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SAAJ Seminars and Annual Conference

SEMINARS

SAAJ holds various kinds of seminars to enable members to brush up their knowledge and learn the latest developments in the investment world.

SAAJ INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

Newly introduced as an annual continuing education program for investment professionals, the “SAAJ International Seminar” is a high-caliber seminar focusing on the most critical issues related to investment management. This seminar is supported by supranational organizations of professional financial analysts: The Association of Certified International Investment Analysts; Asian Securities and Investments Federation; and The European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies.

   2010    Investment Management Strategies: After the Financial Crisis
  18-19 February 2010, Tokyo                                                                                    

 

SAAJ SEMINAR

This seminar mainly focuses on equity analysis.

   2010    21 January
  New Equity Investment Strategy for Asset Management – Dull Performance of Japanese
  Equity Investment Necessitates Action
   2009    23 January
  Ascertaining Attractive Features of Japanese Stocks – From the Viewpoint of Global
  Investors
   2008    23 January
  New Trend in Investment Funds and Capital Markets
   2007    22 January
  Evaluation of Group Companies
   2006    20 January
  Company Sustainability - New Viewpoints for Company Valuation
   2005    20 January
  M&A and Company Valuation
   2004    20 January
  Equity Valuation and Financial Information
   2003    22 January
  Corporate Governance and Company Valuation
   2002    15-17 January
  Corporate Behavior and Equity Valuation
   2001    22-26 January
  Alternative Investments
   2000    17-27 January
  Valuing Companies in the Face of Globalization of Accounting Standards

 

SAAJ SUMMER SEMINAR

This seminar targets the analysis of macroeconomics, finance, and bond investments.

 July 2009 Financial Crisis and Fixed Income Portfolio Strategy
 July 2008  Various Problems in Relation to Securitized Products
 July 2007  New Development of Bond Investment - Current Issues in Monetary Policy, and
 Strategy of New Investment Products
 July 2006  New Tide of Structured Products and Its Risk Management - Targeted on
 Collateralized Debt Obligation
 July 2005  New Tide of Bond Investment - The Search for a New Frontier of Interest Bearing
 Products
 July 2004  Pension Funds and Bond Investment
 July 2003  The Search for Alpha in Bond Investment
 July 2002  Credit Risk
 June 2001  Bond Portfolio Management

 

SAAJ PRIVATE BANKING (PB) SEMINAR

 December 2009 Private Banking Seminar No. 3
 October 2009 Supplementary Seminar for Private Bankers (7)
‘Family Office : Cases in U.S. and their Implementation for Japanese’
 July 2009 Supplementary Seminar for Private Bankers (6)
‘Basics of Trust Law’
 May 2009 Supplementary Seminar for Private Bankers (5)
‘Practice of Inheritance Tax : Business Succession under New Law’
 May 2009 Supplementary Seminar for Private Bankers (4)
‘Basics of Inheritance Tax : What Private Bankers should Know’
  January 2009 Supplementary Seminar for Private Bankers (3)
‘Shaken Global Real-Estate Market and its Future Recovery Prospects’
 December 2008 Private Banking Seminar No.2
 October 2008 Supplementary Seminar for Private Bankers (2)
‘How to Distinguish the Real Estate Value and How to Utilize it for Good Advice’
 August 2008 Supplementary Seminar for Private Bankers (1)
‘Characteristics and Key Points of Real Estate Investments for High Net Worth Individuals’
 December 2007  Private Banking Seminar No.1 
Theory and Practice for Private Bankers

SAAJ-NIPPON FINANCE ASSOCIATION JOINT SEMINAR

This seminar is jointly conducted with the Nippon Finance Association. Themes are of an academic nature.

 September 2009 Pension Portfolio Strategy after the Financial Crisis
 September 2008 Investment Information in Equity Market and Investment Behavior
 September 2007  New Trend of Hedge Fund
 September 2006  Valuation of Accounting Information and Capital Market
 September 2005  M&A and Company Valuation - Theory and Practice
 September 2004  Analysis of Investor Behavior
 October 2003  Equity Risk Premia
 October 2002  Behavioral Finance: New Tide of Finance Theory
 October 2001  Law, Contracts, and Finance
 September 2000  New Ways of Valuation of the Firm

 

Seminars for CIIA holders from abroad in 2010

The SAAJ will offer three CIIA seminars during the year 2010. There is no fee for CIIA holders from abroad and lunch is included. All speeches are in Japanese with simultaneous interpretation in English.


 

OTHER SEMINARS

Some 80 presentations by Japanese and foreign specialists on various topics concerning investment theory, economics, and financial, industrial, and scientific technology, etc. are held annually.


 

SAAJ ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The first SAAJ Annual Conference was held in 1986. Since then, it has been held to promote members' knowledge and networking. The program consists of memorial lectures and panel discussions on current topics of interest to securities analysts.

The 24th SAAJ Annual Conference was successfully held in Tokyo on 9 October 2009 with 600 attending.

The program was as follows:

Investment Management Sessions:
Session1-‘Reconsidering Risk Management’
       Yuji Kage, Former Managing Director, Pension Fund Association
Session2-‘The Importance of Governance’
       Charles D. Ellis, Director of Vanguard group, Chair of the Whitehead Institute
       for Biomedical Research

Memorial Speech:
‘New Structure of World Economy and the Role of Japan’
Toshihiko Fukui, Former Governor of the Bank of Japan and President of the Canon Institute for Global Studies

Keynote Speech:
‘Overcoming the Financial and Economic Crises’
Kazuhiko Toyama, Representative Director and CEO, Industrial Growth Platform, Inc.

Panel Discussion:
‘Overcoming the Financial and Economic Crises’
Four top managements of major Japanese companies and a security analyst with Mr. Kazuhiko Toyama, as a moderator, Representative Director and CEO, Industrial Growth Platform, Inc.

The 25th SAAJ Annual Conference will be held in Tokyo in October 2010

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