Association for Strategic Planning hosts speaker Sept. 25

Association for Strategic Planning hosts speaker Sept. 25

The Association for Strategic Planning-Minnesota chapter announces the next event in its 2007 breakfast series. Keith Hembre, chief financial analyst and chief economist for FAF Advisors, will give give a talk, "Economic and Market Outlook," on Tuesday, Sept. 25, in Room 202, Opus Hall, on the Minneapolis campus (see a campus map with parking locations).

Here is the schedule:

7 a.m. registration
7:15 a.m. breakfast
7:45-9 a.m. speaker

Hembre will examine the interrelationship between the financial conditions facing corporations and economic performance. He will discuss how this relationship is especially critical given recent market movements. Business planning must consider a myriad of economic and market factors: economic growth, inflation, interest rates and corporate earnings. Hembre will provide his insights and talk about some of the risks and uncertainties.

Hembre leads FAF Advisors' economic research and prepares the economic forecast. He also is responsible for the firm's asset-allocation process, index and strategy products, and investment analytics, and he is a member of the firm's Asset Allocation Committee.

A University of Minnesota graduate, Hembre has an M.S. in economics from Baylor University. He taught economics at the St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance in Russia and also has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Economics Department at Metropolitan State University. He began working in the financial industry in 1992. Before joining FAF Advisors in 1997, Hembre worked in the Banking Studies Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and has completed the program on investment decisions and behavioral finance at Harvard University. He is also a member of the CFA Institute and the National Association for Business Economics.

The cost for this breakfast discussion is: