The 2016 ICI GMM is about to begin.

Walter Isaacson Keynote Speaker Biographer

The conference, this time at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., kicks off tomorrow afternoon at 3pm and runs through midday on Friday. About 1,500 fundsters are converging for the event.

This year's GMM features: an opening night reception with an "ice cream lab"; keynote conversations with Bloomberg founder Michael Bloomberg, famed biographer Walter Isaacson, and SEC Chair Mary Jo White; a dinner bash with a live performance by the Jill Gioia Band; and of course the ICI's famous closing brunch on Friday.

Other featured speakers scheduled to appear include: George Castineiras, managing director of Gibraltar Ventures; Charlie Cook, editor and publisher of The Cook Political Report; Tom Faust, chairman of the GMM planning committee and chairman and CEO of Eaton Vance [profile]; Campbell Fleming, chair of the ICI Global Steering Committee; Lisa Jones, president and CEO of Pioneer Investment Management USA [profile]; Kevin Kajiwara, co-president of Teneo Intelligence; Ajai Kaul, CEO of Asia ex-Japan for AllianceBernstein Singapore [profile]; Brian Langstraat, CEO of Parametric; Andrea Lisher, managing director of J.P. Morgan Asset Management [profile]; Tyler Mathisen, coanchor of CNBC's "Power Lunch and Nightly Business Report"; Bill McNabb, chairman of the ICI and chairman and CEO of Vanguard [profile]; James McNamara, president and CEO of Goldman Sachs Mutual Funds [profile]; Krishna Memani, chief investment officer of OppenheimerFunds [profile]; Sanjiv Mirchandani, president of Fidelity Clearing and Custody [profile]; Stuart Rothenberg, founder of The Rothenberg and Gonzales Political Report; Akbar Sheriff, head of regional client management EMEA for State Street Bank and Trust Company [profile]; Liz Ann Sonders, senior vice president and chief investment strategist, Charles Schwab [profile]; Paul Schott Stevens, president and CEO of the ICI; Shundrawn Thomas, executive vice president and head of funds and managed accounts group at Northern Trust Asset Management [profile]; Ted Truscott, CEO of Columbia Threadneedle [profile]; Leslie Walstrom, head of U.S. marketing at Columbia Threadneedle; and Frank Xiaoling Zhang, deputy CEO of China Asset Management Co, Limited and CEO of China Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited.

Sponsors of the 2016 ICI GMM include: BNY Mellon; Boston Financial Data Services; Deloitte; Delta Data; DST; FIS; Temenos' Multifonds; Eaton Vance's NextShares Solutions; Northern Trust; PWC; State Street; and Workiva.  

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