
2025 Agenda
Thursday, March 27, 2025
9:10 - 9:20am Welcome to Bond Fund Symposium 2025
Peter Crane, President & Publisher, Crane Data
9:20 - 10:10am Ultra-Shorts Bond Funds: Surf's Finally Up
Teresa Ho, Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Securities
Dave Martucci, PM & Head of Mgd Res, J.P. Morgan A.M.
Jerome Schneider, Managing Director, PIMCO
10:10 - 11:00am Bond Market Strategists: Rates & Returns
Michael Cloherty, Head US Rates Strategist, UBS
Ira Jersey, Chief Rates Strategist, Bloomberg Intelligence
11:00 - 11:30am Break sponsored by
11:30 - 12:20pm State of the Bond Fund Marketplace
Shelly Antoniewicz, Chief Economist, ICI
Peter Crane, President & Publisher, Crane Dat
12:20 - 1:20pm Lunch sponsored by
1:20 - 2:10pm Senior Portfolio Manager Perspectives
Moderator: Peter Crane, President, Crane Data
Richard Mejzak, Managing Director, BlackRock
Dave Rothweiler, Portfolio Manager, UBS Asset Mgmt
Nicholas Tripodes, Senior VP & Sr PM, Federated Hermes
2:10 - 3:00pm Long-Term & Core Bond Fund Issues
James Palmieri, Managing Director, State Street Global
Michael Salvay, Managing Director, Payden & Rygel
3:00 - 3:30pm Refreshments sponsored by
3:30 - 4:15pm LGIPs, ETFs & Bond Fund Ratings
Peter Gargiulo, Senior Director, Fitch Ratings
Marissa Zuccaro, Associate Director, S&P Global Ratings
4:15 - 5:00pm Sustainable and D&I Bond Fund Offerings
Henry Shilling, Founder, Sustainable Res & Analysis
Samuel Ramirez, Jr., President & CEO, Ramirez A.M.
La‐Yona Rauls, Managing Director, Mischler Financial
5:00 - 7:00pm Cocktails sponsored by
Friday, March 28, 2025
8:00 - 9:00am Breakfast sponsored by
9:00 - 10:00am ETF Index & Near-Cash ETF Trends
Marcel Benjamin, VP, SPDR F‐I Group, State Street Global
Matthew Brill, I‐G Portfolio Manager, Invesco
10:00 ‐ 11:00am Regulatory Update: Bond Fund Issues ‘25
Louis Rosenbaum, Associate, Dechert LLP
Peter Crane, President & Publisher, Crane Data
11:00 - 11:30am Break sponsored by
11:30 - 12:30pm Money Funds & Conservative Ultra-Shorts
Peter Crane, President & Publisher, Crane Data
Patricia Kao, Head of SVB A.M., Silicon Valley Bank
Dan LaRocco, Head of US Liquidity, Northern Trust A.M.
12:30 - 12:45pm Bond Fund Data & Information
Peter Crane, President & Publisher, Cran Data





