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UCLA Anderson Forecast
The UCLA Anderson Forecast with The Finance Faculty and
Friends of Finance of The Anderson School at UCLA present the quarterly

 Financial Earthquake and Aftershocks: Corporate Governance and Portfolio Management

Korn Convocation Hall
The Anderson School at UCLA
March 12, 2003
 
 
 
10:30am - 11:00am
 Registration
 
11:00am - 11:10am
 Opening Remarks
 
11:10am - 12:30pm
 The Economic Outlook for the Nation, California and Los Angeles
Forecast: Double Dip, Sluggish Growth or Back to Normal?
 
  • Is there a locomotive to pull the economy?
  • Is war with Iraq a minus or a plus?
  • How hard will State budget cuts hit California and Los Angeles?
  • Federal tax cuts: medicine for the wrong disease?
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  Panelists:
  Edward Leamer, Director, UCLA Anderson Forecast
  Tom Lieser, Senior Economist, UCLA Anderson Forecast
 
 Christopher Thornberg, Senior Economist, UCLA Anderson Forecast
 
12:30pm - 1:30pm
 Luncheon Keynote Address
"What Should Directors Be Doing: A Finance Perspective"
  Keynote Speaker:
  Brad Cornell, Professor of Financial Economics, The Anderson School at UCLA
 
1:30pm - 2:45pm
 Corporate Governance: How did CFO get to be a dirty word?
 
  • CEO compensation: Is that porridge too hot, too cold or just right?
  • Ownership and control: can shareholders govern?
  • Why boards are no longer bored.
  • Governance reforms: real or palliatives? How does the rest of the world do it?

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  Moderator:
  Richard Roll, Professor of Finance, The Anderson School at UCLA
 
  Panelists:
  Florencio Lopez -de-Silanes, Professor of Finance and Economics, Director, International Institute for Corporate Governance, Yale School of Management
  R. Gregory Morgan, Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
  Mark Latham, Corporate Governance Consultant, Founder, The Corporate Monitoring Project
 
2:45pm - 4:00pm
 Portfolio Management: Investing in your mattress for the
long run?
 
  • Real Estate: A bubble bursting, or more appreciation ahead?
  • Stocks: Will there be appreciation this year, finally?
  • Bonds: "Fixed" income or high risk?
  • Money market: Is 1% the best you can do?
  Moderator:
  Antonio Bernardo, Professor of Finance, The Anderson School at UCLA
 
  Panelists:
  Ken Kroner, Managing Director, Head of Asset Allocation Research, Barclays Global Investors
  William H. Williams, President, CEO, STW Fixed Income Management
  Michael McMenomy, Senior Managing Director - Institutional Properties, CB Richard Ellis
 
4:00pm Adjourn
 
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