Welcome to the Canadian Investment Review's Eighth Annual Global Investment Conference Web site. On the following pages you will find a detailed conference agenda, biographies of conference attendees, sponsor profiles, location information and details about our companion program. If you have any questions about the information on this site, please don't hesitate to contact Tracy Smith, assistant editor, conferences at tsmith@rmpublishing.com.

About the Global Investment Conference
The Eighth Annual Global Investment Conference will be held from April 9-11 at the Fairmont Banff Springs in Alberta.

The Global Investment Conference is hosted by the Canadian Investment Review and the Bureau of Asset Management at the University of British Columbia. Coverage of the conference will be included in the Summer 2003 issue of CIR.

About 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 also hosts the Risk Management Conference each summer and the Alternative Investments Conference in the fall. The Fifth Annual Risk Management Conference will be held in August 2003 in Montebello while the Third Annual Alternative Investments Conference will be held in November at Niagara-on-the-Lake.

The Bureau of Asset Management (BAM) was formed in 1990 with two key objectives. First, to encourage and promote research in the broad range of topics under the theme of "asset management". Second, to improve the amount and quality of communication between the Faculty of Commerce and the business community.

Given the broadest interpretation, asset management covers real assets, financial assets and corporate assets. Members of the Finance, Urban Land Economics, and other Faculty of Commerce divisions are actively researching topics in these areas, and the business community would find many of the results of interest.

BAM will carry out this objective through several forums, including "executive briefing sessions", in which highly regarded academics and practitioners share their research results with the business community, and longer round-table discussions involving academics and practitioners, designed to explore important asset management problems and solutions. Seminars with presentations by expert practitioners and academics are also offered. Finally, BAM will provide research support to faculty members to encourage them to carry out research in a broad range of topics in asset management.

In these BAM events, the business community can provide valuable guidance by sharing with the faculty their view of important asset management problems and restrictions.

Initial capital funding to establish the BAM endowment was provided by: The Real Estate Foundation of B.C., The Vancouver Stock Exchange and The Faculty of Commerce, UBC

Additional research funds have been received from ICREIM. This financial support is gratefully acknowledged.

Director: Professor Stanley Hamilton
Associate Director: Professor Robert Heinkel
Associate Director: Professor Ron Giammarino