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Presentation
October 11-12, 2011
 
2011 Annual Behavioral Finance Symposium
Behavioral finance is a relatively new field that seeks to combine behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance to provide explanations for why people make irrational financial decisions. At the 2011 Behavioral Finance Symposium, you will hear from leading experts in the field of behavioral finance. Research shows that once you understand your own investing biases, your investment returns will improve. Come spend a day with UTC and learn about the behavioral biases and heuristics that influence your investment decisions. Research suggests that not only are investors NOT rational but irrational in a very predictable way. The 2011 Behavioral Finance Symposium will also examine the differences in how men and women approach investing. Leading experts from the investment community will discuss these exciting concepts in and engaging format at the 2011 Behavioral Finance Symposium.
Profile of the Intelligent Investor
Participants
Cynthia Harrington, Moderator, CFA, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
LouAnn Lofton, Managing Director, Fool.com
John Schott, Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Bob Frick, Senior Editor, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Financial Psychopaths: The Role of Emotions in the Investing Process
Participants:
Lauren Templeton, Moderator, Founder and President, Lauren Templeton Capital Management, LLC
Cynthia Harrington, CFA, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
Richard Peterson, Managing Director, MarketPsych LLC
Bob Frick, Senior Editor, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Risk: A Behavioral Perspective
Participants
Dr. Brian O’ Leary, Moderator, Associate Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Cynthia Harrington, CFA, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
John Scott, Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Gary Belsky, Editor, ESPN The Magazine
September 20, 2011
Continuing Education Program: Five Reasons We (Usually) Miss Fraud Signals
Frauds operate sometimes for years before coming to light. Learning to identify the red flags and follow up on clues can save billions for investors and open opportunities for making money on the downside once problems are revealed. Harrington is a certified fraud examiner and prolific author on the subject of fraud as well as preventive controls. In this talk, she combines the knowledge of biases from behavioral finance that keep us from seeing fraud, with the discussion of how to identify the red flags of its possible occurrence.
Participants
Cynthia Harrington, Speaker, CFA, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
Stephen Perkins, Chair, CFA
August 10, 2011
Behavioral finance in the workplace and employment at hedge funds
Participants:
Cynthia Harrington, Speaker, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
David S. Bradley, Chair, Vice President, Sirius Advisor LLC
August 9, 2010
The Economics of Happiness
Participants
Anthony Scaramucci, Speaker, Managing Partner, SkyBridge Capital
Cynthia Harrington, Chair, CFA, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
Dan Pomerantz, Chair, CFA
April 13, 2010
Choice Under Uncertainty: The Rules of Randomness
Participants
Leonard Mlodinow, Speaker, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Cynthia Harrington, Chair, CFA, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
March 31, 2010
Derivative Deregulation Caused Crash: Can More Deregulation Prevent Another?
Lynn A. Stout, Speaker, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Join veteran journalist Cynthia Harrington, CFA, as she interviews legal expert Lynn Stout in what promises to be lively interchange on one of the regulatory regime changes. Lynn is one of a small cadre of lawyers who specialize in derivative regulation and a member of an even smaller number who warned of the impending doom.
March 25, 2010
Finding Alpha in Film: The Alternative Alternative
Participants
Gail Mutrux, PRETTY PICTURES
Rena Ronson, UTA
Susanne Bohnet, Serafini Pictures
Mark C. Hutchison, CPA, Rothstein Kass
Cynthia Harrington, Moderator, CFA, CFE, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
March 10, 2010
Adaptive Markets and the New Investment Paradigm
Participants
Andrew W. Lo, Speaker, Ph.D., AlphaSimplex Group, LLC and MIT
Cynthia Harrington, Chair, CFA, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
January 26, 2010
Hedge Fund Consultant Roundtable
Participants
Cynthia Harrington, Moderator, CFA, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
Jonathan Miles, Speaker, Wilshire’s Manager Research Group
Mike Lewis, Speaker, Mercer
October 27, 2009
Method and Madness: Integrating Complexity, Behavioral Finance, and Efficient Markets
Participants
Edgar E. Peters, Speaker, Co-Director of Global Macro, First Quadrant
Cynthia Harrington, Chair, CFA, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
April 2, 2009
Making Good Decisions During Challenging Times
“May you live in interesting times.” Chinese blessing
There is no doubt that we live in those interesting times and that these times are a global phenomenon. Everyone, everywhere, is affected in some way by the deleveraging and economic slowdown. But the financial sector is taking the lion’s share of the impact of the wrenching change. Still, professionals in our business have the responsibility to make major decisions, and daily. Clarity of thinking depends on the ability to stay calm, focused, and flexible. Extraordinary times call for renewed attention to the practice of calming, and uber extraordinary times call for a refresher course on skills.
Participants
Cynthia Harrington, Moderator, Event Chair, CFA, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
Panelists:
Richard L. Peterson M.D., MarketPsych LLC
Michele T. Pato, M.D., Associate Dean of Education, Dept. of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, LAC+USC
Clare Kunny, Head, Public Education and Teaching, Getty Museum
May 12, 2009
Education Session No. 137: Behavioral Finance: The Intersection of Minds and Money, Investment Psychology and Volatile Markets
As research in behavioral finance shows, what we think and do in chaotic markets often leads us to adverse consequences. Behavioral finance helps explain why and how market inefficiencies arise, and what we can do to avoid getting caught in such traps. Many now believe that the markets were "overconfident" during the boom, and "excessively risk averse" during the bust. But where does this irrational hubris and fear come from? Our panel will address this issue and how one might take advantage of it.
Participants
Ann Grimes, Moderator, Stanford University
Richard Peterson, Market Psychology Consulting
Russell Fuller, Fuller and Thaler Asset Management
Cynthia Harrington, Cynthia Harrington & Associates LLC
June 17, 2009
LA Business and Industry - Functioning Well In Very Stressful Times
Professionals and executives are used to dealing with stress. It's a mark of success, the ability to keep a cool head despite changing conditions. But today's economy has turned up the heat, placing extraordinary demands on decision makers. Not only do we need to manage the current chaos, but we need to have the great presence of mind to act on the enormous opportunities that chaos delivers. Cynthia Harrington, CFA, and executive coach, presents a framework for how to successfully address both goals. With 30 years experiences in financial services, Cynthia adds expertise in behavioral finance to define how to manage stressful times and create and innovate for the future.
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