EVENTS:   The Roaring 2020s or a Rerun of the 1970s? - Edward Yardeni/Yardeni Research - 24 Mar 26   Best Equity Short Ideas Conference Call 13 - Thomas Chanos/Badger Consultants & Dr. Aaron Fletcher/Bios Research & Jonathan Telgener/Channel Dynamics & Ed Steele/Iron Blue Financials & John Zolidis/Quo Vadis Capital & Mark Hiley/The Analyst - 26 Mar 26     ROADSHOWS: Chinese Equity Ideas & Channel Checks Across 50 sub-sectors - Don Ma /Horizon Insights   •   London   23 - 27 Mar 26       Long Short European Equity Research - Harry Grist /The Analyst   •   New York   26 Mar 26       Fundamental US Healthcare Short Ideas - Dr Elliot Favus /Favus Institutional Research   •   London   27 - 27 Mar 26      

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NEW SERIES: Best Equity Long Ideas Conference Call 1

20 Nov 25 16:00 CET / 15:00 GMT / 10:00 EST

Rosenblatt Securities
Kevin Cassidy   Kevin Cassidy Senior Analyst, Semiconductors Kevin has 25+ years of industry experience, including at Texas Instruments and AMD, and 15+ years of experience covering the space. He is a top ranked stock picker in 3rd party ratings.
Hedgeye
Andrew Freedman   Andrew Freedman Communications & Software Andrew currently spearheads Communications Sector research at Hedgeye, specializing in Internet, Media, Cable, and Telecom, and co-heads the Software Sector. His deep work in these domains has led to highly successful long/short calls on industry giants like Netflix, Meta, and Google. Notably, Andrew's market insights enabled him to accurately predict the end of Netflix's growth runway. Moreover, his unique research process led to calls on the peak of the digital ad market in October 2021 and identified its bottom by January 2023. Andrew's approach is distinguished by a robust process that combines proprietary highfrequency data trackers with meticulous industry modeling and in-depth fundamental analysis. Prior to assuming his current role as Communications and Software Sector Head, he was a Senior Equity Research Analyst, covering U.S. Health Care equities - with a specialization in Healthcare IT. Andrew has deep knowledge of pivotal areas in Healthcare, like EMR, population health, value-based care, telehealth, and more. Before joining Hedgeye in 2014, Andrew was a driving force behind asset allocation, risk analysis, and investment manager research at Clearbrook Global Advisors.
Boyar Research
Jonathan Boyar   Jonathan Boyar President Jonathan is the President of Boyar Research. He joined the firm in 2008 and has over 15 years of investment experience. He is the the host of the podcast The World According to Boyar. He is also responsible for overseeing Boyar Research’s various publications including Asset Analysis Focus (AAF) and Boyar's Micro Cap Focus. Jonathan has been interviewed and quoted in various publications including Barron's, Forbes, The New York Times, and Reuters. He has spoken at the London Value Investing Conference twice as well as the Guru Focus investment conference at the International Value Investing Conference in Luxembourg.
BWS Financial
Hamed Khorsand   Hamed Khorsand Founder Hamed is the lead BWS analyst who has consistently been highly ranked by Bloomberg and Starmine; he has a Degree in Economics from the University of Southern California.
Pelham Smithers Associates
Pelham Smithers   Pelham Smithers Founder / Electronics, Telecoms & Pharma Pelham co-founded PSA and is the firm’s managing director. He began his 35-year career as an analyst in Tokyo in 1987 covering software companies. He later became Japan Strategist for ING Barings before returning to equity research, as head of Asian research for Pali Capital.
Kolytics
Hemant Kotak   Hemant Kotak CEO & Director of Research Hemant founded Kolytics in 2021. He is a former Managing Director at Green Street and previously served as Head of UK Research at CBRE. He brings over 20 years of experience in investment research and listed real estate.
2Xideas
Benjamin Silverman   Benjamin Silverman
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IRF Lunch: Can Japan Come Good?

25 Jun 25 12:30 BST

Pelham Smithers Associates
Pelham Smithers   Pelham Smithers Founder / Electronics, Telecoms & Pharma Pelham co-founded PSA and is the firm’s managing director. He began his 35-year career as an analyst in Tokyo in 1987 covering software companies. He later became Japan Strategist for ING Barings before returning to equity research, as head of Asian research for Pali Capital.
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IRF Education: What If......Japan Isn't a False Dawn? 4 Lost Decades Reverse and More

25 Jun 24 15:00 BST / 10:00 EDT

Pelham Smithers Associates
Pelham Smithers   Pelham Smithers Founder / Electronics, Telecoms & Pharma Pelham co-founded PSA and is the firm’s managing director. He began his 35-year career as an analyst in Tokyo in 1987 covering software companies. He later became Japan Strategist for ING Barings before returning to equity research, as head of Asian research for Pali Capital.
Asymmetric Advisors
Tim Morse   Tim Morse Founder Tim has 25 years specialising in Japan only, initially in fund management in Scotland, then as an analyst in Japan for 12 years and finally in sales/research. Specialisms include identifying exciting small/mid ideas that have yet to get investor recognition, large corporate restructuring/structural changes stories and value with a catalyst.
Japan Foresight
Tobias Harris   Tobias Harris Founder Tobias is a leading expert on Japan and the author of The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan (2020). He has written about Japan’s politics and the geopolitics of Asia for The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times, and comments regularly on television and radio broadcasts. He has a BA in Politics and History (summa cum laude) from Brandeis University and an M.Phil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.
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Is Japan at Risk of Policy Error?

25 Oct 23 10:00 BST

Pelham Smithers Associates
Pelham Smithers   Pelham Smithers Founder / Electronics, Telecoms & Pharma Pelham co-founded PSA and is the firm’s managing director. He began his 35-year career as an analyst in Tokyo in 1987 covering software companies. He later became Japan Strategist for ING Barings before returning to equity research, as head of Asian research for Pali Capital.
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Global Crisis in the Video Games Market

20 Sep 22 15:00 BST / 10:00 EST

Pelham Smithers Associates
Pelham Smithers   Pelham Smithers Founder / Electronics, Telecoms & Pharma Pelham co-founded PSA and is the firm’s managing director. He began his 35-year career as an analyst in Tokyo in 1987 covering software companies. He later became Japan Strategist for ING Barings before returning to equity research, as head of Asian research for Pali Capital.
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TMT Best Ideas Conference

19 May 22 14:00 BST

Arete Research
Brett Simpson   Brett Simpson Co-founder & Senior Analyst – Semiconductors Brett is a co-founder of Arete (formed in 2000) and is based in the firm's London office. He focuses on the global semiconductor component sector. Brett is a regular public speaker at industry events and after 17 years looking at the sector, has a wealth of experience to draw on. Prior to Arete, Brett spent two years at Goldman Sachs in an equity analyst role, specialising in European technology following three years with Ericsson UK, working in business development, covering all aspects of wireline and wireless telecom infrastructure.
Abacus Research
Robert Graham-Brown   Robert Graham-Brown Founder Robert worked for European fund managers Threadneedle and Credit Suisse Asset Management as a U.S. and global fund manager for nine years. In late 2009 he joined Merrill Lynch’s research sales and then Oppenheimer.
Radio Free Mobile
Richard Windsor   Richard Windsor Founder Dr Richard Windsor serves both the TMT and the financial services industries. Richard has been covering the technology sector for over 20 years both as a sell-side analyst and a fund manager and specialises in making complex situations and concepts simple & interesting to understand and utilise.
Pelham Smithers Associates
Pelham Smithers   Pelham Smithers Founder / Electronics, Telecoms & Pharma Pelham co-founded PSA and is the firm’s managing director. He began his 35-year career as an analyst in Tokyo in 1987 covering software companies. He later became Japan Strategist for ING Barings before returning to equity research, as head of Asian research for Pali Capital.
Huber Research Partners
Craig Huber   Craig Huber Founder Craig was formerly a Director and research analyst at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers (and Morgan Stanley before that) covering the US Media and Advertising sectors as well as Information Services stocks. For four consecutive years, 2006 to 2009, he was ranked #1 in Institutional Investor’s All America research team in the media sector he covered. In 2009, Craig was ranked #1 stock picker in the Financial Times / StarMine survey out of 1,800 US,800 US sell-side analysts, prior to going out independent in 2010.
Gossamer Consulting Group
Eric Kress   Eric Kress Founder Eric is a Managing Director and Senior Analyst. He previously spent seven years at Electronic Arts, where he worked across corporate strategy, M&A, finance, forecasting, and marketing. He then served as Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Operations at Kabam for two years. Between his time at EA and Kabam, Eric was Managing Director at the independent equity research boutique Bay Street Research, where he led the video games vertical.
Inflection Point Research, LLC
Michael Fox   Michael Fox
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Everything Looks Different Today

31 Mar 22 15:00 UTC

Capital Alpha Partners
James Lucier   James Lucier Co-Founder / Macro, Clean Energy & Utilities James is an analyst at Capital Alpha Partners, specialising in Energy & Utilities policy. He leads coverage on a wide range of sectors including oil, natural gas, pipelines, renewables, MLPs, nuclear energy, refining, utilities and power, ethanol, and climate-related policy.
Ian Katz   Ian Katz Financials Ian is a Managing Director at Capital Alpha Partners, focusing on financial services policy. He covers a wide range of areas including banks, exchanges, brokers, asset managers, insurers, card networks, fintech, cryptocurrencies, housing finance, and student loans.
Rob Smith   Rob Smith Health Care Rob, Managing Director, brings two decades of Washington health care experience to Capital Alpha, where he directs coverage and strategic advisory services regarding physician services, pharmaceuticals and biologics, medical technology, value-based payments, diagnostics, and a wide range of specialty provider issues. Prior to joining Capital Alpha in 2008, he was a lobbyist for the Ceridian Corporation, where he managed the company's Capitol Hill presence on health care and tax issues. Before that, he served for five years as the top health care aide for Representative Rick Boucher, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce and Judiciary Committees.
Robert Kaminski   Robert Kaminski TMT Robert leads the firm's policy research for the telecom, media, and tech sectors. Areas of focus include wireline and wireless telecom, cable, communications equipment and infrastructure, television broadcasting, social media and Internet platforms, semiconductors, and special situations in the tech sector.
Byron Callan   Byron Callan Defence & Industrials Byron is a Managing Director at Capital Alpha Partners. He covers a broad range of sectors including global defense, aerospace, transportation, infrastructure, rails, shipping, agriculture, and cybersecurity.
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Biden’s Act 2

08 Dec 21 15:00 UTC

Capital Alpha Partners
James Lucier   James Lucier Co-Founder / Macro, Clean Energy & Utilities James is an analyst at Capital Alpha Partners, specialising in Energy & Utilities policy. He leads coverage on a wide range of sectors including oil, natural gas, pipelines, renewables, MLPs, nuclear energy, refining, utilities and power, ethanol, and climate-related policy.
Kim Monk   Kim Monk Co-Founder / Health Care Kim is an analyst at Capital Alpha Partners, focusing on healthcare. She covers a broad spectrum of the healthcare sector including biotech, pharmaceuticals, managed care, diagnostics, medical technology, hospitals, post-acute care, healthcare services, health IT, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
Ian Katz   Ian Katz Financials Ian is a Managing Director at Capital Alpha Partners, focusing on financial services policy. He covers a wide range of areas including banks, exchanges, brokers, asset managers, insurers, card networks, fintech, cryptocurrencies, housing finance, and student loans.
Robert Kaminski   Robert Kaminski TMT Robert leads the firm's policy research for the telecom, media, and tech sectors. Areas of focus include wireline and wireless telecom, cable, communications equipment and infrastructure, television broadcasting, social media and Internet platforms, semiconductors, and special situations in the tech sector.
Byron Callan   Byron Callan Defence & Industrials Byron is a Managing Director at Capital Alpha Partners. He covers a broad range of sectors including global defense, aerospace, transportation, infrastructure, rails, shipping, agriculture, and cybersecurity.
Rob Smith   Rob Smith Health Care Rob, Managing Director, brings two decades of Washington health care experience to Capital Alpha, where he directs coverage and strategic advisory services regarding physician services, pharmaceuticals and biologics, medical technology, value-based payments, diagnostics, and a wide range of specialty provider issues. Prior to joining Capital Alpha in 2008, he was a lobbyist for the Ceridian Corporation, where he managed the company's Capitol Hill presence on health care and tax issues. Before that, he served for five years as the top health care aide for Representative Rick Boucher, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce and Judiciary Committees.
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U.S. Election Impact on Health Care

16 Oct 20 15:00 UTC

Capital Alpha Partners
Kim Monk   Kim Monk Co-Founder / Health Care Kim is an analyst at Capital Alpha Partners, focusing on healthcare. She covers a broad spectrum of the healthcare sector including biotech, pharmaceuticals, managed care, diagnostics, medical technology, hospitals, post-acute care, healthcare services, health IT, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
Rob Smith   Rob Smith Health Care Rob, Managing Director, brings two decades of Washington health care experience to Capital Alpha, where he directs coverage and strategic advisory services regarding physician services, pharmaceuticals and biologics, medical technology, value-based payments, diagnostics, and a wide range of specialty provider issues. Prior to joining Capital Alpha in 2008, he was a lobbyist for the Ceridian Corporation, where he managed the company's Capitol Hill presence on health care and tax issues. Before that, he served for five years as the top health care aide for Representative Rick Boucher, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce and Judiciary Committees.
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