Years after they closed their Honolulu investor's center, Fidelity is returning to Oahu for a "Client Appreciation Dinner". The stock market must be really making a lot of money for Fidelity but this sort of "irrational exhuberance" means that it's time for me to call the top.
Anyway it's at the Halekulani Hotel next month, where they promise an hour of reception followed by an hour of dinner & presentation. (There's even complimentary parking!) The presentation is being given by http://myfidelity.members.fidelity.com/investorsWeekly/cms/FEAq3recap061027.dyn;mfSessionId=JLFJEYEIDFS5UCQEFEPCFFI?keyword=interviews&sourcecd=FEA]Jurien Timmer[/url], their Director of Market Research. It'll be interesting to see if they have anybody local to coordinate the whole affair or if they're going to ship in the Seattle team for a couple weeks' temporary duty.
As SG said I can afford to buy my own dinners, but when Schwab was doing these they were a hugely entertaining "guy's night out" for my FIL and I (and thus greatly appreciated by my MIL). So we'll probably go just to listen to the words and enjoy the rubber chicken.
Has anyone heard Timmer speak before or been to one of these dinners? Does "market research" mean that he's in charge of researching stocks or is he in charge of researching customer markets to whom he could sell Fidelity's Active Trader products? He spent last week at a money expo where he could have been doing either one...
Any interesting conversational topics that I should add to my list of prepared questions?
If any of you are planning to be in Waikiki on 19 December then dinner's on me, but let me know now so that I can give Fidelity a head count!
Anyway it's at the Halekulani Hotel next month, where they promise an hour of reception followed by an hour of dinner & presentation. (There's even complimentary parking!) The presentation is being given by http://myfidelity.members.fidelity.com/investorsWeekly/cms/FEAq3recap061027.dyn;mfSessionId=JLFJEYEIDFS5UCQEFEPCFFI?keyword=interviews&sourcecd=FEA]Jurien Timmer[/url], their Director of Market Research. It'll be interesting to see if they have anybody local to coordinate the whole affair or if they're going to ship in the Seattle team for a couple weeks' temporary duty.
As SG said I can afford to buy my own dinners, but when Schwab was doing these they were a hugely entertaining "guy's night out" for my FIL and I (and thus greatly appreciated by my MIL). So we'll probably go just to listen to the words and enjoy the rubber chicken.
Has anyone heard Timmer speak before or been to one of these dinners? Does "market research" mean that he's in charge of researching stocks or is he in charge of researching customer markets to whom he could sell Fidelity's Active Trader products? He spent last week at a money expo where he could have been doing either one...
Any interesting conversational topics that I should add to my list of prepared questions?
If any of you are planning to be in Waikiki on 19 December then dinner's on me, but let me know now so that I can give Fidelity a head count!