Amir Heshmatpour, AFH Holding & Advisory, LLC's Chairman & Managing Director, to Speak at Ivy Family Office Network 2013 Trends Forum

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Sept. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Amir Heshmatpour, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of AFH Holding & Advisory, LLC, will be a featured speaker at the Ivy Family Office Network 2013 Trends Forum on September 12, 2013, in Newport Beach, CA.

Mr. Heshmatpour joins a lineup of distinguished speakers including senior officers and portfolio managers from companies including Queens Court Capital, Dome Equities, Accelerator Ventures, and Aberdeen Asset Management.

The forum will also be addressed by Fred Nazem, Founder and Managing Partner of Nazem & Company. Moderating Mr. Nazem and the other panel speakers on the Future of Health Care Investing, will be Joe Nikolson, Fund Consultant.  David Steinberg, Founder and Managing Partner at DLS Capital Management, will be speaking on the Outlook of Emerging Markets panel, with moderator Donna Pulini, Manager at Aberdeen Asset Management.  Moderating Mr. Heshmatpour's panel on Non-Correlated Investing will be Les Allan, the CEO of the Los Angeles Investment Company.

About AFH Holding & Advisory, LLC

AFH Holding & Advisory, LLC, is a family office and advisory firm offering business solutions to help domestic and international clients grow.  AFH offers integrated financial advisory and consulting services to U.S. and international clients who seek capital formation and business strategies including the preparation and implementation of alternative public offerings, PIPE financing, acquisitions, corporate governance development, regulation and compliance, among other services, all executed concurrently to provide a seamless transition to a United States-listed public company.  Among its portfolio companies include 15 fully reporting and audited Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV) that are actively looking for acquisition and recapitalization  of growing businesses with capable and excellent management. Some of the fully reporting SPVs include: AFH Acquisition III, Inc. through AFH Acquisition XII, Inc., and AFH Holding III, Inc. through AFH Holding VII, Inc.  AFH is also a licensed California lender, and maintains an office in Beverly Hills, California.

About The Ivy Family Office Network

The Ivy Family Office Network, IvyFON, is a leading peer to peer global family office network with several hundred family offices attending their events around The Americas. Forum sessions are multi-format and cross-disciplinary covering a range of family office centric topics.

IvyFON's expertise is an outgrowth of one of the United States' oldest and largest alternative investment networks, the IvyPlus network. IvyPlus originated as a peer to peer private equity, real estate and hedge fund network consisting of Ivy League and comparable school alumni as well as meritorious participants in the program. Additionally the group supports deal networks across multiple disciplines including private equity and real estate. More than 10,000 investment, family office and institutional investment professionals have attended forums globally.

AFH Media Contact:

Kambiz Aghili - MBA, Ph.D.
Managing Director
AFH Holding & Advisory, LLC
9595 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 700
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Office: (310) 492-9898

IvyPLUS & IvyPLUS Alternative Investment Network Contact:

Marty Secada
(646) 290-8114

SOURCE AFH Holding & Advisory, LLC