2022 Annual Dinner
May 25, 2022: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm In Person
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We’re happy to be back together and in person for our 2022 Annual Dinner! It will be held at the Crystal City Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA.
The Annual Dinner is the Society’s most prestigious networking event of the year and routinely sells out. It has become the premiere event for the Washington, DC financial investment industry. On average, over 400 investment professionals attend, representing leading asset managers and advisors, corporations, institutional investors, regulatory agencies, and international financial institutions in the Washington, DC metro area.
You are invited to join us for 2022’s most anticipated event in the regional investment community. Whether you attend to see old friends or meet new friends, we would love to see you there. Register today to save your place.
Annual Dinner Keynote Speaker:
Will Danoff
Portfolio Manager, Fidelity Investments
Will Danoff joined Fidelity as an equity research analyst in 1986, after graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He covered the retail industry and managed the Fidelity Select Retailing Portfolio from 1986 to 1989. Mr. Danoff served as the portfolio assistant for the Magellan Fund in 1989 and 1990, before being asked to manage the Fidelity Contrafund in September 1990. The fund is the largest solely managed active equity mutual fund in the world. Contrafund strategies1 have more than $219 billion in assets.
Mr. Danoff started Fidelity Advisor New Insights Fund in 2003, which has grown to $26 billion. He currently co- manages the fund with Nidhi Gupta. He started Fidelity Series Opportunistic Insights Fund in 2012, which has grown to $8 billion. In addition, Mr. Danoff resumed management of the $23 billion Fidelity VIP Contrafund in May 2018, a portfolio he launched in 1995 before handing off to colleagues in 2007. He co-manages that fund with Jean Park.
Mr. Danoff also manages Fidelity Insights Class2, Fidelity U.S. Equity3, and co-manages Fidelity Global Growth & Value Class2 with Joel Tillinghast. These strategies were launched in January 2017, May 2018, and June 2018, respectively, and have grown to over $12 billion in aggregate.
Morningstar named Mr. Danoff “Domestic Stock Manager of the Year” in 2007.
* Registration closes on May 9th at 5 p.m.
Thank you to our sponsors:
Diamond Sponsors
Ruby Sponsors
Sapphire Sponsors
Become a Sponsor:
- Contact Bethany Murphy at bmurphy@cfawashington.org