Investment World Dream Team to Explore Global Investment Opportunity in Los Angeles on May 20, 2008

LOS ANGELES, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Many of America's most prominent and best-in-class financial figures will discuss the Global Investment Climate on May 20, 2008, at an Executive Conference hosted by Asia Society Southern California in Los Angeles. Donald Tang, Vice Chairman of Bear Stearns and Chairman of the Asia Society Southern California will host the event.

Participants in this candid and unscripted exchange include:

-- Mohamed El-Erian: Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment
Officer of PIMCO
-- David Fisher: Chairman of the Board of The Capital Group Companies,
Inc., Capital Group International, Inc., and Capital Guardian Trust
Company
-- Joshua Friedman: Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Canyon
Partners LLC
-- Kenneth C. Griffin: Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C.
-- Joseph P. Landy: Co-President of Warburg Pincus LLC
-- James Zukin: Houlihan Lokey's Chairman of Asia and member of the Board
of Directors of Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin

Kenneth Courtis, former Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia will moderate the panel. The panel will be open and closed with commentary from Andrew Knox: Senior Client Partner of Korn Ferry and Thomas McLain: Partner at Arnold & Porter LLP.

Deborah Jordan, Executive Director of Asia Society Southern California notes, "It is so fitting that we have assembled this best-in-class team at a time when Asia is emerging as a global financial center. This is an unprecedented opportunity to hear some of the world's top financial minds explore the state of global wealth and investing in a candid and intimate setting."

"Asia Society Southern California continues to grow in influence and importance, having a tremendous impact in developing a new Los Angeles for future generations, which will be a center of openness, tolerance, diversity, and economic opportunity," says Asia Society Southern California Chairman, Donald Tang.

A nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization, the Asia Society provides a forum for building awareness of the more than thirty countries broadly defined as the Asia-Pacific region - the area from Japan to Iran, and from Central Asia to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

Through art exhibitions and performances, films, lectures, seminars and conferences, publications and assistance to the media, and materials and programs for students and teachers, the Asia Society presents the uniqueness and diversity of Asia.

Founded in Los Angeles in 1985, Asia Society Southern California is an independently funded regional Center that creates its own programs and activities. Home to the largest Asian population in the United States, Los Angeles is a vibrant microcosm of Asian and American relations. Asia Society Southern California is supported by contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals.

Members of the Press are invited to attend this event. Pre-registration is required. For information, contact Deb Jordan, Executive Director of Asia Society Southern California at 213-613-9934 x 11 or email djordan@asiasociety.org.

Event: "Global Investment Environment" Executive Conference
Place: Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

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Source: Asia Society Southern California

CONTACT: Deborah Jordan of Asia Society Southern California,
+1-213-613-9934, ext. 11 (office), +1-818-681-4681 (cell),
djordan@asiasociety.org

Web site: http://www.asiasocietysocal.org/

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