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Speakers 
 Mr. Robbie Alexander,
Chief Executive Officer,
Octane Holdings Limited
Robbie Alexander is the Chief Executive Officer of Swiss based Octane Holding Ltd.
Octane is the alternative solutions provider of Sanlam, the second largest financial services company in Africa with a market capitalization of $5 billion. Octane creates tailor-made solutions for institutional clients with $750 million under management as of June 2005. The company has additional offices in New York and Johannesburg.
Robbie Alexander has an Honors degree in accounting from Rand Afrikaans University and is a Chartered Accountant.
He has authored a book on Futures and options, namely "Futures and Options, A Guide to South African Derivatives" and is a contributing author to the book “Managing Hedge Fund Risk, Second Edition” which was published in June 2005.
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Mr Michael Auyeung,
Chief Executive Officer,
Pacific Mutual Fund Bhd
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 Mr. Robert Binyon,
Chairman,
Aureos Advisers (Thailand) Ltd
Robert Binyon was born in 1951 and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1972. He joined Morgan Grenfell in 1972 and was responsible for the Group’s operations in Switzerland in 1977-8 and 1981- 4 and from 1986-91 for regional operations in Asia based in Tokyo. He was joint Chief Executive and Managing Director of Tokai Bank Europe from 1991 to 1994. He joined CDC, then the Commonwealth Development Corporation, as Managing Director responsible for the regional and private equity funds that CDC established operates. He relocated to South East Asia, with responsibility for the Asia Pacific Region in October 2000. He is now a consultant to CDC and a Chairman of Aureos Advisers Limited responsible for South East Asia.
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 Prof. Edwin Burton,
Member of the Board of Directors,
Virginia Retirement System
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 Ms. Yvonne Chan,
Assitant Director - Investmenst,
Hospital Authority Provident Fund Scheme
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 Mr. Daniel Chan,
Chief Executive Officer,
Straits Lion Asset Management
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 Dr. Joseph Cherian,
Managing Director & Global Head,
Credit Suisse Asset Management
Joseph Cherian is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse Asset Management. He is Global Head of Quantitative Resources and a member of CSAM's Global Executive Committee.
Mr Cherian joined Credit Suisse Asset Management in 2004. Prior to this he worked for Banc of America Capital Management, where he was a Managing Director responsible for asset allocation and quantitative research, as well as senior portfolio manager of asset allocation funds. Previously, he was an associate professor of finance at Boston University; additionally taught finance and conducted research at Cornell University and the University of Amsterdam; and consulted for several financial organizations.
Mr Cherian holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in finance from Cornell University. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles for a variety of investment or financial journals and is a review board member of the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute (AIMR).
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Mr. Khiem Do,
Head of Asian Equities,
Baring-Asset Management (Asia) Ltd
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Prof. John E. Dunn III,
Professor of Finance,
Thunderbird, School of International Management
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Mr. Richard Fan,
Principal & Co-Founder,
UG Investment Advisers
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 Mr Pranay Gupta,
Head of Global Quantitative Strategies - Capital Markets,
ABP Investments,Netherlands
Pranay joined ABP investments in 2002. As Head of the Global Quantitative Strategies group, Pranay is responsible for managing the Euro 15 bn GQS Fund – a quantitative multi-asset class, multi-strategy fund, investing in developed and emerging equities, fixed income, currency and derivative instruments. He is also a member of the Capital Markets Strategy Team which guides the investment of the Eur 135 bn Capital Markets portfolio.
Prior to joining ABP, Pranay’s previous positions include Global Quantitative Strategist and Chief Investment Strategist for SG Cowen based in Hong Kong, and the Head of Quantitative Research for JP Morgan Fleming Investment Management based in New York.
Pranay holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, specialising in Computer Aided Design, an MBA in Finance, and is also a CFA charter holder. He has published research in several journals and contributed to articles in the printed media. He has fourteen years of experience in Quantitative Research and Investment Management.
ABP Investments is the asset management arm for the ABP Pension Fund and manages approximately Euro 170 bn in assets, roughly two-thirds of which are managed internally.
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 Mr. Kevin Hebner,
Managing Director, Global Investment Strategist,
Citigroup Asset Mangement
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 Mr. Michael Hennessy,
Managing Director,
Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC
Michael P. Hennessy is Managing Director at Morgan Creek Capital Management. Morgan Creek provides investment advisory services based on the University Endowment model of investment management to a wide range of clients. MCCM provides best-in-class thinking about asset allocation, manager selection and portfolio construction to wealthy families and institutional investors and individual investors through advisory relationships, proprietary discretionary products, and through commingled vehicles formed in joint venture partnerships with Salient Partners and Hatteras Partners. Morgan Creek will serve as an outsourced investment office for select families and institutions, providing a full range of investment management services based on an investment philosophy developed through extensive experience managing large University portfolios.
Prior to joining Morgan Creek in 2004, Mike was Vice President and Co-Founder of UNC Management Company. UNC Management Company invested a total of $1.5 billion for UNC-Chapel Hill as well as several other UNC-related endowments and foundations. Mr. Hennessy's primary areas of responsibility included domestic equity, international and emerging markets equity, opportunistic equity, absolute return, fixed income and enhanced fixed income (domestic and foreign). Mr. Hennessy also functioned as a portfolio strategist, developing overall investment objectives as well as strategic and tactical asset allocation for the funds. He additionally helped to select private equity, real estate, energy, and other alternative investments, including direct and co-investments. He was also in charge of monitoring individual managers and overall portfolio performance, as well as risk management.
Prior to joining UNC in 1999, Mr. Hennessy was Investment Director at Duke Management Company (Duke University) where he was responsible for managing $3 billion consisting of the Long Term (Endowment) Pool, the Employees' Retirement Pool, and various other investment pools of University-related funds. He led Duke’s primary responsibility for each asset class at various points in time.
Before joining Duke in 1991, Mr. Hennessy was an Associate at Smith Breeden Associates, a quantitative investment management firm with offices in Chapel Hill, NC, and Boulder, CO.
Mr. Hennessy received his M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and holds a B.S. in Philosophy, Psychology and Mathematics from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Mr. Hennessy is Director of Rhapsody Diversified Fund, Treasurer of Duke University Federal Credit Union, and a member of the Carolina Friends School Investment Committee and Carolina Friends School Board of Trustees.
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 Dr Peter Higgs,
Chief Executive Officer,
Tactical Global Management Limited
Peter founded TGM in 1997. TGM is a global TAA, currency and global macro manager with approximately US$1 billion in assets under management. TGM has offices in London and Brisbane providing both tailored managed accounts and pooled vehicles for institutional clients in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
He has over 20 years of professional experience in economic and financial analysis.
Dr Higgs holds a PhD from Harvard University.
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 Mr Ernest Jaffarian,
President & Chief Executive Officer,
Efficient Capital Management
Ernest L. Jaffarian is the Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Efficient Capital Management, LLC (Efficient). He is a veteran of nearly 20 years within the alternative investment industry in the areas of trading, portfolio construction, and risk management. In 1986 he joined Chicago Research & Trading Inc. (CRT) as a member of the proprietary trading group on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange and rose to position of Senior Vice President for OTC Treasury Options. Immediately prior to founding Efficient, Mr. Jaffarian was responsible for the managed futures department of Hull Equity Management, LLC and for the allocation of Hull Trading Company, LLC’s proprietary capital among trading advisors.
Founded in 1999 by leaders from within the industry’s preeminent trading organizations including CRT and Hull Trading, Efficient is dedicated to maximizing the unique benefits of cash-efficient “alpha” strategies for the institutional investor. It presently allocates more than USD 1.8 Billion in tradable assets for a variety of global private bank, insurance company, funds of funds and private investor clients. It seeks and invests with more than 20 quantitative macro, currency, managed futures, and relative value managers from 5 countries and 3 continents delivering broad diversification in over 120 markets spanning currencies, interest rates, stock indices, energy, base and precious metals and commodities. With a staff of 24, Efficient’s significant infrastructure is dedicated to exceeding the most rigorous demands of institutional investors. Available investment structures include private managed accounts and fund structures offering varying levels of capital funding efficiencies and principal protection structures.
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 Mr. Richard Johnson,
Head of Absolute Return Strategies,
Infiniti Capital / Infiniti Advantage Ltd
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 Mr. Richard A. Johnson,
Managing Director,
Jones Lang Lasalle
Current Responsibilities
Mr. Johnson is an International Director of Jones Lang LaSalle responsible for Corporate Finance and Investments within Capital Markets, Asia Pacific. He specializes in the provision of financing and advice at a strategic and project specific level to occupiers, investors and financiers of property.
Relevant Experience
Mr. Johnson transferred during 2000 from the London office of Jones Lang LaSalle where he had extensive experience, having spent 13 years working on all manner of property investment, financing and structuring projects within all the major European markets and in the Middle East. Specific Asian experience includes:
• Advising and raising debt of US $ 200 million for a Taiwanese company in the development of a mixed use scheme in China.
• Advising and raising equity of circa US $ 100 million for a major publicly listed Chinese developer in China.
• Strategic advisor to international property fund on entry strategy for China via a sale and leaseback investment strategy.
• Strategic advisor to a Las Vegas group in the financing of its proposed US $ 1 billion plus casino and resort development in Macau, China.
• Advisor to a Korean Chaebol on the sale and leaseback of its US $ 135 million headquarters building in Korea.
• Advisor to Singapore / US joint venture in the disposal of its office building in Korea worth over US $ 100 million.
• Strategic advisor in the financing and disposal of a circa US $ 100 million retail and leisure development in Singapore.
• Advisor to two regional banks on total occupational strategies and disposal options for headquarters facilities and disposal of surplus branches in Hong Kong and Thailand.
• Strategic advisor on financial structures to the Indonesian Government. Setting strategic disposal and real estate policies for a portfolio of over 7,000 properties.
• Structuring US$ multi-currency revolving loan facility for Asian investment fund.
• Advisor and implementation of the disposal of US$200 million surplus assets in Japan for a Fortune 500 company.
Previous Positions
• Director, Jones Lang LaSalle Corporate Finance, London
• Partner, St Quintin, London
Education and Affiliations
• MA in Law from Oxford University, UK
• MSc in Property Investment and Finance from City University, London, UK
• Registered Representative Securities and Futures Authority (SFA)
• Associate of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• Editorial Board Member – Briefings in Real Estate Finance
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Mr. Aref Karim,
Chief Executive Officer,
Quality Capital Management Limited
Aref Karim, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, carries overall responsibility for Quality Capital Management Ltd. (‘QCM’)’s investment strategies and research. QCM is a UK based ‘boutique’ hedge fund manager regulated by the FSA in the UK and registered as a CTA and a CPO with the CFTC in the US. Mr. Karim originally developed the models used to manage QCM’s investments.
Mr Karim qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the UK in 1978 and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He served as Senior Audit Manager with a firm of Chartered Accountants in London until 1982 when he left the UK to take up a position with a multi-billion dollar quasi government investment institution in the Middle East. The organisation, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (“ADIA”), is a unique institution investing globally in various asset classes, including alternative investments, for the long-run preservation of the country’s wealth.
During the 13 plus years at ADIA, Mr Karim was involved in the design and launch of the first ADIA external hedge fund programme for the Institution. This programme, launched in 1988, has today become the single largest institutional investment programme of its kind in the global hedge fund industry. As the senior investment manager for the Alternative Investment department of ADIA, Mr Karim was responsible for the departments’ investment policies, its strategies and asset allocation. Mr Karim managed this programme until 1995 when he left Abu Dhabi to return to the UK to set up QCM.
Today, QCM offers three ‘long volatility’ investment programmes, and the company has a nine year + operating history.
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 Mr. Raphael Kassin,
Head of Emerging Markets,
ABN AMRO
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 Mr. Alain Kerneis,
Executive Director, TAA Advisory,
Goldman Sachs International
Alain joined Goldman Sachs' Portfolio Strategy group in 2000. He is in charge of a new tactical asset allocation advisory service that provides investors with new modelling approaches and derivative implementations. He previously worked at Commerzbank Securities as a quantitative strategist where he covered European equities. Until 1998, he was a quantitative analyst in the derivatives team of Citibank Global Asset Management. Alain was awarded a PhD in statistics applied to chemistry in 1994.
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Ilex Lam,
Regional Director – Asia Pacific Ex Japan,
Janus International (Asia) LImited
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 Mr. Stuart Leckie,
Founding Chairman,
The Hong Kong Retirement Schemes Association
Stuart Leckie is based in Hong Kong and advises on pensions and investments in Hong Kong and Mainland China. He is the author of books titled “Pension Funds in China” and “Investment Funds in China”. He was founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Retirement Schemes Association.
Mr. Leckie worked in life insurance in the UK before moving to Hong Kong in 1979. He served as the Chairman of Watson Wyatt in Asia - Pacific and as Chairman of Fidelity Investments, Asia-Pacific. He has advised the Chinese Government on pensions reform.
Mr. Leckie serves on various committees in Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission, and was a Director of Exchange Fund Investment Limited, which launched the highly successful Tracker Fund.
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Mr. Yves Lehmann,
Director, Global Solutions for Financial Institutions,
Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking
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Wei Lo,
First Vice President, Macroeconomic Research,
Fubon Financial Holding, Taiwan
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 Mr. Andrew Main,
Managing Partner,
Stratton Street Capital LLP
Was a founding member of MSG & Partners Ltd in August 2000 which in May 2004 became the Corporate Partner of Stratton Street Capital LLP (SSC). He is the Managing Partner of the Partnership which is an Alternate Investment Advisory business specializing in The Far East. His chief responsibilities are the overall management of the partnership, developing its growing client relationships, corporate governance, compliance and risk management. Formerly to SSC he was an Executive Director of Guinness Mahon & Co Ltd and
Managing Director of its Capital Markets and Treasury Operations. He has over 30 years experience in the securities markets and has worked being based in all three major financial centres. The majority of his experience has been spent dealing with The Far
East developing a wide range of financial services. Prior to joining Guinness Mahon in 1993 he worked for Bank Leu in London. Before that he had spent 5 years in the Far East at the Bank of America where he was a Director of its Merchant Bank, BA Asia Ltd Hong Kong, based in Tokyo with responsibility for Securities Distribution in Asia. He has studied at INSEAD and is a Member of the Securities Institute having qualified
originally as a Member of The London Stock Exchange. He now serves on a number of the Executive Committees of The Japan society in London.
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 Mr. P Nandagopal,
Senior Vice President,
Birla Sun Life Insurance Co. Ltd
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 Mr. Arif Masood Naqvi,
Chief Executive Officer & Vice President,
Abraaj Capital
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 Mr Paresh Patel,
Chief Executive Officer,
Sandstone Capital
Paresh Patel is CEO of Sandstone Capital, an India-focused hedge fund. Sandstone is a value-oriented investment partnership focused on long-term opportunities in India, with a preference for deep value, special situations, midcaps and complex opportunities. Sandstone Capital has offices in Mumbai and Boston. Prior to Sandstone Paresh Patel was Managing Director of Sparta Group, the private investment office of Gururaj Deshpande, founder of Sycamore Networks. At Sparta, Paresh invested with Desh in early-stage ventures in the US and India - including A123 Systems, Indian Lotus, Relicore and Tejas Networks. Paresh Patel is a director of Tejas Networks (Indian telecom equipment company). Paresh is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Boston College.
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 Dr. Markus Ruffner,
Chief Investment Officer,
NPB Neue Privat Bank AG
Markus Ruffner is a co-founder of NPB New Private Bank Ltd. (NPB), a Zurich based private bank. NPB’s primary focus lies in the area of asset management for international high net worth individuals as well as for Swiss institutional investors. Mr. Ruffner holds the position of chief investment officer and is the financial engineer for the wide range of structured products (related to fixed income, commodities, equity, hedge funds) offered by NPB. He is also the asset manager of several Luxembourg based mutual funds. Prior to joining NPB, Mr. Ruffner worked for Credit Suisse and other Swiss banks, covering the areas of investment research and investment management. He is a holder of PHD degrees in both, law and economics, of the University of Zurich. His career includes positions as: finance journalist at Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich; legal counsel at two of the leading Swiss law firms. Mr. Ruffner sits on several boards of Swiss companies and is also Associate Professor at the renowned University of St. Gall, Switzerland.
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 Mr. Peter Ryder,
Managing Director & Founder,
Indochina Capital
Peter R. Ryder - Peter is one of the founding Managing Directors of
Indochina Capital. Prior to forming Indochina Capital, Mr. Ryder served as
the President and Chief Representative for Manolis & Company Asia
(1992-1995) and LukeMax Company (1996-1998), privately held US investment
companies active in Vietnam. During this period, acting as a principal, he
engineered the development and establishment of numerous private sector
enterprises, including Communication, Power & Design, one of the first 100%
foreign-owned licensed IT companies operating in Vietnam (founded in 1996
and sold in 1998 to Datacraft Asia, one of the region's largest
datacommunications firm, listed on the Singapore stock exchange); BTC
Limited, a private company specializing in the distribution of skin care and
cosmetic products; and, in joint venture with the Jardine's Group, 63 Ly
Thai To, Hanoi's premier commercial property and the World Bank's country
headquarters. He is or was on the Board of each of these enterprises.
Peter was formerly head of Salomon Brothers' Asia-Pacific real estate
finance business and was with Salomon Brothers for a total of nine years in
Tokyo and New York (1983 and 1991). As head of Asia-Pacific real estate,
Peter was responsible for US$3 billion of sales and financings of
commercial, residential and hotel and resort projects located in North
America, Europe, Asia and Australia with a variety of American, European and
Asian investors.
In addition, Peter was the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in
Vietnam from 1999-2001 and has been a Board member since the Chamber's
founding in 1994. Currently, Peter is the Chairman of the Chamber's Hanoi
tourism committee.
Peter holds an MA in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and a
BA in Anthropology from Beloit College. He speaks English, Spanish, French
and Vietnamese and lives in Hanoi with his wife, a native of the city, and
their two children.
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 Mr. Michael Simmeth,
Head of Manager Selection,
LGT Capital Management Ltd
? Michael Simmeth – Investment Experience: 11 Years (6 with LGT)
– Head of Manager Selection, Multi Manager Products, LGT Capital Management, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
– Fund of Funds Manager, DWS, Frankfurt
– Senior Fund Analyst, LGT Asset Management, Frankfurt & San Francisco
– Quantitative Analyst, Fixed Income Research, Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt
– MSc Mathematics and MA Economics from Syracuse University, NY
– Degree Mathematics oec., University of Ulm, Germany
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 Mr Noboru Terada,
Executive Investment Officer,
Government Pension Investment Fund,Japan
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Mr. Patrick Tuohy,
PB Director and Asia Head, Alternative Funds Group,
HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA
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 Mr. Frank Yao,
Executive Vice President & Chief Investment Officer,
Hua An Fund Management Co.
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