October 2009 Meeting

Event:  October 2009 Meeting
Topic:  Back to the Future: The Financial Manias of 1720 
 
Financial manias (bubbles) are common occurrences. In the past ten years, we have lived through the internet and housing bubbles. The South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles were the first international financial manias. They were surprisingly similar to more recent manias. Perhaps our financial systems have not advanced as far as we would like to think over the past 300 years. Is history bunk, as Henry Ford believed? Can we learn from and avoid the mistakes of the past?

Speaker:  Rob Bresticker – President of Brigadoon Bay Asset Management, LLC

Rob has over 20 years experience in Finance, Accounting, Consulting, Operations, Engineering, and General Management with the US Navy, Arthur Young, General Mills, Motorola, US Robotics, 3Com, and others.  In 1992, he wrote the book: 'American Manufacturing and Logistics in the Year 2001'.  He is registered in Illinois as a CPA.  Rob graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Physics.  He also earned an MBA in Operations and Accounting from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business and a Masters in Manufacturing Engineering from Northwestern University.

Date:  Tuesday, October 13, 2009  

3:30 Registration
4:00 Speaker
5:00 Hors d’oeuvres reception

Location:
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of IL
300 E. Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60601
CAL Conference Room 5

Cost:  
Members: $30 with hors d’oeuvres, $20 without hors d’oeuvres
Non Members: $40 with hors d’oeuvres, $30 without hors d’oeuvres
Retirees/Unemployed $10 with hors d’oeuvres, Free without

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