Fall 2021 SME Forum: Return to a New World

We're excited to be planning the Fall 2021 Forum as a live and in-person event! Hyatt Regency Boston Harbor Hotel, Boston, MA  Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10, November, 2021

2022 Spring Forum: Latent Leverage – Getting More With What You Have

Hyatt Regency, Newport Beach, CA

  Every organization has under- or unused resources that are either already known to them or can be discovered that would help further their objectives. While the pandemic has certainly shifted priorities and focus to meet the changing landscape for organizations both internally and externally with their advisors and investors, there remains a tremendous pool […]

7th Annual Global SME Forum, London – Connecting the Data

Where:  London, UK.  DoubleTree by Hilton London – Tower of London   Building on the success of nearly 20 years of events in the US for our Asset Management membership, this will be the seventh year that we host an annual conference in London focused on topics and issues of import to our EMEA and […]

2022 Fall Forum: Marketing Innovation as a Digital Multiplier

One of the areas that we are focusing on with our Forums is to deepen the breakout sessions with more case, situation and outcome focus so that attendees can apply more of what they learn. In Atlanta, each of the Breakout Periods will feature a working session focused on solutioning.  If you have any use […]

2023 Spring SME Forum

  Registration now open through April 14- McCormick Ranch room block is available until March 27   This forum will be the last of the three part series we launched last year focusing on the inter-connectedness of the Distribution and Marketing organizations at asset management firms.  The closing theme for this topic in Scottsdale will […]

2023 Global SME Forum: London

Connecting the Data   Click here to Learn More and to Register   “Connecting The Data” is the overall theme of the conference but we mean it from the broad perspective of how fundamental data is to all our roles and objectives in the Marketing, Sales, and Operations of our global asset management firms.  Our […]

2023 Fall SME Forum: Institutionalized Asset Management: Bridging the Gaps

Although the SME Forum was originally founded by mostly intermediary sold retail asset managers, most of them also had Institutional divisions or have since developed them into formidable branches of their businesses. Simultaneously, the number of Institutional-only firms joining the community has been increasing over the years. While we always include topics and sessions geared […]