Speakers
Our speaker roster for 2025.
Be sure to check back often, to see the latest confirmed names.
Speaker

Andrew Ang
Managing Director
BlackRock

Mark Anson, CFA
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
Commonfund

Marshall Bailey, OBE, CFA
Chair of the Board of Governors
CFA Institute

Liz Barber
Practitioner
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Ashok K. Bhatia, CFA
Chief Investment Officer and Global Head of Fixed Income
Neuberger Berman

David Blanchett, CFA
Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Head of Retirement Research
PGIM DC Solutions

Douglas A. Boneparth
President
Bone Fide Wealth, LLC

Stephanie Braming, CFA
Global Head
William Blair Investment Management

Heather Brilliant, CFA
Chief Executive Officer
Diamond Hill

Jane Buchan
Chief Executive Officer
Martlet Asset Management

Julia C. Carreon
Executive
Financial Services Industry

Joyce Chang
Chair of Global Research
JP Morgan

Marguerita Cheng
Founder & CEO
Blue Ocean Global Wealth

Andrew Chin
Chief AI Officer
AllianceBernstein

Richard Coffin, CFA
Host, The Plain Bagel
Portfolio Manager and Investment Analyst, Watson Di Primio Steel Investment Management

Stephan Connelly, CFA
Managing Director
Star Mountain Capital, LLC

Bert Crouch
Managing Director, Portfolio Manager & Head of North America
Invesco Real Estate

Margaret (Maggie) Daun
Talk Show Host & General Counsel; Founder
Civic Media; The Law Firm of Margaret C. Daun

Paul Donovan
Chief Economist
UBS Global Wealth Management

Blair duQuesnay, CFA
Investment Advisor
Ritholtz Wealth Management

Kamila Elliott
CEO and Founder
Collective Wealth Partners

Amy Falls
Vice President and Chief Investment Officer
Northwestern University

Eelco Fiole, CFA
Managing Partner
Alpha Governance Partners

Margaret Franklin, CFA
President and CEO
CFA Institute

Robert E. Furdak, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
Responsible Investment (RI) of Man Group

Daniel Gamba, CFA
President
Northern Trust Asset Management

Alyssa Greenspan, CFA
CEO and President
Community Capital Management, LLC

Hershel Harper, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust

Lori Heinel, CFA
Global Chief Investment Officer
State Street Global Advisors

Mark J. Higgins, CFA
Senior Vice President
IFA Institutional

Thomas Idzorek, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
Morningstar Retirement, Morningstar Investment Management LLC

Ben Johnson, CFA
Head, Client Solutions
Morningstar

Steven Kaplan
Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor
University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Leslie Labruto
Managing Director
Environmental Defense Fund

Antonios Lazanas
Head of Portfolio, Index & Sustainability Quant Research
Bloomberg LP

Peter Lazaroff, CFA
CIO
Plancorp

Marlena Lee
Global Head of Investment Solutions
Dimensional Fund Advisors

Jon Lukomnik
Managing Partner
Sinclair Capital LLC

Christopher Lynn Smith, CFA
Former Chief Financial Officer
Greenbacker

Brian Matt, CFA
Head of Sustainability Advisory
New York Stock Exchange

Hiromichi (Hiro) Mizuno
Special Advisor to CEO
MSCI, Inc.

Lotta Moberg, CFA
Co-Founder
Wealth Horizons

Valerie Mosley, CFA
Founder
BrightUp

Robert Novy-Marx
Lori and Alan S. Zekelman Distinguished Professor of Finance
University of Rochester Simon Business School

Michael O’Leary
Distinguished Quantitative Analyst
Morningstar

Sébastien Page, CFA
Head of Global Multi-Asset and Chief Investment Officer
T. Rowe Price

Jason Pasquinelli, CFA
Managing Director and Head of Client Solutions
RBC Global Asset Management

Theresa Payton
Fortalice CEO & Founder and Former White House Chief Information Officer

Jason Pereira
Senior Partner & Financial Planner
Woodgate Financial Inc.

Miha Pogačnik
Leadership Expert, Violinist, and Visionary

Ari Polychronopoulos, CFA
Partner, Head of Product Management and ESG
Research Affiliates

Michael Pompian, CFA
Founder and Chief Investment Officer
Sunpointe Investments

Brian Portnoy, CFA
Founder
Shaping Wealth

Priya Prasad Bowe, CFA
Managing Director and Head of Sustainability
Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.

Lynn Räbsamen, CFA
Chief Operating Officer
Global Swiss Learning

Dianna Raedle
CEO/President and Founder
Deer Isle Group

Ignacio Ramirez Moreno, CFA
Fixed Income Advisor
Pictet

Rip Reeves
CEO
Institutional Investor

Amy Resnick
Executive Editor, PLANSPONSOR Digital and Chief Investment Officer
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)

James Rhodes
President, Direct Platform
Morningstar

Heidi Khashabi Ridley, CFA
Co-Founder and CEO
Radiant Global Investors LLC

Rosie Rios
43rd Treasurer of the United States
Chair of America250

Savina Rizova
Co-Chief Investment Officer and Global Head of Research
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP

Steven M. Rothstein
Managing Director
Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets

Avantika Saisekar
Managing Director
Wafra

Leslie Samuelrich
President
Green Century Funds

Marina Severinovsky
Head of Sustainability, North America
Schroders

Eric Sim, CFA
Founder; Author
Institute of Life; "Small Actions"

Liz Simmie
Co-Founder
Honeytree Investment Management

Denise Simon
Portfolio Manager & Analyst
Lazard Asset Management LLC

George Spentzos, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
Future 30 Funds

Jon Spinney, CFA
Chief Investment Officer & VP
Quantitative Investing

Ehren Stanhope, CFA
Chief Investment Strategist and Co-Head of Investments
O’Shaughnessy Asset Management

Cynthia Steer
Senior Advisor
Institutional Investor

Sonya Stoklosa
Executive Coach
Executive Athlete

Richard Stott
CEO / Founding partner
Connectum

Savita Subramanian
Head of US Equity & Quantitative Strategy
BofA Global Research

Phillip Sundquist, CFA
Managing Director
SUNDQUIST ADVISORY LLC

Shundrawn A. Thomas
Founder and Managing Partner
The Copia Group, LLC

Ingrid Tierens, CFA
Head of Data Strategy for Global Investment Research
Goldman Sachs

Wylie Tollette, CFA
Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer
Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions

François Trahan
President
The Macro Institute

Charles Van Vleet
Assistant Treasurer & Chief Investment Officer of Pension Investments
Textron Inc.

Nerina Visser, CFA
Strategist & Financial Advisor
PCR MEA region, CFA Institute

Charlie Walker-Wise
Practitioner
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Chris Wiese, CFA
Managing Director, Education, CFA Program Management
CFA Institute

Kai Wu
Founder and Chief Investment Officer
Sparkline Capital

Fanesca Young, CFA
Senior Vice President, Director, Equity Portfolio Management
Acadian

Peter Zeihan
President and Founder
Zeihan on Geopolitics
Speakers
Natalia Arias
Sr. Learning Consultant
Instructure

Katie Binns
Director, Product Management
Morningstar
Katie Cullen
Senior Account Executive
Instructure

Brian Moriarty
Principal, Fixed-Income Strategies
Morningstar Research Services LLC

Tom Nations
Director, Research & Content
Morningstar

Jack Shannon
Principal, Equity Strategies
Morningstar

Peter Wilke
Head, Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA)
Northern Trust Asset Management

Michelle Brophy
Director of TMT Research
AlphaSense

Lawrence Burns
Investment Manager, Partner
Baillie Gifford

Matt Vodicka
Senior Vice President, Senior Director of Product Management
FactSet

Daniel Cook, CFA
Global Head of Quantitative Research and Market Intelligence
PitchBook
