4th Annual CFA Day
Professional Networking Event
with keynote speaker
Jeff Rubin
June 9, 2011

"Is Growth Sustainable With Triple Digit Oil?"

Mr. Rubin first caught the attention of financial markets in 1989 with his now-famous call for a 25 per cent decline in Toronto real estate prices. Since then Mr. Rubin’s work has often been the subject of national headlines and has been instrumental in raising key issues to the national spotlight. His many calls on the economy and financial markets, particularly with regard to interest rates and the Canadian dollar, earned him no less than 10 number one rankings in either the Brendan Woods annual survey of institutional equity or fixed income investors. The largest fund managers in North America, Europe and the Far East value his expertise, which he now shares with audiences world-wide.

Speaker Biography

After almost twenty years as Chief Economist and Managing Director of CIBC World Markets, Jeff Rubin resigned at the end of March 2009 to publish his international bestseller, Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization. Simultaneously published by Random House in the US and Canada and by Virgin Books in the United Kingdom, his path-breaking book has now been published in over 15 countries and in seven different languages.

NEWSWEEK wrote, “Rubin’s argument is powerful,” while the Financial Times of London called the book “One of the year’s best.” Last year the number-one non-fiction bestseller in Canada, the book recently won the country’s National Business Book Award, and was also a runner-up for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award.

Over the course of his career in financial markets, Mr. Rubin’s calls on interest rates and foreign exchange markets won him a number-one ranking in economics in the Brendan Wood International survey of institutional investors in Canada on no less than ten separate occasions.

Internationally, Mr. Rubin is best known for his prescient calls on oil prices. Mr. Rubin was one of the first economists in the world to accurately predict the rise of oil prices over the last decade to recent triple-digit levels. Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller explores some of the broader implications of those prices, and how they will reverse globalization and lead to the re-emergence of more local or regional-based economies.

Mr. Rubin’s insights into global energy markets have made the front page of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and have been cited in the Economist, Newsweek and USA Today. He has made numerous appearances on ABC, CBS, CNN and CNBC.

On the podium, Mr. Rubin is a provocative speaker who brings unparalleled insight and candor to his presentations. Read Mr. Rubin’s insights in his widely followed blog, “Jeff Rubin’s Smaller World,” carried by the Huffington Post in the United States and the Globe and Mail website in Canada.

Schedule

Networking 11:15 AM (with live music)
Registration  11:30 AM
Lunch  12:00 PM
Presentation  12:20 PM

Cost
Members/Candidates/Nonmembers  $45
Tables of 8, 9 or 10 are available for purchase at $45 per person

Registration Deadline:  Monday June 6, 2011
No refunds will be issued after this date.