Value Investor Conference

Australia - Europe - Africa - Asia - Americas

 

 6th Annual Global Value Investor   Conference

 Date: Mon - Wed, May 4 - 6, 2009

 Location: Ayres LAX Hotel

 Agenda:

Monday, May 4, 2009 

4:00 pm - 4:15 pm  Robert Miles, Author & Conference Organizer & Host [USA]
Topic: Welcome and Introductions

4:15 pm - 6:00 pm  Robert Cialdini, Professor & NYT Best Selling Author, Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
Topic: "Influence Under Times of Uncertainty"

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

 

7:00 am - 8:00 am  Networking Breakfast in Hotel Courtyard 

 

8:00 am - 9:00 am Barnett Helzberg, Former Chairman & CEO, Helzberg Diamonds, Founder & Chairman, Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program
Topic: "What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett"

 

9:15 am - 10:00 am Hendrik Leber, Managing Director, Acatis [EUR]
Topic: "How to Value a Business"  

 

10:15 am - 11:00 am  Paul Larson, Equity Strategist & Editor, Morningstar Stock Investor 
Topic: "Four Ways To Upgrade in the Bear Market"

 

11:15 am - 12:15 pm  Peter Lindmark, Managing Partner, Lindmark Capital

Topic: "When Macro Matters"

 

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm  Networking Lunch - Executive Deli Sandwiches in Hotel Courtyard

 

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Charles Mizrahi, Managing Partner, CGM Partners Fund LP, Author, Getting Started in Value Investing & Editor, Hidden Value Alert [USA]

Topic: "If Buffett Were You, What Would He Do?"

 

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Sees Chocolate Break

 

2:45 pm - 3:45 pm Larry Coats, President & CEO, co-manager Oak Value

Topic: "Haystacks Full of Needles: Finding Good Businesses"

 

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Tom Russo, Partner, Gardner Russo & Gardner [USA]

Topic: "Global Value"

 

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm  Optional Tour: TBA

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

 

7:00 am - 8:00 am  Networking Breakfast in Hotel Courtyard 

 

8:00 am - 9:00 am  George Athanassakos, Professor & Director, Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing, Univ of Western Ontario

Topic: "Do Value Investors Add Value? Searching For and Finding Value"

 

9:00 am - 9:45 am Charlie Tian, Founder & Director of Research, Guru Focus
Topic: "What Worked in the Market from 1998 - 2008: Undervalued Predictable Companies"

 

9:45 am - 10:30 am Robert Miles, Author & Conference Organizer & Host [USA]
Topic: "Portrait of a Disciplined Investor: Beating the S&P 500 by 6.8% Annually For 25 Years"

 

11:00 am - 12:00 pm  Optional Tour depart from Ayres Hotel LAX to Huntington Library

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm  Briefing by the Chief Curator of Rare Books on the history of the Huntington Library and the Munger Research Center

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm  Continue to Pasadena

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm  Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Annual Meeting [The Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA]

 

(revised April 27, 2009)

 

Register today and join attendees from all 6 continents. Limited to the first 100 registered attendees. Click here to Register

 

Originally created as a master value investing group or a Ben Graham, Warren Buffett, and Charlie Munger book conference for authors to discuss such classic investing texts like, The Intelligent Investor and The Warren Buffett Way.
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Tom Russo
“Having had an opportunity to visit with your attendees, you should feel a great sense of pride in creating an environment in which such interesting thoughtful investors wish to spend time.”

 

Tom Russo

Partner, Gardner, Russo & Gardner

Note: The LA value investing conference is scheduled so that attendees can attend Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Shareholder Meeting in Pasadena, CA on Wed, following the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting (which is on the first Saturday of May in Omaha, NE)
Guy Spier
“Having attended your conference, I wish two things: that I had participated the last 5 years and that I had not scheduled meetings on the third day. Next year, I am planning to be there for the whole thing."

 

Guy Spier

Aquamarine Fund

 

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