Annual Conference for the Investor and Business Elite to be Held on July 16, 2014 at The Pierre in New York City
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., April 1, 2014—CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, and Institutional Investor, today announced the fourth annual Delivering Alpha conference, a singular investor event, scheduled for July 16, 2014 at The Pierre in New York City.
Delivering Alpha brings together the biggest names in the hedge fund and investor communities, as well as influential political and economic leaders for a high-level discussion on the critical issues facing investors in today's global economy. Last year's meeting delivered more than $2 trillion of investable assets represented by over 110 influential institutional investors. Led by top journalists from CNBC and Institutional Investor, the 2013 Delivering Alpha conference featured one-on-one interviews and panel discussions with United States Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew; James Chanos, President and Founder, Kynikos Associates; Leon Cooperman, Chairman and CEO, Omega Advisors; Preet Bharara, United States Attorney – Southern District of New York; Carl Icahn, Chairman, Icahn Enterprises; John Paulson, Founder and Managing Partner, Paulson & Co. Inc.; and Nelson Peltz, Founding Partner, Trian Fund Management L.P., among others.
Exclusive coverage of the Delivering Alpha conference will be featured on CNBC and CNBC.com.
"Delivering Alpha is a can't-miss, high-value event for attendees and CNBC's global audience," said Nikhil Deogun, SVP and Editor in Chief, CNBC Business News. "We look forward to delivering actionable and newsworthy information from the best and brightest in the business."
"Delivering Alpha is more than a conference; it is an experience, bringing together the world's greatest financial minds to explore the most important issues facing investors today," said Michael Peltz, Editor of the magazine group at Institutional Investor. "With the help of this year's esteemed advisory board, we are confident that we will deliver a newsworthy agenda that will shape and move the markets."
The conference agenda is being created in collaboration with a distinguished group of advisory board members including:
- Lee Ainslie, Maverick Capital
- Mary Callahan Erdoes, J.P. Morgan Asset Management
- Glenn Dubin, Highbridge Capital Management
- David Harding, Winton Capital Management
- Carl Icahn, Icahn Enterprises
- Charles Kaye, Warburg Pincus
- Paul Marshall, Marshall Wace
- Jane Mendillo, Harvard Management Company
- John Paulson, Paulson & Co. Inc.
- Nelson Peltz, Trian Fund Management, L.P.
- Larry Robbins, Glenview Capital Management
A portion of the conference proceeds will benefit The Council for Economic Education (CEE), the nation's leading non-profit dedicated to increasing the economic and financial literacy of K-12 students.
For more information about the 2014 Delivering Alpha conference including registration and sponsorship opportunities, log on to: www.deliveringalpha.com.
About CNBC:
With CNBC in the U.S., CNBC in Asia Pacific, CNBC in Europe, Middle East and Africa, CNBC World and CNBC HD, CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news and provides real-time financial market coverage and business information to approximately 371 million homes worldwide, including more than 100 million households in the United States and Canada. CNBC also provides daily business updates to 400 million households across China. The network's 16 live hours a day of business programming in North America (weekdays from 4:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC's global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC at night is the all new CNBC Prime featuring a mix of new reality programming, CNBC's highly successful series produced exclusively for CNBC including "American Greed" and "Crime Inc." and a number of distinctive in-house documentaries.
CNBC also has a vast portfolio of digital products which deliver real-time financial market news and information across a variety of platforms. These include CNBC.com, the online destination for global business; CNBC PRO, the premium, integrated desktop/mobile service that provides real-time global market data and live access to CNBC global programming; and a suite of CNBC Mobile products including the CNBC Real-Time iPhone and iPad Apps.
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About Institutional Investor:
Institutional Investor magazine is the preeminent publication capturing the emergence and growth of institutional investors since the late 1960's. Institutional Investor covers all asset owners —including pension, endowment and sovereign wealth funds — and their impact on global financial markets. In addition to the flagship magazine, Institutional Investor publishes newsletters, books, research products, electronic databases and academic publications, including the iconic Journal of Portfolio Management. Institutional Investor Conferences and Memberships deliver the world's leading asset management firms and institutional investors to foster relationship-building and idea exchange during informal, interactive meetings as well as industry focused research in-between these meetings. Institutional Investor is wholly owned by Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (ERM.L).