“If you are wondering who could have brought Apple’s share price down more than $100 from its all-time high of $644 on April 9 to its low for the day of $541.04 — carving $96 billion out of the company’s market cap in the process — you might start with the men who gathered Wednesday in Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall for the Ira Sohn Conference to talk about the market and raise money for pediatric cancer research,” Phillip Elmer-Dewitt reports for Fortune.
Here’s the list of the day’s speakers, courtesy of ValueWalk:
• Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital
• Dwight Anderson, MP of Ospraie Management
• Dan Ariely, Professor, and expert in Behavioral finance
• David Einhorn, CEO of Greenlight Capital
• Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of Doubleline, Bond Guru
• Jonathan Kolatch, CEO of Redwood Capital
• Philippe Laffont, PM of Coatue Management
• John Lykouretzos, PM of Hoplite
• Steve Mandel, CEO of Lone Pine Capital
• John Paulson, PM of Paulson & Co
• Larry Robbins, CEO of Glenview Capital Management
• Kenneth Rogoff, Professor, Co-Author of Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
• John Wilder, Chairman of Bluescape Resources
• Meryl Witmer, GP at Eagle Capital Partners
Read more in the full article here.