Top experts to present market forecasts at CFA event

The event will feature presentations on the outlook for international and regional financial markets, and forecasts for select asset classes, by three renowned experts.

Attendance at the event is by invitation. Registration for the programme will start at 6 PM, and presentations will commence at 6:30 PM.

The speakers at the event will be Mr. Bill Sung, Dr. Brad Jones, and Mr. Mohamed Seif-Elnasr.

Mr. Bill Sung is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Absolute Asia Asset Management and Natixis Global Asset Management, and he will cover outlook for pan-Asian and emerging markets.

Dr. Jones is the Senior Global Investment Advisor for Deutsche Bank, based in London, and he will focus on global fixed income and foreign exchange.

Mr. Seif-Elnasr is the Managing Director, Asset Management, with NCB Capital, and his presentation will cover the Middle East and GCC markets. All three speakers are well known and highly reputed in the investment community. The event is being sponsored by Natixis Global Asset Management, Deutsche Bank and NCB Capital.

CFA Bahrain was officially inaugurated in June 2006, and is affiliated to the CFA Institute in the USA.

The CFA Institute is a global professional organisation that awards the CFA designation, and leads the investment industry by setting the highest standards of ethics and professional excellence and vigorously advocating fair and transparent capital markets.

The CFA designation has become known as the gold standard of professional credentials within the global investment community.

Around the world, employers and investors recognise the CFA designation as the definitive standard for measuring competence and integrity in the fields of portfolio management and investment analysis.

Membership in the Bahrain CFA Society is open to all CFA charter-holders as regular members, and CFA level II and Level III candidates who can be admitted as associate members. The Society has over 67 members who are qualified CFA charter-holders.

The elected governing board of the Society includes Mr. William Khouri (President), Mr. Austin Sequeira (Vice President), Mrs. Lamees Al-Baharna (Secretary), Mr. Palani Alagappan (Treasurer), Mr. Essa Maseeh, and Mrs. Sowmya Ramkumar.