Economics 489
Research
Seminar on Alternative Assets
Professor Edwin T. Burton
2nd Floor Boardroom
212 731-2340 (etb6d@virginia.edu)
Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 11-12 AM
This course may be entered only by directly
applying for entrance to Professor Burton. Please send an email with resume to
etb6d@virginia.edu to apply for admission. The course is open only to 4th
years, but it is open to all students in the University regardless of major or
School.
Class Meetings: (all class meetings are in the Boardroom of the Virginia National Bank Building)
August 27th: 6 PM until 8 PM (Prof Burton Lecture 1)
August 28th: 6 PM until 8 PM (Prof Burton Lecture 2)
Visiting Faculty:
Monday, September 15, 2008, Jay Brown, Tym Tombar, and Keith Linde, Scotia Waterous Energy Capital Fund (oil and gas private equity fund)
Thursday, September 18, 2008, John Alschuler, CEO of Hamilton, Rabinovitz, Alschuler (Real Estate Advisory)
Tuesday, September 30, Chris Brightman, CEO of UVIMCO (Univ of Virginia Investment Managment Company)
Friday, October 3rd, Timothy Barron, CEO of CRA Rogers Casey
Tuesday, October 14th, Churchill Franklin, CEO, Acadian Asset Management
Friday, October 31st, Jane Buchan, CEO of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO)
Tuesday, November 11th, Richard Chilton of Chilton Investment Company
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 2009.
Reading:
Hedge Fund Course, by Stuart A. McCrary, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2005
By October 1st, each group will prepare an
outline of their research plans including sources (maximum two page
outline). By December 2nd, each group will prepare a five page
summary of where their research is taking them and roughly what they plan to
present in March of 2009 and what remains to be done to get there. From time to
time (randomly), we will have invited dinner guests. Dinner consists of
pizza at the VNB boardroom. Normally, these dinners are at 6PM.
They last maximum 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.