{"id":276582,"date":"1999-10-25T15:39:00","date_gmt":"1999-10-25T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/uncategorized\/texas-welcomes-advisors-to-annual-iafp-forum\/"},"modified":"1999-10-25T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"1999-10-25T20:39:00","slug":"texas-welcomes-advisors-to-annual-iafp-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/building-your-business\/financial-planning\/texas-welcomes-advisors-to-annual-iafp-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas welcomes advisors to annual IAFP Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By David Edey<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>(October 25 &#8211; 14:30 ET) &#8211; More <br \/>than 2800 financial planners and <br \/>industry-related professionals from <br \/>around the world have gathered <br \/>for the International Association <br \/>for Financial Planning&#8217;s 1999 <br \/>forum in San Antonio, Texas. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>A speech by former British Prime <br \/>Minister John Major opened the <br \/>conference. Major was highly <br \/>critical of media-driven politics. <br \/>Government policy, he argued, is<br \/> often carried out to achieve <br \/>good sound bites. Instead of doing <br \/>what is good for the people, he <br \/>contends that far too much time <br \/>is spent with political <br \/>commentators. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Get ready for a market boom <br \/>next year, Dr. Robert Goodman, <br \/>Managing Director, and Sr. <br \/>Economic Advisor of <b>Putnam <br \/>Investments,<\/b> told delegates. <br \/>It could go on for the next 5-6 <br \/>years, he said. He expects  the  <br \/>U.S. economy to grow stronger.<\/P><br \/><P>In his opinion Y2K will be the <br \/>biggest non-event in history. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Entitled &#8220;Journey into a Dynamic <br \/>New Century,&#8221; delegates are in San <br \/>Antonio from Japan, France, <br \/>Malaysia, Italy, Argentina, <br \/>Greece, South Africa and the <br \/>U.K.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;i&gt;Former British PM headline opener&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2336,2337],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276582"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=276582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}