The Financial Women’s Association Of San Francisco
along with the CFA Society of San Francisco (formerly the Security Analysts of San Francisco)
present

An Industry Leadership Series Event: 
"China: More Opportunity Than Threat"

China is inexorably careening down the path toward a market economy. Despite the fact that China still has a long way to go, every company in the world now sees China as a threat or an opportunity or both. However, glaring questions about China remain:

• Can China’s extraordinary economic ascent continue?
• Is their economy overheated? Does China mean inflation or deflation to the rest of the world?
• What about China’s shaky banking and financial system and the future of their currency?
• How about the state-owned enterprises?
• How do investors play China – Hong Kong, their domestic markets, or Chinese firms listed abroad?
• And what of Chinese M&A and the opportunities to provide financing in China?
• What of intellectual property rights, their state-owned enterprises and the still primitive legal and accounting system?
• And what does China mean to India, Japan, the rest of Southeast Asia, Europe and the world?
• What are the key strategies that American firms need to pursue in order to capitalize on the China opportunity?

Join us on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 from noon until 2:00 PM as Donald Straszheim, noted economist and China expert, discusses these questions and shares his insights into the ever-more-visible role China plays in global markets.

About the Speaker: 

Donald H. Straszheim joined Roth Capital Partners (“Roth”) in March 2006 as Vice Chairman, to spearhead the firm’s growing efforts in China as well as to work with the domestic team. Straszheim's expertise is in understanding how China and the evolving global economy and markets affect companies/industries in America and elsewhere. From 2002 to 2005, Straszheim was principal of Straszheim Global Advisors, an economic and financial markets research, advisory and consulting firm located in Los Angeles with offices in Beijing.

From 1985 to 1997, Straszheim was the global Chief Economist for Merrill Lynch and Co., and was based in New York City. He was voted ten consecutive years to Institutional Investor’s ‘All-Star Team’ (equity or fixed income). In 1997, Straszheim served as President of the Milken Institute, a not-for-profit economic and public-policy think tank in Santa Monica, CA. Earlier in his career he held positions at Wharton Econometrics, the Weyerhaeuser Company and Investors Diversified Services (now AmeriPrize).

Straszheim serves on various private- and public-sector boards, and has B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University. He is a regular speaker on China and the global economy and markets.

REGISTRATION

There are 5 ways to pre-register:

1. Register online. Online registration is now closed.

2. Print and mail the following form to FWA, P.O. Box 26143, San Francisco, CA 94126
  
3. Print and fax the following form to 415-586-6606
  
4. Send an email to
 
5. Call Rhoda Singer at (415) 586-8599

Refund Policy:  We are unable issue refunds unless the refund request is received 72 hours prior to the event.

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