SkyBridge Capital, a leading global alternative investment firm, today announced that President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address at its Second Annual SkyBridge Alternatives (SALT) Conference on May 19 to 21, 2010, in Las Vegas.

The conference, where attendance reached more than 500 invite-only participants last year, convenes public policy officials, capital allocators and managers to discuss the government’s role in the financial markets, allocation trends, the importance of risk management and the changing regulatory landscape.

Other notable speakers this year include Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts; Nouriel Roubini, economics professor and chairman of Roubini Global Economics; Jeremy Siegel, the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business; and Michael Milken, chairman of the Milken Institute.

“As we navigate an ever-changing and volatile global economy, SALT will bring together the world’s leading investors, asset managers and public policy officials to discuss investment strategies within the context of a changing economic environment,” said Anthony Scaramucci, managing partner of SkyBridge Capital. “It is an honor to have President Bill Clinton serve as the keynote and we look forward to tackling the critical issues and sharing breakthrough ideas that are affecting the investment community.”   

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SkyBridge Capital, a leading global investment firm, announced today that managing partner Anthony Scaramucci will be featured on a panel at the 2010 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting on January 27.

The panel, “The Economics of Happiness,” will explore how happiness should be measured from the perspective of economics. Joining Scaramucci on the panel will be IHS Global Insight chief economist Nariman Behravesh and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University professor of economics, among others.

Scaramucci and the other panelists will explore The Easterlin Paradox – the idea that happiness at a national level does not increase with wealth once basic needs are fulfilled. This has been challenged by recent studies positing that absolute income tends to bring happiness, even if it does not guarantee it.

Scaramucci, a financial services entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the asset management industry, explores this idea at length in his upcoming business memoir, “Goodbye Gordon Gekko: How to Make Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul” scheduled for release in April 2010.

“Given the widespread economic and psychological struggle the recession has caused in the last few years, it is an honor to be able to explore the concept of the economics of happiness with such revered thinkers,” Scaramucci said.

The panel is scheduled for the first day of the Annual Meeting, which will be held in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland January 27-31.