Industry support for this innovative investment conference is very strong. G.A.M.E. V Forum co-sponsors
Nasdaq and American Realty Capital, and strategic partners CFA Institute, Davidson Investment Advisors,
Eagle Asset Management, The Hartford, LPL Financial, Morningstar and The Options Industry Council
are joined by 84 firms and organizations in providing more than 100 keynote speakers, panelists, workshop
presenters and student-managed portfolio competition judges. The global dimension of the Quinnipiac
G.A.M.E. V Forum also is reflected by our international group of participating students and their faculty
mentors from more than 140 colleges and universities, representing more than 40 countries and 39 states.
Today, 15 keynote speakers will explore the global markets, corporate governance, global economy and
investment strategy. After the keynote speaker panelists make their initial comments, the moderator will
welcome questions from students in the audience. This will be your first opportunity to interact with top
leaders in the financial services industry.
On day two of G.A.M.E., students and faculty will participate in a number of concurrent breakout sessions,
including panel discussions, workshop presentations and three keynote perspectives that will explore
portfolio management, equity analysis, asset allocation, risk and ethical decision making, to name a few.
G.A.M.E. concludes on day three with a focus on careers and academic program development. Your
G.A.M.E. experience will be rounded out through interactive career discussions with a group of young
professionals who once sat in your shoes.
We hope to see you again at the Quinnipiac G.A.M.E. VI Forum March 31April 2, 2016, in New York City.
More information will be available at qgame.quinnipiac.edu, by email at qgame@quinnipiac.edu or call
203-582-3888.
Sincerely,
CFA INSTITUTE
CFA Institute is the global
association of investment
professionals that sets the
standard for professional excellence. We administer the CFA and
CIPM credentials and the Claritas Investment Certificate, and offer
world-class education and professional development opportunities. The
organization is a champion for ethical behavior in investment markets
and a respected source of knowledge in the global financial community.
The end goal is to create an environment where investors interests come
first, markets function at their best and economies grow. CFA Institute
has more than 129,000 members in 147 countries and territories,
including 122,000 CFA charterholders and 144 member societies.
For more information, visit www.cfainstitute.org.
THE HARTFORD
Celebrating 200-plus years of helping its
customers achieve whats ahead, The Hartford
(NYSE: HIG) is an insurance and wealth
management company. Through its unique
focus on customer needs, the company serves
businesses and consumers by providing the
products and solutions they need to protect their assets and income
from risks and manage their wealth and retirement needs. A Fortune
100 company, The Hartford is recognized widely for its service expertise
and as one of the worlds most ethical companies. More information on
the company and its financial performance is available at
www.thehartford.com.
LPL FINANCIAL
LPL Financial was founded
with the vision of helping
entrepreneurial financial
advisers establish successful businesses through which they could
offer truly independent financial guidance and advice. Today, with
headquarters in Boston, Charlotte and San Diego, LPL Financial and
its more than 3,000 employees support more than 14,000 financial
advisers in communities across the United States, enabling them to
provide objective, conflict-free financial advice to millions of Main
Street Americans. For more information about LPL Financial, visit
www.lpl.com.
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
CFP Board
Joseph V. Maugeri, CFP
Independent Director
Dr. Bob Froehlich
SkyBridge Capital
Daniel Barile, CFA, CAIA
Alleghany Capital
John Daly
Altaira Ltd.
Ralph Acampora, CMT
Columbia University
Damon Wright
Ares Management
Bojan Bajic
CQA
Dan Cardell
Credit Suisse
Chrissy Perrotta
Emily Fitz Randolph
Baruch College
Bruce Kamich
BlackRock
Ike Helene
Ned Rosenman
Paige Simmons
Bloomberg Brief
Richard Yamarone
Bloomberg News
Callie Bost
Tom Keene, CFA
BofA Merrill Lynch Global
Research
Emanuella Enenajor
Stephen Suttmeier CFA, CMT
Brookfield Investment
Management Inc.
Thomas Butcher
Brown Brothers Harriman
Kyle Barndollar
Andrew Hodgkins, CFA
Jeffrey Price
CAIA Association
Dr. Keith Black, CFA, CAIA
Capital Group
Margaret Timmons
Catalus Capital
Phil Smith
CFA Institute
Dr. Charles Appeadu, CFA, FRM,
CAIA
Dr. Michael G. McMillan, CFA, CPA
Kurt Schacht, JD, CFA
Greg Siegel, CFA
DTCC
Jim Binder
E*TRADE Financial
Dave Whitmore
Ernst & Young Financial
Services Office
Jason Schafer
Evercore
Randi Brown
Fidessa
Dorothy Ferlanti
Flaherty & Crumrine Inc.
Bradford S. Stone
GARP
William H. May
Gerson Lehrman Group
Rick Bensignor
TD Ameritrade
JJ Kinahan
Mary Ryan
Temple University
Dr. Bruce B. Rader, CFA
TLP Trading
Jane Bronson
Merrill Lynch
David Breslin
tradeMONSTER.COM
Jon Najarian
MKM Partners
Jonathan Krinsky, CMT
University of Chicago
Jane Bronson
Morgan Stanley
Damon Wright
University of Maine
Dr. Robert Strong, CFA
Morningstar Inc.
Mark Barnett
Robert Johnson, CFA
Nasdaq
Robert H. McCooey Jr.
New York Stock Exchange
Bill Ryan
Northern Trust
Grant Rickelman
optionMONSTER.COM
Jon Najarian
Goldman Sachs
Abby Joseph Cohen, CFA
Salina Sabri
Quinnipiac University
Dr. David A. Sauer
Dr. Mark Thompson
Huntington Bank
John Augustine, CFA
Ritholtz Wealth
Josh Brown
University of Pennsylvania
John Daly
Value Architects Asset Management
Richard H. Konrad, CFA, CFP, MSF
Villanova University
Dr. David Nawrocki
Virtus Investment Partners
Joe Terranova
Voya Investment Management
Douglas Cot, CFA
Wall Street Journal
Geoffrey Rogow
Wells Fargo Bank N.A.
Jeff Rombach, CPA
Yahoo Finance
Phil Pearlman
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
RALPH ACAMPORA, CMT
GUY ADAMI
Chief Market Strategist & Director of
Advisor Advocacy, Private Advisor Group;
Fast Money Contributor, CNBC
Guy Adami is an independent trader and one of
the original Fast Money Five on CNBCs Fast
Money and chief market strategist and director of
advisor advocacy for Private Advisor Group. PAG serves the unique
needs of almost 500 independent advisors. Adami, a veteran financial
services leader, has held numerous key leadership roles in the financial
services industry. He began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert in
1986 and was quickly promoted to vice president and head gold trader
at the firm. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1996 as the head gold trader
and one of the many proprietary traders within the fixed income
currency and commodity division. In the spring of 2000, Adami moved
to the U.S. equities division of Goldman Sachs, where he headed the
firms industrial/basic material group. Adami also served as executive
director at CIBC World Markets in 2003 in the U.S. equities division,
where he was head of the sector in charge of the industrial/basic
material group. He earned a BS from Georgetown University.
RICHARD BERNSTEIN
EMANUELLA ENENAJOR
GARY KATZ
TOM KEENE
Editor-At-Large
Bloomberg News
Tom Keene is an editor-at-large at Bloomberg
News and host of Bloomberg Surveillance, the
morning program featuring economic, finance and
investment news. He can be heard on the program
starting at 6 a.m. across Bloomberg TV, radio, Bloomberg.com and
Bloombergs devices for mobile and tablets. In addition, Keene provides
economic and investment perspective to Bloomberg TV and to its
various news divisions. He also founded the Chart of the Day article,
available on the Bloomberg Professional Service. Keene is the editor
of Flying on One Engine: The Bloomberg Book of Master Market
Economists (2005). He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of
Technology and is enrolled in courses at the external programme of
the London School of Economics & Political Science. A chartered
financial analyst, Keene is a member of the CFA Institute, the
National Association for Business Economics, the American Economic
Association and the Economic Club of New York.
BENJAMIN A. PACE
Chief Strategist
TD Ameritrade
JON NAJARIAN
Co-Founder, optionMONSTER.COM
& tradeMONSTER.com;
CNBC Contributor
Jon Najarian is co-founder of optionMONSTER
and tradeMONSTER, co-lead analyst for the
InsideOptions trade idea alert systems, and a
CNBC contributor. He spent the first 29 years of his trading career in
and around the pits of the Chicago exchanges. He is a frequent
contributor to CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, and other prominent
financial media organizations. He also co-developed the patented
trading algorithm the Heat Seeker, used to detect unusual trading
activity. Najarian was a linebacker for the Chicago Bears before
launching his business career.
JOSEPH M. TERRANOVA
Chief Market Strategist
Virtus Investment Partners &
Fast Money Contributor, CNBC
Joe Terranova is chief market strategist for Virtus
Investment Partners. He works with the regional
sales teams and financial advisers who sell the
companys investment products, providing insight into the domestic
and global investing landscape. Terranova has represented Virtus as a
keynote speaker and is a member of the firms Investment Oversight
Committee. Before joining Virtus in 2008, he spent 18 years at MBF
Clearing Corp., rising to the position of director of trading for the
company and its subsidiaries. He is known for his risk-management
skills, honed while overseeing MBFs proprietary trading operations
during some of the most calamitous times for the U.S. markets,
including the first Gulf War, the 1998 Asian Crisis and 9/11. He is a
panelist on CNBCs Fast Money and a frequent panelist on Fast
Money Halftime Report. He has a bachelors degree in finance from
the Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. Johns University.
RICHARD YAMARONE
Senior Economist
Bloomberg Brief
Richard Yamarone is an economist with three
decades of experience. He focuses on monetary
and fiscal policy, economic indicators, fixed
income and general macroeconomic conditions
for Bloomberg Brief: Economics, a daily newsletter. He is the creator
of the Bloomberg Orange Book, a compilation of macroeconomic
anecdotes gleaned from comments CEOs and CFOs made on quarterly
earnings conference calls. He travels extensively to speak to clients
and corporate executives on the economic outlook and career and
management coaching. Earlier in his career, Yamarone was director of
economic research at Argus Research and a member of the firms
investment policy committee. He has been a consultant to monetary
and fiscal policymakers, served as an economic adviser to major U.S.
corporations and has held senior positions for several international and
domestic money centers and investment banks. Yamarone has taught
courses on macroeconomics and economic indicators at several colleges
and is the author of the Traders Guide to Key Economic Indicators
(Bloomberg Press, 2012).
6:307:45 a.m.
88:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Dr. Mark Thompson, Executive Vice President & Provost, Quinnipiac University
Welcome from Quinnipiac University
Dr. David A. Sauer, Founder, Managing Director & Program Co-Chair,
Quinnipiac G.A.M.E. V Forum, Quinnipiac University
Forum Overview
Moderator
8:159:45 a.m.
Keynote Panel
9:4510:15 a.m.
Break
10:1511:30 a.m.
Keynote Panel
12:30 p.m.
Keynote Panel
2:303 p.m.
Break
34:30 p.m.
Keynote Panel
89 a.m.
Light Continental
Breakfast with
Exhibitors
910 a.m.
Session I
New York
Ballroom East
(Third Floor)
Keynote Perspective
Panel Discussion
Gramercy
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
Riverside Ballroom
(Third Level)
Panel Discussion
Riverside Suite
(Third Floor)
Perspective
Murray Hill
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
Sutton Place
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
Liberty 4
(Third Floor)
Workshop
Liberty 5
(Third Floor)
Workshop
1010:30 a.m.
Break
continued
10:3011:30 a.m.
Session II
New York
Ballroom East
(Third Floor)
Keynote Perspective
Panel Discussion
Gramercy
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
Mergers & Acquisitions Market Update & the Role of Investment Bankers
Ryan Hartzell, Vice President, Consumer & Retail Investment Banking, KeyBanc Capital
Markets, Cleveland, Ohio
George Sent, Director, Mergers & Acquisitions, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Cleveland, Ohio
Riverside Ballroom
(Third Floor)
Panel Discussion
Riverside Suite
(Third Floor)
Workshop
Flatiron
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
Murray Hill
(Lower Level)
Workshop
Option Strategies
Mary Ryan, Manager, TD Ameritrade U, TD Ameritrade, Chicago, Illinois
Sutton Place
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
Union Square
(Lower Level)
Workshop
Protecting your Portfolio from Inflation: The Case for Real Assets
Dr. Keith Black, CFA, CAIA, Managing Director, Curriculum & Exams, CAIA Association,
Amherst, Massachusetts
Liberty 4
(Third Floor)
Workshop
Liberty 5
(Third Floor)
Workshop
continued
12 p.m.
Session III
New York
Ballroom East
(Third Floor)
Panel Discussion
Portfolio Management
Moderator:
Dr. Charles Appeadu, CFA, FRM, CAIA, Head, University Relations, CFA Institute,
Charlottesville, Virginia
Panelists:
Daniel Barile, CFA, CAIA, Director & Senior Investment Analyst, SkyBridge Capital,
New York, New York
Richard H. Konrad, CFA, CFP, MSF, Portfolio Manager, Value Architects Asset Management,
Hoboken, New Jersey
Bradford S. Stone, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Portfolio Manager,
Flaherty & Crumrine Inc., Summit, New Jersey
Featured Perspective
Gramercy
(Lower Level)
Featured Workshop
Technical Analysis
Ralph Acampora, CMT, Senior Managing Director, Altaira Ltd.
Riverside Ballroom
(Third Floor)
Panel Discussion
Riverside Suite
(Third Floor)
Workshop
Flatiron
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
Murray Hill
(Lower Level)
Workshop
Sutton Place
(Lower Level)
Workshop
Union Square
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
Academics & Advisers Share Their Thoughts on How Options Strategies Are Utilized by
Financial Advisors in Todays Markets
Moderator:
Eric Cott, Director, Options Industry Council, Chicago, Illinois
Panelists:
Seth Diamond, Vice President-Investments, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Glastonbury, Connecticut
Steven Gattuso, CFA, CFP, CMA, Senior Portfolio Manager, Courier Capital Corporation,
Buffalo, New York
Dr. Bruce B. Rader, CFA, Associate Professor of Finance, Temple University, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Liberty 4
(Third Floor)
Workshop
Liberty 5
(Third Floor)
Workshop
22:15 p.m.
Break
continued
2:153:15 p.m.
Session IV
New York
Ballroom East
(Third Floor)
Keynote Perspective
Gramercy
(Lower Level)
Workshop
Wealth Management
Grant Rickelman, Vice President, Northern Trust, New York, New York
Riverside Ballroom
(Third Floor)
Panel Discussion
Riverside Suite
(Third Floor)
Panel Discussion
Flatiron
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
Murray Hill
(Lower Level)
Workshop
Sutton Place
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
Union Square
(Lower Level)
Workshop
Liberty 4
(Third Floor)
Panel Discussion
Liberty 5
(Third Floor)
Workshop
3:153:30 p.m.
Break
continued
3:304:30 p.m.
Session V
Panel Discussion
Gramercy
(Lower Level)
Workshop
Wealth Management
Grant Rickelman, Vice President, Northern Trust, New York, New York
Riverside Ballroom
(Third Floor)
Panel Discussion
Riverside Suite
(Third Floor)
Panel Discussion
Flatiron
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
Technical Analysis
Moderator:
Bruce Kamich, CMT, Adjunct Professor of Finance, Baruch College, New York, New York
Panelists:
Rick Bensignor, Behavioral Market Strategist, Gerson Lehrman Group, New York, New York
Jonathan Krinsky, CMT, Executive Director & Chief Market Technician, MKM Partners,
Stamford, Connecticut
Stephen Suttmeier CFA, CMT, Chief Equity Technical Strategist, BofA Merrill Lynch Global
Research, New York, New York
Murray Hill
(Lower Level)
Workshop
Sutton Place
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
Union Square
(Lower Level)
Workshop
Liberty 4
(Third Floor)
Workshop
4:305:30 p.m.
89 a.m.
Light Continental
Breakfast
910 a.m.
Session VI
New York
Ballroom East
(Third Floor)
Presentation
Gramercy
(Lower Level)
Career Panel
Investment Banking
Samantha Batista, Senior Analyst, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, New York, New York
Michaele Evans, Associate, Primary Care Development Corporation, New York, New York
Salina Sabri, Associate, Structured Finance, Goldman Sachs, New York, New York
Riverside Ballroom
(Third Floor)
Career Panel
Asset Management
Ike Helene, Analyst, BlackRock, New York, New York
John Mantia, Analyst, Glenrock Asset Management, New York, New York
Paige Simmons, Analyst, BlackRock, New York, New York
Flatiron
(Lower Level)
Career Panel
Private Equity
Andrew Hodgkins, CFA, Private Equity Analyst, Brown Brothers Harriman, New York, New York
Phil Smith, Associate, Catalus Capital, New York, New York
Riverside Suite
(Third Floor)
Career Panel
continued
Murray Hill
(Lower Level)
Career Panel
Sutton Place
(Lower Level)
Career Panel
Union Square
(Lower Level)
Panel Discussion
1010:30 a.m.
Break
10:3011:30 a.m.
Session VII
New York
Ballroom East
(Third Floor)
Presentation
Gramercy
(Lower Level)
Career Panel
Investment Banking
Samantha Batista, Senior Analyst, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, New York, New York
Michaele Evans, Associate, Primary Care Development Corporation, New York, New York
Salina Sabri, Associate, Structured Finance, Goldman Sachs, New York, New York
continued
Riverside Ballroom
(Third Floor)
Career Panel
Asset Management
Ike Helene, Analyst, BlackRock, New York, New York
John Mantia, Analyst, Glenrock Asset Management, New York, New York
Paige Simmons, Analyst, BlackRock, New York, New York
Flatiron
(Lower Level)
Career Panel
Private Equity
Andrew Hodgkins, CFA, Private Equity Analyst, Brown Brothers Harriman, New York, New York
Phil Smith, Associate, Catalus Capital, New York, New York
Riverside Suite
(Third Floor)
Career Panel
Murray Hill
(Lower Level)
Career Panel
Sutton Place
(Lower Level)
Career Panel