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Day 1: Thursday, 29 May 2008
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08.00 | Registration & Coffee
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09.00 | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| ECONOMY AND MARKET CYCLE FOCUS |
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09.15 | Insights to the fundamental shifts in the world economy
- Understanding global economic trends and movements
- Outlining the fundamentals for sustainable economic growth in the Asia Pacific
- Predicting next 12 months’ economy performance – Bullish or bearish? How to attain liquidity?
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| | Mr Tai Hui, Regional Head of Economic Research, SE Asia
Global Research, Standard Chartered Bank
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09.45 | The national pension fund’s experience in achieving absolute returns
- Highlighting pension fund’s needs and concerns when allocating to hedge funds
- Discovering the benchmarks in manager and fund selection
- Adopting an alternative beta strategy
- Comparing hedge funds to other alternative investments and assessing the benefits of each style
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| | Mr Richard Grottheim, Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, The Seventh Swedish Pension Fund (AP 7)
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10.15 | Topic under research |
| | Mr Frederic Hervouet, Managing Director, Head of Commodity Investor Derivatives Asia, Sales & Marketing, BNP Paribas
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10.45 | Morning refreshments
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| INVESTMENT TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN ASIA |
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11.15 | Discovering why international FOFs are allocating money into Asia
- Understanding why international houses are attracted to Asia and starting a shop here
- Are fundamentals sufficiently sound to support this for the long term? Will stagnation of mature markets dampen opportunities in developing markets?
- Identifying the rudiments FOFs look for in an Asian hedge fund
- Evaluating the risks of political and social factors in mature markets affecting hedge funds
- Assessing the implications of consolidations and acquisitions on hedge funds
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| | Mr Michael Levin, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, AsiaCrest Capital Advisors Moderator: Mr Andrew Tsai, Chief Investment Officer, Chalkstream Capital Group
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12.00 | Why do Asian focused managers based in Asia perform better than foreign based managers?
- Examining Singapore’s flourishing hedge funds market and assessing the drivers for this growth
- Evaluating key advantages of local knowledge that is inaccessible to foreign based fund managers
- Discussing the importance of the location of managers and supporting operations
- Analysing the different strategies Asia based managers utilize and the implications on generating alpha
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| | Mr Fred Ingham, Head of Asian Hedge Fund Investments, Lehman Brothers Alternative Investment Management Mr Melvyn Teo, Assistant Professor, BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Center Moderator: Mr Kirby Daley, Head of Sales & Capital Introductions - Asia, Prime Brokerage Group, Newedge Group
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12.40 | Networking lunch
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| WINNING STRATEGIES IN ASIAN POWERHOUSES |
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13.40 | An overview of Japanese alternatives landscape
- Is Japan back on the radar?
- Deliberating how Japan can rebuild its economy and investments space
- Addressing the developments of Basel II in Japan and what are the implications of raising assets in Japan
- Crystal ball: Where are hedge fund managers and institutional investors heading in the next 12 months?
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| | Moderator: Mr William Ng, Senior Portfolio Manager, JH Whitney Investment Management
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14.25 | Assessing Greater China’s appetite for hedge funds
- Understanding QDII and assessing the implications of QDII on Chinese investments
- Reviewing the performances of onshore and offshore funds in China and Hong Kong
- Examining current market conditions and determining the ideal strategy for Taiwan’s offshore and domestic managers
- Is your strategy outdated? Discussing how to implement long/short equity and multi-strategy in an innovative manner to generate alpha
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| | Ms Chris Tang, Founder and the Chief Investment Officer, Marco Polo Pure Asset Management Mr Andy Xie, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Value Star Asset Management
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15.10 | Speed Networking
A Terrapinn innovation, this is the revolutionary, exciting, quick and non-pressured way to meet fellow conference delegates and industry peers in one 30-min session. These brief meetings are the starting point for conversation and networking throughout the conference. This is where long-lasting and profitable business relationships begin.
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15.40 | Afternoon refreshments
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| GET RICH IN ASIA’S THRIVING MARKETS |
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16.15 | How attractive is Korea for hedge funds?
- Evaluating the economic prospects in Korea for alternative investments
- Establishing the ideal methodology to expand your exposure to Korea
- Determining the challenges and opportunities in adopting hedge funds in Korea
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| | Mr Charles Kim, Executive Director, Alternative Investment Group, Shinyoung Securities
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16.30 | Outlining key trends in India and aligning your investment strategies for opportunities taking
- Summarising corporate governance and infrastructure developments in India
- Reviewing the challenges hedge funds face due to continual changes in regulations and political issues
- Identifying the fundamentals in establishing a successful Indian focused hedge fund
- Assessing the challenges in achieving transparency
- Profiting from India’s upcoming trend through investing in consumer staples and utilities
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| | Mr Manish Thakur, Managing Partner & Chief Executive Officer, Hudson Fairfax Group Moderator: Mr Arpit Agarwal, Managing Director & Group CEO, Financial Services, Dawnay Day AV India Advisors
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17.15 | Navigating to successful money making tactics in emerging markets
- With a wealth of natural resources, evaluating where the market opportunities are and how to achieve positive returns in Indonesia
- Uncovering investment opportunities for hedge funds after the 10 years’ crisis in Thailand
- Analysing Malaysia’s policy developments and where lies the opportunities for alternative investments for foreign players
- With a reforming banking system and a vibrant economy, what opportunities exist for hedge fund managers in Vietnam – Asia’s newest emerging market
- Discovering how to manage risks and volatility in emerging markets
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| | Mr Ducchi Quan, Chief Operating Officer, Alternative Investment Capital Group
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18.00 | Cocktails & Networking Party
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Day 2: Friday, 30 May 2008
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08.00 | Registration and Coffe
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09.00 | Chairman’s opening remarks |
| | Mr Arpit Agarwal, Managing Director & Group CEO, Financial Services, Dawnay Day AV India Advisors
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| SPECIAL SITUATIONS AND EMERGING STRATEGIES IN THE
LIMELIGHT
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09.10 | Assessing the growing popularity of special situations strategy in Asia
- Discovering the investment opportunities of special situations in Asia
- Understanding how to hedge and diversify through special situations
- Reviewing regulations governing special situations and the potential risks in incorporating this strategy into your portfolio
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| | Mr Sam Bedi, Executive Director, Makara Capital Partners Pte Ltd
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09.50 | Exploring the rudiments of emerging strategies and assessing how they generate alpha
- Reviewing market’s hottest emerging strategy and how it fits your portfolio
- Comparing emerging strategies to established strategies – which performed better and why
- Does a hedge fund strategy have a life cycle? Is your strategy outdated?
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| | Mr Bill Scholz, Head of Business Development, Oracle Investment Management
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10.30 | U-Turn
This is where delegates select the topic and the presenters for a session. This is premised on the idea that the knowledge and experience in the audience is beyond that on the podium. It is, of course, the notion of user-generated content as applied to the medium of the conference.
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10.50 | Morning refreshments
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| THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INVESTING |
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11.20 | Highlighting the benefits of hedge funds within (institutional)investors' global allocation
- The statistical properties of hedge funds: Let the data talk!
- Looking into the black box: Are hedge funds that different from traditional investment vehicles?
- The diversification benefits of hedge funds: Myth or reality?
- Optimal integration of hedge funds within traditional investors' global allocation: The case for tailor-made solutions
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11.50 | Qualified investors, HNWI, and institutional investors’ voice in today’s hedge funds industry, how do these investors influence the product offering & strategies?
- Pinpointing institutional investors’ risk profiles’ and concerns when allocating resources to hedge funds and deliberating how managers can satisfy them from a risk management point of view
- Evaluating the challenges faced by HNWI and institutional investors when incorporating hedge funds into their portfolio (liquidity and volatility risk)
- Appraising the fundamental requirements desired by a HNWI & institutional investors when investing in a hedge fund strategy, what is required in a due diligence?
- Assessing institutional investors’ and all qualified investors as far as their confidence level in hedge funds industry after the sub-prime and credit crunch
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| | Mr Mark Fisher, Fund Advisor, Arlan SA, Wealth Management and Family Office
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12.20 | The private bank’s perspectives on utilising hedge funds in a HNW’s portfolio
- Examining the fundamentals in achieving investors’ liquidity requirements
- Exposing the pros and cons of integrating hedge funds into a HNW’s portfolio
- Establishing best practices to meet HNWI’s expectations of hedge funds
- Reveiwing the factors which contribute to managers outperforming alpha
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| | Mr Tuck Meng Yee, Senior Vice President, Managed Investments, Asia Pacific and Middle East, Citi Global Wealth Management
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13.00 | Networking lunch
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| OPPORTUNITIES IN CURRENCY AND GREEN HEDGE FUNDS |
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14.00 | Maximise your returns through currency hedge funds
- Evaluating how currency hedge funds can generate long term and sustainable alpha
- Identifying good hedge fund trades in the currency world and assessing the difficulty of finding one
- What methods seem to be the most successful? Fundamental, hybrid, quant discretionary, or systematic?
- Conducting a performance analysis on the different alpha generation styles in currency
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| | Moderator: Mr Dwyfor Evans, Senior Currency Strategist, State Street Global Markets
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14.40 | Benefiting the environment and generating positive returns through clean and green hedge funds
- Evaluating the growing potential of the environmental financial markets
- Promoting green for hedge funds diversification – is it a good thing?
- Exploring how green hedge funds provide higher returns in negative market environments
- How do hedge funds which apply SRI principles create alpha for investors and promote responsible corporate behaviour?
- Assessing how to effectively add SRI hedge funds into your portfolio
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| | Mr Pieter Oyens, Head of Asia-Fund Linked Derivatives Marketing & Structuring, ABN AMRO
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15.20 | Afternoon refreshments
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| THE COMMODITY BUSINESS CASE |
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15.50 | Generating powerful returns in the new energy markets
- An overview of power trading in Europe and the US, and the effects on Asia
- Predicting the market size of power trading in Asia for the next 5 years and benefits of power trading
- How inefficient is the Australian power market?
- Identifying investment opportunities in the green and other emerging markets in Australia
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| | Mr Mark Roberts, Portfolio Manager and Head of Investments, Attunga Capital
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16.20 | Unlocking the future for commodity hedge funds
- Assessing commodity’s prospects by tracing historical performances globally and comparing it to the current situation
- Examining the volatility of commodities and analysing the contributors of this increasing demand
- With a huge variety of commodity funds in the market, identifying which best suits your portfolio
- With oil fields depleting and oil prices increasing, will commodity hedge funds accelerate?
- Speculating or long-term investing in commodities?
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17.00 | Close of conference
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19.00 | The 5th Annual Asian Masters of Hedge Award
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Pre-Conference: Emerging Managers Showcase
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08.00 | Registration & coffee
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09.00 | Chairman's opening remarks
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| | Mr Kirby Daley, Head of Sales & Capital Introductions - Asia, Prime Brokerage Group, Newedge Group
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| RESHAPING THE HEDGE FUND INDUSTRY |
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09.15 | Hedge Funds Outlook: Uncovering the drivers in sustaining the bull run of the hedge funds industry
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Highlighting market performance and identifying the success factors
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Summarising current market size, growth of strategies and asset allocation into hedge funds
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Evaluating current and emerging market trends and benefits of investing in Asian hedge funds
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Assessing global and Asia regulatory environment and the effects on your hedge fund strategy
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09.45 | Navigating a sustainable future through effective hedged strategies in Asia
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Does a hedge fund strategy have a life cycle? Why are funds moving away from long/short equity?
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Examinig the differences in strategies allocations within Asia Pacific
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Exploring the opportunities of various hedge fund strategies in Asia and how they generate alpha
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Understanding how an effective strategy provide better business models for investors
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10.15 | Hedge Funds 101: The technicalities of setting up a successful hedge fund in Asia
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When to stop leveraging and how leverage affects performance
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Discovering how to achieve better transparency, greater control, less risks and higher returns
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Regulations and legislations governing hedge funds in Asia
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Determining the investment strategy which best suits your fund
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| | Mr Jay Moghe, Chief Executive Officer, Opes Prime Asset Management
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10.45 | Morning refreshments
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| TIPS ON ENGAGING THE RIGHT PARTNER AND SERVICE |
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11.15 | The Responsible Approach
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11.45 | Empowering emerging managers with useful tips and tools to get started
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Outlining the requirements, logistics and costs in setting up a hedge fund
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Understanding how to best reduce operational costs while maximising efficiency
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Fund management vs fund distribution
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Identifying the right prime broker, fund administrator, legal advisor and auditor
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Examining legal issues pertaining to setting up onshore and offshore funds
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12.30 | Understanding how incubators/early stage investors add values to emerging managers
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Uncovering why incubators / FOFs / Institutional investors are looking at emerging managers
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Identifying who the incubators and early stage investors are, and how they add value to emerging managers
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Will more players look at early stage managers/strategies in the future?
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Examining the techniques and parameters used by early stage investors during their screening process
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| | Mr Felix Sim, Investment Manager, GCI Investment Management Singapore Mr Gary West, Group Chief Executive Officer, Harmounious Group Moderator: Mr Paul Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Triple A Partners
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13.15 | Networking lunch
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| STRATEGIES TO GENERATE ALPHA |
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14.15 | Current trends affecting the offshore hedge funds industry
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14.30 | The art and science of finding a good manager and steps to ensure that he makes you money
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What additional due diligence parameters should be taken under consideration?
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What additional performances benchmarks are to be used?
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Understanding manager's strategy and ensuring that he does not stray
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What should be the right exposure into emerging managers/strategies?
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15.00 | Unlocking the qualities investors should look out for in an emerging manager or strategy, and how to integrate them into your portfolio
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Examining the distinct advantages if having emerging managers/strategies as part of your investment strategy
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Fast facts on the performance of emerging and non-emerging managers
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Evolution - what are some of the next trends abd strategies to be looked at?
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| | Moderator: Mr Michael Levin, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, AsiaCrest Capital Advisors
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16.00 | Afternoon refreshments
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| RAISING CAPITAL AND DEMYSTIFYING INVESTORS' SCEPTISM |
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16.30 | Establishing best capital raising techniques to achieve better alpha
- Evaluating where lies the best opportunities geographically
- Adopting a successful marketing campaign in raising capital
- Developing new capital raising tactics and distribution practices to attract onshore and offshore money
- Tackling the challenges of raising capital as a new fund
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| | Mr Ducchi Quan, Chief Operating Officer, Alternative Investment Capital Group
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17.15 | Interactive panel debate with the audience - Why are investors skeptical about investing in emerging funds/strategies?
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Why is that 90% of the hedge fund industry's AUM is managed by only 10% of the funds?
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Why are invsetors remaining in non-performing hedge funds?
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Are most investors lacking the courage to invest in new concepts?
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What should be an ideal entry and exit points?
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18.00 | Close of Emerging Managers Day
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Patrick Tuohy
Jianlin Song
Michail Foskolos
Moe Ibrahim
Andrew Pidden
