The MIT Sloan Investment Conference is an annual event that brings together some of the most notable individuals in the investment world to educate and connect a wide range of financial industry participants.

The theme of this year's 12th MIT Sloan Investment Conference is "Investing during Complex Macro Markets." While the public companies have reached some of the highest equity valuations in years, other market components have simultaneously behaved in new ways never seen before by investors: negative interest rates, slowing economic growth, global quantitative easing, low fixed income yields, and record-high sovereign debt.