The Fourth Annual Alternative Investment Conference will be held from November 10-12 at Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alberta.

The conference is hosted by the Canadian Investment Review, in partnership with the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. Coverage of the conference will be included in an upcoming issue of CIR.

The Canadian Investment Review
The Canadian Investment Review is Canada's leading forum for academics, institutional investors and industry practitioners to exchange ideas on the capital markets, investment and economic theory, and the related sociology and demographics.

The magazine publishes articles that offer original ideas based on existing literature and brings new insight to relevant themes and practices within the institutional investment community.

The Canadian Investment Review hosts two other conferences. The Tenth Annual Global Investment Conference will be held in April in Whistler, B.C., while the Seventh Annual Risk Management Conference will be held next August.

The Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
Founded in 1922, The Richard Ivey School of Business is Canada's premier business school and is recognized worldwide as a top business school. Ivey's major activities include: a highly regarded MBA program and a selective undergraduate program, a well established doctoral program, as well as an expanding portfolio of programs for executives, including an expanding Executive MBA delivered in Canada and Hong Kong. Ivey supports high quality faculty research. Excellence in teaching and course development is also highly valued. Ivey is a case school.

Ivey's mission is to develop business leaders who think globally, act strategically and contribute to the societies within which they operate.