ELFA has announced that Jeff Jensen, Senior Director at Keybridge, will present the keynote at the 2020 ELFA Equipment Management Conference, February 23-25 at the Omni ChampionsGate in Orlando, Florida. Jenson will speak on the 2020 Economic Outlook for the equipment finance industry.

The keynote, "What If a Recession Happens? Which Business Sectors Would Be Hit Hardest?" will put US recessions in context—what are they? How often do they hit? What tend to be the main drivers of recession? Is one going to happen? Recent research at Keybridge has attempted to track the likelihood of a looming recession, including a quantification of the next recession’s probable depth.

The session also will discuss the usefulness of an inverted yield curve in anticipating future recessions. (Why is this tool often accurate?) The heart of the session will describe Keybridge analysis about the sensitivity of main business sectors to recessions—which sectors are likely to come through largely unscathed? Which ones will be hardest hit? (Manufacturing? Autos? Finance and Banking? Advertising? Wireless? Healthcare? Oil and Gas/Energy? Commercial Real Estate? etc.)

Details about the conference are available at www.elfaonline.org/events/2020/EMC/.