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June 22, 2015 at 06:35 AM
Morningstar (MORN) kicks off its 27th annual investment conference for financial advisors on Wednesday with a talk by Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and chief investment strategist of GMO. The three-day event is set to take place at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago.
Other keynote speakers are David Kelly, chief global strategist of J.P. Morgan Funds; Sallie Krawcheck, chair of Ellevate Network; Douglas Hodge, CEO of PIMCO; and Daniel Ivascyn, group chief investment officer of PIMCO. Experts from Vanguard, BlackRock, Oakmark, Janus Capital and more than a dozen additional fund families will make presentations at the popular conference as well.
“Each year, we bring prominent voices from the investment industry together for three days of dialogue about the topics most relevant to advisors and their clients,” said Jon Hale, director of North American manager research for Morningstar, in a statement.
“Our conversations this year will explore the active-passive debate, robo-advisors, the search for yield among fixed-income investments, the fast-growing liquid alternatives sphere and more,” Hale said. “Plus, we have an exciting lineup of preconference sessions focused on women and investing, technology and the advisor, and an in-depth look at the work of our global manager research team.”
Panelists Joe Davis of Vanguard, Rob Lovelace of American Funds and Diana Strandberg of Dodge and Cox (and part of the winning team of Morningstar’s 2014 U.S. International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year award), for instance, will share their research and insights about what it takes to be a successful active manager.
