Now that Labor Day is past, 401(k) Day is almost here! This Friday, September 8, retirement plan industry insiders and plan sponsors will celebrate the annual holiday, which traditionally falls on the Friday after Labor Day.
Tomorrow in Chicago the
Morningstar team will
kick off the 2017
Morningstar ETF Conference. The two-day event, which will be held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, will feature a variety of speakers, including:
Andrew Ang of
BlackRock,
Jamil Baz of
Pimco,
Chris Brightman of
Research Affiliates,
Joseph Davis of
Vanguard,
Barry Ritholtz of
Ritholtz Wealth Management, and
Dick Thaler of the
University of Chicago. Big sponsors of the conference include:
Columbia Threadneedle,
Deutsche Asset Management,
Guggenheim,
IndexIQ,
Invesco PowerShares,
J.P. Morgan, and Vanguard.
Also tomorrow, Atlanta-based
Triad Advisors' team will
host their four-day annual national conference, this time at the Hilton Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California. The 19-year-old broker-dealer now has more than 600 FAs.
Also tomorrow, the Money Management Institute (
MMI) team will
hold a one-day "Leadership Pathway Seminar" at the Pyramid Club in Philadelphia.
BNY Mellon is the big sponsor of the event, which is co-chaired by
Neuberger Berman national sales manager
Ross David and
Clark Capital Management marketing director
Patty Quinn McAuley.
On Thursday
UBS will conduct a multi-location press conference across three cities: London, New York, and Zurich. The "Sustainable and Impact Investing Event" will feature remarks (in London) from UBS group CEO
Sergio Ermotti, and a host of other executives from across various silos of the firm. Other speakers will include:
Christopher Greenwald, head of sustainable investing research, and
Michael Baldinger, head of sustainable and impact investing, both from UBS Asset Management;
James Gifford, senior impact investing strategist, UBS Wealth Management;
Stephen Freedman, head of sustainable investing; UBS Wealth Management Americas;
Mark Haefele, global chief investment officer, UBS Wealth Management;
Simon Smiles, chief investment officer for ultra high net worth, UBS Wealth Management; and others.
Also on Thursday,
Allianz Global Investors will host reporters for an evening cocktails and hors d'oeuvres reception at the MoMA in New York City. Both
Neil Dwane, global strategist, and
Deborah Zurkow, chief investment officer of alternatives, are expected to speak at the event, which will also feature tours of the museum's
Robert Raushcenberg: Among Friends" exhibit.
On Friday morning in Washington, D.C., the
SEC and
NYU's Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions will
host an event on exchange-traded products. The planned speaker list includes: SEC Commissioners
Michael Piwowar and
Kara Stein;
Scott Bauguess, acting chief economist at the SEC;
Itzhak Ben-David from the Ohio State University;
Rick Fleming, office of investor advocate at the SEC;
Deborah Fuhr, managing partner and co-founder of
ETFGI;
Anthony Lynch from New York University;
Ananth Madhavan, head of global research for ETFs and index investing at
BlackRock;
Jeffrey Meli, co-head of research at
Barclays;
Laura Morrison, global head of exchange traded products at
BATS;
Kathleen Moriarty, partner at
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer;
Jim Ross, chairman of global
SPDRs at
State Street;
Russ Wermers from the University of Maryland; and
Jason Zweig of the
Wall Street Journal. The event, which will be held at the SEC's headquarters, is part of the "SEC-NYU Dialogue on Securities Market Regulation". The event is open to the public.
Also on Friday morning,
Betterment CEO
Jon Stein will
hold a media breakfast discussion in honor of 401(k) day. The event, which will be held at Betterment's New York City headquarters, will focus on Betterment's own 401(k) offering,
Betterment for Business. 
Edited by:
Neil Anderson, Managing Editor
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