INVESTMENT POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AGENDA

November 21, 2011

Trophy Room, 1st Floor, City Hall
1841 Argyle Street, Halifax
12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

1. CALL TO ORDER

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – May 16, 2011 and August 22, 2011

3. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS AND APPROVAL OF ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS

4. BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES
4.1 Annual Investment Policy Review

5. REPORTS
5.1 Treasurer's Report - Quarter Ending September 30, 2011
5.2 Draft Investment Policy Advisory Committee Report to the Audit & Finance Standing Committee for Quarter Ending September 30, 2011
5.3 RBC Dexia (verbal Update)

6. ADDED ITEMS

7. NEXT MEETING DATE - To Be Determined

8. ADJOURNMENT

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Information Items

6.1 MarketWatch Commentary “At this Rate, Full Employment is 12 Years Away” – Rex Nutting
6.2 Bloomberg Commentary “Credit-Default Swap Risk Bomb is Wired to Explode” – Mark Buchanan
6.3 MarketWatch “Who Gets to Decide if the Greek Haircut is a Credit Event?” – Tom Bemis
6.4 Bloomberg Commentary “When No.1 Financial-Strength Ranking Spells Doom” – Jonathan Weil
6.5 Bloomberg Commentary “Keynes, Hayek Preside at Washington Jobs Debate” – Caroline Baum