In 2007, the very nature of hedge funds and their impact on financial markets are a constant subject of discussion and confrontation: are the hedge funds, the villains of international markets? Do they have permanent destabilizers of those markets? Are they speculative tools of disruption with heavy risks of krach at stake? Or are they a stabilizing force due to their masses that enables a smooth evolution of quotations? Those two approaches remain a matter of discussion.

 

Whatever the outcome of the argument: two simultaneous trends seem to highlight the hedge funds system: The first one is the specialisation-oriented functioning of the hedge funds; the second trend seems to transform the hard-to-understand hedge funds into mainstream financial tools.

 

Thus many quite conservative financial organizations such as life insurance corporations tend to incorporate small doses of hedge funds into their financial products and offers.

 

Our conference will deal with all those above-defined strategic issues. Consequently, the main topics will be :

• Overview of the hedge funds universe
  • Assessment of the markets both from demand and supply points of view
  • Europe and stakes

• Fund of Funds
  • Risk management and technology
  • Performance and structural trends
  • Canadian capital markets

• Innovations in global tactical asset allocation (GTAA)

• Risks identification: methods and limitations

• Main strategies of the hedge funds
  
  
• Risks at stakes when investing in hedge funds or fund of hedge funds
  
  
• Liquidity and transparency: How do hedge funds cope with them?
  
  
• Approach of deep analysis of some hedge funds

• Commodity
• Asia
• High return
• Asset-backed strategies
• Event-driven
• Long-short
  

• Hedge funds replication: A currently used approach
  

• Quantitative approach
• Trading hedge funds instruments
• Can hedge funds replication compete with actual hedge funds?

• The portable alpha

• Comparison between quantitative and traditionnal approaches investment approaches

• Broadly diversification: Selecting the proper funds of hedge funds

This conference will present a fine blend of speakers both generalists and outstanding highkey specialists. It is interesting for every one involved in financial matters.

Glossary

 

With the best Hedge Funds experts...

 

Mr. Armin Vogel

(Managing Partner, Primores AG) Switzerland

Mr. Remo Kränzlin

(Managing Partner, Primores AG) Switzerland

Dr. Karsten Bromann

(Managing partner, Solidum Partners) Switzerland

Mr. Stephane Janin

(Head of International Affairs Division, Association Fançaise de la Gestion Financière) France

Prof. Dr. Peter Meier

(Center Alternative Investments, Zurich university of Applied Sciences) Switzerland

Mrs. Frances Kinloch

(Capital Introduction EMEA, Scotia Capital Europe Ltd) United Kingdom

Mr. Gabriel Kurland

(Founder, Hedge Fund Appraisal) Switzerland

Mr. François Bloch, MBA/ EMBA

(Chief Investment Officer, Amas Bank) Board member of various asset managers) Switzerland

Mr. Gulamabbas Lakha

(CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Providentia Capital LLP) United Kingdom

Mr. Frederic Berney

(Chief Risk Officer and Managing Partner, Harcourt Investment Consulting AG) Switzerland

Dr. Alexander Dimai

(Partner, DL Investment Partners) Switzerland

Mr. Klaus Wilhelm Hornberg

(Oppenheim Kapitalanlagegesellschaft) Germany

Mr. Jean-François Bouilly, CFA

(Chief Investment Officer, Partner, Latitude Capital Management) France

Mr. Aamer Zahid

(Senior Portfolio Manager, ISPartners Investment Solutions AG) Switzerland

Mr. Erik Larsson

(Head of Research; AlphaSwiss Group) United Kingdom

Mr. Ernesto Prado

(Chief Investment Officer, Peak Partners SA) Switzerland

Mr. Simon von Oppenheim

(Managing Director; Integrated Alternative Investments) United Kingdom