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List of sponsors 
If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities at this event then please contact:
Jean-Pierre Doggett, Project Director - Finance
Email: JP.Doggett@terrapinn.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7092 1225
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7242 2832
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Gold sponsor
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Lyxor Asset Management is a Paris-based asset management company, registered in France and regulated by the "Autorité des Marchés Financiers". Lyxor manages USD 50 billion, including USD 23 billion in alternative investment funds.
Created in 1998, the company is a fully owned subsidiary of Societe Generale, one of the world top twenty banks, with a long-term debt ratings of Aa3 (Moody’s) and AA- (Standard and Poor’s).
Lyxor has developed the leading European Hedge Fund managed account platform, offering global access to investors willing to gain hedge fund exposure in a secured environment. The managed accounts benefit from full liquidity at weekly official NAVs, produced independently from the hedge fund managers, as well as on-going risk-monitoring by Lyxor’s risk management team.
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Silver 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. 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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Integrated Asset Management, a London based company founded in 1997, is an innovative provider of fund of hedge fund (FoHF) products and owner of one of the leading institutional brokerage firms in Italy. Through our subsidiary companies, GAIM Advisors and Attica Alternative Investments, we manage assets in FoHF vehicles and provide advisory and distribution services. Integrated manages 14 successful FoHFs distributed via a global network, and has been awarded a number of advisory mandates.
As a listed company with a dynamic, experienced team, Integrated aim to be a leading player in our industry, growing both organically and through careful acquisition.
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Sal. Oppenheim, headquartered in Cologne, Germany, is the largest independent private bank in Europe. The bank has been wholly family-owned since its foundation in 1789. Sal. Oppenheim’s strategic focus is asset management and investment banking. The asset management division thereby addresses private and institutional investors.
The total assets under management of Sal. Oppenheim Group, together with the recently acquired BHF-BANK, amount to approximately €136 billion and the Group employs around 3100 people within Germany and throughout Europe.
Its recent acquisition of UK-based Attica Group and the investment in Integrated Asset Management plc, London, ensures Sal. Oppenheim has an excellent position within the European hedge fund market.
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UFG Asset Management («UFG AM») was set up in 2002 to provide asset management services for both onshore and offshore investors in the capital markets of the Russian Federation.
UFG AM was originally established by a group of investment professionals and senior partners of United Financial Group. When Deutsche Bank acquired 100% of United Financial Group in 2006, UFG Asset Management became an independent company, hence retaining its original ownership structure.
UFG AM combines two legal entities: UFG Advisors and UFG Invest. UFG Advisors is a company incorporated under the laws of Bermuda. It advises all of the offshore funds (UFG Russia Select fund, UFG Russia Debt fund, UFG Multi-Strategy fund, UFG Private Equity fund) and segregated accounts. Furthermore, UFG Advisors owns 100% of UFG Invest, which is the Moscow-based company that advises all onshore funds (Pyotr Stolypyn, Russian Bonds) and segregated accounts for onshore investors. UFG Invest is licensed by the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service to provide a full range of fund management services.
The UFG AM investment team brings a unique combination of proven Russian and Western asset management expertise combined with superior research and investment analysis capabilities. The team is comprised of experienced fund management and business professionals with backgrounds in portfolio management, global financial markets, research and direct investments.
UFG AM offers both absolute return and traditional investment strategies through a family of offshore funds, domestic retail mutual funds in addition to segregated accounts. Talented investment professionals with exceptional track records aspire to excellence, not only in the outperformance of their peers and benchmarks but also in controlling risk.
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Founded in 2003, ISPartners Investment Solutions AG (ISPartners) is an independent company dedicated to alternative asset management and absolute-return strategies. The company’s focus is to provide an innovative platform for single manager (hedge) funds as well as funds of hedge funds, and to facilitate investments in the continuously expanding universe of alternative instruments. The platform is based on state-of-the-art use of scientific research and modern technology.
Our specialized services and products include the Argon Fund, a well-diversified fund of hedge funds providing access to some of the best hedge fund managers in the world, and several dedicated single-manager hedge funds. Based on our leading-edge portfolio analysis and construction tools and supported by our well-connected network, we also offer tailor-made alternative asset management solutions and services.
ISPartners’ investment philosophy is based on sound business principles and high ethical standards. We feel strongly bound to our values: independence, reliability, quality, strong professional skills, transparency, and cost-efficiency.
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Event partner
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Man Investments is an independent leader in alternative investments delivering innovative products and tailor-made solutions to private and institutional clients. The company has always focused exclusively on alternative investments and, through its core investment managers, has developed in depth knowledge and specialised strengths in different alternative asset classes – hedge funds, leveraged finance and convertible bonds. Its track record stretches back two decades and defines the standard for excellence in an industry whose central goal is to provide diversification away from traditional equity and fixed income investments. Man Investments employs more than 1200 people worldwide. It is part of Man Group plc, an international financial services business that is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index of major companies.
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Endorsed by
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Luncheon sponsor D1
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Fidelity International Limited ("FIL") and its subsidiary companies serve the major markets of the world by providing investment products and services to individuals and institutional investors outside the US. The FIL Organisation manages a total of US$ 276 billion of assets*.
A hallmark of the money management style at Fidelity is an abiding commitment to fundamental, bottom-up research on the companies in which we invest. Fidelity has one of the largest in-house research teams, supporting a range of long-only and alternative investment products.
Since 1996 Fidelity, is present in Switzerland, with offices in Zurich and Geneva.
*source: Fidelity as at 30.06.06
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Luncheon sponsor D2
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The Quadriga Investment Group is a successful alternative investment funds provider, established in Vienna in1995 by Christian Baha. In 1996, Quadriga launched its first managed futures fund for private investors and has continued a 10 year track record developing quality products which have won more that 40 international awards. With more than1.5 billion USD* under management and 50.000 investors* worldwide, Quadriga is well established in many jurisdictions and subject to regulatory oversight in many parts of the world.
In 2001, Quadriga Asset Management AG opened an office in Zurich.
* Source: Quadriga as at 30th June 2006
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Strategic event 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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Exhibitors
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At PricewaterhouseCoopers, we measure our success by yours. Every day our more than 130,000 people in 148 countries go to work to help our clients succeed. From Dublin to Durban, from Minneapolis to Manila, our job is channeling knowledge and value through our lines of service and 22 industry-specialised practices.
Our Global Annual Review details how our industry-focused services in the fields of assurance, tax, human resources, transactions, performance improvement and crisis management have helped address client and stakeholder issues. Our success in meeting today's business challenges rests on the way we approach our work. We call that approach Connected Thinking.
Sound governance and transparency form the bedrock of leadership. We are committed to serving as a force for integrity, good sense and wise solutions to the problems facing businesses and the capital markets today. Transparency and good standards of corporate governance — both in our clients' businesses and in our own — are central to our ability to achieve those objectives. And we aim to continue to achieve them from a position of strength as the undisputed leader of our profession.
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AlternativeSoft is delivering a software, for portfolio construction with hedge funds, which accounts for extreme risks.
The aim of the company is to stay the leader in quantitative portfolio construction with hedge funds and to become the leader in hedge funds quantitative selection and tactical asset allocation for hedge fund indices.
Our competitors use classical optimization techniques, ignoring the specific features characterizing hedge funds, thus delivering inappropriate solutions for portfolio construction and risk measurements. We go farther. As soon as a new academic hedge fund model is published and its superiority verified by the scientific community, we insert it in our HFOptimizer platform.
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