The Financial Women's Association Of San Francisco
Presents

"Economic and Real Estate Outlook"

An Industry Leadership Series Event
in conjunction with - CFA Society of San Francisco
on
Monday, November 17th 2008

Join us to hear a presentation by the venerable local economist Ken Rosen, Chairman of Rosen Consulting Group & Rosen Real Estate Securities, as well as Chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics and Professor Emeritus at the Haas School of Business at the University of California. Professor Rosen will address the outlook for real estate and the economy with particular emphasis on the newly elected administration.

About the Speaker

Kenneth T. Rosen is Chairman of Rosen Consulting Group - a real estate market research firm, and Chairman of Rosen Real Estate Securities - a REIT money manager with approximately $500 million in assets under management. Rosen Real Estate Securities has the government of Singapore (GIC) as a passive minority partner. In addition, Mr. Rosen is Chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics and Professor Emeritus at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also serving as a special advisor on real estate for the World Economic Forum which is held in Davos, Switzerland each year.

In prior business ventures, Mr. Rosen was Chairman, Founder and Portfolio Manager of Lend Lease Rosen Securities, a $3 billion REIT money management firm which he sold in 2004. He also co-founded Regional Data Associates (RDA) in 1976, a leading real estate forecasting firm. RDA was sold to Chase Manhattan Bank in 1982 and became part of the Chase econometric forecasting system. In 1985, he joined Salomon Brothers Inc. as a consultant/managing director and founded the firm's Real Estate Research Department, which was recognized as Wall Street's leading real estate research group.

Mr. Rosen received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974, and a B.A. with highest honors from the University of Connecticut in 1970. He was a Professor of Economics at Princeton University from 1975 – 1979. In addition, he was a Professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley from 1979 - 2004. He has been a trustee of the Urban Land Institute, and is currently a member of the board of directors of several private corporations that are involved with real estate finance and development. He has authored over 100 articles and four books on real estate and real estate finance.

REGISTRATION

On-line registration is closed.

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