Speakers

JEFF DEGRAAF is a Senior Managing Director, head of ISI's Technical Analysis Team, and a member of ISI's Management Committee. He has been an Institutional Investor's ranked technical analyst for the past 9 years, and has been ranked #1 for the last 5 years. Prior to joining ISI in 2007, Jeff spent 9 years at Lehman as managing director and chief technical analyst and also served on the firm's investment policy committee. Prior to joining Lehman, Jeff spent 8 years at Merrill Lynch.

Jeff graduated from Michigan State University in 1990 and is a CFA and CMT charterholder. He currently serves on the finance board at Michigan State University.

MARK MCCRAY is an Executive Vice President in the Newport Beach office, a Portfolio Manager and a Senior Member of PIMCO's investment strategy group. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2000, he worked for Goldman Sachs in New York, where he was vice president and co-head of municipal bond trading with the primary responsibility of handling the firm's proprietary municipal trading. He has 21 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received undergraduate degrees from Temple University.

JOHN RYDING is the Chief Economist and a founding partner of RDQ Economics. John was at Bear Stearns from 1991 to 2008—-most recently as the Chief U.S. Economist--where he was responsible for analyzing and forecasting U.S. economic trends and monetary policy. Prior to joining Bear Stearns, he was a Senior Economist at the New York Fed from 1989 to 1991 and an Economic Advisor to the Bank of England, where he worked from 1980 to 1989.