2014 SMIFC Conference

SMIFC: 2014 SMIFC Agenda

Thursday, October 2, 2014

12:00 - 1:15 p.m. - Check In - HMSU, Dede I

1:15 - 1:30 p.m. - Opening Remarks - HMSU, Dede I

Dr. Brien Smith, Dean College of Business and Co- Founder of SMIFC
Dr. Tarek Zaher, Professor of Finance and Co-Founder of SMIFC

1:30 - 2:20 p.m. - Session 1, Keynote Speaker - HMSU, Dede I

Alternative Investments Allocation in a Diversified Portfolio

Mike Alley, Commissioner, State of Indiana Department of Revenue

2:20 - 2:35 p.m. - Break

2:35 - 3:25 p.m. - Session 2, Keynote Speaker - HMSU, Dede I

Innovation in the Markets with thinkorswim

John Hart, Director, Trading Products at TD Ameritrade thinkorswim

3:25 - 3:40 p.m. - Break

3:40 - 4:30 p.m. - Session 3, Panel Discussion - HMSU, Dede I

Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) practices in Portfolio Management, Financial Analysis and Asset Allocation

Moderator: Sharon Robinson, CFP

Panelists:

1.    SMIF Team 1 (Indiana State University)
2.    SMIF Team 2 (Oberlin College)
3.    SMIF Team 3 (University Tennessee Martin)

4:30 - 5:00 p.m. - Break

5:00 - 6:30 p.m. - Session 4, Scott College of Business, Federal Hall - Rm. FD122

SMIF Partners Organizational Meeting (SMIF partners only) Scott College of Business

(Federal Hall, Rm. 122)

6:30 p.m. - Dinner (by invitation), Scott College of Business, Federal Hall - Room FD223

Friday, October 3, 2014

9:00 - 9:50 a.m. - Session 5, Workshop, Scott College of Business, Minas Center (Federal Hall, Rm. FD123)

Uses and Applications of thinkorswim Platform

Mary Ryan, thinkorswim, TD Ameritrade

9:50 - 10:00 a.m. - Break

10:00 - 10:50 a.m. - Session 6, Workshop - Scott College of Business, Minas Center (Rm. FD123)

The Value of Establishing Trading Rooms at Business Schools

Ryan Cahoy, President, Rise Display

10:50 - 11:00 a.m. - Break

11:00 - 11:50 a.m. - Session 7, Keynote Speaker - HMSU, Dede I

Financial Planning Today and Investment 101

Randall K. Minas, CFP, Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor at City Securities Corporation

11:50 - 1:10 p.m. - Lunch - HMSU, Dede III

*Career Fair will run concurrently with Lunch* Dede I

1:10 - 1:50 p.m. - Session 8, Keynote Speaker- HMSU, Dede I

Technical Analysis - Pump Up the Volume

What is the Market Technician Association Educational Foundation (MTAEF)?  How can I benefit from MTAEF?

Buff Dormeier, CMT, Representative of the Market Technician's Association Educational Foundation

1:50 - 2:00 p.m. - Break

2:00 - 2:50 p.m. - Session 9, Panel Discussion - HMSU, Dede I

Investment Management and Asset Allocation (Individual vs. Institutions)

Moderator: Dr. Mahmoud Haddad, Professor of Finance, University of Tennessee at Martin

Panelists:

Don Edwards, CFA, President, Wabash Capital, Inc.

Shawn A. Sabau, CFP, Vice President, Financial Advisor at City Securities Corp.

2:50 - 3:00 p.m. - Closing Remarks - HMSU, Dede I

Tarek Zaher, Professor of Finance, Scott College of Business, Indiana State University

Mike Alley

Mike Alley is Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Revenue. Mike comes to the Department after decades of management experience in the banking industry.  Previously, Mr. Alley served as President and CEO of Fifth Third Bank of Central Indiana in Indianapolis from 1989 through 2002. In 2009, he was named interim chairman and CEO of Integra Bank Corporation in Evansville, a position he held until 2011. He also served as the president of the board of trustees of Indiana State University. Currently, Mr. Alley is chairman and owner of Patriot Investments, LLC, a company he founded in 2002. In addition, he serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including the Indiana State University Foundation, the Boy Scouts of America Crossroads of America Council, and the United Way of Central Indiana. Mr. Alley holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Indiana State University.

Randall K. Minas

Randall K. Minas is a Financial Advisor and Senior Vice President at City Securities Corporation. Randy holds the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation and has been in the financial services industry for over 37 years. Randy graduated cum laude from Indiana State in 1975 with a degree in management and a minor in accounting. He now serves the university as the President of the Board of Trustees. Through their generosity, Randy and his wife, Nancy, funded the Randall and Nancy Minas Financial Trading Lab at the Scott College of Business.

Ryan Cahoy

Ryan Cahoy has been involved with LED technology and digital signage for nearly 20 years. Through the years he has been involved in all facets of the business from product and software development to sales and marketing. Ryan primarily works with education clients to design solutions to integrate with data feeds and other systems to help them get the most out of their display technology.

For over 20 years Rise Display has been providing LED Ticker Displays and Digital Signage for a wide variety of applications. Each year work with business schools across North America to design, install, service, and support financial trading labs. If you are interested in seeing a directory of labs and other resources check out www.universityfinancelab.com.
 

Buff Dormeier

Armed with proprietary indicators and investment programs, Buff Dormeier dynamically advises affluent individual and institutional clientele on strategies to help meet or exceed their specific investment objectives in what are often uncertain market conditions. This is accomplished by utilizing proprietary state of the art portfolio management strategies designed to grow and preserve wealth in a risk conscience manner.

Buff is featured in "Technical Analysis and Behavior Finance in Fund Management" – a European book comprised of interviews with 21 successful investment professionals. Buff is also a published author through one of the world’s top publishers Wharton Pearson. Buff received the 2007 Charles Dow Award, which recognizes research papers breaking new ground or which make innovative use of established techniques in the field of technical analysis. The Charles H. Dow Award is considered one of the most important recognitions in the field of technical analysis. Buff is a double major graduate of Indiana State University participating in both varsity track and cross country as a student athlete.
 

Donald B. Edwards

Donald B. Edwards, MBA, CFA, is President and Chief Investment Officer of Wabash Capital, Inc., which he co-founded in 1997. He chairs the Wabash Capital Investment Committee with chief responsibility for defining the investment strategies for clients and implementing the fiduciary investment process for corporate retirement plans.

Don is a member of the CFA Institute and the Indianapolis Society of Financial Analysts, and annually serves as an exam grader for the CFA exam. He received his B.S. in Finance and MBA degrees from Indiana State University, and received his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1997.
 

Mahmoud M. Haddad

Dr. Mahmoud M. Haddad is a professor of Finance at the College of Business and Global Affairs, The University of Tennessee at Martin. He received a BA and MBA in Accounting from Minnesota State University, and Ph.D. in Finance from The University of Alabama. He taught finance at Wayne State University, The University of Tennessee at Martin, University of Alabama, Arab American University-Jenin, American University of Armenia, American University of Beirut, Al-Quds university, Eastern Michigan University and Minnesota State University. Dr. Haddad is certified in e-teaching and learning, he has broad experience in Distant and Online teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Dr. Haddad has published over 30 papers. His papers have been published in leading refereed journals. Dr. Haddad was the Financial and Accounting Manager at the American Family Insurance Co., the Executive Director of Research at the Palestinian Monetary Authority, the Vice President for Administrative and Financial Affairs and Dean of College of Business and Financial Sciences at Arab American University and a Research Scholar and Head of Economic and Social Studies Division at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. He is the co-director of the UTM Tennessee Valley Authority Investment Challenge program and a UDAID visiting scholar and senior financial education consultant.
 

John Hart

As the Director of Trading Products at TD Ameritrade, John Hart is responsible for the continued development and innovation of the thinkorswim and Trade Architect trading platforms as well as the mobile trading applications. He gained years of professional trading experience from the Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX) and later as a proprietary trader. John joined thinkorswim in 2007, where he introduced and developed foreign currency trading as the Director of Foreign Currency Trading. A life-long technologist, he began programming at a young age and continues to search for new ways to merge the digital and financial worlds. John holds a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Computer Science from Tufts University.

Sharon L. Robinson

Sharon Robinson, is a finance instructor at the Scott College of Business at Indiana State University. She is a Certified Financial Planner professional and educational consultant in private practice. Sharon has prior experience as an investment analyst with a private practice financial planner in Madison, WI and underwriting analyst with Blue Cross of Northwest Ohio (now BCBSO). In addition to her role as instructor, she has worked with ISU Scott College of Business as the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Student Services and with Texas Tech University as a program manager and educational consultant.

Sharon received her BBA-Finance from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and MBA from the University of Wisconsin –Whitewater. She is a member of Financial Planning Association – Greater Indiana.

Mary Ryan

Mary Ryan started with thinkorswim in 2006 and has held many ever challenging roles over the years. Her diversity of positions started on the customer service support team. She then worked in the forex department before becoming a broker on our trade desk. After the acquisition of thinkorswim by TD Ameritrade, Mary held a variety of roles involving customer education events and development. She is currently leading TD Ameritrade’s University Program development and manages a variety of trading related partnerships and initiatives.

Shawn A. Sabau

Shawn A. Sabau is Vice President and Financial Advisor at City Securities Corporation. He holds the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation. Shawn is a senior partner of the Minas Sabau Group and has been in the financial services industry for over 15 years. Shawn graduated from Purdue University Calumet in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in business management with a minor in finance. Shawn works extensively with clients on financial planning and has a broad scope of knowledge ranging from bond purchases to options strategies. 

Brien Smith

Brien Smith is the dean of the Scott College of Business at Indiana State University. Dr. Smith has over twenty years of administrative experience in higher education, and has been dean of the Scott College since July of 2012.

Previously, Dr. Smith was associate dean for the Miller College of Business at Ball State University and has previously served as the chair for the Department of Marketing and Management, assistant to the dean for graduate programs, and vice chairperson of the Department of Management. He attained his PhD in industrial/organizational psychology in 1989 from Auburn University.

In his 20 years of leadership experience in higher education, Dr. Smith has actively participated in university governance, having served as senate chair (twice) and faculty council chair in the Ball State University Senate. He has published numerous articles in refereed proceedings and journals, and has delivered presentations and speeches at national and international conferences. He is a coauthor of the current Ball State University Senate Constitution (Senate Reorganization Committee), teaches courses in human resource management, and was named the 1994-1995 Ball State University Teaching Professor (now known as the Excellence in Teaching Award).

Tarek Zaher

Tarek Zaher is a professor of Finance at Indiana State University. He has also held a number of professional positions with the industry and provided consulting services to a number of international institutions including the World Bank, the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, and the Academy for Educational Development in the United States and the Ministry of Work in Dubai. He has also offered a number of seminars in investment and international financial management at a number of institutions around the world.

Dr. Zaher is the supervisor of the investment club at Indiana State University. He also manages and supervises other international portfolios for individuals and institutions. Dr. Zaher’s research has been published in numerous prestigious professional and scholarly journals, including the Journal of Financial Research and Journal of Banking and Finance. Dr. Zaher received three research awards from professional conferences and one research certificate of excellence. He was also recognized by the Scott College of Business as the winner of the faculty research award in 2002 and the winner of the exemplary service award in 2004.

SMIFC: 2014 SMIFC Sponsors

We would like to thank our sponsors, without your support this Conference would not be possible.

Platinum Level

TD Ameritrade

TD Ameritrade provides investing and trading services for nearly six million client accounts that total more than $400 billion in assets, and custodial services for more than 4,000 independent registered investment advisors. With clients placing, on average, approximately 400,000 trades each day, it maintains the leadership position it assumed when founder Joe Ricketts opened his doors in Omaha, NE, in 1975.

Market Technicians Association Educational Foundation

The Market Technicians Association Educational Foundation (MTAEF) was established in 1993 as a non-profit organization to create and fund educational programs in the field of Technical Analysis.  Over the years, the MTAEF has been able to carefully develop a comprehensive Technical Analysis curriculum that is being taught in colleges and universities around the country!

Gold Level

City Securities Corporation

Founded in the early 1920s the goal of City Securities Corporation was simple: "to provide complete investment banking service to the people of Indiana." And while we’ve grown and diversified our services for nearly a century, that purpose is still at the center of everything we do.

We made history by underwriting the largest bond issue in Indiana history—the $580,370,000 issue for the City of Indianapolis Waterworks. In May 2002, City Securities Corporation relocated to our current offices at 30 South Meridian. While still the leader in the underwriting and distribution of municipal securities in Indiana we have become the diversified company that we are today.

Silver Level

Rise Display

For over 20 years, Rise Display has been providing LED Ticker Displays for a wide variety of applications.  Rise Display evolved from simple monochrome Tickers, to tri-color displays, to today's full color technology.  Each year, Rise Display installs several thousand feet of LED Ticker and works with clients to design, install, service, and support thousands of displays all across North America.

Bronze Level

Northwestern Mutual

Northwestern Mutual has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for nearly 160 years. The company's financial representatives build relationships with clients through a distinctive planning approach that integrates risk management with wealth accumulation, preservation and distribution.  With more than $217 billion in assets, $26 billion in revenues and more than $1.5 trillion worth of life insurance protection in force, Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to more than 4.2 million people who rely on it for insurance and investment solutions, including life, disability and long-term care insurance; annuities, trust services; mutual funds and investment advisory products and services.

WestPoint Financial Group / Mass Mutual

The mission at WestPoint Financial Group is simple. They are dedicated to educating its clients to help them fulfill their financial goals. WestPoint Financial Group offers relevant experience, personal attention, and outstanding resources. Its financial and insurance associates listen intently, recommend thoughtfully and care genuinely about their clients.

SMIFC: 2014 SMIFC Partners

There are 34 universities and colleges in the SMIF Consortium:

Alcorn State University
Appalachian State University
Baldwin Wallace University
Ball State University
Butler University
Christian Brothers University
The Citadel
College of Wooster
Drexel University
East Tennessee State University
Freed Hardeman University
Georgia Southern University
Henderson State University
High Point University
Indiana State University
Lipscomb University
Michigan State University
Mississippi University for Women
Northern Michigan University
Oberlin College
Ohio Wesleyan University
Truman State University
University of Alabama in Huntsville
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
University of Central Missouri
University of Michigan
University of Mount Union
University of North Carolina — Greensboro
University of Tennessee
University of Tennessee at Martin
Walsh College
Western Carolina University
Western Kentucky University
Western Michigan University

SMIFC: 2014 SMIFC Directions and Lodging

Indiana State University is located in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Hulman Memorial Student Union (HMSU) building is on campus and located in the area bounded by N. 5th, Chestnut and N. 6th streets. Federal Hall, Scott College of Business is located at 30 N. 7th Street.

A campus map is available in PDF format.