In June, UBS held a gathering of managers of central bank reserves, multilateral institutions and sovereign wealth funds, and found that a plurality believed gold would be the best-performing asset class through the end of 2011.
Last April, Hannifin even did a presentation on science toys to a special gathering of managers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
One European executive recalls a gathering of risk managers in the mid-1990s at which corporate governance was being discussed.
Talking to an annual gathering of his managers, he said: "I am quite sure the local weekly press has a long and viable life ahead".
The 5-11 point guard wowed scouts at the predraft camps, including his breathtaking two-handed dunk in Chicago last month that stunned the gathering of general managers and coaches.
He was an emissary, to a gathering of park managers from around the world that will meet this week in Sydney, for their story – a daily struggle to protect an astonishing place.
At the recent State of the Arts conference in Salford, a gathering of arts managers from across England, the playwright David Edgar questioned the funds being spent on the opening ceremony but not, to be fair, on the London 2012 Festival.
With sales at their lowest level in two decades, auto industry managers gathering for the Frankfurt auto show next week will be doing their best to focus on shiny new technologies rather than on the European car market, which, in contrast to the thriving market in the United States, is in a terrible state.
In April, for example, he flew his private jet — a Boeing 737 — to Las Vegas to attend an exclusive gathering of fund managers organized by Drobny Global Advisors, where he mingled with other millionaires amid conversations about such arcane investments as Turkish glassmaking stocks and Brazilian farmland.
Though Clinton took a brief break to raise money of her own at a gathering of investment managers in Philadelphia, she has been as relentless as Sanders in covering the ground and meeting as many potential votersas possible between now and caucus night.
