The annual meeting of the Fixed Income Analysts Society will be held on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Click here to register to attend. Members, please login in first to vote. The evening will begin at 6:00pm, we will have a reception, then a short business meeting and then the election of  the board of directors. The proxy vote and board biographies links are below (you must be signed in to view the proxy vote link).

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The meeting location is:

Mad46 at the Roosevelt Hotel

(19th floor rooftop); Madison Avenue at 46^th Street, New York, NY

FIASI Hall of Fame recent inductee Rick Rieder (2013) was profiled in the Emory University alumni website for his work in Atlanta schools. Read more here: Emory University News

May 7, 2013, BNP Paribas Managing Director and FIASI Vice President Mark Howard was recently interviewed by Business News Network reporters. His views on certain current topics related to the corporate, high yield and sovereign debt markets can be seen in the videos attached below.

• Howard: Mark Howard from BNP Paribas is Interviewed

The Housing Recovery and the Outlook for the Agency and Non-Agency MBS Markets

• The US Mortgage Backed Securities market has benefited from central bank purchases and a recovery in domestic home prices.
• The US housing market is on solid footing, and home price appreciation is apt to continue.
• GSE reforms, steps to entice private capital into the market and a budding new issue market are also important developments to watch.

Speaker: Laurie S. Goodman from Amherst Securities and a 2009 FIASI Hall of Fame inductee

As always, members' participation is free. Non-member fee is $60.00.

Credit Market Case Study

Margaret Cannella teaches a series of credit markets courses at Columbia Business School, including "Credit Markets and Leveraged Buy-Outs: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "From Feast to Famine and Back Again: Credit Markets 2003 to 2013". In connection with these courses, Columbia Business School has developed a series of case studies focusing on the key decisions that bankers, bondholders, shareholders, managements and boards face in complex credit situations. 

In a novel twist on our speaker series, we invite fixed income practitioners to review and participate in a case study to better learn how hedge funds and other arbitrageurs exploit capital structure situations. The expected case to study will be Caesar's Entertainment.

• Speaker: Margaret Cannella, Columbia Business School Professor and 2007 FIASI Hall of Fame inductee

 As always, members' participation is free. Non-member fee is $60.00.