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Silver Sponsor:
UniCredit Group - Markets & Investment Banking
The Markets & Investment Banking division of UniCredit Group has a long established history in the domain of ETF market making and advisory. Since 2000 the successful ETF team is the European pioneer in the ETF market, consistently achieving numerous top ratings. In the yearly survey of Deutsche Risk, UniCredit Group through HVB has been awarded #1 Market Maker for ETFs in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Furthermore, it is also the leader in the Italian portfolio insurance market and in the Italian OTC interest rate and equity derivatives market.
Exchange Sponsor:
Deutsche Börse - Market Data & Analytics
DAX®, DAXplus® and DAXglobal® Indices for the International Financial Markets
Deutsche Börse designs, calculates and disseminates approx. 3000 indices, including its master brands DAX®, DAXglobal® and DAXplus® allowing investors to cover international markets and global investment strategies.
The DAXglobal® indices offer investors the opportunity to gain exposure to emerging markets, DAXplus® strategy indices provide attractive risk/return opportunities and include indices that highlight new investment opportunities based on the findings of modern portfolio theory.
All indices are calculated in real time, following clear and transparent index rules and represent highly attractive underlyings for financial derivatives: the DAX®, for instance, is the third largest index underlying for derivatives worldwide.
Lunch Sponsor:
Newedge is a major force in global multi-asset brokerage business. With a presence in 25 locations in 17 countries providing access to more than 80 exchanges, Newedge offers a full range of clearing and execution services covering options and futures contracts for financial products and commodities, as well as for money market instruments, bonds, FX, equities, and commodities on OTC markets. Newedge provides a range of value added services, including prime brokerage, asset financing, an electronic platform for trading and order routing, cross margining, and the centralized reporting of client portfolios. www.newedgegroup.com
Exhibitors:
Dow Jones Indexes (www.djindexes.com) is a leading provider of market indexes, which it licenses for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes offers more than 130,000 equity indexes and provides a number of alternative indexes, including measures of the hedge fund and commodity markets. Dow Jones Indexes is co-owner of the Dow Jones STOXX Indexes, and together with Wilshire Associates, provides the Dow Jones Wilshire Global Index family. Dow Jones Indexes is a unit of Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com), a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com).
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Media Partners:
Albourne Village, a virtual hedge fund community with over 60,000 active residents, is a free and independent website for anyone interested in alternative investments. It incorporates a virtual pub and library to exchange news, views and IP, a job centre, conference centre and School. The Data Farm offers a daily update on key hedge fund indices alongside Albourne Partners' ‘Weather Forecasts', which estimate how conducive the prevailing underlying market environment is for a variety of hedge fund trading strategies. The Village is also home to a vast number of established industry contacts.
Don't just join the Village, be the Village.
ISI Publications Since the company's inception in 1991, ISI has earned a reputation for providing authoritative, timely and accurate information on critical developments in the world's capital markets and on a range of e-commerce subjects. Leveraging our presence in the UK, Hong Kong, Bermuda and Toronto we have established a truly global author network and distribution capability.
Our own list encompasses areas such as hedge funds, start-ups, regulation and strategy, the marketing of mutual funds, practitioners' guides to listing rules around the world, analyses of developing pensions markets and complex anti-money laundering developments, specifically in the financial services industry. Our author group includes some of the industry's leading advisors and practitioners in their respective fields.
In addition to our own titles, ISI offers professional publishing services, from editing in real-time for on-line platforms, to total book production services for our corporate clients.
Other aspects of our business also include:
Alternative IQ
This quarterly journal, specifically created for the global hedge fund community, provides detailed commentary on strategies and developments in the hedge fund world.
The Hedge Fund Hotel
This, the first Hedge Fund Hotel in Toronto is tailored to meet the specific needs of the new hedge funds, as well as companies serving this niche industry. www.hfhto.com
BooksonBiz.com
The online business bookstore for the finance and investment industry; where personal client service is guaranteed. www.booksonbiz.com
Guarantee Your Edge in the Alternative-Investment Arena
Every week, Hedge Fund Alert delivers the early intelligence you need to anticipate new risks and opportunities facing fund-management firms, their investors and service providers. Be first to identify new capital-raising tactics, investor strategies and competition among industry vendors. Sign up for a three-issue FREE trial subscription to Hedge Fund Alert by calling 201-659-1700 or visiting www.HFAlert.com
The Absolut|report is the leading publication for Alternative Investments and innovative Asset Management in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is published by Absolut Research GmbH, Hamburg, and is rounded off by the Absolut|report-Quarterly, a unique product and performance publication, containing rankings of hedge funds, hedge funds-certificates and indices for alternative asset classes. The target group of this magazine are institutional investors and market participants.
The publisher of the Absolut|report, Michael Busack, has been active in the Alternative Investment market for the past ten years and is the co-chairman of the German Alternative Investment Association (BAI).
Join The Club - Hedge Connection is the first comprehensive, web-based, marketing tool that facilitates relationship building and allows direct interaction and exchange of information between hedge funds and opt-in, qualified investors. Proudly serving hedge funds and investors since 2005.
Global Custodian is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2009. Over the last two decades, the publication has established itself as the authoritative editorial voice of the global securities services industry.
Through a combination of print, on-line and digital sound and video publications, Global Custodian provides comprehensive news and feature-led coverage and analysis of all operational and administrative aspects of the securities industry.
The readership of the title includes operational chiefs and staff at banks, broker-dealers and fund managers, and the market infrastructure of depositories, clearing houses, messaging services and payments systems that serve them.
The magazine is supported by industry-leading surveys of sub-custody in both major and emerging markets, global custody, prime brokerage, synthetic prime brokerage, securities financing and mutual, hedge and private equity fund administration.
Euromoney Handbooks is a division of the Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC group. We specialise in producing sector specific publications, built on incisive comment and market-driven analysis. We do this by building relationships with leading opinion-formers - in turn their contributions form the basis of our Handbooks. This gives them unparalleled exposure amongst their peers; as they set the agenda, their organisations are recognised as industry leaders, and our Handbooks become the primary source for investors, senior corporate executives and market intermediaries worldwide.
For further information visit our website: www.euromoney-yearbooks.com/handbooks
IndexUniverse.eu launched in November 2008 as the first independent website focused exclusively on the European ETF market. Staffed by leading ETF experts and offering daily news, analysis, blogs and data, it is already attracting attention as a leading source for independent analysis. Traffic from European readers has grown 58% since we began covering the European ETF landscape and 57 % of visits from registered users come from professional investors. The site features the most comprehensive online database of European ETFs anywhere, packaged within a sophisticated data interface that lets users sort and search for ETFs by country, asset class and more than forty additional metrics.
