Index Forum & Networking Reception
Date: May 23
Location: Sofitel Hotel at 45 West 44th Street in New York
The FISD Index Forum precedes the North America Financial Information Summit (NAFIS) hosted by Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data on Tuesday, May 24. Click here for the program and admission to that program.
SCHEDULE
4:00PM - 4:30PM Registration and Networking
4:30PM - 6:00PM Program
Panel Discussion: Alternative Weighting
This session examines index structures with a review of traditional market cap weighting and alternative weightings as well. Panel participants will review the history of alternative weightings and outline a number of different types of alternative weightings.
Moderator:
Steven Bloom, USMA West Point, Professor
Participants:
Harry Tutwiler, NASDAQ OMX,Vice President
James Norman, QS Investors, LLC, President
Julian Koski, Transparent Value, LLC, Managing Director & Co-CEO
Briefing: A View from the Index Creator Perspective -
Nick Merritt, Program Director FISD
Nick provides a briefing on some of the issues and challenges facing creators of indicies in today's market data environment.
Member Update: Tokyo Stock Exchange - Goki Sakaguchi,
Representative and Deputy General Manager
An update on the global activity of TSE as well as a tutorial on TSE and Topix indexes vis a vis Nikkei Indexes. Goki will also provide details on the TSE's new high-speed index dissemination service.
Presentation: IPOX Schuster LLC - Dr. Josef Schuster, CEO
Insight on the IPOX Global Indexes (touted as a "pure proxy for economic growth and innovation") and the strategies involved with these compilations.
6:00PM - 7:30PM Networking Reception
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