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Coalition Building Between the US and China on Women’s Cancer Detection, Treatment and Care (Invite only)
This day-long roundtable will bring together 30-40 delegates from the private sector, government
, and biomedical research ecosystem in the US and China to identify opportunities that harness the power of the public, private, and non-profit sectors to en
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The New Four-Letter Words in Business: DEI, CSR and ESG (Invite only)
With ESG mainstreaming over the last decade, companies seen as purpose-driven are growing three
times faster on average than competitors and 90% are pursuing an ESG strategy.
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Bridging the Gap: Philanthropy’s Role in Addressing Unmet Challenges (Invite only)
From the climate crisis to economic upheaval, it is more evident than ever that strategic philan
thropy can address critical funding gaps that go unmet by other sectors, including addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Boldly Go: Unleashing AI’s Frontier Opportunities for Finance (Invite only)
Finance is no stranger to technological disruptions. But AI presents unprecedented frontier oppo
rtunities for first movers, possibly more than any technological innovation in modern history.
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Global Investors' Symposium Check-In
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How Drug Trafficking Is Fueling the Opioid Crisis
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we are now entering the "third wave"
of the nation's opioid crisis, which involves staggering trends related to fentanyl and the global drug-trafficking trade.
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Undercapitalization: Closing the Gender Growth Gap Across Industries
Despite mounting evidence of the returns on investing in women-led ventures, only 2.2 percent of t
he $85 billion invested in 2017 went to all-women teams, and less than 10 percent of all venture-capital deals go to women, people of color, and LGBTQ foun
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Toward a Healthier Future
Conventional wisdom often suggests that a nation's health is a byproduct of its wealth.
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Can America Afford to Retire?
America's pension shortfall for defined benefit plans alone is estimated to be as high as $7.5 tri
llion across government and corporate pensions. And the outlook for the alternative of defined contribution plans is equally dire.
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The Hedge-Fund Shakeout
With more than $3 trillion in assets—and the freedom to invest opportunistically worldwide—hedge f
unds have become one of the most important market-moving forces of the last few decades.
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Outsmarting Superbugs: What Are the Alternatives?
The challenges in developing new antibiotics have left us vulnerable to growing antimicrobial resi
stance. The lack of investment and slow movement in the development pipeline mean no replacements for ineffective antibiotics as drug resistance spreads.
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The Age of Private Equity and Credit
Private capital markets have become a favored alternative source of company financing. In fact, th
e US now counts more firms owned by private equity investors than are listed on all US stock exchanges, and private credit has seen similar growth.
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