Centre for Finance and Investment 4th Annual Debate: What Now for QE?

• Date: 08 Oct 2013, 18:30 - 20:00
• Venue: Cairn Auditorium, Postgraduate Centre, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland
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CFI 4th Annual Debate

The Centre for Finance and Investment (CFI) in association with the CFA Society of the UK are proud to present the CFI 4th Annual Debate: What Now for Quantitative Easing (QE)?

About the debate

Quantitative Easing has been an important aspect of monetary policy in the USA, UK, and more recently in Japan since the global financial crisis.

Four financial experts with strong and sometimes contrasting views on QE will debate this controversial subject at the CFI 4th Annual Debate.

Russell Napier and David Cobham will argue that Quantitative Easing was necessary in response to the financial crisis but is no longer sufficient. Robin Angus and Bill Jamieson will argue that Quantitative Easing was a mistake. Each of the speakers will talk for about 10 to 15 minutes and will give their views on the way forward for UK monetary policy and the financial markets. This will be followed by a panel question and answer session.

Date

Tuesday 8th October 2013 at 6.30 pm.

Tea and coffee will be available from 6.00 pm and there will be a wine reception after the debate.

Venue   

Cairn Auditorium, Postgraduate Centre, Heriot-Watt University   

Panellists

Russell Napier

Russell was a fund manager for five years before joining the broking firm of CLSA as an Asian equity strategist in 1995. In 2004, he launched the course: “A Practical History of Financial Markets”, which is part of the Edinburgh Business School MBA Programme. Russell is a member of the investment committee of Cerno Capital Partners, and a director of Scottish Investment Trust and the Mid Wynd International Trust. He is author of Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons from Wall Street’s Four Great Bottoms.

Professor Robin Angus

Robin is Executive Director of Personal Assets Trust and an Honorary Professor at Heriot-Watt, where he regularly gives guest lectures on investment trusts, financial ethics and other topical issues in finance. He trained as a fund manager at Baillie Gifford in the late 1970s and then moved to stockbrokers Wood MacKenzie where he was ranked number one UK investment trust analyst in the Extel survey of institutional fund managers for 13 consecutive years. He is author of Haec Olim: Exploring the World of Investment Trusts.

Professor David Cobham

David is Professor of Economics at Heriot-Watt University. He has written numerous papers on monetary policy in the UK (and elsewhere) and is the author of The Making of Monetary Policy in the UK, 1975-2000, Wiley, 2002. He was Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England for six months in 1987 and again in 2001.

Bill Jamieson

Bill was formerly Executive Editor of The Scotsman and is founder and editor of Scot-Buzz, the website for business. Previously Economics Editor of The Sunday Telegraph, he won awards for his coverage of the 2008-09 banking crisis, was accorded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Scottish Newspaper Society and won the overall Scottish Financial Enterprise award for services to Scotland’s financial sector, the first time it has been awarded to an individual.

Further information

Please contact Yuka Scott Y.Scott@hw.ac.uk for information about the event.