An afternoon French Apéritif gathering with light fare.

HABIB MOUDACHIROU, Founder & Chief Investment Officer, V-Square Quantitative Management, LLC; Board Chair, French-American Chamber of Commerce Midwest Chicago and National French-American Board Director/Executive Committee Member; US citizen & French national who speaks 7 languages; earned a BS, Physics with honors from The Sorbonne University, an MS, Quantitative Finance from University of Rennes and an MS, Statistics & Data Science from ENSAI—with both MS degrees magna cum laude. Habib has also invested in most global markets, crafted numerous risk management systems, and lived globally his entire career.

With NABE CHICAGO President Kathleen Graham as Moderator, this interactive conversation will focus on addressing the changes that have occurred/are likely to occur due to the fluid elements of geopolitics, AI, currency, & debt profiles. These changes are impacting the asset management world…and everyone’s economics.

NOTE: Asset management focuses on strategic asset allocation and managing investment portfolios for long-term growth. Asset management firms create strategies and products tailored to specific corporate and individual scenarios. In assessing whether economics make the markets or vice versa, three topics are top of mind:

• EXPLOSION OF DATA: How do physics, finance, data science—the quantitative sciences—enable the better harnessing of the vast amount of economic news?

• INNOVATION: What are the innovations that appear to be the major changes—positive and negative—that are impacting asset management?

• CULTURE: How does the understanding of “culture” more effectively impact the management of risks and rewards in portfolio management?

TAKEAWAY: you will leave this event knowing more fully whether Economics make the Market or vice versa.