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Tiburon is pleased to announce that Paul Stevens (President & CEO, Investment Company Institute) will be one of five guest speakers at its upcoming CEO Summit XII being held April 18-19, 2007 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, CA. Mr. Stevens will address mutual funds' role in today's financial markets, regulatory and legislative challenges for the industry, and the emergence of new products such as ETFs and hedge funds. Tiburon CEO Summit XII will also include an Ask the Distributors general session panel facilitated by Kevin Malone (President, Greenrock Research) allowing the views of investment management firms to be tested with some of their largest distribution clients, featuring four Tiburon clients
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Tiburon Strategic Advisors, a market research & strategy consulting firm serving a wide variety of financial institutions and investment managers, hosts a series of client-only CEO conferences called the Tiburon CEO Summits. The next CEO Summit will be April 18-19, 2007 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, CA. Paul Stevens (President & CEO, Investment Company Institute) will join John DesPrez (CEO, John Hancock Financial Services, Manulife Financial), Ed Haldeman (CEO, Putnam Investments, Marsh & McLennan), Steve Lockshin (CEO, Lydian Wealth Management, Lydian Trust Company), and Jim Riepe (Retired Vice Chairman & Senior Advisor, T. Rowe Price Group) as the five guest speakers along with Tiburon Managing Principal Chip Roame, who will be speaking at ICI's annual conference this May.
Tiburon CEO Summit Guest Speaker: Paul Stevens (President & CEO, Investment Company Institute)
Tiburon CEO Summit Guest Speaker Paul Stevens (President & CEO, Investment Company Institute) will address the rapidly evolving investment management business |
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Paul Stevens has served as President & CEO of the Investment Company Institute since 2004. He also is a director of ICI Mutual Insurance Company.
Mr. Stevens' career has encompassed a number of roles in government service and the private sector. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Stevens was general counsel of ICI. He then served as general counsel for mutual funds and international enterprise at The Charles Schwab Corporation in San Francisco, CA from 1997 to 1999 (where he overlapped briefly with Tiburon Managing Principal Chip Roame). From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Stevens was a leader of the financial services practice of Dechert an international law firm. Between 1985 and 1989, Mr. Stevens served as special assistant for national security affairs to President Reagan, as executive secretary and 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, mutual funds’ role in retirement policy, other regulatory and legislative challenges the industry faces in Washington, DC, and the emergence of new products such as ETFs and hedge funds. 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).
Tiburon CEO Summit General Session Panel: Ask the Distributors
Tiburon Fellow Kevin Malone (President of Greenrock Research) facilitates the Ask the Distributors general session panel discussion while Jeffrey Dunham (CEO, Dunham & Associates Investment Counsel) looks on at the Tiburon CEO Summit X |
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Tiburon's CEO Summits include three general session panels: Ask the Consumers, Ask the Advisors, and Ask the Distributors. Each panel presents ideas from four panelist allowing for question & answers from the attendees. These panels further the CEO Summits focus on "clients" at all levels.
Additional Tiburon CEO Summit XII Guest Speakers
In addition to Paul Stevens, other general session speakers at CEO Summit XII will include John DesPrez (CEO, John Hancock Financial Services, Manulife Financial), Ed Haldeman (CEO, Putnam Investments, Marsh & McLennan), Steve Lockshin (CEO, Lydian Wealth Management, Lydian Trust Company), and Jim Riepe (Retired Vice Chairman & Senior Advisor, T. Rowe Price Group).
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 Walt Bettinger (President, The Charles Schwab Corporation), 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 hold 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.
Related Tiburon Research Reports
Tiburon Strategic Advisors has created a series of twenty-six research report to help educate its clients in a low-cost way on a wide variety of topics in the brokerage, investments, private banking, and wealth management markets.
Tiburon Research Report Series
The majority of Tiburon's research reports are written for executives at financial institutions; a few reports are written specifically for financial advisors. Reports in the financial advisors series are more tactical, including topics such as product usage, business models, & best practices of fee-only financial advisors, and trends in succession planning, firm valuations, & the acquisition market for financial advisors. The financial institutions series contains macro-industry reports that cover topics such as the mutual funds industry, the hedge funds industry, the full-service brokerage industry, and the fee-only financial advisor industry.
Mutual Funds
Tiburon's mutual fund report addresses several of the topics that will be discussed in both Paul Stevens guest speaker presentation and the Ask the Distributors general session panel. The $10.4 trillion mutual funds industry deserves an encyclopedic review and this is it. This report addresses data flows, trends in product development (e.g., balanced funds, lifestyle funds, socially conscious funds, mutual funds with hedge fund strategies), pricing parameters (e.g., share classes, mutual fund wrap programs), and distribution channels (e.g., wirehouses, mutual fund supermarkets, fee-only financial advisors, independent reps). The report includes profiles of all 350 US mutual fund companies.
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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 Hotel in San Francisco, CA. Fall 2007 and 2008-2009 dates are October 9-10, 2007 (San Francisco, CA), April 10-11, 2008 (New York, NY), October 14-15, 2008 (San Francisco, CA), April 9-10, 2009 (New York, NY), and October 7-8, 2009 (San Francisco, CA). Attendance is by invitation only and attendance at the 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 plans to expand its workforce in 2007. 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 also seeking to add principal candidates 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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