34th Annual Forecast Dinner
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Shaw Conference Centre

The Edmonton CFA Society will host its 34th Annual Forecast Dinner on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at the Shaw Conference Centre. Forecasters for 2012 include Marc Faber, CFA, founder and CEO of Marc Faber Limited and Dr. Helima Croft, Director, Commodities Research, Barclays Capital.

Sponsorship opportunities are still available. If you are interested in supporting the 2012 Forecast Dinner, please contact Debbie Kunert at info@edmontoncfa.ca

Marc Faber, CFA Founder & CEO Marc Faber Limited Mr. Faber is founder and CEO of Marc Faber Limited, an investment adviser. He is the editor and publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, which highlights unusual investment opportunities. Previously, Mr. Faber served as managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert (HK). He is a regular speaker at various investment seminars and is well known for his "contrarian" investment approach. Mr. Faber is a regular contributor to several leading publications around the world and is the author of two best-selling books, The Great Money Illusion — The Confusion of the Confusions and Tomorrow’s Gold. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Zurich.

Dr. Helima Croft Director, Commoditities Research Barclays Capital Helima Croft is a Director and senior geopolitical strategist within Commodities Research at Barclays Capital.  Based in New York, Ms. Croft is responsible for the firm’s research covering the economics and politics of the key commodity producing countries of Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Prior to joining Barclays Capital in September 2008, Ms. Croft was with the Business Intelligence Group at Lehman Brothers, which advised the firm’s Executive Committee on international political and economic issues. Prior to joining Lehman in 2005, Ms. Croft was the intelligence fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and spent four years as a Senior Economic Analyst in the Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa office of the Central Intelligence Agency. She focused on energy security, economic reform and corruption in West Africa and received five exceptional performance awards for achievements. Ms. Croft received a PhD from Princeton University, where she also was a lecturer.

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University of Alberta CFA Institute Partnership

In November 2009, the Alberta School of Business, with the support of the Edmonton CFA Society, submitted an application to become a recognized CFA Program Partner with CFA Institute for its undergraduate program. On January 26, 2010 CFA Institute accepted the Alberta School of Business as a formal Program Partner at the undergraduate level; making it the 6^th school in Canada and the first and only in Western Canada to successfully do so.

Congratulations to the University of Alberta on this great accomplishment. Achieving Program Partner status was the highest priority for the Edmonton CFA Society in developing a long standing relationship with the University of Alberta School of Business.

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