KWR International announced today that it will provide media support to the Big Apple Institutional Investing Summit which will be held at the Marriott Eastside Hotel in New York City on May 30-31, 2002.

A comprehensive agenda is included below. For additional information, please visit: http://www.imn.org/2002/a383/.

Big Apple Institutional Investing Summit

May 30-31, 2002
New York,NY

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION BY

The Honorable Edward Irving Koch, MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY (1977-1989)

Sean Flannery, Senior Principal and Director of Product Engineering, STATE STREET GLOBAL ADVISORS
Peter Quick, President, THE AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE¨
Salvatore Sodano, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE LLC
Michael Peskin, Managing Director, MORGAN STANLEY
Steven Galbraith, Chief Investment Officer, Managing Director, MORGAN STANLEY

FROM THE PENSION PLAN COMMUNITY:

Robert Arnold, Senior Investment Manager, NEW YORK STATE COMMON FUND
John Burns, Chief Investment Officer, NEW YORK CITY EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEMS
Leo de Bever, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Research and Economics, ONTARIO TEACHERS PENSION PLAN BOARD
Blaine Mineman, Director, Pensions, ISPAT INLAND
Carol Tusch, Director - Trust Investments, INTERNATIONAL PAPER
Stanley P. Mavromates, Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Senior Investment Officer - Public Markets, MASSACHUSETTS PENSIONS RESERVES INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Robert Smith, Senior Director, Portfolio Management, Fixed Income, FLORIDA STATE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION
Patrick Bell, Director of Pension Investments, MONTGOMERY COUNTY EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT FUND
Laurence Siegel, Director, Investment Policy Research, FORD FOUNDATION
Paul Platkin, Director, GENERAL MOTORS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CORP.
Russell Bjorkman, Investment Advisory Council Member, FLORIDA STATE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION

FROM THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY:

Horace DePodwin, Dean Emeritus, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
James Bicksler, Professor, Finance & Economics, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
April Klein, Professor of Accounting Finance, STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
William Goetzmann, Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies, YALE UNIVERSITY
Thomas Schneeweis, Professor of Finance, SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS and Director, CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES AND DERIVATIVES MARKET

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