Now in its third year, The Global Real Assets Investment Forum will carefully examine the outlook for real assets, putting into context both the long-term trends liable to support prices in many, if not most sectors, as well as the risk factors that remain to undermine this view. We will provide opinions on these and other issues from asset managers, senior pension, endowment and foundation executives, outside experts and academics, and we will offer examples from leading institutions on how they have built or are building their real assets investment programs. Through a succession of panel discussions, presentations and workshops, the Forum will assist institutional investors seeking to construct a well diversified real assets portfolio and to improve their understanding of the varied opportunities available, the benefits associated with each, the risks they must be cognizant of, and the ability to mitigate those that pose the most severe dangers.
Advisory Board
May Ng,
Senior Investment Officer,
George Washington University Investment Office
E. Shepard Farrar,
Chief, Investment Management,
Inter-American Development Bank
Sam Masoudi, CFA, CAIA,
Managing Director,
Tulane University
Kenneth van Heel,
Director, Alternative Investments,
Dow Chemical Company
Caixia Ziegler,
Director of Global Real Assets,
National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust
John Ritter,
Director,
Teacher Retirement System of Texas
Bennett Degen,
Senior Investment Officer,
Yeshiva University