2020 Forecast Dinner

17th Annual Forecast Dinner | February 27, 2020

CFA Society Mississippi hosts our Annual Forecast Dinner at the start of each year to bring together investors and investment professionals and foster an environment of camaraderie and education. Our Annual Forecast Dinner has become one of the premier financial forecast events in the country, regularly hosting over 500 attendees. Each year we bring together industry experts from the fields of fixed income investments, equity investments, and/or economics to discuss the current economic environment and how they see markets progressing for the upcoming year.

Our 17th Annual Forecast was held Thursday, February 27, 2020 at the Country Club of Jackson. Cocktails were served from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM, with dinner and the program immediately after.

For questions about our 2020 Forecast Dinner, contact Paula Nielsen.

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Dr. Daniel Crosby

Keynote Speaker

Educated at Brigham Young and Emory Universities, Dr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist and behavioral finance expert who helps organizations understand the interaction of mind and markets. Dr. Crosby's first book, Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management, was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, The Laws of Wealth, was named the best investment book of 2017 by the Axiom Business Book Awards and has been translated into 5 languages.

His latest work, The Behavioral Investor, is a comprehensive look at the neurology, physiology and psychology of sound financial decision-making. When he is not consulting around market psychology, Daniel enjoys exploring the American South, fanatically following St. Louis Cardinals baseball, and spending time with his wife and three children.

Past Forecast Dinners

2019 Annual Forecast Dinner

2018 Annual Forecast Dinner
2017 Annual Forecast Dinner

Wilson Stribling

Moderator

Wilson Stribling, a Jackson native, holds a degree in marketing from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the University of Mississippi, and a Master of Business Administration from Millsaps College.

In January 1998, he began working as a freelance reporter at WLBT. In June of that same year, Wilson covered the Luke Woodham murder trials in Philadelphia and Hattiesburg for WLBT and NBC affiliates across the country. Here, he met Jennifer Sentilles, who was serving as a field producer for another station. They were married three years later and now have three children.

In 2003, after covering the Glory of Baroque Dresden exhibition in Jackson, Wilson wrote and produced WLBT's hour-long 50th Anniversary Special. He also produced and edited the stations half-hour special tributes to longtime weatherman Woodie Assaf and former CEO Frank Melton. Wilson served as morning anchor from 1998 until 2009, when he moved into newsroom management as Assistant News Director, then later News Director. Wilson returned to the morning anchor desk in 2014 where he currently anchors from 5-7 on WLBT and from 7-9 on Fox 40.

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