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Polling results
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James F. Flanagan
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| Welcoming remarks | James F. Flanagan Leader, US financial services practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
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John J. Brennan
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| Keynote address: Maintaining focus in a dynamic investment landscape
In recent years, sophisticated investors have embraced an expanding array of investment choices and products. Vanguard Chairman and CEO Jack Brennan offers a fresh perspective on navigating through an ever-changing investment environment. | John J. Brennan Chairman and CEO, The Vanguard Group, Inc. |
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Speaker bios
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| Emerging practices for audit committees
This panel of audit committee chairs and other executives will discuss current challenges facing audit committees, including special investigations, executive compensation, financial reporting, achieving long-term investor focus, and how you can address these issues within your committee agenda. | Moderator: Catherine L. Bromilow US leader for corporate governance, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Gerald Czarnecki, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Deltennium Group, Inc.; Audit Committee Chair, State Farm Insurance Companies
Lori Martin, Partner, Securities and Litigation Departments, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP
Mike Passarella, Audit Committee Chair, UnumProvident
Kenton J. Sicchitano, Audit Committee Member, MetLife |
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M&A and private equity transactions: How does it affect your audit committee?
Deal making has grown increasingly complex and audit committees are using caution in managing transactions and the risks associated with them. Our panel of industry thought-leaders will provide insight from the point of view of the investor as well as the institutional side. | Moderator: David Faber, Anchor and Co-producer, CNBC
Barry Giarraputo, Chief Financial Officer, Apollo
Mark Sirower, Managing Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Kurt von Holzhausen, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. |
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David Faber
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Lunch and luncheon address: Update on the current forces impacting the financial services market | Moderator: David Faber, Anchor and Co-producer, CNBC |
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Polling results
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Speaker Bios
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Risk and compliance update
Board and executive leadership is facing an avalanche of new risks -- from financial, operational, and strategic risks, to those associated with today's more rigorous compliance environment. Our panel of top financial services company risk, operations and regulatory executives will discuss these risks, along with best practices around balancing growth, risk and return. | Moderator: Dan Ryan, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Joe McGill, Global Chief Compliance Officer, Asset Management, UBS
Lou Rauchenberger, Global Controller, JP Morgan Chase
Don Truslow, Chief Risk Officer, Wachovia Corporation
Grace Vogel, Executive Vice President of Member Regulation, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority |
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Polling results
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Speaker Bios
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| Concurrent Investment management breakout
PricewaterhouseCoopers professionals will discuss current Tax, SEC compliance, Accounting and Auditing developments that will be of interest to mutual fund audit committee directors. We will provide fund directors with practical guidance, written information on the developments tailored for use by fund directors, and the opportunity to discuss these significant matters with mutual fund audit committee colleagues. | |
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Discussion of lessons learned
This panel, made up of audit committee members representing a variety of financial services institutions, will share their observations and discuss the topics presented by the various speakers during the day's general sessions. The panelists will also share how they plan to put the lessons learned into practice. | Moderator: Tom Pirolo, US banking & capital markets sector assurance leader and global banking & capital markets leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Gerald Czarnecki, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Deltennium Group, Inc.; Audit Committee Chair, State Farm Insurance Companies
Mark Sirower, Managing Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Grace Vogel, Executive Vice President of Member Regulation, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority |
Friday, October 5 | Day 2 | Industry sector forums
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Banking and capital markets
The banking and capital markets industry continues to face several key issues and challenges. Our session will include two facilitated discussions. The first discussion will focus on some of the recent financial reporting developments, including IFRS, fair value, hedging and derivative accounting, as well as the impact of the subprime mortgage industry. The second discussion will tackle a wide range of operational, compliance and regulatory challenges impacting banks and capital markets institutions. We will provide audit committee members with critical information they need for understanding the effect of these issues and challenges on their organizations.
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Polling results
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Insurance
This session will provide insurance audit committee members with practical guidance on a variety of current developments that may significantly impact their performance in this vital role, and the opportunity to discuss these matters with industry peers. PwC partners will provide updates on emerging governance, regulatory and financial reporting trends that audit committee members should be aware of, including recent developments emanating from the SEC, FASB, NAIC and others. A panel of insurance audit committee members will be joined by PwC industry professionals to share their first-hand perspectives on key issues effecting their oversight role, including risk management developments, changes relating to Sarbanes-Oxley, financial reporting developments and other hot topics
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Polling results
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Speaker Bios
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| Investment management
In response to your requests for an interactive session dealing with mutual fund audit committee process and hot topics, PwC partners and others will present a number of scenarios that audit committees may experience. Directors will then have the opportunity to discuss how you would address these scenarios during table discussions. The scenarios will be determined by your responses to our pre-event survey.
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Real estate
The Real Estate breakout session will include two panels. Panel One will focus on Audit Committee Best Practices for real estate companies, and will include discussions concerning recent developments in governance, technical accounting, and risk management issues. Panel Two will explore emerging accounting and reporting trends and their relevance for real estate interests.
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