Conference Speakers
Ron Insana
Founder and Managing Director, Insana Capital Partners
Ron Insana is the founder and Managing Director of Insana Capital Partners. The Firm is an SEC registered investment adviser with approximately $100 million in assets under management.
Mr. Insana brings more than two decades of financial market experience as an award-winning journalist covering global economics, financial markets, political policy and the alternative investment industry. Mr. Insana currently serves as a regular contributor on CNBC, the world’s leading business and financial news network, giving color to major market and political events. Prior to founding the Firm, Mr. Insana was the anchor of CNBC’s Street Signs, wrote monthly columns for a major U.S. newspaper and hosted a nationally syndicated radio program. Mr. Insana joined CNBC in 1991 as a regular contributor to various television and radio programs produced by CNBC and its affiliates. Before moving to CNBC, Mr. Insana worked as Managing Editor and Senior Anchor for the Financial News Network, where he began his career in 1984 as a production assistant. Mr. Insana has written three books about Wall Street. He graduated with honors from California State University at Northridge.
David D. Hale
David Hale is a Chicago-based global economist whose clients include investment management firms, major hedge funds, and multinational companies. Mr. Hale serves as the Global Economic Advisor to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He formerly worked as chief economist for Kemper Financial Services from 1977 to 1995 and Zurich Financial Services that he joined as chief economist when it purchased Kemper in 1995.
Mr. Hale holds a B.Sc. degree in international economic affairs from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a M.Sc. degree in economics from the London School of Economics.
Mr. Hale is a member of the National Association of Business Economists and the New York Society of Security Analysts. He writes on a broad range of economic subjects and his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The Financial Times of London, The New York Times, The Nihon Kezai Shimbun, The Australian Financial Review, The Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Interest, and other publications.
In September 1990, the New York chapter of the National Association of Business Economists conferred upon Mr. Hale, the William F. Butler Award. Mr. Hale is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority as well as a variety of government and private sector economic policy research groups in Washington, Tokyo, and Berlin.
Mr. Hale is married to Lyric Hughes Hale, publisher of China Online. Together they have co-authored several authoritation articles on the Chinese economy in Foreign Affairs and the Financial Times.
