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List of sponsors 
If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities at this event then please contact:
Gisete Tay, Senior Sponsorship Manager
Email: gisete.tay@terrapinn.com
Tel: +(65) 6322 2755
Fax: +(65) 6226 3264
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Event partner
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The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) was declared open for business in 2004. The DIFC, completes the 24/7 global financial network to bridge the gap between existing financial centres of London and New York in the West and Hong Kong and Tokyo in the East. The vision of the DIFC is to shape tomorrow’s financial map as a global gateway for capital and investment. Its mission is to be a catalyst for regional economic growth, development and diversification With sophisticated physical infrastructure, a visionary leadership and a stringent regulatory framework, the DIFC is poised to tap the largest emerging market for financial services within a region of over 2 billion people and a combined economy worth $1.8 trillion in terms of GDP, growing at an annual rate in excess of 5 per cent. Focusing on seven primary sectors: Banking Services; Capital Markets; Asset Management and Fund Registration; Reinsurance; Islamic Finance; Business Processing Operations and Ancillary Service Providers, the goal of the DIFC is to be universally recognized as a hub for institutional financial services not just in the region but worldwide. It also aims to create a global centre for Islamic Finance and enhance reinsurance capacity.
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Gold sponsor
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Citco Bank is the recognized world leader in providing specialized trading and custody for the international fund holdings. For institutional clients (primarily Banks), Citco Bank offers a unique custody service to alleviate these institutions from the administrative burden of locating, subscribing in and keeping track of investments in international funds for their private banking customers.
These services allow clients to deal in mutual funds and alternative investments in a fully automated environment. Citco’s clients benefit from real-time access to electronic statements including portfolio holdings, pending transactions and access to historical transactions data including corporate actions.
As well as having an automated environment for transactions processing our clients can benefit from increased revenues and efficiencies by using our fully automated trailer fee program.
Citco Bank’s online trading and custody platform, specifically designed for high volume transactions, allows Internet access through a single point to all trading and custody functions.
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Silver sponsors
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Fimat Alternative InvestmentSolutions (AIS) provides dedicatedservices to members of the alternativeinvestment community such asselected money managers, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs),Hedge Funds, Master Fund structures, Funds of Funds, FamilyOffices and investors in alternative investment strategies suchas insurance companies, banks or pension funds. Fimat AISoffers the Group’s global range or brokerage activitiesencompassing transaction, clearing, settlement, custody andfinancing of various asset classes.
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Swiss Financial Services isan employee owned fundadministrator established in1984. SFS performsaccounting and administrativeservices for diverse fund types domiciled in various domiciles.Funds we administer include corporations, limited partnerships,fund of funds, single and multi-advisor funds, master/feederfunds and single and multiple class funds. SFS’ clients includeinvestment managers, hedge fund managers, commoditytrading advisors, commodity pool operators and investmentadvisors, as well as banks, brokerage firms and other financialinstitutions.SFS has 50 employees in its four offices located in Switzerland,USA, Bahamas and Ireland and soon in Singapore. SFS performsapproximately 350 NAVs per month, representing $30 billionin net assets.
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Associate sponsors
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Eurex is the leading pan-European derivatives exchange.
With an annual volume of more than 674 million contracts traded in 2001, cutting-edge technology and a diversified product line have made Eurex the leading international derivatives exchange.
Global investors already use Eurex products to pursue a variety of efficient strategies for a customised portfolio risk management.
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Endorsers
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The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association® is an independent, not-for-profit global organization committed to education and professionalism in the field of alternative investments. Founded in 2002, the Association is the sponsoring body for the CAIASM designation. Recognized globally, the designation certifies one’s mastery of the concepts, tools and practices essential for understanding alternative investments and promotes adherence to high standards of professional conduct.
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Strategic partner
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Eurekahedge is the world’s largest independent alternative research company, dedicated to the collation of alternative investment data, and the development and continuous improvement of our research data banks. We have evolved into a market leader in less than four years: from our first single manager directory covering 162 funds, we have aggressively grown our research data to now maintaining coverage on 13,000 alternative funds globally and disseminate data on 10,000 alternative funds, covering US$1.4 trillion in assets.
We have also launched a global suite of five regional private equity databases, maintaining data on 2,500 private equity and venture capital funds as well as a global Islamic fund database on Shariah-compliant funds.
Eurekahedge has offices in New York, London, Singapore and Hong Kong. Eurekahedge also provides consultancy and marketing services, a hedge fund hotel in Singapore and has recently launched three investible hedge fund indices with our partner, Maxam Capital.
For more information, please contact Alexander Mearns, Managing Director at alex@eurekahedge.com or +65 6212 0924.
US toll free: 1866 578 4852, UK toll free: 0800 404 8106
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Media partners
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Alternative Asset Center (AAC) www.aa-center.net, this week announced an important plus to their Fund of Hedge Fund DataFeeder service.
“Based on industry requirements and market research we have produced a raw, flexible and economic downloadable database specific to the FoHF universe. The product more than meets the quantitative and qualitative requirements of industry professionals.” Today commented
Nicolas Berner, business development manager for AAC.
The update to both format and content enables the feed to be compatible with most 3rd party analytical and contact management platforms including the acclaimed PerTrac v6 from Strategic Financial Solutions.
The data feed, valued at USD 1,500 for an annual subscription and updated fortnightly, currently profiles over 1200 Fund of Hedge Funds and includes over 16 years of monthly performance and AUM.
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Albourne Village, a virtual hedge fund community with 22,000 active residents, is a free and independent website for anyone interested in alternative investments. It incorporates a virtual pub and library to exchange news 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 site was recently voted number 26 in The Online Finance 30 featured in the international edition of Institutional Investor.
Don't just join the Village, be the Village.
http://village.albourne.com
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AsiaInt is a specialist provider of economic and political intelligence on Asia. Through its Asia Intelligence and China Watch services it provides a comprehensive one-stop information resource for all those with a professional interest in Asia. AsiaInt combines three specialist information resources geared specifically to China with five Asia-wide information resources and a range of 'bespoke' benefits geared to the needs of individual organizations. It also has a specialist resource dedicated to monitoring Asian infrastructure developments. A FREE seven-day evaluation of all AsiaInt’s resources is available from www.asiaint.com.
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CogentHedge.com is a data-driven resource for investment professionals to analyze and evaluate alternative investments offered worldwide. Its mission is to provide at no charge to qualified users the intelligent tools to help make informed decisions. Unprecedented depth of information about more than 4100 entities makes it the largest database available to investment professionals. For more information, email support@cogenthedge.com or visit www.cogenthedge.com.
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Bringing together an internationally acclaimed board of leaders in the field of alternative investment – including Mark Anson and Michael Tannenbaum - this is Euromoney Handbooks’ biggest ever alternative investment resource. Articles are written by insiders from within this dynamic sector to ensure that the editorial represents only the issues that matter. Our Handbook includes a directory of over 550 contacts listing hundreds of companies active in the world of alternative investments. For further information and to purchase your copy, please visit www.euromoney-yearbooks.com/handbooks
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Hedge Air can distribute your message to over 120 carefully selected news sources and magazines which report about the hedge fund industry: over 250 journalists, editors and reporters, internationally: USA, UK, Germany, France, Japan. Contact: www.hedgeair.com, René Friedrich, info@hedgeair.com
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Hedge Connection is the first web-based investor-intro service for hedge funds and qualified investors that provides direct networking. HedgeConnection.com offers both hedge funds and investors a place to exchange ideas and information. Hedge funds can post all information for free and actively source a large database of qualified investor profiles for a fixed annual membership fee -- no commissions. Investor members join for FREE and gain access to detailed information on our hedge fund members.
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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. Sign up for a three-issue FREE trial subscription to Hedge Fund Alert by calling 201-659-1700 or visiting www.HFAlert.com.
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Alternative Market Briefing is published by Opalesque Ltd. and has been called the best newsletter on hedge funds. Every day 44,000 hedge fund and investment professionals get their Alternative Market Briefing from Opalesque. Special offer for Terrapinn customers: get your free trial or register now with promotion code terra1 at www.opalesque.com and get four free weeks added to your subscription.
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ISI Emerging Markets delivers hard-to-get information on more than 70 emerging markets through its award-winning online Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS). It aggregates and produces unique content including full-text news articles, company information, financial statements, industry analyses, industry statistics, equity quotes, macroeconomic forecasts and market-specific information, which are derived directly from more than 10,500 local and global publications.
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