Adding my alma mater UVa Investment Conference to the list. I’m going to try and go as they have a killer lineup on Nov 15-16 2012. Includes:
- Sheila Bair, Former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman
- Kyle Bass, Managing Partner of Hayman Capital Management, LP
- Kurt Billick, Chief Investment Officer at Bocage Capital LLC
- Porter Collins, Portfolio Manager and Analyst at Seawolf
- Richard Evans, Founder and General Manager of Sector & Sovereign Research
- Lawrence Goodman, President of Center for Financial Stability
- Jeremy Grantham, Co-founder and Chief Investment Strategist of Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo (GMO)
- Robert J. Hugin, Chairman of the board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Celgene Corporation
- Pierre F. Lapeyre, Jr., Co-founder and Senior Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings LLC
- Dennis Lockhart, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
- David M. Rubenstein, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
- John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at Stanford’s Hoover Institution
- Jay Venkatesan, Portfolio Manager at Ayer Capital
Some good resources below to expand your stock screening ideas and building out your investment idea farm. Any that I am missing?
Conferences
AFG Research (Summer)
Ira Sohn (Spring NYC, Summer SF)
Value Investing Congress (Spring Omaha/LA, Fall NYC)
Value Conferences (Online)
Drobny (Macro)
The Big Picture (Fall)
Boston Investment Conference (Fall)
UVa Investment Conference (Fall)
Grant’s (Fall, Spring)
Blogs and Newsletters:
ValueInvestor and SuperInvestor Insight
Books and Further Readings
- The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren E. Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham
- Fortune’s Formula by William Poundstone
- The Myth of the Rational Market – Justin Fox
- All About Hedge Funds by Robert Jaeger
- Absolute Returns by Alexander Ineichen
- Handbook of Alternative Investments by Mark Anson
- Hedge Hunters by Katherine Burton
- 20/20 Vision by Harry Liem
- The New Investment Superstars by Lois Peltz
- Market Wizards, The New Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
- Inside the House of Money by Stephen Drobny
- “Hedge Funds Levering Betas” – Bridgewater
- “Factor Modelling of Hedge Funds” – Partners Group
- Hedge Funds: Risk and Return – Malkiel and Saha
- “Alternative Routes to Hedge Fund Replication” – Harry Kat
- “The Hedge Fund Elite” – New Yorker
- “100 Hedge Funds to Watch” – Financial Times
- Alpha Hedge Fund Hall of Fame
- Alpha’s top 100 hedge funds.
- “Sharpe Ratios of Top Managers” – Ziemba
- “How Smart are the Smart Guys? A Unique View from Hedge Fund Stock Holdings” – John Griffin
Reading Lists
