About IMN

Welcome to Information Management Network (IMN), the company that arms investors in all fields of finance and commerce with the knowledge they need to survive and thrive in tomorrow’s world of finance and investment. IMN provides a forum through which the exchange of unbiased ideas, information and assistance can lead to more winners in the ‘game.’

A revolution in the finance and investment markets has constituted a need for more advanced, explicit information provision. Since May 1994, IMN has presented executive level conferences of the highest quality to both the institutional and investment markets worldwide, each one a carefully packaged event combining excellent guidance with ideal networking opportunities.

The founders of IMN have accumulated over 40 years of combined experience in organizing and promoting institutional finance & investment conferences. Through these four founding directors, each specialist division within IMN endeavors to utilize this experience for custom-built conference structures to ensure those within the community are truly prepared.

As the leaders in our field, we have now become a source of education for the global community, producing international conferences in Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia and the Caribbean. Ever improving, ever extending.

To further assist us in our quest for quality, Dr. Frank J. Fabozzi PhD. CFA, CPA, provides guidance for all IMN events. Currently an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management, Dr. Fabozzi is a world-renowned author, editor, lecturer & consultant and is recognized as a leading authority on fixed income markets around the world. He has penned over fifty highly acclaimed texts including such works as, The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities and The Handbook of Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities. Many of his books are listed by the AIMR as required reading for Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) candidates. Dr. Fabozzi is also the editor of ‘Institutional Investor’s Journal of Portfolio Management’ and sits on the board for ‘Blackrock Financial’ as well as ‘The Guardian’.

Strategic Alliances

Based on its reputation for quality, IMN has organized conferences on behalf of or in conjunction with many different market leaders. The most notable of these market leaders is Cornell University. In March of 1997, the first ever Cornell University Hotel Industry Strategy meeting (organized by IMN) was held in Florida. The success of this conference led to a second collaboration between IMN & Cornell. IMN was retained by Cornell to organize the first annual Cornell University European Hotel Industry Strategy meeting (May 1998) and the partnership has continued to develop.

Additionally, IMN has established relationships with many leading industry information sources including Investment & Pensions Europe Magazine, International Securities Lending Magazine, National Real Estate Investor magazine, Plan Sponsor Magazine, Asiamoney, Euroweek, Investment Management Weekly, Dow Jones Asset Management, Progressive Railroading, Realty Stock Review, International Herald Tribune, Alternative Investment Management Association, among notable others.

A well-balanced audience composition is a very important dynamic to a conference, much like any business meeting. The diversity in our conference audience is also the essence of its success. The key factor is to balance the audience in terms of practitioners, consultants and academics, ensuring topics can be presented and disputed while looking through different colored lenses. Our conferences are not just about learning, they are also an excellent opportunity to meet potential clients and consultants, generating new business relationships through our provision of networking possibilities.

For most IMN events, one or more segments of the audience are coveted (i.e. pension fund investment officers at an investment management program, issuers & investors at a structured finance program, etc.) IMN conferences attract these coveted audience segments for two reasons. Firstly, by working with our conference sponsors, IMN is able to discount their rate for attending the conference. Secondly, IMN ensures that state-of-the-art technology and materials are on hand to facilitate our guests in both their learning endeavors and their ability to communicate. Both quality & affordability help ensure that all IMN conference audiences are rich with networking opportunities.

Because the core of any conference is its educational focus, our aim is to deliver timely, cutting edge information in a manner that is both stimulating and thought-provoking. IMN achieves this through a process of thorough, in-depth research, interviewing top industry executives to identify the foremost contemporary issues and once selected, an agenda is formulated and then streamlined to provide a seamless transition from one topic to the next.

Following profile analysis and interviews, IMN generate a most wanted list of top industry executives best suited to address topics outlined in the agenda. From this list we recruit our distinguished speaking faculty. IMN’s intense approach to conference development ensures a fruitful conference for all who attend and as we strive for excellence we understand that our conferences are a chance for us to learn. We dedicate a considerable amount of time in questioning how we can improve our presentations, from the location, its quality of service, its facilities and the effectiveness of particular formats.

In it's eleven year history, IMN’s growth has been prevalent. With conferences now held in over thirty cities across the globe, we have become a global provider of information for all actors of the pension and investment world.

Our expansive nature can only serve our patrons well as we continue to further embrace more and more of the key actors in this transnational industry as we approach the 21st Century. As our name suggests, we are a network of multiplying links, helping our patrons to broaden their horizons through the introduction of new ideas while presenting countless opportunities to meet their counterparts from around the world. New relationships are formed and old ones more strongly forged.

With Europe, Asia, Australasia and now Latin America being active venues for IMN events, more and more specialists from around the globe are realizing that everyone is benefitting from this transnational cooperation. As you may know, IMN has already brought it’s Asset Backed Securities (ABS) conferences to the four corners of the earth.

Other conferences that IMN has held in multiple venues around the world include The Cornell Hotel Industry Strategy conference, The Beneficial Owners’ Summit on International Securities Lending, The World Cup of Indexing, The Superbowl of Indexing (U.S. counterpart), Asian Indexing and Commercial Real Estate Securitization & Finance.

IMN is committed to customer satisfaction. Our goal is to be your choice for information provision within the investment management community, because that is what we are, a community. We are like-minded in the pursuit of opportunity, stability and growth inside our marketplace. IMN is a creation of your people for your people, bringing together the keenest and sharpest minds from every subject area. In a finance community that demands absolute quality, we guarantee it.

Our well-trained administrative staff can handle all inquiries quickly and efficiently. Through the use of technology IMN can access customer information from our company computer while on site at a conference. By accessing this information on site we move people through the registration process more quickly making their conference experience a pleasant one.

We are constantly striving to improve the handling of our customers. Our ever- expanding business and successful long-running events are testament to our achievement of customer satisfaction. We have assembled a structured audience development department that works with previous attendees to ensure their future conference expectations are superseded. For such reasons we are already the leading international conference organizer in most institutional financial fields.