Global ARC Boston 2017

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Closed-Door Sponsor and Institutional Investor Education ForumGlobal ARC’s Investor Education Forum provides our private equity, hedge fund, infrastructure, commodities and private debt sponsors with the opportunity to meet with European, North and South American, Middle Eastern, Australian and Asian multi-billion dollar AUM institutional investors.

Global ARC’s Investor Education Forum is structured around three customized thirty-minute roundtable meetings, between individual managers and institutional investors interested in their strategies.

Entry to the Institutional Investor Education Forum is strictly limited to sponsors and institutional investors.

Sponsors at Global ARC Boston 2017 included:

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Sophia ChengChief Investment OfficerCathay Financial Holdings - Taiwan

Grzegorz Gut Chief Investment OfficerShell Pension Fund- The Netherlands

Bruce CundickChief Investment OfficerUtah Retirement Systems – USA

Søren ElbechTreasurerThe Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – People’s Republic of China

Michael GuarnieriManaging DirectorHarvard Management Company - USA

Mark FawcettChief Investment OfficerNational Employment Savings Trust- United Kingdom

Jim BetheaChief Investment OfficerUniversity of Iowa Foundation – USA

Sergio Wilson Ferraz Fontes Chief Executive OfficerReal Grandeza Pension Fund - Brazil

Farouki MajeedChief Investment OfficerSchool Employees Retirement System of Ohio - USA

Patrick FlemingChief Investment OfficerTreasurers OfficeState of Wyoming – USA

What differentiates best practice institutional investor risk management systems from the also-rans?

Arjen Pasma, Chief Risk OfficerPGGM Investments - The Netherlands

Dr. Richard Bookstaber, Chief Risk OfficerUniversity of California Investment Office - USA

Dr. Mike Edleson, Chief Risk OfficerUniversity of Chicago Endowment - USA

Venturing beyond standard theories of fiscal and central bank monetary interventions: lessons from the real world.

Professor Kaushik BasuChief Economist, The World Bank 2012-16Chief Economic Adviser, The Government of India 2009-12C. Marks Professor of International Studies and EconomicsCornell University – USA

Ingrid AlbinssonChief Investment OfficerAP7 Pension Fund- Sweden

Ricardo da Costa MartineliHead of Investments DivisionBanco Central do Brasil– Brazil

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David BellChief Investment OfficerMine Wealth & Wellbeing Superannuation Fund- Australia

Martin LarzabalChief Investment OfficerRepublica AFAP Pension– Uruguay

Mohd. Ahmed AlkhajaHead of Asset ManagementOsool Asset Management Co– Bahrain

Mikael Angberg Chief Investment OfficerAP1 Pension Fund- Sweden

Sean CrawfordChief Investment OfficerMetropolitan Transportation Authority Pension - USA

Simon LeeChief Investment OfficerMarks & Spencer’sStaff Pension- United Kingdom

Tom TullChief Investment OfficerEmployees Retirement System of Texas- USA

Eric WetlauferGlobal Head of Public Market InvestmentsCanada Pension Plan Investment Board - Canada

Hisae SatoChief Investment OfficerNissan Motor Corporation – Japan

AK SridharChief Investment OfficerIndiaFirst Life Insurance – India

Steven DavisChief Investment OfficerSacramento County Employees’ Retirement System - USA

Why governments and voters around the world are profoundly under-estimating the greatest existential risk of all: nuclear war.

Secretary William Perry Ph.D.Former U.S. Secretary of DefenseFormer U.S. Deputy Secretary of DefenseAuthor: ‘My Journey at the Nuclear Brink’Michael and Barbara Berberian Emeritus ProfessorStanford University – USA

Is there life out there? Exoplanets and the search for habitable worlds.

Professor Sara SeagerAuthor: ‘Is There Life Out There? Exoplanets and the Search For Habitable Worlds’Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary SciencesMassachusetts Institute of Technology – USA

Daniel BlamontHead of Investment StrategyPhoenix Group– United Kingdom

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Tarik DaltonDirector of Multi-StrategyInvestmentsNorth Carolina Department of theTreasurer - USA

Leigh GavinChief Investment OfficerLUCRF Super - Australia

Elizabeth BurtonManaging DirectorMaryland State Retirement and Pension System- USA

Nico AspinallChief Investment OfficerB&CE / The People’s Pension - United Kingdom

Con MichalakisChief Investment OfficerStatewide Super– Australia

Gregory SpickHead of Private MarketsUPS Pension Fund- USA

Dr. Eric NierenbergChief Strategy OfficerMassPRIM - USA

Jenny ChanSenior Investment OfficerDoris Duke Charitable Foundation – USA

Mateja ZivecChief Investment OfficerSava Re Group – Slovenia

Global portfolio diversification for long-horizon institutional investors.

Professor Luis M. ViceiraGeorge E. Bates Professor of Economics and Senior Associate DeanHarvard Business School - USA

International free trade - why it still matters, why it is at risk and what needs to be done to save it.

Professor Jagdish BhagwatiAuthor: ‘In Defense of Globalization’ and ‘Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Deals Undermine Free Trade’University Professor of Economics, Law, and International AffairsColumbia University - USA

Brexit, the election of President Trump and a resurgence in sectarian and nativist parties… are we witnessing a fundamental realignment of our international political-economic system?

Professor Mark BlythAuthor: ‘Austerity: The History of A Dangerous Idea’ and‘Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change inthe Twentieth Century’Eastman Professor of International Political EconomyBrown University – USA

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John DenhamChief Investment OfficerWorkplace Safety and Insurance Board - Canada

Samantha RosenstockHead of Alternative InvestmentsNew Jersey Department of the Treasury, Division of Investment - USA

Arjen PasmaChief Risk OfficerPGGM -The Netherlands

Christina BöckChief Investment OfficerProfond VorsorgeeinrichtungPension Fund – Switzerland

Dr. Olin LiuManaging Director andChief EconomistSunshine Insurance Group– People’s Republic of China

Andreas Grünbichler Chief Financial OfficerWüstenrot Insurance- Austria

Michael LombardiSenior Investment OfficerNew York State CommonRetirement Fund - USA

Dr. Srikanya YathipDeputy Secretary GeneralGovernment Pension Fund of Thailand – Thailand

Biswajit DasguptaChief Investment Officer- Institutional Banking and TreasuryEmirates Investment Bank - United Arab Emirates

A review of recent alternative investments research and its practical applications for institutional investors.

Professor Nicolas BollenFrank K. Houston Professor of Financeand Faculty Director, MFS ProgramVanderbilt University Owen School of Management – USA

The corruption of capitalism: why rentiers thrive and work does not pay.

Professor Guy StandingAuthor: ‘The Corruption of Capitalism: Why RentiersThrive and Work Does Not Pay’And ‘The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class’Professorial Research Associate,SOAS, University of London – United Kingdom

Drone strikes, collateral damage and ‘alternative’ facts… how can we reduce the incidence and severity of future wars?

Professor A.C. Grayling C.B.E.Author: ‘War: An Enquiry’and ‘Liberty in the Age of Terror: In Defence of CivilSociety and the West’s Enlightenment Values’Master, New College of the Humanities, LondonSupernumerary Fellow, St Anne’s College,University of Oxford – United Kingdom

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Interactive Streamed Sessions - Are institutional investors underestimating the impact that QE tapering will have on their portfolios? How shouldthey be re-orientating their alternative investment portfolios in anticipation of such a scenario?

Interactive Streamed Sessions - Selecting your hedge fund managers: hard won lessons.

Interactive Streamed Sessions – Which equity market sectors currently offer the most enticing investment opportunities and which type of alternative investment strategies can best exploit them?

General Sessions and Interactive Streamed Sessions