U P C O M I N G P R O G R A M SCFA Society of Los Angeles, Inc. ■ 350 South Grand Avenue, Suite 1680 ■ Los Angeles, CA 90071 ■ Phone/Fax: 213.341.1164 ■ www.cfala.org

December 2010

CFA Charter Recognition Luncheon Friday, December 3, 2010 Registration: 11:30am, Lunch: 12:00pm, Speaker and Charter Presentation: 12:30 – 2:00pm Featured Speaker: Margaret Franklin, CFA President and CEO of Kinsale Private Wealth and Chair of the Board of Governors of CFA Institute Chair: Monica Erickson, CFA

Congratulations to the CFA Candidates that have successfully passed the Level III of the CFA Exam!

We are proud to honor our new Los Angeles Society CFA Charter Holders with a special Recognition Luncheon at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles . Please join us in honoring these New CFALA Charter Holders and pass III candidates, all CFALA members are welcome.

Margaret Franklin is the President and CEO of Kinsale Private Wealth. Ms. Franklin has 20 years of institutional and private client investment management experience. She has worked at Barclays Global Investors, State Street Global Advisors and Mercers in senior positions. In 2002, Marg moved from the institutional side of the business to work with private clients and works with individuals and families to construct portfolios that address their specific objectives, needs and personalities. Ms. Franklin is the Chair of the global CFA Institute, is a past president of the Toronto CFA Society and is a CFA charterholder. She has a BA in Economics from McMaster University. Ms. Franklin regularly is a regular

speaker to media and at conferences in the areas of investing, behavioral finance and private wealth. Date: Friday, December 3, 2010 Time: Registration: 11:30am Lunch: 12:00pm Speaker and Charter Presentation: 12:30pm – 2:00pm Location: Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles 506 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90071-2607

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Parking: Hotel Valet Parking: $20.00 Self-Parking at Pershing Square (parking ramps on Olive at 5th and also at 6th Street): $9.35

Cost: All CFALA members, Charter Recipients and Pass Level IIIs are hosted. Each Charter Recipient and Pass Level III may invite 1 guest for free. All additional guests and non-members $40.

CFA Charter Honorees (plus one guest) & CFALA Members: $0.00 *Additional Guests & Non-Members: $40.00

Registration (Click Here)

*If you wish the Vegetarian option for your meal, please choose that option during the registration process.

Spring 2011 USC/CFALA CFA Review Program

USC/CFALA CFA® Review Program Preparing CFA Candidates for the June 2011 CFA Exam Since 1984, CFA Society of Los Angeles, Inc.(CFALA), in partnership with the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business (USC), has offered its Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) Review Program to candidates studying for all three CFA examination levels. In the spring, we offer courses for Level I, II and III candidates. For candidates preparing to take the Level I examination in December, we offer a Saturday review course in the fall. While live instruction is the cornerstone of our program, we also provide candidates with supplemental study tools including a full-length practice examination, access to recorded classroom lectures, and Schweser Notes and Pro Question Bank. The weekday and Saturday review courses provide candidates with a structured classroombased approach to preparing for the various CFA examinations. We designed our program to assist candidates with mastering the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge. Our faculty covers all disciplines on the CFA examination.

Register Here for all Levels of the Review Program

Start Dates and Times:

Level I Weekday

January 4, 2011 (approximately 25 Tuesdays prior to the exam)

6:00pm - 9:00pm Building and Room TBA USC Map

Level I Saturday

January 22, 2011 (approximately 13 Saturdays prior to the exam) 9:00am - 4:00pm Building and Room

TBA USC Map Level II Saturday

January 29, 2011 (approximately 9 Saturdays prior to the exam) 9:00am - 4:00pm Building and Room

TBA USC Map Level III January 29, 2011 (approximately 9 Saturdays 9:00am - Building and Room

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Saturday prior to the exam) 11:00am and 11:30am - 1:30pm

TBA USC Map

Cost Members: $1299 (register by 12/1/10 and take advantage of the early registration discount price of $1099) Cost Non-Members: $1499 (register by 12/1/10 and take advantage of the early registration discount price of $1349) Location: University of Southern California USC Map Parking: Parking is not included in your enrollment fee. The closest parking structure is "X" at Gate 3 on Figueroa just north of Exposition Blvd. The fee is $8 a day.

Spring 2011 Review Program Includes:

• Live Classroom Instruction • Full length practice exam • Mentor Program (level I only) • Web based recordings of the classroom instruction (accessed via the CFALA website • Schweser Study Notes - 6 volumes, Quick Sheet and Practice Exam Volume 1 (available for early

pickup) • SchweserPro Online Question Bank • Candidate Connection • Program Pledge

Register Here for all Levels of the Review Program

Program Pledge: The USC/CFALA CFA Review Program is committed to helping candidates master the Candidate Body of Knowledge and become CFA Charterholders. If you take our Review Program, sit for a level of the CFA exam and fail, then repeat our Review Program and retake the exam (within a 12-month period), we will rebate 100% of your Review Program fee for the repeat level. You must notify the CFALA Administrative Office that you will be utilizing the Program Pledge upon your second registration and provide exam results for both exams within 30 days of the results being released to receive the rebate.

CFA Review Program Cancellation Cancellations must be received in writing, please email cfareview@cfala.org . There is a $550 non-refundable deposit, and you will be charged $100 per Saturday class or $50 per study session that has been taught up to the day your written cancellation is received. There will be no refunds after February 21, 2011. All class times and locations are subject to change.

CFA Institute does not endorse, promote, or warrant the accuracy or quality of the products or services offered by the USC/CFALA CFA® Review Program. CFA Institute, CFA® and Charter Financial Analysts® are trademarks owned by CFA Institute.

Follows CFA Institute Prep Provider Guidelines

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2011 Economic & Investments Forecast Dinner

Thursday, February 10, 2011 Wilshire Grand Los Angeles 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Moderator

Maria Fiorini Ramirez Maria Fiorini Ramirez, Inc. President & Chief Executive Officer

Panelists

Jordan Kotick Barclays Capital Managing Director and Head of Technical Strategy

Luz M. Padilla DoubleLine Senior Portfolio Manager, Emerging Markets Fixed Income

Stephen King HSBC Bank PLC Chief Group Economist & Global Head of Economics and Asset Allocation Research

Maria Fiorini Ramirez is President & Chief Executive Officer of Maria Fiorini Ramirez, Inc., (MFR) an independent global economic and financial consulting firm formed in August 1992. Her firm is highly regarded for its consistently accurate, unbiased analysis of economic trends and other issues that affect markets and investment decisions. Maria is a frequent speaker at U.S. and international forums and is a regular guest on various media outlets. Before starting her own firm, Maria’s career in the financial services industry included positions at American Express International Banking Corporation, Merrill Lynch, and Drexel Burnham Lambert. MFR Securities, Inc., is MFR’s Broker-Dealer subsidiary, operating as an institutional brokerage firm specializing in taxable and municipal securities, with offices in New York, Miami and San Francisco.

Maria has utilized her economic and financial expertise to great advantage as a Director of a diverse group of corporations and not-for-profit organizations.

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Jordan Kotick is Managing Director and Head of Technical Strategy at Barclays Capital. Based in New York, he is responsible for a global team of strategists that cover Commodity, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Equity and Emerging Markets. Mr. Kotick is the past President of the Market Technicians Association (MTA) in New York. He was the first person to have ever been President of both the MTA and the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA). Mr. Kotick has his own regular global show/segment on CNBC. It is broadcast in the US every Wednesday afternoon on the Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo and is called “Kotick: Tick by Tick”. “Kotick Tick by Tick Europe” and “Kotick Tick by Tick Asia” are shown on Thursday morning in each corresponding time zone.

Luz M. Padilla joined DoubleLine in 2009. She is Senior Portfolio Manager of the Emerging Markets Fixed Income strategy. Prior to DoubleLine, she was a Managing Director at TCW since 1994, where she had served in a number of roles of increasing responsibility with the group, including Credit Analyst, Director of Research, Co-Portfolio Manager since December 2001, and lead Portfolio Manager since October 2006. She was involved in all aspects of building and managing TCW’s Emerging Markets Fixed Income business including credit, securitization, trading and marketing. While at TCW, Ms. Padilla managed the Emerging Markets Total Return Strategy. Ms. Padilla attended University of California at Berkeley as a fellow of the Robert A. Toigo Foundation and graduated with an MBA in 1994. Ms. Padilla received her Bachelor’s of Art degree in Economics in 1989 from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Stephen King is HSBC’s group chief economist and the Bank’s global head of economics and asset allocation research. He is directly responsible for HSBC’s global economic coverage and co-ordinates the research of HSBC economists all over the world. Since 2001, Stephen has been writing a weekly column for “The Independent”, one of the UK’s leading newspapers. He appears regularly on both television and radio. He has given written and oral evidence on the economic effects of globalisation to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee. He has also given oral evidence to the House of Lords Committee on UK monetary policy. Between 2007-2009, he was a member of the European Central Bank Shadow Council, and most recently became a member of the Financial Times Economist’s Forum. Stephen's first book, Losing Control, was published by Yale University Press on 4th May 2010. The book examines the impact of the emerging nations on western economic prosperity.

Stephen studied economics and philosophy at Oxford.

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Individual Registration and Payment Information Registration Links for Individual registration CFALA Members Early Registration Price: $70 ($80 after 12-31-2010) Non-members Early Registration Price: $85 ($95 after 12-31-2010)

Payment methods accepted: Credit Cards: Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. Check: If you prefer to pay by check please register online and select "purchase order" as your payment option, enter your last name as the purchase order number. Mail check to: CFA Society of Los Angeles, 350 S. Grand Ave, Suite 1680, Los Angeles CA 90071.

Time Cocktail Hour: 5:00 pm Dinner: 6:00 pm Panel Discussion: 6:30 pm

Location Wilshire Grand Los Angeles: 930 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90017 Parking Wilshire Grand Valet $12 For directions to the Wilshire Grand, please call the hotel: (213) 688-7777 *Sponsor Information Registration Link

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Education Registration Policies

INFORMATION Specific questions on course content should be directed to the course coordinator and education chair. General questions should be directed to Laura Carney at the CFALA administration office at 213-341-1164 x701 or e-mail: info@cfala.org.

CONFIRMATIONS The Society will only send confirmations of enrollment by e-mail. You will be notified if a course has been oversubscribed or canceled. If applicable: grades and/or certificates of completion will be made available only if requested from the course coordinator or instructor at the conclusion of the course.

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CANCELLATIONS Cancellations must be made in writing and received at least 5 business days before the first day of class. Please fax or e-mail cancellations to: (213) 341-1164 or info@cfala.org. All cancellations will incur a $30.00 processing fee. If canceled after the 5-day deadline, a 50% cancellation fee will be charged. The Society reserves the right to cancel any course for any reason. Society cancellation will usually occur because of insufficient preliminary enrollment. The Society will call registrants to notify them of any course cancellations. All prepaid fees will be refunded. The Society also reserves the right to change the location, date and/or time of a course, in which case prior notification will be given to students. PAYMENTS Make all checks payable and send to: CFA Society of Los Angeles, Inc., 350 S. Grand, Ste 1680, Los Angeles, CA 90071. Returned checks will incur a $35 returned check fee. You may also pay by credit card through our online registration at: http://www.cfala.org/cfmfiles/cal/eventlist1.cfm?t=g

Event Registration Policies

CFALA MEMBER REGISTRATION GUIDELINES All reservations must be made via website. In order to assure quality and service to our members, please make reservations in advance. Please make your reservation online. Reservation deadline: 12 noon, two business days prior to an event. Limited space may be available after this deadline. No confirmations are made. You will only be contacted at the phone number provided on your RSVP if space is not available. CANCELLATIONS Cancellations must be received in writing by 9:00 am the day prior to the event. No phone cancellations are accepted. Please fax to the CFALA office at (213) 341-1164 or e-mail info@cfala.org. Member “no-shows” will be billed at $40 unless otherwise noted. CFALA members will be billed the additional $20 to meet the $40 "no-show" fee requirement. GUESTS Guest fees are $50 for CFALA events unless otherwise noted. Payment must be received prior to the event. Returned checks will incur a $35 charge.

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