, PhD, is an ESG Portfolio Manager with Mirova US, which he joined in 2018. Prior to joining Mirova US, he was a portfolio manager with Mirova, which he joined in 2014. Prior to joining Mirova, Dr. Cheng was portfolio manager at Vega Investment Managers from 2007 to 2014. Dr. Cheng holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics fromthe University Paris Dauphine (France). He holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst and has over 15 years of investment experience.

Tony Crescenzi

CFA, Executive Vice President, Portfolio Manager, PIMCO

Mr. Crescenzi is an executive vice president, market strategist and generalist portfolio manager in the New York office. He is also a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2009, he was chief bond market strategist at Miller Tabak, and worked for both Lehman Brothers and Prudential Bache. Mr. Crescenzi has written five books, including "The Strategic Bond Investor" and "Beyond the Keynesian End point." He regularly appears on CNBC and Bloomberg television and in financial news media. Mr. Crescenzi taught in the executive MBA program at Baruch College from 1999-2009. He has 37 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from St. John's University and an undergraduate degree from the City University of New York.

Lillian Lin

Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager, PIMCO

Ms. Lin is a senior vice president and investment grade portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office and a member of PIMCO’s Americas portfolio committee. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2014, she worked in fixed income portfolio analysis at Harvard Management Company and was a FICC (fixed income, commodities and currencies) derivatives trader at UBS. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and an undergraduate degree from Peking University with a major in mathematics and a minor ineconomics. In 2007, she was ranked as the top student among 100k students in Beijing in the college entrance examination (高考状元）. She is the co-author of a book also written in 2007 on achieving success.

Mengyao Lu

CPA, Partner, Ernst & Young Hua Ming

Ms. Lu has over 15 years of professional experiences in accounting and financial reporting, serving clients in both China and the U.S. at various stages ranging from start-ups to large market-cap listed companies in deals of equity and debt offerings, carve-outs, merge and acquisitions. Using her expertise in U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting, SOX 404 compliance and PCAOB audits, Ms. Lu processes extensive experiences in solving complex accounting and finance issues that are commonly encountered by the China concept companies during their IPOs in the U.S. capital markets. Prior to joining EY Shanghai office, Ms. Lu also spent two years at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seeking to ensure that investors are provided with material information in order to make informed investment decisions, both when a company initially offers its securities to the public and on an ongoing basis as it continues to give information to the market place.

Bin Shi (石彬)

Phd, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Acadian Asset Management

Dr.Bin Shi is a Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager of Research, and Quantitative Research Analyst at Acadian Asset Management.  Dr. Shi has a background in time series forecasting, machine learning, and statistical modeling. Prior to that, he worked at Mathworks as a Statistician. Dr. Shi has over 14 years of extensive quantitative investment experience.

Bill Smith

CFA, Executive Vice President, Portfolio Manager, PIMCO

Mr. Smith is an executive vice president and portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office, focusing primarily on globale quities within PIMCO’s global macro hedge fund strategies. He is a member of the Americas portfolio committee and has served as a rotating member of PIMCO's Investment Committee. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2018, he was a partner at Partner Fund Management (PFM) and a senior member of the investment team focused on macro research and portfolio risk management. Mr. Smith previously worked at Morgan Stanley, where he was a member of the U.S. investment strategy team and worked on the index equity derivatives trading desk. He has 17 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree in international business and finance from Loyola University Maryland. He has passed all three levels of the CFA program.

Jerry Wang

CFA, CAIA, Founder and CEO of Haitou Global

Jerry Wang is Founder and CEO of Haitou Global. Jerry founded Haitou Global in New York in 2014, as a technology based global asset allocation platform. Haitou Global manages a Registered Investment Advisor and a Broker-Dealer in the U.S. and allocates capital in the U.S. and to emerging markets including China, India, Southeast Asia and Africa. Haitou Global manages an emerging market credit fund and an early stage venture fund. Before founding Haitou Global, Jerrywas an Investment Manager at University of Notre Dame Investment Office, managing alternative investments in the U.S. and Asia. Jerry received Bachelor's degree in engineering from Tsinghua University and Master's degrees in engineering and business administration from the University of Notre Dame. Jerry holds CFA and CAIAcharters.

Yan Wang

CFA, Partner and the Chief Emerging Markets & China Strategist, Alpine Macro

Yan Wang is a Partner and the Chief Emerging Markets & China Strategist. Prior to Alpine Macro, Yan spent 15years at BCA Research, as the Managing Editor and Chief Strategist for BCA’s China Investment Strategy service, and played a major role in formulating BCA’s view on the Greater China region and emerging Asia. Prior to joining BCA, he spent six years as an equity analyst in China and Hong Kong. Yan holds an MBA in Finance from McGill University, an M.A. in Economics from Tianjin Institute of Finance and a B.A. in Finance from Nankai University. He also holds the CFA designation.

Yidong Zhang 张忆东

Chief Macro Strategist, Industrial Securities Co. Ltd.

Mr. Yidong Zhang is the Global Chief Strategist, Deputy Head of Research Institute and Head of Overseas Research Department of Industrial Securities Co., Ltd. (601377.SH). Mr. Zhang is also the Deputy CEO of China Industrial Securities International Financial Groups Limited. (6058.HK). Prior to joining Industrial Securities in 2006, Mr. Zhanghas worked in Polaris Securities (Taiwan) from 2002-2006. Mr. Zhang received his master’s degree from Fudan University, and EMBA degree from Shanghai Advance Institute of Finance of Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Mr. Zhang has been awarded as the best Strategist in various domestic analysts rankings:  New Fortune Magazine Best Analysts Awards (2006-2019), Crystal Ball Best Analysts Awards (2010-2019), Golden Bull Best Analysts Awards (2010-2019), China Business News Best Analyst Award (2012-2019), Insurance Asset Management Association of China Best Analyst (2014-2019), etc.

CAIA Association offers the only educational program created exclusively for individuals working with and specializing in alternative investments. Earning the CAIA Charter is the gateway to an elite community of over 11,000 Charter holders in over 90 countries. Partnering with CAIA Association enables engagement with this unique population through a variety of channels. In addition to our Membership base, access to CAIA Candidates and prospects lets our partners share their message with those pursuing or considering a career in the alternative investment industry.CFA® Society Beijing (Chartered Financial Analyst Society Beijing) is an association of professionals specializing in financial investment.CFA Society Beijing's mission is to uphold the professional standards of ethics, knowledge, and expertise recognized by international financial markets, and the organization is dedicated to providing better services for the growing number of CFA charterholders and CFA® Program candidates. In pursuit of its goal to cultivate professional talent for the financial industry, CFA Society Beijing actively promotes the CFA® charter and the domestic application of international standardsOne of the 150 CFA Societies globally, CFA Society Beijing uses its unique regional advantage to promote the exchange of financial knowledge, professional opportunities, and talent through regional collaborations with other Societies. It also serves as a platform for Beijing's financial professionals to expand their careers. By gathering top talent and strengthening overseas cooperation, CFA Society Beijing is devoted to helping establish Beijing as an international financial hub.Boston Chinese Investment Club (BCIC)is a non-profit organization founded by TCFA (The Chinese Finance Association) Boston organizers. It serves as a Boston centered platform for exchangingideas, knowledge, and information in finance and related areas between US and China. Main activities include monthly seminars/ gatherings and providing services to members, e.g financial training. If you want to join the mailing list for future activities, please click hereor send email to boston.chinese.investment.club(在) gmail.com. If you are interested in participating in future road shows, please contact us in advance: start-ups please send business plans to roadshow@bcicglobal.org; investors or sponsors, please contact info@bcicglobal.org.