AAII Silicon Valley Chapter May, 11 Main Event: Featuring John McCamant and Kevin T. Carter
First SPEAKER: John McCamant, Editor, Medical Technology Stock Letter
May 11, Saturday Starting at 9:00 PT On Zoom
1st PRESENTATION TITLE: 2024 Top Picks in BioTech
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
The Medical Technology Stock Letter has a proven track record of identifying biotech winners like Viking Therapeutics (VKTX) which recently soared and was easily the top performer in our 2024 Top Picks. John McCamant will help you navigate the election-year drug-pricing rhetoric to find more biotech winners. John will also help you understand the largest drug market, GLP-1s for Type 2 diabetes/obesity, and the best investment opportunities.
ATTEND THIS MEETING TO LEARN:
1. Biotech is part of the solution for healthier living and future disease threats.
2. Election-year drug-pricing rhetoric
3. Specific stock picks
SPEAKER’S BIOGRAPHY
John McCamant is editor of the Medical Technology Stock Letter. He has more than 35 years of experience in biotechnology investing. McCamant is frequently quoted in the financial press. Before becoming editor of the Medical Technology Stock Letter, McCamant worked as an equities analyst in the investment banking and venture capital industry.
2nd SPEAKER: Kevin T. Carter, Founder & Chief Investment Officer of EMQQ Global
2nd PRESENTATION TITLE: The Future of Emerging Markets and The Rise of a Digital India
2nd PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
The Third Wave of global digitization has reached an inflection point. The conditions and technologies born in Silicon Valley have now spread, evolved, and matured worldwide, creating billions of digital natives and numerous unicorns in all corners of the globe. This confluence of forces has become most powerful in India. A thriving economy and favorable demographics are creating a digital golden age that’s expected to propel the country to the third largest economy by 2027.
ATTEND THIS MEETING TO LEARN:
1. What makes India the ideal emerging market?
2. Is India like China 15 years ago?
3. India's Economic secret weapon - understanding the power of the India Stack
4. How to invest in India's digital transformation
5. Next Wave of the Digital Revolution: LatAm and SE Asia
SPEAKER’S BIOGRAPHY
Kevin T. Carter is the Founder & Chief Investment Officer of EMQQ Global. While he principally considers himself an active “value” investor, he has collaborated with Princeton economist and indexing legend, Dr. Burton G. Malkiel, for more than 20 years. Together Malkiel and Carter founded eInvesting in 1999, a pioneer firm in fractional share brokerage acquired by ETRADE in 2000, and Active Index Advisors, a pioneer in “direct indexing” acquired by Natixis Asset Management in 2005. In 2006, their efforts turned to China and Emerging Markets, and they launched several China focused ETFs on the NYSE with Guggenheim Partners
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Meeting Details
9:00 am Pacific Introduction
9:05 am Pacific First Speaker Presentation and Q&A
10:20 am Pacific Second Speaker Presentation and Q&A
11:35 am Pacific Anticipated End
About This Meeting
Silicon Valley AAII will offer this Webinar for free, and encourage those who can, to donate $5 or $10 to help fund the overhead on hosting services. Click Here for the Donation link on Eventbrite:
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CHAPTER INFORMATION
Chapter President, Lynn Gillette
Email aaiichapter_siliconvalley@yahoo.com
Web Page www.aaii.com/localchapters
Website www.siliconvalleyaaii.org
Facebook www.facebook.com/sv.aaii
Meetup www.meetup.com/AAII-Silicon-Valley-Meetup
CI: https://groups.google.com/g/aaii-silicon-valley-computerized-investing
Fintech (FT) Discussion Group: www.meetup.com/fintechrealtech
ALL SIG PROGRAMS WILL BE WEBCAST ON ZOOM
SIG groups will be webcast only. We broadcast from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and may extend to 9:00 p.m. if there are extra questions. For webcast SIG meeting details see our chapter website at www.siliconvalleyaaii.org.
Investing Discussion Group
Lynn Gillette, aaiichapter_siliconvalley@yahoo.com
Discuss investment ideas and trends in a relaxed, small group setting. Meetings are the fourth Monday of each month (except December). See www.meetup.com/AAII-Silicon-Valley-Meetup.
Financial Planning Discussion Group
Debra Stikes, dstikes.svaaii@gmail.com
Informal presentations and discussion on a range of financial planning topics, including investing, taxes, retirement planning and more. Meetings are the second Wednesday of each month, September through June. See www.meetup.com/AAII-Silicon-Valley-Meetup.
Computerized Investing Group
Don Maurer, DonWM@comcast.net
The CI group discusses and presents ideas on how to use computers in investing focusing on rules, algorithms, programs and computerized investing tools of various flavors. Meetings are on the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Join our Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/aaii-silicon-valley-computerized-investing. See our OneDrive for previous meetings and info: https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArVYry6KpqBthckzBCrT3KTt8xgovQ?e=Qb9vym.
Fintech Discussion Group
Roland Chow, roland.svaaii@gmail.com
Discusses current and emerging trends in finance and technology and how consumers can benefit. Topics covered include how technology is disrupting investment, banking, insurance and everyday finance. Meets Thursday nights. Meetup link: www.meetup.com/fintechrealtech.