th EVENT SCHEDULE: 12 Annual 17:30 Welcome Drink 19:00 Presentations & Dinner Featured Keynote Speakers: Break during the main course Prediction Contest for dinner guests 21:30 After Dinner Mixer CFA Society Wine tasting Prazdroj beer sampling Miroslav Singer Belgium chocolate truffle tasting SPEAKERS: Forecasting Opening Remarks: Marek Jindra, CFA, FCCA, ASA Anatole Kaletsky Master of Ceremonies Keynote Speakers: Dinner 2014 Miroslav Singer Governor, Czech National Bank Topic: “Recent Developments in the Czech Economy and CNB Monetary Policy and Forecast” Under the Auspices of the Czech Anatole Kaletsky Chairman, Institute for New Economic Thinking National Bank Governor, Miroslav Singer Reuters and New York Times columnist Topic: “The Cyclical Rebound is Over; Can 13 February 2014 at 5:30 pm a Structural Bull Market Begin Now?” Forecast Survey: Congress Centre of ČNB, Senovážné náměstí 30, Jan Herzmann Prague 1 Managing Partner, Herzmann s.r.o. CFA Institute Research Challenge: Marek Jindra, CFA, FCCA, ASA Official announcement of the winning team REGISTRATION REQUIRED Register by 13 January 2014 for an early bird rate of CZK 750 plus VAT for CFA Society members and CZK 1,500 plus VAT for non-members. The full price after 13 January is CZK 1,500 plus VAT for CFA Society members and CZK 2,500 plus VAT for non-members. To register and make the payment please follow this link: http://www.amiando.com/VOJIMCA. For more information contact: [email protected]. Society Sponzors: Partners for PR and Forecast Survey: Media Partners: Keynote Speakers Anatole Kaletsky Chairman, Institute for New Economic Thinking Anatole Kaletsky is a Reuters and New York Times columnist, was nominated for the BBC’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Non- as well as partner and co-chairman of GaveKal Dragonomics. Fiction. Mr. Kaletsky’s book The Costs of Default influenced He is also chairman of the Institute for New Economic the resolution of the Latin American debt crisis via Brady Thinking. Previously, Mr. Kaletsky was a full-time journalist bonds. He holds a first-class degree in mathematics from for The Times, the Economist, and the Financial Times, where King’s College, Cambridge, and an MA in economics from he was a Washington correspondent and the New York Harvard University, where he was a Kennedy Scholar. Mr. bureau chief. His recent book, Capitalism 4.0, about the new Kaletsky also holds an honorary doctorate of science from model of capitalism emerging from the global financial crisis, the University of Buckingham. Miroslav Singer CNB Governor Born on 14 May 1968 in Prague. After graduating in Miroslav Singer has lectured on preparatory mathematical mathematical methods in economics from the University analysis, statistics, advanced econometrics and labour of Economics in Prague (1991), Miroslav Singer obtained a economics at the Centre for Economic Research and postgraduate fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate Education at Charles University and now lectures where he completed his thesis and was awarded a PhD on information economics at the University of Economics in in 1995. From 1993, he also worked as a researcher and Prague. He has published articles in the daily and professional lecturer, and later as Deputy Director for Research, at the press, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Economics of Transition and the Journal of Comparative Czech Republic and the Centre for Economic Research and Economics, and has contributed chapters to books issued Graduate Education at Charles University (CERGE-EI). He was by publishers such as Academic Press London and the Chief Economist at Expandia Finance from 1995, Managing Lappeenranta University of Technology. As a participant at Director of Expandia Investment Company in 1998-1999 and specialist conferences and in his lectures, he has also dealt Managing Director of Expandia Holding (the top company of with issues such as transformation, growth, the European the Expandia financial and industrial group) in 2000-2001. In currency, bankruptcy legislation and corporate governance. 2001, Miroslav Singer joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Czech Republic as Director of the services to businesses group, Miroslav Singer is married with two children. where he specialised in corporate recovery, restructuring and distressed assets transactions. Miroslav Singer was appointed a member of the CNB Bank Board and Vice-Governor in February 2005. The President He has been a member of the Supervisory Boards/Boards of appointed him CNB Governor for a term of six years with Directors at Česká pojišťovna, Expandia Finance, Expandia effect from 1 July 2010. Banka, Expandia Holding and Chemofond, as well as at industrial companies such as Jitona, Vigona and Vlnap. He has been a member of the editorial boards of Finance a úvěr (Journal of Economics and Finance) and Business Central Europe. www.czechcfa.cz .