We would like to invite you to a Christmas Market Get-Together on December 5 at the Christmas market at Schloss Belvedere.

• Timing: 5th December 2024 (Thursday) 18:30 - 20:00

• Meeting Point: Looking at the Schloss Belvedere, we will meet in the middle (cf. plan below) close to the stand “Riesenkrapfen + Lillet Punsch & Glühwein”

• Address:  Weihnachtsmärkte Schloss Belvedere, Prinz Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Wien https://www.weihnachtsdorf.at/

Upon your arrival you will receive a voucher for 2 drinks that you can redeem at the mentioned stand at the Christmas market. Please note that the cash deposit for cups is not included in the voucher.

Please register by sending an email to kathrin.schneeweiss@cfaaustria.org

Looking forward to seeing many of you there.

Alexandra Bolena und Friedhelm Boschert, beide En-ROADS Ambassadors, freuen sich, mit der CFA Society Austria auf einen interaktiven Nachmittag mit spannenden Erkenntnissen rund um das Thema „Wirksamkeit von klimarelevante Maßnahmen“.

En-ROADS, ein vom MIT Sloan entwickeltes Climate Action Simulation Game, ist ein hochgradig wissenschaftsbasiertes interaktives Rollenspiel. Das Simulationsmodell wird international von Unternehmen, Banken und Regierungen genutzt, um wichtige technologische und politische Lösungsmaßnahmen für den Umgang mit der globalen Erwärmung „zu testen“. 

Wie funktioniert es? Auf einem simuliertem UN-Notfall-Klimagipfel organisieren sich die Teilnehmer in Teams und schlüpfen in Rollen verschiedener Stakeholder wie Klimaaktivisten, Emerging Markets, traditionelle Energieanbieter, Handel & Industrie, etc. Dann werden 19 im En-ROADS System zur Auswahl stehende Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung der Erderwärmung „verhandelt“. Das Ergebnis dieser Verhandlungen bzw. die Auswirkungen der Maßnahmen auf das Klima bis ins Jahr 2100 (und die damit zusammenhängenden Implikationen) können dann live am Schirm – auch in ihren Wechselwirkungen – verfolgt werden. Ziel ist es, Verständnis für unterschiedliche klimarelevante Maßnahmen zu schaffen und deren potentielle Wirkung zu verstehen.

Wann und wo?
23. Oktober 16-20 Uhr mit anschließendem Dinner Buffet
Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Schubertring 5-7, 1010

(Bitte beachtet, dass das Event in deutscher Sprache abgehalten wird.)

 Anmeldung bitte per Email an Kathrin.Schneeweiss@cfaaustria.org.

Following the great feedback and the massive overbooking of our City walking tour discovering historical financial buildings in Vienna followed by wine tasting last June, we are delighted to offer you a new date for this tour, October 21st.

Programme:

17:30-18:30 City tour of the history and architecture of financial buildings/places in the 1st district that once or still have an importance for the Austrian financial industry. The tour will be guided by “Wien mal anders” in English.

18:30-19:30 Wine tasting of 3 local wines and finger food in the exclusively open wine cellar in the 1st district. 

Meeting Point: 

17:30 Wipplingerstraße 35, 1010 Vienna (in front of the House of the European Union)
We will end at around 19:30 at Ertlgasse 4, 1010 Vienna (2 min. walk from Stephansplatz) 

Registration:

Please be aware that capacity for this event is limited to 25 participants, tickets will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis (participants in the June tour are not allowed to participate again). Please register by sending an email to Kathrin.Schneeweiss@cfaaustria.org You will receive a confirmation from our side. Please inform us if you cannot participate in advance at least 3 business days before the event.

We are looking forward to suggestions to seeing you!

Liebe CFA Society Austria Mitglieder,

CFA Society Austria startet wieder beim Wachau Marathon!

Die Wachau bietet einen schnellen Punkt-zu-Punkt Kurs durch eine
wunderschöne Landschaft und Bewerbe über verschiedene Distanzen. Termin
ist der 16. September 2024.

Alle Informationen zu der Veranstaltung findet ihr unter
www.wachaumarathon.com.

Die Eckdaten:

Wir starten - je nach Präferenz und Fitness - bei verschiedenen Bewerben
unter dem gemeinsamen Teamnamen "CFA Society Austria".

Zur Wahl stehen folgende Bewerbe/Distanzen:

• Marathon (42,195 km)

• Halbmarathon (21,0975 km)

• Viertelmarathon (11 km) bzw. Teambewerb (4 Teilnehmer*innen laufen
  die Viertelmarathonstrecke, Details unter
  https://www.wachaumarathon.com/bewerbe/viertelmarathon/)

• Marathonstaffel (2er, 3er oder 4er, Details unter
  https://www.wachaumarathon.com/bewerbe/staffel-marathon/)
  

  CFA Austria unterstützt euch dabei mit
  
  - Übernahme der bis zum 04.09. aktuellen gültigen Startgebühr
  (Marathon EUR 110 / Halbmarathon EUR 75 / Viertelmarathon EUR 60 /
  Teambewerb EUR 180 / Staffelmarathon EUR 140)
  -    Lauf-Shirt
  -    Kleiner Zielevent
  
  
  Alles, was ihr vorerst dazu machen müsst ist, das per Mail versendete Excel auszufüllen.
  Die Anmeldung beim Veranstalter nimmt anschließend jeder individuell
  vor. Bitte vergesst dabei nicht, als Vereinsname "CFA Society Austria"
  anzugeben. Eine nachträgliche Änderung/Ergänzung ist jedoch auch möglich.
  
  Deadline für unsere interne Anmeldung ist für diejenigen, die ein
  CFA-Shirt benötigen und noch keines haben, Dienstag 30. Juli.
  
  Die Refundierung der Nenngebühr erfolgt nach dem Lauf unter Nachweis der
  Teilnahme unter dem Namen CFA Society Austria.

Dear CFA Society Austria Members, 

the board of CFA Society is looking forward to welcoming you to our annual Members Day on June 12.

The Members Day represents a great opportunity for members to connect with each other and get an update and outlook by the board members and volunteers on our recent and future activities. We also welcome any feedback, suggestions and ideas for future events and projects.

When: June 12, 2024 after-work

We would like to welcome everyone with drinks starting at 5 p.m.

From 6-7 p.m. board members and volunteers will present:

1. Review & Outlook

2. Fiscal year 2023/24 und budget 2024/2025

3. Update by the volunteers committees

This will be followed by drinks and dinner.

Please register by email with kathrin.schneeweiss@cfaaustria.org. Should your plans change after registering, please cancel one week in advance.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone!

We are happy to invite you to join an informal presentation reviewing specific aspects of equity and fixed income ESG integration with Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM.

Mr Thoumi is a former climate, sustainability, and ESG research manager with 18 years’ experience who previously supported 41 equity and fixed income mutual funds. He has also taught ESG integration as a Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University for 9 years.

Mr Thoumi will lead a group discussion assessing four companies: an energy trader, a raw materials company, and two utilities.

Topics covered include:

• Financial accounting into ESG integration.

• Comparisons between sustainability reports and ESG data vs regulatory reporting.

• Forecasts off-balance sheet liabilities into financial liabilities.

Materials will be distributed ahead of the presentation for attendees consideration.

We look forward to your RSVP and attending this exciting and intellectually rigorous conversation.

Food & Drinks included

Live event with 1 PD / MIFID Credit

Please register at kathrin.schneeweiss@cfaaustria.org

As part of our cultural initiative, we are pleased to invite you to City walking tour discovering historical financial buildings in Vienna followed by wine tasting.

Programme:

18-19:00 City tour of the history and architecture of financial buildings/places in the 1st district that once or still have an importance for the Austrian financial industry. The tour will be guided by “Wien mal anders” in English.

19-20:00 Wine tasting of 3 local wines and finger food in the exclusively open wine cellar in the 1st district.

Meeting Point: 

18:00 Wipplingerstraße 35, 1010 Vienna (in front of the House of the European Union)
We will end at around 20:00 at Ertlgasse 4, 1010 Vienna (2 min. walk from Stephansplatz)

Registration:

Please be aware that capacity for this event is limited to 25 participants, tickets will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please register by sending an email to Kathrin.Schneeweiss@cfaaustria.org You will receive a confirmation from our side. Please inform us if you cannot participate in advance at least 3 business days before the event.

Bildquelle: Von Peter Gugerell - Eigenes Werk, Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10904443

Die CFA Society Austria setzt die Tradition fort und ist auch am 5. Mai
2024 wieder beim Wings for Life World Run dabei!

Alle Informationen zu der Veranstaltung findet ihr unter
https://www.wingsforlifeworldrun.com/de/locations/wien?eventType=flagship.
Der Wings for Life Run ist ein besonderer Event: Es gibt keine
vorgegebene Distanz, sondern alle laufen eine vorgegebene Strecke, bis
das „Catcher Car“, das 30 Minuten nach den TeilnehmerInnen startet, sie
eingeholt hat. 100% der Startgelder kommen der Rückenmarksforschung zu Gute.

Aus dem Ausschreibungstext:

„Beim Wings for Life World Run ist so ziemlich alles anders, als du es
von anderen Läufen kennst. Zum einen fällt der Startschuss weltweit für
alle zur selben Zeit. Und zwar genau um 11 Uhr UTC. Das heißt:
Teilnehmer starten in England um 12 Uhr, in Deutschland um 13 Uhr und so
weiter... Es gibt keine Ziellinie. Dafür ein (virtuelles) Catcher Car.
Es nimmt 30 Minuten nach dem Start die Verfolgung auf und überholt die
Teilnehmer nach und nach. Gemütliche Läufer werden so beispielsweise bei
Kilometer 5 überholt, Spitzensportler schwitzen schon mal bis Kilometer
60. Du hast schon ein Ziel? Der Goal Calculator hilft dir bei der
Berechnung deiner benötigten Geschwindigkeit. Dein Ergebnis richtet sich
nicht nach der gelaufenen Zeit, sondern nach der zurückgelegten Distanz.“

Die Eckdaten:

Wir starten unter dem gemeinsamen Teamnamen "CFA Society Austria".
Unserem Team könnt ihr euch unter dem folgenden Link anschließen:

https://www.wingsforlifeworldrun.com/de/teams/QpjlP5

CFA Austria unterstützt euch dabei mit:

       Übernahme der Startgebühr
       Lauf-Shirt
       Kleiner Zielevent

Die Anmeldung zum Lauf nimmt jeder individuell vor. Bitte denkt dabei
auch daran, euch dem Team "CFA Society Austria" anzuschließen.
Meldet euch auch für den Lauf rechtzeitig an – der Lauf war in der
Vergangenheit immer wieder frühzeitig ausgebucht.

Die Refundierung der Nenngebühr erfolgt nach dem Lauf unter Nachweis der
Teilnahme unter dem Namen CFA Society Austria.

Despite the fastest rate hiking cycle in ECB history and regulatory headwind, Austrian housing prices exhibited only a surprisingly moderate price decline in 2023. Is this already the end of the real estate correction, or is the worst yet to come?

Matthias Reith, CEFA, CIIA
Senior Economist, RBI Research

The Austrian real estate market has been in the longest uninterrupted upturn globally of over 17 years. Now with higher interest rates and price having decreased the affordability of real estate purchases, how will real estate prices develop moving forward?

Food & Drinks included

Live event with 1 PD / MIFID Credit

Please register at kathrin.schneeweiss@cfaaustria.org

You can download the slide deck of the event here.

Disclaimer:

In accepting this invitation Raiffeisen Bank International AG assumes that your participation in this event is in line with the legal requirements and internal policies of your employer and that you have obtained all approvals required for your participation.

RBI is the contracting authority, that is, the party responsible for data processing as defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

RBI could record the audio and video of this event, which can be stored by Raiffeisen Bank International AG for documentation purposes, used for the purpose of media coverage and public relations (e.g. internet, intranet, RBI social media channels e.g. as a unlisted/listed video on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter as well as in print brochures) and forwarded to media companies (e.g. internet, print or TV media). If you do not wish to be photographed/filmed, please let us know on-site.

RBI will process the following categories of personal data in the course of the current data processing: Name, Address, Company, Electronic contact data.

Legal basis for processing:
Prevailing legitimate interests on the part of RBI, most notably conducting the conference for the purpose of exchange.
You can find the obligatory information according to the General Data Protection Regulation on www.rbinternational.com/dataprotection.
The party responsible for data processing is Raiffeisen Bank International AG, Am Stadtpark 9, 1030 Vienna, Austria. You can contact the data protection of RBI at: datenschutzbeauftragter@rbinternational.com

Im ESG Bereich, vor allem hinsichtlich ökologischer und sozialer Themen, gibt es Investmentchancen, die dazu beitragen, die die Welt zum Besseren zu verändern.

Dragonfly Finance und CFA Society Austria laden Sie recht herzlich zu einem interessanten Nachmittag über eines der spannendsten Themen unserer Zeit ein.

09.00 Welcome Coffee und Registrierung

09.30 - 9.35 Opening von Susanne Lederer-Pabst, Dragony Finance & Harald Holzer, CFA Society Austria

10.00 – 10.25 Philipp Gaggl, PwC, Director ESG & Sustainability Consulting ESG & Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement - Umsetzung in der Industrie

10.25 – 10.50 Witold Bahrke, Global Evolution Inv. Management, Macro & Allocation Strategist Schwellenländeranleihen im Zeichen der Zinswende: Ausblick 2024

10.50 – 11.15 Edward Soekamto, Global Evolution Inv. Management, PM Emerging Market Corporate Debt Emerging Markets Corporate Debt oering enhanced yield and access to growth, related to the green transition

11.15 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 11.55 Lukas Feiner, Metis Invest, Geschäftsführer
Euro Unternehmensanleihen haben 2023 mit starken Erträgen geglänzt. Wie geht es weiter mit dieser Asset Klasse?

11.55 – 12.20 Bernhard Tollay, Metis Invest, Geschäftsführer
Strategie in Zeiten hoher Volatilitäten auf den Zinsmärkten

12.20 – 12.30 Q & A and Closing remarks by the Organizer
12.30 Get together with Lunchbuffet

Akkreditierung: 3 Std. MiFID II, 2 Std. Wissensvertiefung Sustainable Finance, 1 Std. Recht der Wertpapiervermittlung & Wertpapiere: www.diebildungsstelle.at

We would like to invite you to our last event of the year, a Christmas Market Get-Together on December 14 at the Belvedere.

Social events including a Christmas market visit ranked high in the survey many of you responded to. We will organize more of those events in the future, this get-together before Christmas will feature as the first event in this regard.

Meeting Point: Looking at the Schloss Belvedere, we will meet at the stairs in the middle

Address: Weihnachtsmärkte Schloss Belvedere, Prinz Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Wien https://www.weihnachtsdorf.at/schloss-belvedere/

How to get there:

Underground: U1 Südtiroler Platz/Hauptbahnhof, then tram 18/O exit Quartier Belvedere

Tram: D: exit Schloss Belvedere 18/O: exit Quartier Belvedere

Bus: 69A: exit Quartier Belvedere

Please let us know if you will attend by sending a note to kathrin.schneeweiss@cfaaustria.org

Looking forward to seeing many of you there.

CFA Society Austria is partnering with Black Manta Capital Partners and BMCP GmbH on the Krypto Kameel event series.

Blockchain technology, digital assets, NFTs, and everything else crypto entails are poised to revolutionize the next generation and open up new opportunities. The pace of development of these dynamic changes often makes it difficult to keep track of the current status.

The goal of Krypto Kameel is to bring the brightest minds to the table and facilitate regular discussion on all kinds of crypto-related topics. The event is designed to not only bring like-minded people together but build a professional crypto community in Vienna.

Join us on our journey to build the next generation and be there when Vienna meets Blockchain.

We are delighted to invite you to Krypto Kameel’s next edition on October 12, 2023 at 18:30 at “Zum Schwarzen Kameel”

This time's special guest is Nico Baader, CEO at Baader Bank.

Nico Baader has been a member of the Board of Directors at Baader Bank AG since 2009 and took over as Chairman of the Board in July 2015. In addition to his duties as Chairman of the Board of Directors, he is also responsible for Baader Bank’s back-office divisions.

After gaining experience in the stock broking business, Mr. Baader trained as a banker at Bayerische Vereinsbank in Munich. In 1994, he founded a consulting firm to manage IPOs, Investor Relations and Equity Research. From 2000 onwards, he was instrumental in driving the Baader Bank´s development from stock broker to full-service bank, including the establishment of Investment Banking.

Nico Baader is also appointed as a Member of the Supervisory Board of Baader & Heins Capital Management AG, Member of the Exchange Council of EUREX, Member of the Exchange Council of FWB Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Member of the Exchange Council of the Munich Stock Exchange.

This edition will revolve around the topic Banking meets Crypto and will take place as a fireside chat, moderated by Harald Egger, Chief Analyst and Crypto Asset Specialist at ERSTE Asset Management.

We are already looking forward to Mr Baader's profound insights into the world of banking and how he believes crypto or blockchain technology will transform it.

Quantum Physics Explained

Prof. Markus Aspelmeyer, Prof. Quantum Physics, Universität Wien

Markus Aspelmeyer – Wikipedia

u:find - Markus Aspelmeyer (univie.ac.at)

“Building Companies on Scientific Research”

Markus Wanko, Managing Partner of X-ISTA Science Ventures

Following a career in principal investment and strategy consulting spanning almost two decades and upon returning to Austria, Markus joined ISTA to build the team that is now driving the development of xista, the ecosystem to translate scientific findings into innovative products and services. With a broad exposure to natural sciences and technology at MIT ranging from molecular biology to electrical engineering, he gained experience in venture capital investing with Safeguard Scientifics and the European Investment Fund, strategy consulting with the Boston Consulting Group, and principal investment with QIA, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. Markus is a managing partner of xista science ventures as well as MD of our science park and the tech transfer arm. He serves on the board of AUTM, the US tech transfer association, as well as Cutanos and Ribbon Biolabs. He holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School, an MSc from TU Vienna, and an MIM from WU Vienna and HEC Paris.

Location: tbc