Global Strategic Partners
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University of DaytonFounded in 1850, the University of Dayton (UD) is one of the nation’s ten largest Catholic universities and Ohio’s largest private university, with an enrollment of more than 10,000 students, including more than 6,600 full-time undergraduates. UD is the alma mater of more than 100,000 alumni. The University of Dayton continues to be ranked among the 10 best Catholic national universities and is a top-tier national university according to “America’s Best Colleges” from U.S. News and World Report. UD is also “A Best College” as named by The Princeton Review in the 2008 edition of “The Best 368 Colleges.” For more information, visit www.udayton.edu. |
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United NationsThe United Nation’s Global Compact is the other cosponsor of R.I.S.E. Former United Nation's Secretary-General Kofi Annan first proposed the Global Compact in an address to the World Economic Forum on January 31, 1999. The Secretary-General invited business leaders to join an international initiative, the Global Compact, that would bring companies together with UN agencies, labor and civil society to advance universal social and environmental principles. The Global Compact is a network. At its core is the Global Compact Office and six UN Agencies. The Global Compact involves all the relevant social actors: governments, who defined the principles on which the initiative is based; companies, whose actions it seeks to influence; labor, in whose hands the concrete process of global production takes place; civil society organizations, representing the wider community of stakeholders; and the United Nations, the world's only true global political forum, as an authoritative convener and facilitator. Today, companies from all regions of the world, international labor and civil society organizations are engaged in the Global Compact. For more information, visit http://www.unglobalcompact.org. |
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Deutsche Asset ManagementDeutsche Asset Management is the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank. The Bank is one of the largest financial institutions in the world, and Deutsche Asset Management is one of the top global managers of investments. Deutsche Asset Management operates throughout Europe, North America and Asia offering a variety of products and services including institutional and retail asset management, mutual funds, annuities, real estate investment advice and hedge funds. With over 8,000 people in the world’s major financial centers, they currently provide investment services to clients from over 60 countries who have entrusted them with close to $1 trillion in assets. For more information, visit www.db.com. |
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CNBCThe cable network, CNBC is a unit of NBC Universal Cable. CNBC features a 24 hour financial news and information network that is available to 95 million households in the U.S. and Canada. Internationally, CNBC reaches about 230 million households in more than 100 countries. Each business day, CNBC provides fourteen hours of live business and financial news and analysis presented by an unparalled team of anchors, reporters and contributors. The network’s programming is produced by CNBC’s global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Globally it also produces reports from its news bureaus in London and Singapore. For more information, visit www.cnbc.com. |
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CFA InstituteCFA Institute is the global, not-for-profit association of investment professionals that awards the CFA and CIPM designations. Its mission is to lead the investment profession globally by setting the highest standards of ethics, education, and professional excellence. CFA Institute has more than 100,000 members, who include the world's nearly 83,000 CFA charterholders, in more than 130 countries and territories. Individual members either hold the CFA designation or are active in the investment business and agree to abide by the ethical requirements of CFA Institute. The genesis of CFA Institute goes back to 1925 with the founding of the Investment Analyst Society of Chicago. Analysts formed the Chicago Society to promote investment education and professionalism and to provide forums for discourse with corporate financial managers. For more inofrmation, visit www.cfainstitute.org. |
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Frankfurt Stock ExchangeDeutsche Börse Group (Frankfurt Stock Exchange) is far more than a mere marketplace organizer for the trading in shares and other securities. It is a transaction service provider. With advanced technology it affords companies and investors access to global capital markets. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange’s products and services portfolio covers the entire process chain; including securities and derivatives trading, transaction settlement, the provision of market information as well as the development and operation of electronic trading systems. More than 2,900 employees service its customers in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. For more information, visit deutsche-boerse.com. |
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The NYSE EuronextNYSE Euronext, the holding company created by the combination of NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., was launched on April 4, 2007. NYSE Euronext (NYSE/New York and Euronext/Paris: NYX) operates the world ' s largest and most liquid exchange group and offers the most diverse array of financial products and services. NYSE Euronext, which brings together six cash equities exchanges in five countries and six derivatives exchanges, is a world leader for listings, trading in cash equities, equity and interest rate derivatives, bonds and the distribution of market data. For more information, visit www.nyse.com. |
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CME GroupCME Group is the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange. Building on the heritage of CME, CBOT and NYMEX, CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe. As an international marketplace, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together on the CME Globex electronic trading platform and on trading floors in Chicago and New York. By acting as the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer, CME Clearing virtually eliminates counterparty credit risk. CME Clearing also offers $7 billion in financial safeguards to help mitigate systemic risk, providing the security and confidence market participants need to operate, invest and grow. CME Group offers the widest range of benchmark products available across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, and alternative investment products such as weather and real estate. CME Group is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol "CME." For more information, visit www.cmegroup.com/edu. |
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The Wall Street JournalIn 1883 Dow Jones started summarizing the trading day in the “Customers Afternoon Letter” which evolved into the Wall Street Journal (1889). The Wall Street Journal quickly evolved into the leading financial publication in the world. As far back as 1960 the newspapers publication exceeded 1 million subscribers. Today it is the world’s leading business publication. With a print and online circulation of nearly 2.1 million, the Journal reaches America’s top business and political leaders, as well as investors across the country. Holding 31 Pulitzer prizes for outstanding journalism, the Journal has become the most trusted source for business news. For more information, visit www.dj.com. |
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NASDAQThe NASDAQ Stock Market is the largest electronic screen-based equity securities market in the United States. With approximately 3,200 companies, it lists more companies and on average trades more shares per day than any other U.S. market. It is home to companies that are leaders across all areas of business including technology, retail, communications, financial services, transportation, media and biotechnology. NASDAQ is the primary market for trading NASDAQ-listed stocks. For more information, visit www.nasdaq.com.
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The Financial Services ForumThe Financial Services Forum is a non-partisan financial and economic policy organization comprised of the chief executive officers of 20 of the largest and most diversified financial institutions doing business in the United States. The Forum works to enance savings and investment in the United States and to ensure an open competitive and sound global financial services marketplace. The Forum’s three primary missions are to first; educate the public about the importance of robust capital marekts. Second, encourage a competitive global marektplace. Third, help shape the national and international regulatory dialogue. As a group, the Forum’s member institutions employ more than 1.5 million people and hold combined assets of more than $12 trillion, an amount greater than the annual output of the U.S. economy. Forum institutions are currently active in more than 165 nations around the world. The Forum was founded in 2000 and has been called “perhaps the country’s most powerful trade association” by Time, Inc. For more information, visit www.financialservicesforum.org. |
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TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund)Founded on philanthropic roots, TIAA-CREF has been serving people in the academic, medical, cultural and research fields for more than 85 years. While TIAA-CREF may be an almost $400 billion financial services group, their charge is clear; serve those that serve others. TIAA-CREF is one of the largest and most respected financial services providers in the world. For more than 85 years they have been dedicated to serving the financial well being of an extraordinary group of people, those working in the academic, medical, cultural and research fields. TIAA-CREF offers a wide range of investment products and services designed to meet their investors specific financial needs, offering expert ways to help them control and manage income through retirement. They provide unbiased, personal advice through their non-commissioned consultants who are compensated on client service excellence, not product sales for more information, visist www.tiaa-cref.org. |
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Dubai Financial MarketThe Dubai Financial Market was established as a public institution having its own independent corporate body. The Dubai Financial Market is operating as a secondary market for trading of securities issued by public shareholding companies, bonds issued by the Federal Government or any local govrnments and public institutions in the country, unites of investmetn funds and any other financial instruments, local or foreign which are accepted by the Market. The Market commenced operations on the 26th of March, 2006. Three of its key objectives were to first provide the opportunity to invest in securities in a manner that better serves the national economy. Second, regulating the process of trading in securities ensuring the protection of investors from unfair and improper practices. Third, by creating the highest liquidity in the marketplace through the interaction of supply and demand based on fair and equitable trading practices between investors. For more information, visit www.dfm.ae. |
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Palestine Securities ExchangePalestine Securities Exchange (PSE) is a public shareholding company that was established in1996, and held the first trading session on the 18th of February 1997. The beginnings of PSE were modest but developing, in terms of the number of listed companies and brokerage firms, as well as the value of trading. Starting with few companies in 1997, the number of listed companies on PSE increased to 35 by mid 2007, while the number of brokerage firms increased to 10, with offices and branches in most of the Palestinian cities. The value of trading has increased from $25,158,471 in 1997 to reach $1,067,367,951 in 2006. In July 1997, the PSE adopted Al-Quds Index to measure the levels of stocks prices and define their general trend. In 2005, PSE achieved the highest rank of all stock exchanges as the Al Quds Index increased by 306.61%. Our common values are: good governance, transparency, efficiency, fairness & equal opportunities. For more information, visit www.p-s-e.com. |
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Amman Stock ExchangeThe Amman Stock Exchange was established in March 1999 as a non-profit, private institution with administrative and financial autonomy. It is authorized to function as an exchange for the trading of securities. The exchange is governed by a seven-member board of directors. A chief executive officer oversees day-to-day responsibilities and reports to the board. The ASE membership is comprised of Jordan's 65 brokerage firms. The ASE is charged with: providing enterprises with a means of raising capital by listing on the Exchange, encouraging an active market in listed securities based on the effective determination of prices and fair and transparent trading, providing modern and effective facilities and equipment for trading the recoding of trades and publication of prices, monitoring and regulating market trading, coordination with the JSC as necessary, to ensure compliance with the law, a fair market and investor protection, setting out and enforcing a professional code of ethics among its member directors and staff, Ensuring the provision of timely and accurate information of issuers to the market and disseminating market information to the public. For more information, visit www.ase.com.jo/index.php. |
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BOVESPABOVESPA is the largest stock trading center in Latin America, concentrating about 70% of the volume of trades carried out in the region. Throughout its history, BOVESPA has experienced changes in order to streamline its structure. The most recent one took place on August 28, 2007 through a corporate restructuring process that resulted in the creation of BOVESPA Holding, which has, as fully-owned subsidiaries, the Săo Paulo Stock Exchange (BVSP) - responsible for the operations by the stock exchange and the organized over-the-counter markets - and the Brazilian Clearing and Depository Corporation (CBLC), which provides settlement, clearing and depository services. Such corporate restructuring has consolidated the demutualization process, thereby causing the access to the tradings and other services rendered by the Stock Exchange to be unpegged from the stock ownership. In the former operating format of BOVESPA, only those brokers owing stock exchange memberships were allowed to trade at the Stock Exchange. For more information, visit www.bovespa.com.br/indexi.asp. |
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Colombo Stock MarketThe Colombo Stock Market is operated by the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE). The CSE is a company limited by guarantee and is a mutual exchange with 15 members and 6 Trading Members. All members are licensed by the Securities & Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) to operate as stockbrokers. The CSE is an automated exchange with depository facilities and has been categorized as one of the best performing markets in the Asian region with an annual average growth in Price indices of over 30% since 2001. The CSE offers advanced facilities for the secondary trading of equity and debt instruments. 237 companies are presently listed, representing 20 business sectors with a market capitalization of US $ 8.5 billion, which corresponds to approximately 24% of the GDP of the country. The CSE is a member of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and a founding member of the South Asian Federation of Exchanges (SAFE). For more information, visit www.cse.lk/welcome.htm. |
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MorningstarMorningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in the United States and in major international markets. The company offers an extensive line of Internet, software, and print-based products and services for individuals, financial advisors, and institutions. Morningstar provides data on more than 250,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles. The company has operations in 16 countries and minority ownership positions in companies based in three other countries. For more information, visit www.morningstar.com. |
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Shanghai Stock ExchangeThe Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) was established in late 1990 as a nonprofit organization, and regulated by the China Securities Regulatory Commission. A shares are restricted to domestic investors, while B shares are open to all investors. Bonds traded on the exchange include government, corporate, and convertible. Trading hours for B shares are 9:30 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. and 1 P.M. to 3 P.M. Monday through Friday. The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges list more than 1,200 companies with a combined market capitalization of US$500 billion (2005) (30% of GDP), rivaling the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as Asia's second-largest stock market behind the Tokyo Stock Exchange. For more information, visit www.sse.com.cn/sseportal/en_us/ps/home.shtml. |
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Global Association of Risk ProfessionalsThe Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) is a not-for-profit independent association of close to 100,000 risk management practitioners and researchers representing banks, investment management firms, government agencies, academic institutions, and corporations from more than 167 countries worldwide. GARP’s mission is to be the leading professional association for risk managers, managed by and for its members dedicated to the advancement of the risk profession through education, training and the promotion of best practices globally. GARP administers the benchmark Financial Risk Manager (FRM®) examination program, the professional certification recognized by financial risk professionals worldwide. There are currently 13,875 FRM holders in over 135 countries. GARP also offers other standard-setting global educational programs including its International Certificate in Banking Risk and Regulation, its Certificate in Energy Risk Management and its Certificate in Risk Management for Islamic Financial Institutions. In addition, GARP has developed and is administering country-specific educational programs in Indonesia and China, and will be expanding these types of unique offerings to other countries in 2009. For more information, visit www.garp.com. |
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Beta Alpha PsiFounded in 1919, Beta Alpha Psi (BAP) is the nonprofit international honorary and service organization for accounting, finance, and information systems students at AACSB or EQUIS accredited universities. Beta Alpha Psi provides opportunities for development of technical and professional skills to complement university education; participation in community service; and interaction among students, faculty, and professionals. With over 270 chapters, BAP has 12,000 active members and over 300,000 life members since its organization. For more information, visit www.bap.org. |