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10:00 – 11:00 - Real Assets: From Inflation Hedge to
Safe Haven
Proxima Alfa Mark Corigliano joined the Anglian Commodities Fund in May 2005 to implement a long/short equity trading strategy focused on the energy, metals & mining, and industrial sectors. In May 2007, he launched the Anglian Equity Fund utilizing the same investment strategy. He began his career at Schlumberger, the world’s largest oil-field service company, where he performed engineering services in the Gulf of Mexico for major exploration and production companies. After attending business school, he joined Duke Management Company, the investment company for Duke University. At Duke, Mark managed a $200 million portfolio of private equity investments in the natural resource sector and co-managed a $2 billion internal fund of hedge funds. He also developed and implemented a unique commodity futures trading program.
Mark
received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.B.A.
(beta gamma sigma) from the University of North Carolina. He is
also a CFA charter holder.
Timothy Fritzinger
Principal FLAG Capital Timo joined FLAG in January 2007 focusing on the real assets investment program. Prior to joining FLAG, Timo was a senior research consultant for Cambridge Associates, where he was responsible for analyzing private equity partnerships spanning the real assets spectrum. Prior to joining Cambridge Associates, he spent five and a half years with Hancock Timber Resource Group. Timo joined Hancock upon receiving an MBA and a Masters of Forestry from Yale University. Timo is a CFA charterholder.
Mike Miles
Senior
Managing Director
Guggenheim
Real Estate
Dr. Miles is the Senior Managing Director
responsible for portfolio management. Prior to forming Guggenheim Real Estate
LLC, Mike served as Portfolio Manager for the Fidelity Real Estate Asset
Manager, a series of institutional investment vehicles that combine public
securities with direct real estate ownership. Before joining Fidelity, Mike was
Executive Vice President of the Prudential Realty Group and Managing Director
of Prudential Real Estate Advisors. Mike also served as Vice President of
Finance for Albert Investment Corporation, a real estate development firm. Mike
was also previously a Foundation Professor of Real Estate and the Associate
Dean of the Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mike is a past president of the National Council of Real Estate Investment
Fiduciaries (“NCREIF”) and the American Real Estate and Urban Economics
Association.
He has received two of the real estate investment industry’s most prestigious awards: the Robert Toigo Award for leadership in real estate portfolio management from Institutional Real Estate and the Graaskamp Award for contributions to real estate research from the Pension Real Estate Association. He is the lead author of the Urban Land Institute’s Development Process Text. He was also the Editor of Institutional Investor’s Real Estate Finance for 10 years. He is a graduate of Washington & Lee University and holds an MBA from Stanford and a PhD from the University of Texas.
Chris Zinkhan
Managing
Director
Forestland
Group
Dr. Chris Zinkhan is a co-founder of
The Forestland Group (“TFG”) where he serves as Managing Director and Chief
Investment Officer. In his position, Dr. Zinkhan supervises investments
and the development of portfolio strategy and serves as Chairman of
Anderson-Tully Company and Louisiana Hardwood Products. TFG, through its
funds, controls the largest private portfolio of hardwood timberlands in the
nation. A timberland investment management organization (“TIMO”) which
specializes in timberland and timber-related entities, TFG controls 3.0 million
acres in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America.
Dr. Zinkhan was the senior author of the first book addressing timberland as an investment alternative: Timberland Investments: A Portfolio Perspective. He also coauthored the timberland investments chapter in the recent book, Forests in a Market Economy. His published research has been cited in the 1997 Nobel lecture by one of laureates in economics and in NASA-funded research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on strategic technology selection. He is a regular speaker at international, national, and regional timberland investments, forestry, and finance conferences. In addition, he has assisted a diversity of entities as a timberland investment consultant and has served as an expert witness to the U.S. Department of Justice in the area of timberland interest valuation. He is on the Steering Committees of the primary southern forest economics association (SOFEW) and the Southern Roundtable on Sustainable Forests and on Advisory Committees for units of the forestry schools at the University of Georgia and Mississippi State University. He received a B.A. in biology from Franklin and Marshall College; an MBA from Duke University; a Masters in Forestry from Duke University; and a DBA in Finance from Mississippi State University.
Moderated By:
Hugh Wrigley
Founder & Managing Director
Global Endowment Management
Mr. Wrigley has over twenty years of
experience in corporate and financial transactions and private investment
management. Prior to forming Global Endowment Management, he ran private
investments at DUMAC, managing $1.8 billion in market value / $2.1 billion in
unfunded commitments of venture capital, leveraged buyout, real estate, and
natural resources investments. Previously, he was an investment banker in
M&A at Goldman, Sachs & Co and international capital markets lawyer
with Linklaters in New York and London. Mr. Wrigley is a Member of the
New York Bar Association, Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales, and
Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. He holds a
Bachelor of Law (honors) and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of
Melbourne.
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