Future Events

The next 18 to 24 months will likely see a titanic clash in Congress as the forces aligned for healthcare reform cross swords with those standing firm against it.

Which side prevails is anybody's guess. But one thing is certain from an investment prospective --if you're a player in any of the hot industries working to rescue the most expensive healthcare infrastructure in the world--you'll likely win no matter what.

With unimaginable uncertainty and volatility in the markets, getting due diligence right in private equity deals is more important than ever before.

With uncertain and volatile markets, lenders are demanding it and few of us can afford to waste time and resources in deals that fall apart at the last minute or go belly up when the markets swoon.

But no matter what the market conditions, there’s really just one secret to effective diligence in PE deals.

At this year’s MasterClass on “Mastering Due Diligence” you'll hear from 20 experienced partners active in a variety of sectors on how they effectively identified and set goals to use diligence to uncover great opportunities even while searching for potential hitches.

Join institutional investors and leading academics and advisors at this exclusive forum. Hear all sides of each issue and understand how your peers have successfully implemented activism within their portfolio. Topics to be discussed include:

• Is There A Retirement Age Bomb?
• Does Investor Activism Make a Difference?
• Corporate Control - How Will M&A Change?
• Executive Compensation: Can You Swallow These Numbers?
• Investor Legislation for the Next Administration
• Investing In Companies or Countries That Are Not Socially Responsible - Is Divestment a Fiduciary or Political Issue?
• Global Governance Update
• Shareholder Activism Update
• Why Or Why Not Get Involved - To Litigate Or Not?
• Securities Case Damages - Real or Illusory?

World Research Group's 3rd Annual Performance Focused Emerging Managers Conference targets core issues that were cited by over 150 leading professionals from public funds, pension consulting firms and emerging manager firms. Our goal is to provide a one stop shop to acquire the tools to search for, select and incorporate emerging managers into your fund.

Conference Highlights:

Private Equity Firms can showcase their company exclusively to the lower middle market.

Hear from deal makers about active buy/sell engagements.

• First Private Equity Forum to be held on Thursday, January 22, 2009.
• Deal Expo
• Deal Origination Research Participant

PE Firms that are exhibitors will have the opportunity to participate in a research initiative led by David Teten, a Managing Director of Evalueserve, the world's largest knowledge process outsourcing company. He is writing a definitive white paper on Best Practices in Private Equity Deal Origination. Responses will be kept strictly confidential and will be reported in the aggregate without your name or your company's name attached to them. The results will be announced at the conference on Thursday, January 22 and we will share a copy of the final white paper with you.