Bloomberg Portfolio Manager Mash-Up Conference

What is the outlook for emerging markets in 2012 as they contend with a euro zone in protracted and deepening crisis and a general malaise around developed markets?

According to Bloomberg data, BRIC funds recorded $15 billion of outflows this year as the MSCI BRIC Index dropped 23 percent. Have BRICs seen their best decade? Which frontier markets are next in line to succeed Brazil, Russia, India and China in leading the world’s growth in 2012 and beyond?

With governments of developed economies facing more than $7.6 trillion of maturing debt this year, will investor pump money into emerging market debt? We’ll examine the expected performance of emerging market external and local debt as well currencies in 2012.

Speakers:
Peter Chiappinelli, Portfolio Strategist, Asset Allocation, Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. (GMO)
Joseph H. Davis, Principal and Chief Economist, The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Bernard R. Horn, Jr., President and Portfolio Manager, Polaris Capital Management, LLC
Igancio E. Sosa, EVP, Emerging Markets Product Management, PIMCO

Interviewed by:
Simeon Hyman, Wealth Strategist, Bloomberg L.P.

Does China present an opportunity for advisors and investors looking for alternatives to the fiscal and financial crisis plaguing the U.S. and the European Union? Or does China, in 2012, present its own cautionary tale? We’ll examine the downside risks to growth in the world’s second largest economy and measures the government is likely to take to stabilize prices.

After the dramatic decline of Sino-Forest following allegations of fraud, how should investors evaluate governance and accounting policies of Chinese- listed companies?

Speakers:
Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly, Director of Research, Global Asset Allocation Division, Fidelity Asset Management
Samantha Ho, Portfolio Manager, Invesco China Fund; Investments Director, China, Invesco
A. Gary Shilling, President, A. Gary Shilling & Co., Inc.

Interviewed by:
Sara Eisen, Markets Reporter, Bloomberg Television; Co-Host, Bloomberg on the Economy, Bloomberg Radio