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 08:00 - 08:25 | Registration and Refreshments | ||||
| 08:25 - 08:30 | Chair's Opening Remarks Lisa Botter, Deputy Editor, Pensions Week, FT Group | ||||
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Panel Session: AIFM Directive & The Future The full impact and challenges involved with the implementation of the AIFM Directive remain uncertain, with opinion noticeably divided. Understanding how investors can remain competitive in the face of tighter regulation is top of everyone’s list, but is there a consensus on how best to strike a balance between compliance and competitiveness? Is new regulation manageable, or too restrictive? What does this all mean for future market growth? Will the challenge become to export this new model beyond Europe, especially in the US and Asia? Panel:
Craig Stevenson, Senior Investment Consultant - Manager Research, Towers Watson Heath Davies, Head of Group Due Diligence / Hedge Fund Research, Signet Capital Management Limited Eivind Lorgen, Global Head of Alternatives & Manager Selection, Nordea Investment Management Christophe Baurand, Head of the Alternative Investments Business Line, Lyxor Asset Management | ||||
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Hedge Fund Strategies & Innovation Speaker: Drew Figdor, Portfolio Manager, Tiedemann Investment Group (TIG Advisors LLC) | ||||
| 10:00 - 10:25 | Cross Asset Strategy Views: Yields won’t stay low forever Entering the post-crisis period, the need for low yields to allow an orderly deleveraging while promoting growth seems intact. Yields appear to have started a bottoming process and the challenge for Central Banks is to withdraw stimulus without making a policy mistake… How to position portfolios as markets slowly transition to more growth and less monetary support? Could the Hedge Fund industry be the Alternative of choice? Gain insights into these questions, and more, from Lyxor’s global Cross Asset research team.
Speaker: Rob Koyfman, Senior Strategist, Lyxor Asset Management
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| 10:25 - 11:10 | Hedge Fund Strategies & Innovation Speakers: Colin Lancaster, Senior Managing Director, Balyasny Asset Management
Christian Zann, Portfolio Manager, Balyasny Asset Management
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| 11:10 | Concluding Remarks & Networking Coffee | ||||
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