Fox Business Host Headlines 2012 TMA Distressed Investing Conference

CHICAGO, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Accomplished business journalist Stuart Varney, who helped establish CNN's business news team, is keynote speaker for the 2012 Turnaround Management Association Distressed Investing Convention, January 18-20, at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.                

On the Fox Business Network, Varney examines the interplay of economic and political issues, whether the context is Greek debt or budget woes in California. Varney, who joined the network as an anchor in 2007, hosts "Varney & Co." and appears regularly with Fox News Channel personalities Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, and its "America Live" anchor Megyn Kelly.

Varney joined CNN when it launched in 1980 and helped found the business news team. He co-anchored "Moneyline News Hour" and hosted "Your Money," "Business Day" and "Business Asia." His reporting on the 1987 stock market crash contributed to CNN earning a Peabody Award for journalism excellence. Varney also hosted CNBC's "Wall Street Journal Editorial Board with Stuart Varney." A graduate of the London School of Economics, he began his career as a business anchor for San Francisco's KEMO-TV.

Varney's presentation is among highlights of the conference developed for professionals involved in acquiring and disposing distressed assets, including hedge funds managers, private-equity executives, turnaround specialists, and attorneys. The Turnaround Capital Forum connects capital providers with professionals who need to finance deals. Topflight experts lead panel sessions on the following topics:

• Capital Markets 2012 – Still Going Strong or a Victim of the Overall Economy?
• Current Legal Developments and the Impact on Private Equity and Hedge Funds
• Distressed Investing: Strategies and Tactics
• Follow the Money – The Ultimate Investor's Perspective
• Maximizing Business Value and Asset Recoveries: Putting Everything on the Table
• You May Be the Smartest Guys in the Room, but Do You Really Know How to Create Value?
• Lenders Battling Over a Melting Ice Cube: Delphi's Emergence from Chapter 11

Registration details are available at www.turnaround.org. Follow TMA on Twitter, http://twitter.com/#!/TMATurnaround.

Chicago-based Turnaround Management Association, the premier international nonprofit association dedicated to the corporate renewal industry, has more than 9,000 members in 49 regional chapters who comprise a professional community of turnaround practitioners, attorneys, accountants, investors, lenders, venture capitalists, appraisers, liquidators, executive recruiters and consultants. 

SOURCE Turnaround Management Association