In connection with the firm's personal planning activities for our clients, during the past 10 years a number of evening presentations have been mounted in such comfortable surroundings as the Metro Meeting Center, the Langham Hotel, and more recently, the Brae Burn Country Club. At each event, an attempt has been made to inform, entertain, and socialize while exploring subjects useful to clients contemplating their own and their family's financial future.

Since 2009, when Weston Wellington of DFA regaled us with his irreverent rendering of the financial media's foibles, a number of notable academic and investment professional spokespersons have spent an evening with many of us in an informal setting. The goal has been to expand our horizons in such diverse fields as the Chinese economy, frontier country investment fundamentals, artificial intelligence, behavioral economics and finance, as well as alternative electric power generation and storage. A complete list of those instructive occasions follows: