The Financial Women’s Association Of San Francisco
along with
100 Women in Hedge Funds and
The Association of Chinese Finance Professionals

Sponsored By:
Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, LLC
BGT Fund Administration, HSBC Bank USA,
Instinet, LLC and Kathy Freeman Company

Present
An Industry Leadership Series event:  
"Abby Joseph Cohen: The US Capital Markets in 2007: The Bigger Picture"

This event has limited capacity and will sell out quickly, so move fast to get your tickets!

Please join us in welcoming previous Financial Woman of the Year honoree, Abby Joseph Cohen, Chief U.S. Investment Strategist for Goldman Sachs, on Wednesday, January 31, 2007. Heralded as "The Prophet of Wall Street" by Business Week Magazine, Abby will discuss some of the following issues and share her observations for 2007 in these areas:

• The fundamentals of economic growth, moderate inflation, and solid corporate results look favorable for the US financial markets in 2007,
• The "bigger picture" also includes the global backdrop, such as expectations for economic developments in other nations and the currency markets,
• Global flows of funds in the form of direct and portfolio investments may be critical to market performance in several countries, including the US fixed income markets, and
• What could go wrong? A closer look at assumptions for interest rates, corporate profits, and the relative valuation of risky assets and markets.

About the Speaker: 

Abby Joseph Cohen is the Chief U.S. Investment Strategist for Goldman Sachs. She serves on the firm’s Partnership and Investment Retirement Committees, and on the board of Pine Street, which is charged with management and leadership development. She joined Goldman Sachs in 1990 having specialized in quantitative strategy and economics at other major financial firms. Abby began her career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C.

Abby’s extracurricular activities focus on education. She serves as a presidential councilor at Cornell University and on the boards of the Weill Medical College of Cornell and the Jewish Theological Seminary. She previously served as chair of the board of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR), now known as the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute, from which she received the Distinguished Service Award. She serves on the investment committees of the Museum of Modern Art and Cornell University. Abby is on the board of the Council for Excellence in Government and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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