New Charterholders
Manish Aggarwal, CFA; Jack Lee Macdowell, Jr., CFA; Abiodun O. Aina, CFA Kenneth T. Marschner, CFA; Matthew Taylor Andrews, CFA Bradley James Murray, CFA; Farhad N. Billimoria, CFA; Scott Michael Page, CFA; Michael Caplan, CFA Kevin J. Potempa, CFA; Kuo-Chan Chen, CFA Eli J. Rassow-Kantor, CFA; Kevin P. Devine, CFA David Craig Reckin, CFA; Jeremy D. Glauner, CFA Zhiwei Ren, CFA; James Harper, CFA Craig Thomas Schorr, CFA; Stephen Bradford Jones, CFA ; Shinohara Uto, CFA; Thomas Kanter, CFA Mark A. Sopcik, CFA; Effy Klopfer, CFA Michael Gerard Stanis, CFA; Vikram J. Kuriyan, CFA Andrew F. Strada, CFA; Chien-Hung Brine Lin, CFA Manouchehr Graham Taraz, CFA; Xiaowei Liu, CFA Ryan David Virag, CFA; Nan Lu, CFA Yifei Xue, CFA; Trevor Young, CFA
Our main speaker was Jeff Matthews. Jeff Matthews founded Ram Partners, LP, a hedge fund based in Greenwich, CT, in 1994. A graduate of Lehigh University, Matthews embarked on his career in 1979 when he worked as an analyst for Merrill Lynch. He has held positions at Aetna, Penn Central Corp., and the Rocker Partners, LP, hedge fund.
He began his distinctive financial blog, Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up, in 2005. It is regularly featured in the Wall Street Journal’s blog roll and enjoys a loyal following among Wall Street analysts, traders,portfolio managers, and investors from around the world. He is a regular speaker at industry meetings and events.
Matthews has written for a variety of trade publications including TheStreet.com, Computer Reseller News, and Motley Fool and has appeared on CNBC’s Kudlow and Company to discuss current business events.
Jeff is also the author of Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha: A Hedge Fund Manager’s Dispatches From Inside the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting (McGraw-Hill, 2008), an entertaining and informative insider look at Warren Buffett’s annual shareholder’s meeting, the “Woodstock of Capitalism.” CNBC.com called this look at the Oracle of Omaha “very easy to read and full of classic Buffett-isms.”