Economics 4590
Research
Seminar on Alternative Assets
Professor Edwin T. Burton
434 924-4054 (etb6d@virginia.edu)
Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 11-12 AM
Class Meetings: (all class meetings are either in Monroe 120 or in the Virginia National Bank boardroom (Next door to Taco Bell) from 6 PM until 7:30 PM).
Lecture on Sunday, September 18, 2011
Scott Lebovitz Seminar, Thursday, October 13, 2011
Visiting Faculty:
Scott Lebovitz, MD, Goldman Sachs, October 13 at 6 PM in VNB Boardroom
Larry Siegel, Director of Research, CFA Institute at 6 PM Nov 15th in VNB Boardroom
Frank Edmonds, partner, King Street Capital at 6 PM March 21st in Monroe 120
Churchill Franklin, CEO of Acadian Asset Managment Company at 6 PM March 22nd in Monroe 120
Jane Buchan, CEO of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO) at 6 PM March 27th in Monroe 120
Ron Schmitz, CIO of Virginia Retirement System (VRS) at 6 PM April 4th in Monroe 120
Also Rod Smyth of Riverfront Investments (joining the Ron Schmitz presentation on the 4th of April)
Richard Chilton, CEO of Chilton Management Company at 6 PM April 12th in Monroe 120
Robert Greene, Partner, Syncom Venture Partners at 6 PM April 19th in Monroe 120
Dates to be determined:
Dan Gropper, Partner, Aurelius Capital Management
Frank Loverro, Partner, Kelso
Peter Kiernan, Kiernan Ventures
Tim Barron, CEO of Rogers Casey
Rebecca Hogan, MD, Morgan Stanley
Melissa Hayes, EVP, Bank of America
Huntley Garriott, MD, Goldman Sachs
William Williams, Partner, Sullivan Cromwell
Peter Brooks, Partner, Cornerstone Partners
This course is a two semester sequence.
This class divides itself into groups of three to five
students. Each group selects a topic and will do research on that topic
during the course of the year.
Each group will make a formal one-hour presentation of their research
results in March of 2012.
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summary of where their research is taking them and roughly what they plan to
present in March of 2012 and what remains to be done to get there. From time to
time (randomly), we will have invited dinner guests. They last a maximum of one and one-half hour. After dinner, students
especially interested in the visitor can adjourn to Arch's (or similar) and
chat with visitor. There are no set times for these dinners. The
dinners are dutch-treat. In fact, we look
for volunteers to pick up the pizza and soda for each meeting and volunteers to
brief the rest of the class on the background and history of the visitor and
their business prior to the visitor's appearance.