TCFA 12th annual conference on Institutional Asset Management was successfully held on MIT campus during the weekend of 10/7-10/8 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We had over 40 distinguished speakers from around the world, including Dr. Lawrence Summers, Dr. Roger Ibbotson, Ms. Valerie Sill, Dr. Andrew Lo and executives from top Chinese financial institutions. We had over 300 attendees from 118 companies, 24 universities and 18 States in the US. For a full list of companies and schools that were present at this conference please click here. For a full version of the conference program please download the pdf file.

During the conference TCFA members voted for president-elect and 6 directors for the coming year (2006-2007). We are delighted to announce the election results:

Mr. Jiang, Ming, president-elect
Director of Global Structured Product, Radian Asset Assurance

Six new directors are:
Ms. Gao, Mei, Partner & Chief Portfolio Manager, Fore Research & Management
Dr. Guo, Guang, Moody's KMV
Ms. Shu, Xiao-yan, Portfolio Associate, Acadian Asset Management
Dr. Wang, Charles, Director of research and Portfolio Manager, Acadian Asset Management
Dr. Wei, Li, Managing Director and Senior Economist, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Dr. Zhang, (Ben) Yibin, Director, Fitch Ratings

We are pleased to receive many positive feedbacks from our attendees about this year's conference. This year's annual conference exemplifies TCFA's goal of servicing our members and also serving as a bridge between the US and Chinese financial industries. TCFA executive committee and board of directors will strive to bring more high quality conferences, workshops and other events to our members in the future.

We want to thank our sponsors again for their generous contribution and our volunteers in Boston for their help to make this conference possible.

Sincerely,

TCFA Board of Directors