Guam hosts Pacific investment conference

Tamuning, Guam  Guam Business magazine and Salomon Smith Barney Consulting Group announced that they will host Guam’s first ever Pacific Region Investment Conference next month at the Outrigger Guam Resort with the theme” Investing in the New Millennium.”

The three-day conference, designed to address issues pertinent to the public funds, endowments and foundations and corporate retirement plans, will take place from May 24 through 26, 2000.

Attendees will learn from experts in the field about standards of fiduciary behavior and minimizing the attendant risks, learn from their peers how to avoid the investment pitfalls others have faced, share concerns and knowledge with professional counterparts, discover the perspective needed to achieve development goals and learn how to maximize the value of administrators, investment managers, consultants and custodians.

The Pacific Region Investment Conference is aimed at public and corporate retirement plan trustees and administrators, endowment foundation and other non-profit trustees, administrators and fundraising executives, chief executives, chief financial officers and other business executives and officers, human resource executives, legislators and other public officials with oversight of public funds and other public fund oversight board members, administrators and executives.

Attendees will be able to ask more than 26 experts from sponsoring organizations such as Atlanta Sosnoff, Benefits Corporation, Davis Hamilton Jackson and Associates, Fiduciary Trust international, Invesco Capital Management, Lazard Asset Management, Murray Johnstone International, Oppenheimer Capital, SSBCiti Asset Management, Scudder Investments and others, their toughest questions while benefiting from valuable networking opportunities, as they attend more than 12 hands-on, information-packed sessions that will put them in control of their investment efforts.

Guam Business magazine is the leading business magazine in Micronesia, celebrating 17 years of success. A monthly publication that targets top-level management, political leaders and decision-makers of business and governments through Asia and the Pacific, Guam Business is considered the “authority on business in Micronesia’.” As co-host of the Pacific Region Investment Conference, Guam Business will publish a special section in the May issue with feature stories on keynote speakers and investment activities throughout the region.

Founded in 1973, the Salomon Smith Barney Consulting Group is the industry leader in the field of managed money relationships. Consulting Group advises institutional and individual investors on the management of assets totaling over $180 billion. Clients include public, corporate and Taft-Hartley pension funds, endowments, foundations, hospitals, insurance companies and high net-worth individuals. The Guam office was opened in 1991 and currently advises institutional client assets in excess of $1.8 billion.

The registration fee is $150 per person or $100 per person for two or more registrants from the same organization. Call (671) 649-0883, fax (671) 649-8883, or e-mail glimpses@kuentos.guam.net to register.