The 2008 Yale SOM Investment Management Conference brings together the best minds in the investment management industry. This event takes place at the Yale Club of New York City. It will be an exciting event to network with prominent hedge fund managers, institutional investors, Yale professors, MBA students, and Yale alumni.

The theme of this year's conference is Challenging Conventionality, featuring panel discussions on:

• Global Investing
• Activist Investing

This year our keynote speakers are:

• Stephen C. Freidheim, CIO and Managing Partner of Cyrus Capital Partners
• John Paulson, President of Paulson & Co. Inc.

Other prominent speakers include:

• William Ackman, Managing Partner, Pershing Square Capital
• William Goetzmann, Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies & Director of the International Center for Finance at Yale, Yale School of Management
• Philip Goldstein, Co-Founder, Bulldog Investors
• Michael Karsch, Karsch Capital Management
• Thomas Niedermeyer, Managing Partner, Liberty Square Asset Management
• Gautam Prakash, Founder and Managing Director, Monsoon Capital
• Eric Rosenfeld, President and CEO, Crescendo Partner
• Oscar Schafer, Managing Partner, Oscar S. Schafer & Partners
• Ellen Shuman, CIO, Carnegie Corporation

Attendance is limited, so please register for this dynamic event as soon as possible. Special early registration rate of US$150 is available to all attendees who register before March 20th, 2008.

We look forward to welcoming you at the Yale Club of New York City.

Best Regards,

2008 Yale SOM Investment Management Conference Committee