RISE Conference

February 28, 2007

Still programming.

Oh, I accidently missed a midterm today, lol. Good news however, plan is in effect to travel to Dayton, OH March 28th-31st, for the RISE conference which is the 7th annual Global Student Investment Forum with over 200 colleges a ttending.

Some of the spakers include:

• Ralph Alvarez

  President and COO, McDonald’s Corporation

• Paul S. Atkins

  Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

• Peter H. Coors

  Chairman, Molson Coors Brewing Company

• Robert C. Doll

  Vice Chairman, Global Chief Investment Officer Equity, BlackRock

• Pat Dorsey

  Director of Stock Analysis, Morningstar.com

• Dr. Bob Froehlich

  Chairman, Investor Strategy Committee, Deutsche Asset Management

• Dr. James E. Glassman

  Senior Policy Strategist, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

• Dr. Jan Hatzius

  Chief U.S. Economist, Goldman Sachs

• Reverend Jesse Jackson

  Founder & President, RainbowPUSH Coalition, Inc.

• L’Ubomir Jahnatek, CSc

  Minister of the Economy for the Slovak Republic

• Knight Kiplinger

  Editor in Chief, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance

• Marc E. Lackritz

  Co-CEO, Securities Industry and Financial Market Association (SIFMA)

• Louis Navellier

  Chairman and CEO, Navellier & Associates, Inc.

• Dr. Guillermo Ortiz

  Governor, Bank of Mexico

• Robert L. Reynolds

  Vice Chairman & Chief Operating Officer, Fidelity Investments

• Dr. Myron S. Scholes

  Chairman, Platinum Grove Asset Management and 1997 Nobel Laureate in Economics

• Michal Seweryński

  Minister of Science and Higher Education of Poland

• Dr. Gary H. Stern

  President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

To name a few, best of all the Oregon State University College of Buisness, Department of Finance is paying for most of it. Hmm, it rewards to join organizations which offer growth opportunities.

The Finance club has about 20 active members, there are 3 people going on the trip. Wow, an event like this, with that many great speakers, you’d think more people would join of course. It is only costing the people going $275, and the school covers the rest, for a 3-day workshop with presidents of banks, and all types of people, international colleges coming.

Comon, this stuff is so easy, we just got to position ourselves to where we can take advantage of opportunites. And more importantly, when they present, act.

Alot of people are going to miss out, beacuse they’d like to have fun in spring break…….

Back to work wes.