December 13, 1995
TO: BOARD OF GOVERNORS No. 77-95
INVESTMENT COMPANY DIRECTORS No. 6-95
MEMBERS - ONE PER COMPLEX No. 108-95
RE: REGIONAL FORUMS FOR DIRECTORS -- BOSTON FORUM FEBRUARY 23
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I am pleased to announce that the Investment Company Institute will hold a series of one-day
Regional Forums for investment company directors in selected cities around the country. Enclosed is
the program and registration form for the first Regional Forum, which will be held in Boston,
Massachusetts on Friday, February 23. Regional Forums also are planned for New York City in
April and San Francisco in June.
The Forums will be especially useful for those fund directors who were unable to attend the
Institutes September 1995 Directors Conference in Washington DC. Each Forum will feature a popular
presentation from the 1995 Conference -- a case study conducted as a business school class by Professor
Peter Tufano of Harvard Business School and Professor Erik Sirri of Babson College.
The Boston Forum will feature a luncheon keynote address and question-and-answer period with
Barry Barbash, Director of the SECs Division of Investment Management. Also included from the
September Conference is a panel on industry trends, moderated by Institute Chief Economist John Rea.
Other panels members will include Bob Pozen, Managing Director and General Counsel of Fidelity
Investments; John Cannon, an independent director of the Rochester Funds and the Neuberger &
Berman Funds; Geoff Bobroff, President of Bobroff Consulting, Inc.; and Kurt Cerulli, Principal, Cerulli
Associates, Inc. Rounding out the program will be a small group discussion session, which will provide
fund directors with an opportunity to share their thoughts with their peers on issues of common concern.
Attendance at each Forum will be limited to no more than 100 directors, officers, and
employees of Institute member firms. Registration for the Boston Forum will be open only to
currently serving directors of Institute member investment companies through January 26.
Registration forms received from other Institute member representatives prior to January 26 will
be held until that date and then processed on a first-come, first-served basis, as space permits.
For more information about the Forum programs, please contact Angela C. Goelzer, Assistant
Vice President for Director Services, at 202/326-5834. For questions regarding registration for a
Forum, please contact the Institutes Conference Division at 202/326-5968.
C. Richard Pogue
Executive Vice President
Enclosure