| 14/11/2013 |
| 08:30 - 09:00 |
Registration and Refreshments |
| 09:00 - 09:05 |
Chair's Opening Remarks Yuri Bender, Editor-in-Chief, PWM |
| 09:05 - 09:30 |
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? Speaker: Cyrus Amaria, Director, Senior Product Specialist – Managed Account Development Lyxor Asset Management |
| 09:30 - 10:05 |
Hedge Fund Strategies & Innovation Speaker: Antonio Meroni, Senior Fund Manager, Pengana Capital |
| 10:05 - 10:30 | 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: Jeanne Asseraf, Head of Cross-Asset Research, Lyxor Asset Management |
| 10:30 - 11:05 | Hedge Fund Strategies & Innovation Speaker: Andrew Sandler, Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, Sandler Capital Management |
| 11:05 |
Concluding Remarks & Networking Coffee |
