Events and Symposiums

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LAS VEGAS MONEY SHOW – MAY 12-15, 2008
Learn How to Manage Your Investment Portfolio in a Volatile Market
With the subprime mess, Fed rate cuts, a government stimulus, and a Presidential election only a few months away, The Money Show Las Vegas, May 12-15, 2008, at The Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino is your best opportunity to learn how to manage your portfolio during these questionable, economic times. Hear from world-class experts in more than 220 FREE workshops where they will give you every opportunity to prepare yourself for the uncertainty that may lie ahead. Also, visit the exhibit hall and meet over 200 exhibitors face-to-face and evaluate the latest tools and software—all designed to help you profit in 2008. Register today— it's FREE!

The New York Stock Exchange is a diamond sponsor of the Las Vegas Money Show at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada from May 12-15 2008.
The Las Vegas Money Show attracts more than 7,000 US based individual investors, traders, and financial advisors representing billions of dollars in assets. The average portfolio size of the attendees is $1.05 million. A large majority of the attendees (91%) currently own stocks and (68%) own mutual funds.
The NYSE is hosting a series of breakout sessions with listed companies and closed-end funds. The sessions are an important benefit of the overall conference.
In addition to the breakout session, the NYSE is hosting a booth in the main exhibit hall (101), which highlights the NYSE listed closed end fund companies cited below. Companies will display marketing material at reserved times over the three days.

The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture, and the Bubbles of 1720
An Interdiscplinary Symposium - April 17-19, 2008
Sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library & Yale School of Management
International Center for Finance
On April 17-19, 2008, European and North American scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will con­verge on Yale University to explore the financial and cultural history of the first great international stock market crash.
The starting point for this conference is an extraordinary Dutch volume owned by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: The Great Mirror of Folly (or, in the original Dutch, Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid). Early versions of this folio were published in Amsterdam within months of the 1720 crashes that had rocked the stock markets of England, France, and the Dutch Provinces and affected investors throughout Europe. The folio deals in part with such well known events as the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles. It is divided evenly between texts and images and includes plays, poems, songs, and pro­spectuses for new equity issues, as well as satirical and allegorical prints, maps, and decks of playing cards.
Not only is the book worth studying as a historical document, it is also notable for examples of the kind of textual and visual language we still use whenever a new “bubble” appears, starting with the metaphor of the bubble in relation to stock trading and the image of the unlucky investor falling to his death.