A Conversation with Barton Biggs
Over 45 ABANA members and guests attended A Conversation with Barton Biggs, a special ABANA breakfast event held on May 26, 2010 at The University Club in New York City.
In a departure from the usual speaker lecture format, this event was presented in an interview style. For an hour after breakfast, ABANA Board Director Dr. Amer Bisat, questioned Mr. Biggs about his vast years of experience in the financial services field. Following this in-depth interview, a brief question and answer session was held with both speakers.
Barton Biggs is a Founding Partner and Portfolio Manager at Traxis Partners, an investment advisory firm specializing in global, multi-asset class investment strategies with principal operations in New York City. For thirty years, he was a managing director of Morgan Stanley, and he was the founder, former chairman and chief investment officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He was also director of Global Research and a member of the executive committee and board of directors of the firm. From 1995 until 2002, he was the number one ranked global strategist by the Institutional Investor magazine survey.
Amer Bisat is a Partner and Portfolio Manager
at Traxis Partners. At Traxis, he oversees the firm’s emerging market fixed income and foreign exchange
investments, as well as the firm’s newly launched global credit fund. He is also an adjunct professor at
Columbia University where he teaches a graduate level course in international
monetary theory.
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