Berkeley Finance Conference

Berkeley-Haas Finance Club

Featuring
Wall Street Journal M&A Reporter Anupreeta Das
Bloomberg BusinessWeek Private Equity Reporter Jason Kelly
Forbes Magazine Environment Editor Todd Woody (not pictured)

Anupreeta Das

Jason Kelly

2012 Berkeley Finance Conference
OPPORTUNITIES IN VOLATILE TIMES

Friday, March 9, 2012
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2200 Piedmont Avenue
Berkeley, CA

Photo by Robert Houser

In Memoriam:
Warren Hellman, BA 55

The Berkeley-Haas Finance Club dedicates this conference to the memory of Warren Hellman. Read about him.

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Ticket Type At the door
Student $40
Cal Alumnus, Faculty, or Staff $90
Industry Professional $100

Parking – at Underhill Parking lot: $20 per spot (map)

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    OPPORTUNITIES IN VOLATILE TIMES

    "We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful." -Warren Buffett

    Please join us on March 9th, 2012 for the West Coast’s leading student-organized forum for practitioners, government policy makers, faculty, students and alumni to discuss current issues in finance.

    The Berkeley-Haas Finance Conference will feature leading financial commentators from Bloomberg/BusinessWeek, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal in discussion with leading industry players from Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs, Google, McKinsey, Morrison & Foerster, Silver Lake, and many more.

    Times of Disruption, Times of Volatility
    Financial crises in the world’s leading economies, turbulence in bond and equity markets, faltering company and country credit ratings, rapidly changing means of corporate finance, and markets for private stock all share headlines with explosive success and record earnings in certain sectors and regions. The market’s random walk has often appeared, at best, to be a lurching, fitful stumble - and volatility reigns.

    With markets thus roiled, business journalists have continually cited a number that seems to quantify fear itself: the VIX™, or Fear Index, which measures numerically the levels of volatility that traders expect in the short-term. Following an opening session on the general state of the economy, markets, and investing on March 9th, 2012, we will hear from the creators of VIX™ regarding their views on current market performance.

    Then, throughout the day, we will hear different perspectives on these volatile times from leading practitioners in:
      •     Private Equity
      •     Mergers & Acquisitions
      •     Investment Management
      •     Hedge Funds
      •     Financial and Operational Restructuring
      •     Early Stage and Venture Financing
      •     Sector Profile: The Finance of Clean and Green Energy

    Changing Financial Markets
    Share prices, option prices, and volumes are not the only items that have been demonstrating volatility in the past few years. From early, angel funding of companies to late stage exit or acquisition phases, there have been shifts in the normal channels of corporate or venture funding and these shifts appear to be driving basic finance industry changes. We will also be examining these alterations and considering the implications for the future.

    We hope you will participate in the Berkeley-Haas Finance Conference as we look at these, and many other topics that we believe will provide interesting insights.

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