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Tiburon is pleased to announce its upcoming Tiburon CEO Summit XII, which will be held April 18-19, 2007 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, CA. Tiburon's CEO Summits utilize a mix of presentations, panel discussions, and break-out sessions to provide executives from various sectors of the industry with a better understanding of customer needs and leading-edge products such as exchange traded funds and hedge funds, as well as markets such as online financial services and independent advisors. This upcoming CEO Summit will feature the popular Ask the Consumers and Ask the Advisors panels and presentations from industry leaders including John DesPrez (CEO, John Hancock Financial Services, Manulife Financial), Steve Lockshin (CEO, Lydian Wealth Management, Lydian Trust Company), Jim Riepe (Retired Vice Chairman & Senior Advisor, T. Rowe Price Group), Paul Schott Stevens (President, Investment Company Institute), and others to be announced soon
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Tiburon CEO Summit XII
Tiburon Strategic Advisors is pleased to announce its Tiburon CEO Summit XII which will be held April 18-19, 2007 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, CA. Tiburon's CEO Summits have become a leading-edge forum for industry CEOs and other senior executives to gather and debate the future of the brokerage, investments, advice, and wealth management industries. Tiburon's research serves as the foundation of the meetings and all participants share views openly.

Attendees at Tiburon's CEO Summit XI held October 18-19, 2006 in San Francisco, CA
Tiburon CEO Summits
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Tiburon Managing Principal Chip Roame kicks off the Tiburon CEO Summit XI with the keynote presentation
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Tiburon hosts semi-annual CEO Summits for its executive-level clients. Tiburon CEO Summits last two-to-three days and focus on in-depth discussions of Tiburon research and leading-edge business models through presentations, panel discussions, and break-out sessions. The meetings provide a relatively unique opportunity for a select cross-industry group of senior executives to discuss a broad swath of issues regarding the future of the brokerage, investments, advice, and wealth management businesses. Panel discussions often revolve around emerging new investment products, emerging new markets, emerging technologies, venture capital trends, and M&A trends. Break-out sessions address more tactical issues.
Tiburon executive-level clients are invited to participate along with select media representatives in a forum of open sharing and discussion of industry trends. The meetings have become a hot ticket for industry executives and media representatives. There is no cost to attend beyond one's travel expenses.
Four unique features distinguish Tiburon's CEO Summits from broader industry conferences:
- The senior level status of all attendees; Tiburon seeks to include only the leading strategy makers from each firm
- The cross-industry characteristics of the attendees; Tiburon seeks to bring clients from related markets together to discuss common issues
- The requirement of participation; all attendees are required to participate in presenting, serving as panelists, and/or offering opinions in break-out sessions, in an attempt to create open communications and wide-ranging debate
- The lack of commercialization; Tiburon CEO Summits allow for open discussion without the presence of industry vendors and sales pitches
Tim Armour (Managing Director, Morningstar) shares the facts with Tiburon CEO Summit X guest speaker Greg Johnson (CEO, Franklin Templeton Investments) and Tiburon CEO Summit XI guest speaker Ken Fisher (CEO, Fisher Investments) at Tiburon CEO Summit X
Tiburon CEO Summits have come to support two central themes:
- The primary focus on the importance of staying focused on consumer needs. Every Tiburon CEO Summit has included the popular Ask the Consumers and Ask the Advisors panel discussions to allow direct open dialog with real industry clients. This focus has also been reinforced by general session presenters such as Tiburon's own Chip Roame (a die hard consumer-oriented consultant), industry front-line innovators like David Carroll (President, Capital Management Group, Wachovia Corporation), Mark Casady (CEO, LPL Financial Services), Ken Fisher (CEO, Fisher Investments), Stan Kelly (President, Wealth Management, Wachovia Corporation), Don Phillips (Managing Director, Morningstar), and Dave Pottruck (Former CEO, The Charles Schwab Corporation), behavioral finance experts such as Hersh Shefrin (Professor, Santa Clara University), and individual advisor presentations (including recent ones by Bill Landman from CMS Companies and Steve Lockshin from Lydian Wealth Management, Lydian Trust Company)
- The related focus on innovative business models. Every Tiburon CEO Summit has included the Innovative Business Models panel plus individual innovative business model presentations. Recent presentations by Jessica Bibliowicz (CEO, National Financial Partners), Bill Hambrecht (CEO, WR Hambrecht & Company), Greg Johnson (CEO, Franklin Templeton Investments), Lee Kranefuss (CEO, Intermediary & Exchange Traded Funds Business, Barclays Global Investors, Barclays), Tim McCarthy (CEO, Nikko Asset Management, Nikko Cordial Corporation), Jeff Montgomery (CEO, NFP Securities, National Financial Partners), Norton Reamer (Former CEO, United Asset Management & CEO, Asset Management Finance), Andrew Rudd (CEO, Advisor Software; Chairman, Advisor Partners; and Founder & Former CEO, Barra), Michael Sapir (CEO, ProFund Advisors), & Myron Scholes (Professor, Stanford University; Author, Black-Scholes Model; & Winner, 1997 Nobel Prize for Economics) have supported this theme
Guest Presenters
In addition to Tiburon's Managing Principal Chip Roame, Tiburon's CEO Summit XII will include at least four guest speakers:
John DesPrez (CEO, John Hancock Financial Services, Manulife Financial)
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Guest Speaker John DesPrez (CEO, John Hancock Financial Services, Manulife Financial) will address the challenges of leading both product and distribution organizations
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John DesPrez is CEO of John Hancock Financial Services, the US division of Toronto-based Manulife Financial Corporation. He also is a member of Manulife’s Executive and Management Committees. Mr. DesPrez, based in Boston, directs all phases of John Hancock’s operations. The company’s core businesses include life insurance, variable & fixed annuities, long-term care insurance, retirement plan services (401K plans), guaranteed & structured financial products, mutual funds, and college savings plans. He also is responsible for the common investment platform that underlies many of these products. In addition, Mr. DesPrez oversees the multiple distribution channels, including non-proprietary broker/dealers, banks, and the John Hancock Financial Network (the career agency system), which distribute the company’s range of insurance & investment products.
Mr. DesPrez assumed responsibility for all of John Hancock operations in 2005. Previously, he led John Hancock’s US Wealth Management businesses, a role he took on in the previous year after the merger of Manulife and John Hancock. From 1998 to 2004, Mr. DesPrez served as Chairman of The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (USA) (Manulife USA), overseeing all of Manulife’s US operations. Before joining Manulife in 1991, Mr. DesPrez practiced law in private practice between 1988 and 1990. He was with the firm of Jones & Blouch Attorneys-at-Law between 1983 and 1988 where he was an associate and a partner. Jones & Blouch has long represented Manulife and its affiliated companies.
Mr. DesPrez will address the challenges of leading both product and distribution organizations. Manulife and John Hancock have both benefited from the purchase of multiple Tiburon research reports, and Mr. DesPrez will be introduced by Tiburon CEO Summit Planning Committee member Tif Joyce (President, Joyce Financial).
Steve Lockshin (CEO, Lydian Wealth Management, Lydian Trust Company)
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Guest Speaker Steve Lockshin (CEO, Lydian Wealth Management, Lydian Trust Company) will address leading a successful family office
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Steve Lockshin serves as CEO of Lydian Wealth Management, a unit of Lydian Trust Company. As the company's founder and visionary, Mr. Lockshin led the Lydian team in its early adoption of asset allocation strategies for the high net worth marketplace (early 1990s), its use of Monte Carlo simulation to better quantify the risks & reward parameters of alternative portfolios, and its entry into the equity risk management marketplace. These efforts allowed Lydian to become a market leader in objective consulting services for affluent families. Mr. Lockshin's focus remains on client service, with particular emphasis in trust & estate tax strategies, concentrated wealth strategies, and overall family wealth planning.
Prior to co-founding CMS (now Lydian Wealth Management) in 1994, Mr. Lockshin served as a partner at Meltzer & Associates, a nationally recognized provider of insurance, estate planning, & executive compensation services. From 1985 to 1988, Steve worked in various business units, including an extended period in the municipal bond department, at Legg Mason Wood Walker (now part of Smith Barney).
Mr. Lockshin will address leading a successful family office, and he be introduced by Chip Roame (Managing Principal, Tiburon Strategic Advisors), who himself recently spoke at a Lydian conference.
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Guest Speaker Jim Riepe (Retired Vice Chairman & Senior Advisor, T. Rowe Price Group) will address the rapidly evolving investment management business
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Jim Riepe (Retired Vice Chairman & Senior Advisor, T. Rowe Price Group)
Jim Riepe was the vice chairman of T. Rowe Price Group from 1997 until his retirement in 2005. Mr. Riepe also served as a director of the T. Rowe Price Group and as chairman & director of the T. Rowe Price Funds until 2006. Mr. Riepe held various positions during his tenure at T. Rowe Price Group, which began in 1982, including serving as chairman of all of the T. Rowe Price funds on which he served as a director or trustee. Prior thereto, Mr. Riepe was an executive vice president of The Vanguard Group.
Mr. Riepe also serves as a director of The Nasdaq Stock Market and is a trustee of the James & Gail Riepe Charitable Foundation, the T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving, and the Gilman School. He is the chairman of the University of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees, and serves on the board of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Mr. Riepe will address the rapidly evolving investment management business. T. Rowe Price has benefited from the purchase of multiple Tiburon research reports, and Mr. Riepe will be introduced by Tiburon CEO Summit Planning Committee member John Cammack (Head Third-Party Distribution, T. Rowe Price Group).
Paul Schott Stevens (CEO, Investment Company Institute)
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Guest Speaker Paul Schott Stevens (CEO, Investment Company Institute) will address the rapidly evolving investment management business
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Paul Schott Stevens has served as CEO of the Investment Company Institute since 2004. He also is a director of ICI Mutual Insurance Company.
From 1993 to 1997, he was ICI's general counsel. Prior to the ICI, Mr. Stevens' career included various roles in private law practice, as corporate counsel, and in government service. From 1999 to 2004, he was a leader of the financial services practice of Dechert LLP, an international law firm. He was general counsel for mutual funds & international enterprise at The Charles Schwab Corporation in San Francisco, CA from 1997-1999 (where he overlapped briefly with Tiburon Managing Principal Chip Roame). Earlier in his career, he was a partner and associate of Dickstein, Shapiro, & Morin in Washington, DC. Between 1985 and 1989, Mr. Stevens served as special assistant for national security affairs to President Reagan, as executive secretary & legal advisor of the National Security Council, and in other senior positions at the White House & the Pentagon.
Mr. Stevens will address the rapidly evolving investment management business. The Investment Company Institute has benefited from the purchase of multiple Tiburon research reports, and Mr. Stevens will be introduced by Tiburon CEO Summit Planning Committee member Dennis Clark (CEO, Advisor Partners).
More Information
Click the links below for more information on Tiburon's Semi-Annual CEO Summits:
- About Tiburon CEO Summits
- About Upcoming Tiburon CEO Summit XII
- Tentative Invitee List Tiburon CEO Summit XII
- Tentative Meeting Agenda for Tiburon CEO Summit XII
- About Prior Tiburon CEO Summits
2007-2009 Tiburon CEO Summits
Tiburon will continue to hold semi-annual CEO Summits in the fall of 2007 and in 2008-2009. Dates are October 10-11, 2007, April 9-10, 2008, October 15-16, 2008, April 8-9, 2009, and October 7-8, 2009.
Fall 2007 speakers will include Stephanie DiMarco (CEO, Advent Software), Mike Fraizer (CEO, Genworth Financial), George Gatch (CEO, JP Morgan Funds Management, JP Morgan Chase), and others to be announced soon. Spring 2008 speakers will include John Hailer (CEO, IXIS Asset Management Advisors, Groupe Caisse D'Epargne) and others to be announced soon.
Starting in 2008, Tiburon will be holding its Spring CEO Summits at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New York, NY in an effort to help the firm's predominately east coast & European clientele attend more easily.
Tiburon CEO Summit Planning Committee
Tiburon's CEO Summits could not be planned without a lot of help from many others. The Tiburon CEO Summit Planning Committee members invest dozens of hours into securing guest speakers, nominating & confirming attendees, and facilitating & writing-up sessions. Tiburon is grateful for their help.
To hear more about their experiences at prior Tiburon CEO Summits or to get answers to questions on how to earn invitations for the executives of your firm, please contact any of the Tiburon CEO Summit Planning Committee members:
Tiburon CEO Summit Sponsors
Due to incredible demand from a large number of its executive-level clients to attend its CEO Summits, Tiburon is relocating its Spring 2007 Summit (and future CEO Summits) to the Ritz Carlton Hotel at 600 Stockton in San Francisco. Three long-time Tiburon clients, Fiserv, Genworth, and Morningstar, are offering financial support in this move. Tiburon is grateful for this assistance.
Fiserv

Fiserv is a $4 billion revenue Fortune 500 company based in Brookfield, WI. The firm provides information management systems & services to the financial & health benefits industries. Leading services include transaction processing, business process outsourcing, software, & systems solutions. The company serves more than 17,000 clients worldwide and is the leading provider of core processing solutions for US banks, credit unions, & savings & loans. Fiserv was ranked as the largest provider of information technology services to the financial services industry worldwide in both 2005 and 2004.
Fiserv's subsidiary Fiserv Investment Support Services is one of the nation's largest independent trust companies, providing services including asset custody, trust, & back office support, to a wide variety of investment professionals and investors. The firm, based in Denver, CO, has been in business since 1957 and now custodies over $44 billion in client assets. Fiserv ISS is distinct from most financial services companies in that it exists solely to serve the needs of financial intermediaries. It offers a broad range of investment options, account types, and service menus.
Fiserv and Fiserv ISS are represented at the Tiburon CEO Summits by Executive Vice President Skip Schweiss. Mr. Schweiss leads the client relations & business development efforts for Fiserv ISS. Before assuming his current duties in 2003, Skip served as vice president of Fiserv ISS' Advisor Services business, which specifically provides back-office & custodial services for individual & institutional financial advisory firms. He originally joined the company in 1988 and previously worked in both retail and life insurance sales. Skip can be reached at Skip.Schweiss@FiservISS.Com or 303-294-5853 or via Fiserv's web site at www.FiservISS.Com.
Genworth Financial

Genworth Financial is a leading US insurance & financial services company, based in Richmond, VA. It provides lifestyle protection, retirement income, investment, & mortgage insurance for more than 15 million customers, with growing international operations in 24 countries. The firm's roots go back more than a century, and in 2004, it became a publicly traded company, a member of the Fortune 500, and a component of the S&P 500 index. It was formerly a subsidiary of General Electric.
Genworth subsidiary Asset Mark Investment Services provides turnkey asset management program (fee-based managed account) services to over 4,000 financial advisors throughout the United States, with 40,000 accounts and $14 billion in assets. The firm is based in Pleasant Hill, CA, was founded in 1986, and has been a leader in helping financial advisors grow and improve the profitability of their businesses.
Genworth Financial and Asset Mark Investment Services are represented at the Tiburon CEO Summits by Asset Mark Chairman Ron Cordes. Mr. Cordes was one of the founders of Asset Mark in 1988 and of its predecessor company Advisor Consulting Group in 1982. Ron can be reached at RCordes@AssetMark.Com or 925-521-2282 or via AssetMark's web site at www.AssetMark.Com.
Morningstar

Morningstar is a leading provider of independent investment research in the US and in major international markets. The firm, based in Chicago, IL, offers an extensive line of internet, software, and print-based products and services for individuals, financial advisors, and institutional clients. Morningstar provides data on approximately 145,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles. The company has operations in 14 countries and minority ownership interests in companies in three other countries.
Morningstar's Advisor business unit serves financial advisors, directly or through institutions such as broker/dealers and asset managers, by providing tools and services that support their investment planning, asset allocation, security research, and portfolio construction & monitoring activities across multiple investment types. Advisor business lines include technology tools such as Morningstar Advisor Workstation and Morningstar Principia, investment management services through Morningstar Managed Portfolios, and education materials & marketing opportunities to advisors through print, online, and event-based media channels.
Morningstar and Morningstar's Advisor business are represented at the Tiburon CEO Summits by Morningstar Advisor President Chris Boruff. Chris oversees strategy, development, and marketing associated with Morningstar products for financial advisors, including Morningstar Advisor Workstation and Principia. Chris joined Morningstar in 1996 as the project manager for Principia. Chris can be reached at Chris.Boruff@Morningstar.Com or 312-696-6515 or via Morningstar's web site at www.Morningstar.Com.
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Tiburon Strategic Advisors
Tiburon Strategic Advisors, based in Tiburon, CA, was formed in 1998 to offer market research & strategy consulting services to all types of financial institutions and investment managers:
- The firm has served almost 300 corporate clients and completed over 900 projects since its founding, and today, its knowledge base includes mutual fund distribution, separately managed account programs, alternative investments, wealth management, insurance products, banking services, the fee-only financial advisor market, the CPA firm market, the family office market, and various international markets.
- Tiburon holds a series of CEO Summits semi-annually for its executive-level clients. The next CEO Summit is scheduled for April 18-19, 2007 at the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, CA. Future CEO Summits are scheduled for October 10-11, 2007 (San Francisco, CA), April 9-10, 2008 (New York City, NY), October 15-16, 2008 (San Francisco, CA), April 8-9, 2009 (New York City, NY), and October 7-8, 2009 (San Francisco, CA). Attendance is by invitation only and attendance at each Summit is limited to 100 senior industry executives. Visit the CEO Summits section of Tiburon's web site for details on current and past CEO Summits, including attendee lists, meeting agendas, and highlights. Please contact Tiburon’s Managing Principal Chip Roame at CRoame@TiburonAdvisors.Com or (415) 789-2541 if you are a Tiburon client and have an interest in attending a future Tiburon CEO Summit.
- Tiburon offers thirteen online business benchmarking tools that are available to all types of financial advisors in an effort to help them benchmark their business practices and build more successful businesses. The sites include www.BrokerBestPractice.Com for wirehouse & regional brokers, www.FABestPractices.Com for fee-only financial advisors, www.IndependentRepBestPractices.Com for independent reps, and www.PrivateBankerBestPractices.Com for private bankers. Almost 5,000 advisors have used these tools. By completing one of the online surveys, financial advisors can access a FREE copy of the relevant comprehensive Tiburon research report, which summarizes and analyzes the collective results.
- Tiburon has published twenty-six ~300-400+ page research reports, which offer detailed analyses of growing business segments; each is available for $5,000; these reports can be ordered by contacting Brian Cotter at BCotter@TiburonAdvisors.Com or (415) 789-2546.
- Tiburon’s weekly research releases, like this one, are emailed for free to interested industry executives, media representatives, conference planners, and individual financial advisors. Over 40,000 industry executives now receive these releases. Feel free to sign up to receive future research releases at Tiburon’s web site (www.TiburonAdvisors.Com) if this release was passed to you by a colleague and you would like to receive them directly in the future.
- Tiburon expanded its workforce in 2005-2006. New research managers will develop proprietary research content for Tiburon research reports and client projects and new marketing managers will enhance the firm's web site, weekly research releases program, and the firm's relationships with media representatives, conference planners, and its clients & executive program members. The firm is seeking to add principals and possibly a chief consulting officer in 2007.
- Tiburon has built three executive programs (CEOs-in-Residence, Financial Advisor Roundtable, and Consulting Fellows) in an effort to bring the experiences of additional senior level industry executives to Tiburon clients. Feel free to contact any of the members of Tiburon’s executive programs directly or ask that they be included in any ongoing Tiburon project.
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