**Event Postponed due to COVID-19. Rescheduled for April 14, 2021**

The Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing at the Ivey Business School at Western University was to hold its annual Value Investing Conference on April 15, 2020 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto, ON, Canada. Event was postponed due to COVID-19. Rescheduled for April 14, 2021.

The mission of the Conference was to promote the tenets of value investing as pioneered by Benjamin Graham, to expose Conference participants to the various value investing methods used by practitioners, and to encourage and support academic research and study in the area of value investing.

The Conference was to provide a forum to explain, discuss and debate the principles, practices and various applications of value investing from a global context.

Normally, we do not have a theme for our Conferences. However, we had made an exception in 2020 in light of all the criticisms that value investing had received and the inferences that “this time it is different”. The theme was to be “In Celebration of Ben Graham in a World that Questions Value Investing”. Moreover, to emphasize our Conference theme, we were not going to have the usual CEO panel, but instead, were going to celebrate Tweedy, Browne Company’s 100-year anniversary (1920-2020) with a speech by William H. Browne, one of the company’s Managing Directors. His presentation was to be followed by a Q&A session with the company’s executives conduced by Jeff Stacey, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Stacey Muirhead Capital Management.

Conference Organizer and Chair

George Athanassakos, Managing Director, Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing, Ivey Business School

Morning Keynote Speaker

Presenter: James Grant, Financial Journalist and Historian, Founder and Editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, New York, NY, USA

Topic: “Sometimes You Have a Bad Decade”

Luncheon Keynote Speaker

Presenter: Howard Marks, Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Topic: 1969-2020: The Evolution of Investing

Afternoon Keynote Speaker

Presenter: H. Lawrence Culp, Jr., Chairman and CEO, General Electric Co, Boston, MA, USA

Topic: GE’s Multiyear Transformation Story: A Value Opportunity

Value Investor Session

Presenter: Dianne K. McKeever, Chief Investment Officer, Managing Member and Co-Founder, Ides Capital Management LP, New York, NY, USA

Topic: ValueS Investing: ESG Frameworks that Minimize Risks and Maximize Returns

Presenter: Francisco García Paramés, Chairman and CIO, Cobas Asset Management, Madrid, Spain

Topic: Some Stocks (Mostly European) Ben Graham Would Love

Presenter: Evan Vanderveer, Managing Partner, Vanshap Capital, Arlington, VA, USA

Topic: Investing in Capital Constrained Markets

Presenter: Mohnish Pabrai, Managing Partner, Pabrai Investment Funds, Irvine, CA, USA

Topic: From Ben Graham to Phil Fisher

Presenter: Guy Gottfried, Founder & Managing Director, Rational Investment Group, LP, Boston, MA, USA

Topic: Many Happy Returns: A Value Perspective on Return on Investment

Tweedy, Browne Company LLC Session

Presenter: William H. Browne, Managing Director, Tweedy, Browne Company LLC, Stamford, CT, USA

Topic: Tweedy, Browne 1920-2020: Celebrating 100 years of value investing

Conversation with Tweedy, Browne Company Executives

Moderator: Jeffrey D. Stacey, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Stacey Muirhead Capital Management, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Executives:

Roger de Bree, Managing Director, Tweedy, Browne Company LLC, Stamford, CT, USA

Thomas H. Shrager, Managing Director, Tweedy, Browne Company LLC, Stamford, CT, USA

John D. Spears, Managing Director, Tweedy, Browne Company LLC, Stamford, CT, USA

Robert Q. Wyckoff, Jr., Managing Director, Tweedy, Browne Company LLC, Stamford, CT, USA

Thank you to our Donors

We would like to thank our donors Burgundy Asset Management Ltd., The Center for the Advancement of Value Investing Education, Sionna Investment Managers, Turtle Creek Asset Management Inc., and Tweedy, Browne Company LLC. for their generous support.