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A Lecture at the ASE about Hedge Fund Industry

On March 5th, 2013, Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) in cooperation with the Embassy of the United Estates in Amman will hold a lecture entitled "The Future of the Hedge Fund Industry: How will they view investing in frontier and emerging markets in the coming years and how will such markets deal with the issue of hot money?" at the Capital Market Institutions premises / King Abdullah II, 1st Floor/ at 2:00 pm.

 

For more information, please contact Awareness & Public relations Department; phone no (06-5664109) ext. (1701). For those who are willing to participate send their names to the following e-mail pr@ase.com.jo. no later than Thursday, Feb 28. Note that the lecture will be in English with simultaneous translation.

 

 

 

William D. Cohan

Résumé

 

William D. Cohan is a contributing editor at Fortune, and award-winning investigative newspaper reporter based in Raleigh, North Carolina, who worked on Wall Street for seventeen years. He spent six years at Lazard Frères in New York and later became a managing director at JP Morgan Chase. He is the bestselling author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street and of The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co., the winner of the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. His new book, Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, was published April 12. It is also a New York Times bestseller. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, a contributor to Fortune, and writes a weekly opinion column for BloombergView. He previously wrote a bi-weekly opinion column for The New York Times. He also writes occasionally for The Financial Times, The Atlantic, ArtNews, the Irish Times and the Washington Post, and appears occasionally as a guest on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and on Bloomberg TV, where he is a contributing editor. He has also appeared as a guest on the Daily Show, with Jon Stewart, The NewsHour, The Charlie Rose Show and the Tavis Smiley Show, as well as on numerous NPR, BBC and Bloomberg radio programs. He is a graduate of Duke University, Columbia University School of Journalism and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.