7:45am – 8:30am

Breakfast and Registration

8:30am – 8:35am

Argyle Executive Forum Opening Remarks

8:35am – 8:45am

Capital IQ Opening Remarks

D. Randall Winn
Executive Managing Director
Capital IQ

8:45am – 9:00am

"Gauging Audience Sentiment: An Interactive Q&A on Market Trends"

Gioel Molinari
Managing Director
Capital IQ

9:05 – 9:35am

Executive Roundtable

“The Business of Investment Management”

Conversation led by:
Lauren Young
Personal Finance Editor
BusinessWeek

Speakers:
Philip Duff
CEO and General Partner
Duff Capital Advisors

Larry Smith
Founder and Chief Investment Officer
Third Wave Global Investors

9:40am – 10:10am

“Followed Fast and Followed Faster"

Aaron Brown
Chief Risk Officer
AQR Capital Management

10:10am – 10:40am

Coffee Break

10:40am – 11:25am

Panel Discussion

"Leadership Speaks"

Conversation led by:
Gioel Molinari
Managing Director
Capital IQ

Panelists:
David Barse
President and Chief Executive Officer
Third Avenue Management

Mark Carhart
Former Managing Director & Co-Head of Quantitative Strategies
Investment Management Division at Goldman Sachs Group

Jaeson Dubrovay
Senior Strategist – Hedge Funds
NEPC

Michael Hennessy
Managing Director
Morgan Creek Capital Management

11:30am – 12:15pm

Panel Discussion

"The State of the Art: New Signals for Quantitative Strategies"

Conversation led by:
Carson Boneck, CFA
Managing Director
Capital IQ

Panelists:
William A. Dunn, Ph.D.
Founder & Chairman
Dunn Capital Management, Inc.

David Leinweber, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Center for Innovative Financial Technology
University of California, Berkeley

Matthew Rothman
Managing Director, Head of Quantitative Equity Strategies
Barclays Capital

*This session is off the record

12:15pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 2:05pm

Andrew Damm
Managing Director
BlackRock Investment Management

*This session is off the record

2:10pm – 2:45pm

Max Darnell
Chief Investment Officer
First Quadrant

Interviewed by:
Gioel Molinari
Managing Director
Capital IQ

2:45pm – 3:15pm

Coffee Break

3:15pm – 4:15pm

Panel Discussion

"Perspectives on Risk"

Conversation led by:
Gioel Molinari
Managing Director
Capital IQ

Panelists:
Timothy Garry
Chief Risk Officer
Passport Capital

Steven P. Greiner, Ph.D.
Senior Quantitative Strategist, Structured Equity
Allegiant Asset Mgmt Group

David Martin
Senior Vice President & Chief Risk Officer
AllianceBernstein L.P.

Michael Mata
Head of Fixed Income Quantitative Research
ING Investment Management

Dr. Bernd Scherer
Visiting Professor
Birkbeck College

*This session is off the record

4:20pm – 4:50pm

"Back to the Future"

Peter Thiel
President and Chairman of Investment Committee
Clarium Capital Management

4:55pm – 5:25pm

Roy Niederhoffer
Founder and President
R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, Inc.

*This session is off the record

5:25pm – 5:30pm

Closing Remarks

5:30pm – 6:30pm

Cocktail Reception