Our sponsors
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Lead sponsor
 Morgan Stanley is one of the world's largest diversified financial services companies, with a reputation for excellence in advice and execution on a global scale. The firm maintains leading market positions in its three primary businesses - securities, investment management and credit services. Over 59,000 employees are located in 600 offices, in 32 countries. Working with sales and trading, the Quantitative and Derivative Strategies team offers publications and customized solutions to a broad range of institutional and hedge fund investors. QDS develops models and designs risk management, hedging, systematic alpha generation, and tactical trading strategies. These strategies are based on technical, fundamental, volatilitity, and/or correlation views, identified using proprietary modelling and screening platforms. Please contact QDS ( qds@morganstanley.com ) or your Morgan Stanley sales representative for more information. www.morganstaley.com |
Associate sponsors
 AlphaSimplex Group, LLC (ASG), a subsidiary of Natixis Global Asset Management, is a quantitative investment management company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1999 by its Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Andrew Lo, ASG develops and implements cutting-edge technologies to create a broad array of quantitative models and strategies that are integrated into a variety of risk-controlled portfolios with distinct objectives (hedge fund replication, low volatility, absolute return, etc.).
ASG is not organized around any single investment strategy or anomaly, but is dedicated to building and maintaining a research platform capable of generating new strategies, evolving and adapting old strategies, and exploiting new investment opportunities.
AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Natixis Global Asset Management, is an investment adviser registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IARD No. 128356) and is licensed to provide investment management services in the United States. The company conducts all investment management services in and from the United States.
 Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC which has an AA long-term credit rating and a balance sheet of over £1.1 trillion. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with solutions to their financing and risk management needs. Barclays Capital has offices in 26 countries, employs over 15,700 people and has the global reach and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide. For further information about Barclays Capital, please visit our website www.barclayscapital.com
 The joint venture, Credit Suisse Tremont Index LLC, combines the considerable expertise of Credit Suisse, one of the world's leading global investment banking firms, and the data research group of Tremont Capital Management, Inc., a full-service hedge fund of funds investment management firm. The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Indices are the industry's premier asset-weighted benchmarks of hedge fund performance. Derived from the industry leading Credit Suisse/Tremont database, the Indices are comprised of data of greater depth than any other prevailing benchmark. The analytical models used to calibrate the Indices are extensive and rigorous, and provide a set of accurate and sophisticated tools for asset class benchmarking, peer group analysis and industry-wide research. www.hedgeindex.com
 Founded in early 2004, Fulcrum manages over $800 million and has 21 employees with 15 from Goldman Sachs. Gavyn Davies, who chairs our Investment Committee, was Chairman of the BBC and Chief Economist of Goldman Sachs for sixteen years. Andrew Stevens invested across all asset classes at Goldman Sachs for twelve years after graduating from Harvard Business School in 1992. Our funds are managed centrally and not by individual portfolio managers. Our expertise is in macro asset allocation, quantitative modelling, risk management and systematic execution.
Our initial products were long-only Globally Diversified Portfolios and increased confidence in our investment models resulted with the 2006 opening of Fulcrum Alpha, a quantitative macro hedge fund with trading decisions based on value, economic signals, serial price correlation, sentiment and positioning.
Our experience in Alternatives has led us to launch Fulcrum Alternative Beta Plus, a UCITs 3 fund with distributor status. The fund is systematically managed and aims to generate net annual returns above 10% with a risk/return profile which will out-perform the hedge fund universe. The strategy has a correlation of 0.1 with equities and 0.3 with bonds. Investments are made in currency, equity, commodity, and fixed income. The Fund’s risk management process is designed to achieve attractive Sharpe ratios with low drawdowns. www.fulcrumasset.com
Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies with offices in 40 countries and territories and total client assets of almost $2 trillion. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. Merrill Lynch owns approximately half of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest publicly traded investment management companies with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. For more information on Merrill Lynch, please visit www.ml.com.
Workshop sponsor
 Riskdata ASP solutions are the only risk management solution specifically designed to address the needs of hedge fund investors. They allow Riskdata clients to attract the most demanding investors by satisfying their demand for risk transparency and a structured risk management processes.
Riskdata FoFIX® is the only solution which streamlines the aggregation of risk, whatever the underlying level of transparency or data frequency. All available manager information is processed using advanced statistical techniques to detect behavioural asymmetry and change of regime. FOFiX helps funds of funds to broaden their client base and attract the most demanding investors. FOFiX allows fund managers to satisfy the strong demand from institutional investors for risk transparency, providing them with a state-of-the-art analytic framework and presentation quality reports, including VaR measures, stress testing, exposure views and crisis simulation. FOFiX clients benefit from increased process efficiency, lower installation and operation costs with better internal control and reduced operational risk. FOFiX enables and supports a repeatable, systematic and scalable investment process, incorporating advanced risk budgeting techniques at each stage of the decision process. www.riskdata.com
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Don't let the competition get ahead of you!
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Do you have a key product or service offering around Alternative Beta?
Acting now can get you significant profile and awareness amongst pension funds and other investors. As a key sponsors you will have the opportunity to:
- Address an audience of institutional investors looking for a better understanding of alternative beta
- Differentiate yourself from your competitors
- Cement yourself and your company as thought leaders in this sector
- Make key contacts and drive sales
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Sponsorship opportunities are extremely limited so act now!
Contact Tim Green on Tel: + 44 (0)20 7092 1261 or email tim.green@irc-conferences.com to find out more.
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