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Barbara Pruitt, Kauffman Foundation, 816-932-1288, bpruitt@kauffman.org
Video features three equity market leaders discussing how today's challenges will shape tomorrow's markets
(NEW YORK, NY) June 16, 2009 – Learn how a turbulent financial market combined with accelerating technologies will affect tomorrow's equity markets in a videotaped conversation just released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation that features three of the nation’s leading market experts.
Following an introduction by Kauffman Foundation President and CEO Carl J. Schramm, the discussion is led by Harold Bradley, chief investment officer of the Kauffman Foundation, and features Duncan Niederauer, CEO of the NYSE Euronext, and Peter Bloom, managing director of General Atlantic Partners, a global growth private equity investor. The 90-minute discussion addresses current challenges in the equities markets and the trading of stocks, bonds and derivative securities in a global marketplace. Topics include:
- Unexpectedly high costs for companies attempting to comply with provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley
- Immigration policy and how it may impede the management of global companies and stifle entrepreneurial activities by foreign-born individuals educated in U.S. institutions
- The risk that proposed changes to national tax policies might be a tipping point that pushes executives of global companies to change headquarters to non-U.S. locations
- The need for patent law reform, especially as it pertains to the appeals process
- The incompleteness of information hindering regulators to appropriately oversee exchange markets
- The robust performance of electronic, transparent equity markets when compared to the performance of over-the-counter fixed income markets, where lack of transparency worsened the financial crisis