50th Annual Forecast Dinner
CFA Society Winnipeg celebrates 50 years! Join your friends and colleagues as we reflect on the past year in the markets and forecast the year ahead with special presentations featuring:
Feature Host:
Steve Patterson
Award-Winning Comedian and host of CBC Radio One's "The Debaters"
As host of CBC Radio One’s wildly successful “The Debaters” since 2007 Patterson has become a household name, with more than half a million weekly listeners. In 2010, steady accolades for his work on that show earned him a third invitation to perform on one of Just For Laughs’ prestigious televised galas, hosted by Steve Martin. Considered to be the highlight of the show by the audience and critics alike, Patterson’s performance prompted the legendary Martin himself to quip, “If I’d known he was going to be THAT good, I would have cancelled him.”
Every comic can tell a joke, but Steve Patterson is a triple threat of funny, combining skills as a stand-up comedian with over 15 years of touring experience, a successful radio and TV host and a published humor writer.
Patterson began his full-time comedy career in 1997, shortly after ending his full-time career as a copywriter when he wrote an ad for an amusement park that his boss found a little “too amusing.” Leaving his desk job behind, he opted for the national and international stage. In addition to playing every major city in Canada (and most of the minor ones) he has also headlined in Ireland, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates leaving audiences everywhere united in their praise.
Special Guest Speaker:
James Bruce Flatt
CEO and Senior Managing Partner of Brookfield Asset Management Inc.
Bruce Flatt joined Brookfield 25 years ago and has been CEO for the last 13 years. Prior to that, Bruce was instrumental in building its property businesses in the early 1990s, the expansion of its renewable power businesses in the late 1990s, and the globalization of the operations over the past 25 years.
Bruce has overseen the expansion of the company’s franchise into one of the largest global managers of real assets with over 100 offices in 25 countries and 28,000 employees. Brookfield’s capital is sourced from publicly listed entities and private funds for institutional clients. The company’s $200 billion of investments in property, power, infrastructure and private equity position it as one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world. Brookfield's operations are supported by permanent
capital of over $50 billion and relationships with sovereign and institutional clients on a global basis. Brookfield is co-listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges under the symbol BAM and BAM.A, respectively.