» Past Chapter Meetings:

Saturday, October 17, 2009 "Discover Why Indexing Strategies Will Lag and How Stock Picking Will Deliver Excess Portfolio Profits for the Next 2 to 5 Years" Paul Rabbitt, CEO, Rabbitt Capital Management LLC "Bull or Bear Market: Professional Hedging Strategies That Work" Mike Turner, President, Sabinal Capital Investments, LLC

Saturday, September 26, 2009 "Stock Selection Strategies" Fred Richards, President & CEO, Adrich Corporation "Weathering Volatile Times: Key Tactics for Your Estate and Retirement Planning" Roger Stinnett, CPA, CFP, CIMA, PFS, Senior Vice President, Tax & Financial Planning, City National Bank

Saturday, July 18, 2009 "Alternative Investing for the Individual Investor: Much More Than Portfolio Diversification" Roger H. Shaar, Former President and Program Chairman, AAII Los Angeles Chapter Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club "Currencies: Trends and Implications in a Changing World" Kieran Osborne, Co-Portfolio Manager, Merk Investments

Saturday, June 20, 2009 "Wealth Engineering: How to Employ the Science of Investing for Better Results" Timothy F. Bock, President, Summit Portfolio Management "ETF Strategies in a Difficult Market" Douglas Fabian, President, Fabian Wealth Strategies

Saturday, May 16, 2009 "The Impact of Globalization on Your Investments" Mark S. Wolfkiel, Senior Vice President, Astor Capital Management "Riding the Economic Rollercoaster: Deflation to Hyper-Stagflation" Frank Barbera Jr., CMT, Vice President, Marketing, Sierra Core Retirement Fund; Editor, The Gold Stock Technician Newsletter

Saturday, April 18, 2009 "Forecasts & Strategies for 2009: Opportunities and Dangers Ahead" Mark Skousen, Editor, Forecasts & Strategies "The Current Economic Crisis: Severe Recession or Global Depression?" Kenneth Coleman, Editor, Kenneth Coleman’s Investment Tracker

Saturday, March 21, 2009 "ENERGY: Whither Are We Heading? Can we get there?" Dr. Don Gimpel, Past President, AAII Los Angeles Joe Falcon, Principal, J.A. Falcon & Associates, Consultants in Energy System "How to Stay in Sync with Today’s Changing Market Leadership: Upgrade to the Winning Funds & ETFs with NoLoad Fund*X" Janet Brown, President, DAL Investment Company; Editor, NoLoad Fund*X

Saturday, February 21, 2009 "Alternative Investments: Past, Present, and Future" James A. Hyerczyk, Market Strategist, Brewer Investment Group, LLC "How to Find the Next Great Stock Market Winner" Joe Burns, President, Burns Investment Group

Saturday, January 10, 2009 "“Uncharted Waters”: Are We Now in the “Third Inning?”" David W. Wright, Principal, Sierra Investment Management, Inc., and the Sierra Core Retirement Fund "The Year Ahead: Picking Up the Pieces and Moving On" Tom Petruno, Financial Writer and Columnist, Los Angeles Times