Established in 2003 and held on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, the consistently sold-out, half-day conference welcomes high-profile, dynamic speakers to discuss actionable investment opportunities pertinent to the current market environment. Student, faculty, and staff attendees learn from and engage with capital allocators and investment managers who travel across the globe to attend the ISC at TCU.

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04 . 22 . 2025

The INVESTMENT STRATEGIES CONFERENCE ®
IS PROUDLY PRESENTED BY
TCU Investment Management
and LKCM Center for Financial Studies at the Neeley School of Business

A world-class conference for students, faculty, staff, and finance professionals

GET TO KNOW THE INVESTMENT STRATEGIES CONFERENCE

Past themes, speakers, and more.

2024

THE QUEST FOR ALPHA

Opportunities in Marketable Alternative Strategies
DMITRY BALYASNY Chief Investment Officer & Managing Partner, Balyasny Asset Management, L.P.
CLIFF ASNESS Founder, Managing Principal & Chief Investment Officer, AQR Capital Management, LLC

2022

THE ROARING 2020s

Strategies for a Stimulated Business Cycle
PAUL RYAN Former Speaker of the House
BOB SCHIEFFER '59 CBS News Correspondent & Former Moderator of Face the Nation
JASON TRENNERT Managing Partner & Chief Investment Strategist, Strategas Research Partners LLC (2013-2017)

2020

THE NEXT DECADE: SURVIVE OR THRIVE?

Making Sense of a Disrupted World
MIKE WALSH CEO of Tomorrow, Futurist, and Author
Jacob J. Lew 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury (2013-2017)
Canceled Due To COVID-19

2019

STRATEGIES FOR THE CYCLES

DR. JANET L. YELLEN Chair, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (2014-2018) Distinguished Fellow in Residence at Brookings' Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
DAVID ROSENBERG Chief Economist and Strategist | Gluskin Sheff

2018

DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS

Positioning for Generational and Socioeconomic Change
RICK RIEDER Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income | BlackRock
PETER ZEIHAN Author of The Accidental Superpower and The Absent Superpower

2017

STRESSED AND DISTRESSED INVESTING

Distinctive Opportunities for the Value Investor
NIALL FERGUSON Author, Historian, Harvard Professor, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow | Stanford University
HOWARD MARKS Founder and Co-Chairman | Oaktree Capital Management

2016

THE GLOBAL COMPETITION
FOR CAPITAL

GEORGE W. BUSH
43rd President of the United States

TCU INVESTMENT STRATEGIES CONFERENCE

IS PROUDLY PRESENTED BY

TCU Investment Management
and LKCM Center for Financial Studies at the Neeley School of Business