Investment Roundtable with Jeffrey Applegate, Chief Investment Officer, Citi Global Wealth Management and Richard Bernstein, Chief Investment Strategist and head of Merrill Lynch’s Investment Strategy Group

Dr. Alden Cass, President, Competitive Streak Consulting

Robert C. Doll, Vice Chairman, Global Chief Investment Officer – Equity, BlackRock

21st Century Strategies for Building Distribution & Increasing Operating Effectiveness
MMI Members can obtain their own copy of the recap by completing the request form at http://www.winningclients.com/mmi2009.php
Kip Gregory, Principal, The Gregory Group

On the first day of the convention, attendees will hear information about key trends in the Managed Solutions Advisory Channel, followed by a keynote delivered by two of the industries most influential executives; Robert C. Doll, Blackrock Vice Chairman and Global Chief Investment Officer Equity, and Dr. Robert D. Hormats, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International. Their keynote addresses, which will focus on today’s challenging market, promise to be insightful. Dr. Richard Marston, James Guy Professor of Finance, at the Wharton School of Business, will deliver his view of the “The Crisis – Lessons for Money Management” in a general session before afternoon breakout sessions on risk and retirement, rebuilding Wall Street, and efficiencies and innovation.

On the evening of March 26, 2009, MMI will host a fundraiser to benefit the Gateway to Leadership program. Gateway to Leadership is a partnership between MMI and the NAACP that focuses on the financial services industry, providing internships and career opportunities for students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. This year, MMI will hold a leadership recognition dinner to identify firms in the Managed Solutions industry who have demonstrated growth and innovation. All proceeds from this fundraising dinner will benefit MMI’s workplace diversity program, Gateway to Leadership, a 501(c)(3) charity. The dinner is open to all attendees.

Friday’s agenda opens with “Advisor Distribution Models and the New Reality: Implications for Wirehouse, RIA and Independent Markets”, and is followed by an “Economic Outlook: 2009 and Beyond,” “21st Century Strategies for Building Distribution & Increasing Operating Effectiveness,” and a special address from William Hambrecht, Founder, Chairman & CEO, WR Hambrecht & Co.

“Our industry is experiencing extraordinary economic pressures from clients, the markets, distributors and within own organizations,” said Brian Jacobs, Chief Distribution Officer, Baron Capital Group and Chairman of the Board of Governors, MMI, This year’s conference agenda, more than any other time in the MMI’s history, has been specifically devised from top to bottom to help all our member firms not only navigate the economy, but also to grow.

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HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS – CALL 866-563-9792
MMI has reserved rooms at Loews Philadelphia Hotel at the group rate of $199/single and $214/double. Individual reservations must be made directly with the hotel by calling 866-563-9792 (reference the MMI conference to receive the group rate). The MMI group rate is available until February 27, after that date the hotel will accept reservations at the group rate on a space availability basis. Check-in time is 3:00 pm and check-out is 12Noon.

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MMI 2007 Annual Convention Presentations

Wednesday, May 2

1:00 PM – Welcoming Remarks & Meeting Overview
Kevin Hunt, Chairman of the Board of Governors, The Money Management Institute

1:15 PM – What Advisors Really Want – and What You Can Do About It
Bob Cunha & Joe Babiec, Principals, Market Metrics, Inc.

3:45 PM – Outsourcing: Learning from Recent Implementations
Moderator: Dan Seivert, Managing Partner, Echelon Partners

4:45 PM – Model Driven Business – How Does it Impact the Way we do Business?
Moderator: Jean Sullivan, Managing Principal, Dover Financial

4:45 PM – Managed Account Solutions: Best in Class Websites & Rise of the Infobrand
Michael Ma, CEO, kasina

Thursday, May 3

9:30 AM – Retirement Income Solutions: What’s on the Horizon?
Mark Brookman, Director, Products & Services, Smith Barney

2006 SMA Industry & Convention Update

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Wednesday, March 15

1:00 PM Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mark Pennington, Chairman of the Board of Governors, The Money Management Institute

1:30 PM Industry Update: Manager & Sponsor Perspective
Neil Bathon, President, Financial Research Corporation
Jean Sullivan, Principal, Dover Financial Research

2:30 PM Generational Demographic Trends: How Should Wealth Managers/Advisors React
Marilyn Moates Kennedy, Managing Partner, Career Strategies

3:45 PM Breakout Sessions

How to Negotiate the New SMA Guidance Statement Maze
John Forst, Deputy General Counsel, Lord Abbett & Co., Chair, MMI CFA Institute Liaison Committee
Michael Caccese, Partner, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP

Driving Assets in the Bank Channel – Developing Sales Programs That Work
Warren Posner, Senior Vice President, Head of Product Development, Commerce Capital Markets

Sponsor & Manager Agreements – What you Need to Know
George Magera, Partner, Reed Smith

Thursday, March 16

9:30 AM Managed Investment Solutions: The Next Wave of Growth
Lee Chertavian, Chairman & CEO, Placemark Investments, Inc.
Len Reinhart, President, Lockwood, A Service of Pershing
John K. Hillman, President & CEO Philadelphia Financial Group
Rick Spillane, President, Strategic Advisers, Fidelity Investments

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