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SUMMARY:AICA Income Spotlight Summer 2021
DESCRIPTION:Agenda\nSponsorsAttendee ClassificationFeedbackSponsors\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBe an AICA event sponsor!\nSponsorship opportunities – Download Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCEF Advisors & CEFData.com\nBroadridge\nNasdaq\n\n\n\n\n\nAttendee Classification\n\nFeedback\n\n\nWe appreciate your feedback\n \n\n\nAgenda1:30pm to 1:45pm - Attendee Login and Network at Virtual Tables1:45pm to 2:00pm - Welcome\nABCs of CEFs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Cole Scott\nwith educational session:\n“The ABCs of CEF’s\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:00pm to 3:00pm - Panel #1: “Seeking Income and Potential Growth from Real Asset Investing”\nJoin us for a diverse and thorough discussion covering various investment strategies from leading investment managers. In an investment environment where it is possible to see significant inflationary pressures for the first time in over 30 years\, how can a diversified income portfolio potentially benefit from exposure to Real Assets\, Real Estate and Infrastructure?\n10 minutes Q&A after prepared discussions.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\nMariana Fariña Bush\,\nManaging Director\,\nGlobal Manager\nResearch – Wells Fargo\nPresenter #1\nJosh Duitz\,\nSenior Vice President\,\nGlobal Equities\nTeam – Aberdeen Standard Investments\nASGI / AWP\nPresenter #2\nGaal Surugeon\,\nDirector\,\nPortfolio Manager\,\nReal Asset Solutions – Brookfield\nRA\nPresenter #3\nMatt Weyandt\,\nClient Portfolio\nManager – Nuveen\nJRI / JRS\nPresenter #4\nBrian Kessens\,\nManaging Director\nand Senior Portfolio Manager –\nTortoise\nTEAF / TPZ / TYG\n\n\n\n\n\n3:00pm to 3:20pm - Networking Break3:20pm to 4:20pm - Panel #2: “Sustainable Income from the Credit Markets”\nJoin us for a diverse and thorough discussion covering various investment strategies from leading investment managers. In an investment environment where it is possible to see significant inflationary pressures for the first time in over 30 years\, how can a diversified income portfolio potentially benefit from credit investing that could benefit from inflationary pressures as a diversifier to equity exposure for income focused clients vs traditional fixed income strategies.\n10 minutes Q&A after prepared discussions.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\nMichael J. Spatacco\,\nDirector\,\nCash Management –\nBancroft Capital\nPresenter #1\nMatthew Kence\,\nInvestment Director\nand Portfolio Manager –\nAberdeen Standard Investments\nACP\nPresenter #2\nNavid Abghari\,\nSenior Portfolio\nManager – Angel Oak\nDYFN / FINS\nPresenter #3\nCharles Arduini\,\nPartner and\nPortfolio\nManager – Ares\nARDC\nPresenter #4\nGretchen Lam\,\nPortfolio Manager –\nOctagon\nXFLT\n\n\n\n\n4:20pm to 4:25pm - Event Closing Remarks\nABCs-of-CEFs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Cole Scott\nwith educational session:\n“The ABCs of CEF’s\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:25pm to 5:00pm - Post Event Networking with Speakers\, Sponsors\, Members and Fellow Attendees×Your Content Goes Here\ncontent goes here …Close×\n \nSpeaker Bio:\nMr. Scott has worked at Closed-End Fund Advisors since 2001. He holds the FINRA 66 License and the Certified Fund Specialist designation (CFS). He is a graduate of The College of William and Mary and has been quoted and interviewed widely in the financial press and presented at conferences and for investment groups on more than 50 occasions. \nIn 2008 John founded CEFA’s Closed-End Fund Universe\, a data service covering all US listed closed-end funds and BDCs. Currently supported by an internal 10 member analyst team with a data manager/ programmer covering the 600+ ticker universe of CEFs/BDCs/iCEFs. They regularly do consulting and projects for CEF/BDC Sponsors\, Hedge Funds and Institutional Investors. \nPortfolio Consultant with over $300MM+ in deposits into a fund focused on BDCs with a fund sponsor partner. He developed 35 CEF/BDC based indexes; 9 diversified portfolio objective\, 9Equity and 15 Bond sector. Founder & Exec. Chairman of Active Investment Company Alliance(AICA). John is a past board member of The Richmond Association for Business Economics(RABE)\, and serves as Assistant Treasurer and on the Investment Committee for The New YorkState Society of The Cincinnati. Board member and Finance & InvestmentCommittees for The William & Mary NationalAlumni BoardClose×\n \nSpeaker Bio:\nMs. Lam is a member of Octagon’s Investment Committee and serves as a Portfolio Manager across CLOs\, Separately Managed Accounts and Commingled Funds. Ms. Lam oversees the Firm’s Structured Credit (CLO debt & equity) investment strategies. \nPrior to becoming a Portfolio Manager\, Ms. Lam oversaw Octagon’s investments in the software\, business services\, finance & insurance\, paper & packaging\, gaming & lodging\, homebuilding and real estate industries. She was also responsible for the structured credit exposure held in Octagon’s CLO vehicles. \nPrior to joining Octagon in 1999\, Ms. Lam attended Babson College where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Investments. She received her CFA Charter in 2006.Close×\n \nSpeaker Bio:\nMr. Arduini is a Partner and Portfolio Manager in the Ares Credit Group\, where he focuses on alternative credit investments. Mr. Arduini serves as a Vice President and Portfolio Manager for the Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund\, Inc. (NYSE:ARDC). Additionally\, he serves as a member of the Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund Investment Committee. Prior to joining Ares in 2011\, Mr. Arduini was a Managing Director at Indicus Advisors LLP\, where he focused on structured credit investment opportunities. Previously\, Mr. Arduini was Director of Structured Credit in the Fixed Income Investment Group and a Manager in the Risk Management Group at TIAA-CREF. In addition\, Mr. Arduini worked in the telecommunications and information technology industries in various systems\, operations and management roles. Mr. Arduini holds a B.A. from Bucknell University in Mathematics and an M.S. from Stevens Institute of Technology in Mathematics. Mr. Arduini also holds an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University in Computational Finance. Mr. Arduini is a CFA® charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.Close×\n \nSpeaker Bio:\nMr. Brian Kessens joined the firm in 2008. He is a managing director and senior portfolio manager\, a member of the investment committee and serves as president of the Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund\, Inc. and Tortoise Power & Energy Infrastructure Fund\, Inc. closed-end funds. Previously\, Mr. Kessens was a vice president in Citigroup’s global energy investment banking practice. Prior to Citigroup\, he served as a field artillery officer in the U.S. Army. Mr. Kessens earned a Bachelor of Science in economics degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia Business School in New York. He is a CFA® charterholder. He served as Board President and nearly a decade as a board member and Treasurer for the Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired (CCVI)\, a Kansas City nonprofit preparing children with visual impairments to reach their highest potential in the sighted world.Close×\n \nSpeaker Bio:\nJosh Duitz is Senior Vice President in the Global Equities Team at Aberdeen Standard Investments. Josh is responsible for managing the Aberdeen Global Infrastructure Fund\, Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund\, Aberdeen Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and the Aberdeen Dynamic Dividend Fund ( AIFRX\, AOD\,AGD and ADVDX). Josh joined Aberdeen Standard Investments in 2018 from Alpine Woods Capital Management where he was a Portfolio Manager. Previously\, Josh worked for Bear Stearns where he was a Managing Director\, Principal and traded international equities. Prior to that\, Josh worked for Arthur Andersen where he was a senior auditor.Close×\n \nSpeaker Bio:\nMatthew Kence is an Investment Director and is a Portfolio Manager on the Aberdeen Income Credit Strategies Fund and the Global High Yield strategies at Aberdeen Standard Investments. He is also responsible for covering US high yield Energy companies. Matt joined Standard Life in 2010 from Gannet Welsh & Kotler where he was a Vice President\, Credit. Previously\, Matt also worked for MFS Investment Management as a high yield analyst. Matt graduated with a BS Mechanical Engineering from Ohio University and received his MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California\, Berkeley.Close×\nNuveen\, the investment manager of TIAA\, offers a comprehensive range of outcome-focused investment solutions designed to secure the long-term financial goals of institutional and individual investors. Nuveen has $1.2 trillion in assets under management as of 31 March 2021 and operations in 27 countries. Its investment specialists offer deep expertise across a comprehensive range of traditional and alternative investments through a wide array of vehicles and customized strategies \nSpeaker Bio:\nMatt is a client portfolio manager for Nuveen’s real asset strategies. In this role\, he works with portfolio managers to develop and communicate information about the products’ investment teams\, process\, and performance to institutional\, retail\, and defined contribution analysts and advisors. \nHe started working in the investment industry in 2008 when he joined the firm. Prior to his current role\, he was a portfolio specialist supporting all of the firm’s equity strategies. Prior to that\, he was an associate product manager and product analyst. \nMatt graduated with a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.Close×\n \nSpeaker Bio:\nNavid is a Senior Portfolio Manager at Angel Oak Capital and a Portfolio Manager for the Financials Income Fund\, Financial Strategies Income Term Trust and the Dynamic Financial Strategies Income Term Trust. He has over 15 years of experience in fixed income markets\, focusing on corporate credit trading\, risk management\, credit derivatives and structured products.Prior to joining Angel Oak in 2015\, Navid was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Securities in New York\, where he was head of Americas synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) trading. He oversaw the modeling and risk systems for the global tranche business\, directed the U.S. hedging activities of the global tranche book\, was market maker for synthetic CDOs\, and ran the U.S. index basis book. In his time at J.P. Morgan\, Navid was responsible for some of the most complex credit transactions\, which included large credit portfolio buyouts\, regulatory capital trades\, counterparty risk-hedging trades\, levered tranches\, options on tranches\, hybrid cash and synthetic CDOs\, derivative product company equity\, synthetic portfolio insurance\, constant proportion debt obligations\, CDO-squared transactions\, forward-starting tranches\, fixed recovery tranches\, knock-ins/knock-outs and several other complex transactionsClose×\nWells Fargo Investment Institute is a registered investment adviser and wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank\, N.A.\, a bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company\, providing investment research\, strategy\, manager research and thought leadership within the Wealth & Investment Management division\, with the goal of supplying world-class advice to the company’s financial and wealth advisers. \nSpeaker Bio:\nMariana Fariña Bush is a managing director for Global Manager Research (GMR)\, a division of Wells Fargo Investment Institute (WFII). The GMR team conducts due diligence and provides research on the third-party money managers used throughout Wells Fargo’s brokerage\, private banking\, family wealth\, and retirement businesses. \nMs. Fariña Bush began her career at Furman Selz in New York as an associate analyst following technology companies long before the Internet became a household name. She joined the firm in 1991 as an analyst in Investment Strategy and has remained steady through five legacy firms following mergers and acquisitions over almost three decades. Ms. Fariña Bush began following closed-end funds in 1993\, and she assumed coverage of exchange-traded products in 1996. She has been widely quoted in publications such as Barron’s\, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal\, while being a frequent and active participant in industry conferences. \nBorn and raised in Peru\, Ms. Fariña Bush earned a Bachelor of Science and Engineering from Princeton University. She is a CFA® charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Washington DC\, where she is located.Close×\nBrookfield Public Securities Group LLC (“PSG” or “the Firm”) is an SEC-registered investment adviser and represents the Public Securities Group of Brookfield Asset Management Inc.\, providing global listed real assets strategies including real estate equities\, infrastructure equities\, multi-strategy real asset solutions and real asset debt. PSG manages separate accounts\, registered funds and opportunistic strategies for institutional and individual clients\, including \nfinancial institutions\, public and private pension plans\, insurance companies\, endowments and foundations\, sovereign wealth funds and high net worth investors. PSG is an indirect\, wholly owned subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management Inc.\, a leading global alternative asset manager. \nSpeaker Bio:\nGaal Surugeon has 11 years of industry experience and is a Director for Brookfield’s Real Asset Solutions team. He is responsible for portfolio construction and asset allocation for the firm’s diversified real asset portfolios. Prior to joining the firm in 2019\, Gaal was an Executive Director at Oppenheimer Asset Management where he served as manager of the firm’s multi-asset portfolios and director of asset allocation and research. Prior to that\, he was an Associate Economist at Decision Economics\, Inc. Gaal holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Society Chicago. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.Close×\nBancroft Capital is service-disabled veteran-owned broker dealer specializing in Capital Markets\, Debt and Equity syndication and Cash Management services to corporations\, asset managers\, and investors. \n\nSpeaker Bio:\n Michael J. Spatacco is Director of Cash Management for Bancroft Capital\, where he is a founding partner. Michael helps clients find solutions for their short term liquidity needs and has a long term passion for Closed-End Funds.Close
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