Toward the goal of facilitating ongoing discussion, Canadian Investment Review and its partners are pleased to present the 9th Annual Global Investment Conference, April 14-16, 2004, at The Fairmont Chateau Whistler, in Whistler, British Columbia.

The conference will look at the political, social, economic, capital markets and investment issues relating to the move towards global portfolios.

It will look at the academic literature supporting global portfolios. As well, delve into the benchmark and mandate issues that arise. The conference will examine trust structures and effective investment strategies designed to gain maximum global exposure. We will attempt to present case studies of pension funds that have embarked on the road to a truly global approach. Coverage of the conference will be included in an upcoming issue of Canadian Investment Review.

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 Sixth Annual Risk Management Conference will be held in August at St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick while the Fourth Annual Alternative Investment Conference will be held in November in Banff, Alberta.

The Bureau of Asset Management
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 Sauder School of Business 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 divisions within the Sauder School of Business 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 Sauder School of Business, 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