Date/Time: January 13, 2010 (2–3 p.m.
EST)
Presenter: Jim Harvey, CIMA, CPWA
Educational
Track: Practice Management / Sponsored
Education
CFP Board CE Credit: 0.0
Career Level: II, III
FPA Competencies: Critical Thinking
CFP Board Topic List: NA
Tuition: $15 FPA members, $25 nonmembers
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Please Note: Registration for this event will end 15 minutes prior to the start. Entering the session late may cause problems with earning your CE credit. Seating is limited, so please register early.
Type of Event
Streaming: Audio and visual presentation through your computer.
About the Program
This session is the final part in a three-part series on advanced investment management principles and techniques-powered by IMCA. The academic and practitioner faculty presenting these sessions come from IMCA's CIMA® certification program, the only credential designed specifically for financial professionals who want to attain a level of competency as an advanced investment consultant. Visit CIMAconsultant.org for more information.
Before the credit crisis, the common wisdom of many advisors and the financial media was that passive investing was the only sensible way to manage money. Attendees will learn how to analyze investment consultants search and select active managers and funds and what important role they play in a well-diversified and designed portfolio
Learn About
- Basic search methodology
- Detailed analytical approaches to evaluating managers statistically including style analysis, performance against the market, performance against the peer universe, downside performance metrics, timing analysis, etc
- Discussion of active vs. passive management
- Ways to incorporate a high beta manager to offset their risk
- Core/satellite considerations
Who Should Attend
This session will benefit:
- Any adviser who recommends active institutional managers or mutual funds
- Advisers who want to improve the quality of their due diligence processes when trying to find the best managers and funds
- Advisers who want to learn how to combine managers with different philosophies and strategic approaches for a better overall portfolio design
Our Speaker
Jim Harvey has been a portfolio manager and an investment management consultant for since 1983. Beginning his career in Anchorage, Alaska with Shearon American Express, he relocated to Seattle in 1985 and started Opus 111 Group, L.L.C. in July of 1999.
Harvey has three professional designations or certifications from the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA): the CIMA (Certified Investment Management Analyst), the CPWA (Certified Private Wealth Advisor) and a Foundations and Endowment Managemen certificate. He has served on IMCA's Practice Management Committee, the CIMA Practice Analysis Task Force and currently serves on IMCA's Professional Review Board.
He has been a practitioner faculty on Manager Search and Selection and Investment Policy Statement design for the CIMA program at The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the Haas School at the University of California at Berkeley. He has also lectured at Stanford University on the subject of Manager Search and Selection and Asset Allocation. In addition, Harvey has lectured at IMCA Conferences in the United States and Canada. He has written articles for On Wall Street Magazine, Registered Representative Magazine, Pacific Fishing Magazine, the Anchorage Daily News and the Alaska Business Journal.
In January of 2006 and 2007, Harvey was selected as a Five-Star: Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Manager and published in the April edition of Seattle Magazine, a distinction reserved for only 7% of all eligible investment professionals. He is an active community volunteer in Seattle and Alaska having served on the board of the Alliance for Education, the Prince William Sound Science Center and the University of Washington Tyee Sports Council. He graduated in 1978 from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and did graduate work at the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources.
