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Monday, December 15, 2008
Recent Publications from our Economic Panelists
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Credit Risk Panel at the Midwinter Conference
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Never has a Credit Risk Panel been so relevant and significant to all of us. We are very fortunate to have the Gerson Lehrman Group sponsoring this session. The GLG Financial & Business Services Practice provides customized access to a global network of over 19,000 industry professionals in the Financial Services and Insurance industries and the business services that support them.
Financial & Business Services experts include current and former executives from Fortune 1000 companies, product structure specialists, exchange professionals, mortgage brokers, independent consultants, actuaries, and industry thought leaders. Beyond their financial support of the session and the Conference, they contacted relevant professionals in their database and helped us identify the key people who could add value to the program.
Our first Credit Risk panelist is Ron Cathecart. While at WAMU, Mr. Cathcart had oversight of all aspects of risk in the organization including, credit, market, operational, compliance, regulatory and internal audit. Mr. Cathcart built a large team for assessing risk on the mortgage portfolio, and was instrumental in policy decisions relating to exiting the subprime market. Bob Emmerich is our second speaker. Mr. Emmerich was Chief Risk Officer at National City Bank, and in his role was responsible for asset quality of mortgages and other financial services product offered by his firm.
Enrico Dallavechia, our third panelist, comes to us from Fannie Mae. As Chief Risk Officer to the GSE, Dallavechia had overall responsibility for credit, market, counterparty, and operational risk oversight for all business units within Fannie Mae.
Our moderator, Dave Nole, is Chief Risk Officer for Consumer Banking at Wachovia. Beyond his extensive insight into assessment and decisioning concerning risk at his enterprise, Mr. Nole is a “Conference Veteran” and will provide his own thoughts and comments as well as moderating the session.
Friday, December 5, 2008
James B. Lockhart, III Confirms His Participation
Our keynote Saturday late afternoon presentation will be called, “An Evening with James Lockhart.” In addition to being the Director of FHFA (formerly OFHEO), and currently sitting as the Chairman of the Federal Housing Oversight Board, Mr. Lockhart is a fantastic speaker. Hear directly from the individual responsible for governing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks, along with creating a world class governmental organization that has had communications as its priority.
The Canyons Snow Report - Friday, December 5, 2008 - Opening Day
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Monday, November 10, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Park City Art Gallery Stroll on February 27th
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The Park City Gallery Association's 23 galleries offer a variety of top quality art sure to appeal to your individual taste! Click here for a map of the galleries that participate.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
20% Discount on Rentals
As you plan your participation in the 2009 event, please keep in mind that The Canyons will offer all our group attendees a 20% discount on ski and snowboard sport (category) rentals at our onsite Canyon Mountain Sports. Just show your registration badge and discount voucher and you are ready to save and ski!
Click here for an idea of what is available from Canyon Mountain Sports and then reserve basic equipment on line, or schedule your fitting for your room at the Grand Summit, Sundial or Silverado – no lines and personal attention.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
It's Snowing at The Canyons!
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23 days left to The Canyons opens for the season, and the first snowfall of the year has brought in 6” in the past 24 hours.
For those of you with iPhones, click here to add the Snow Report to your iPhone. (This link will automatically open your iTunes Window).
MBA Panel Now Posted
We’ve been very fortunate to have John Courson gather together the leadership of the MBA for their panel at our event in February. Speaker biographies are now available on line for David Kittle, Chairman of the MBA; Rob Story, Chairman-Elect and Steve O’Connor, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, along with John Courson’s. John is going to moderate the panel and using the allegory of the Wizard of Oz for a theme, discuss the tornado whose winds have affected us all, where we are now (hence the title – We are not in Kansas anymore!), and how the MBA feels we will find our “home” again.
Those of you who might be interested in recent coverage of the MBA Convention and remarks made by John Courson and David Kittle there may enjoy clicking here to read coverage from the Wall Street Journal Digital Edition.
Further information about MBA is available by clicking here.
Friday, October 31, 2008
What's New(s) About The Midwinter Housing Finance Conference
The conference brochures arrived (at last) today. As we have had all the envelopes and letters ready to go, we should be stuffing and stamping, and will hopefully get them out before the office closes. The brochures are a little late; but they look great, and the Conference is really coming together by leaps and bounds already.
Check back here, as frequently as you might like so you can learn what has been updated at the site, www.midwinterconference.com and so that we can share everything we know about the conference as it unfolds.
Brian