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101-Comprehensive Cash Investment Strategies beyond Money Market Funds 
Credit concerns, regulatory headwinds, low yield environment, and limited resources continue to challenge corporate cash investors. Treasury professionals should have comprehensive cash investment strategies beyond money market funds for long-term stability. This session covers several key factors in developing such strategies, including need assessment, liquidity budgeting, horizon analysis, fund evaluation, risk attribution, manager selection, and performance optimization. Both money market fund and separate account management topics will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
Understand corporate cash investments in the broader risk management context 
Learn the pros and cons of different investment strategies
Develop effective evaluation techniques in tracking risk and performance
Lance Pan, Capital Advisors Group
 Lance Pan is Director of Investment Research at Capital Advisors Group, a short-duration fixed income manager of separately managed accounts. As a seasoned treasury investment strategist, Lance writes a monthly newsletter, lectures extensively at liquidity management conferences, and is widely quoted by the financial press. His study on prime money market funds led to a money fund credit scoring system known as FundIQ.  Prior to joining Capital Advisors in 2003, Mr. Pan was a senior corporate research analyst at Columbia Management Group. 

He received his M.S. in Finance from Boston College and MBA from the University of Hawaii. Lance is a CFA charter holder and an editorial board member of the Journal of Corporate Treasury Management.