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 Edward AltmanMax L Heine Professor of Finance
NYU Stern School of Business
 Daniela KlingebielPrincipal Investment Officer
The World Bank Pension Fund
 Henrique de Campos MeirellesGovernor
Central Bank of Brazil
 Gina Sanchez Managing Director, Public Markets and Research
The California Endowment
 Juan Luis RiveraPartner
Moneda Asset Management
 Roland K. Staub President TS Trustee Suisse AG
 Joao Adamo Managing Director Vision Brazil Investments
 Luis Javier Echave Senior Vice President
Optimal Investment Services
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Event partner
 Bulltick Capital Markets is an investment bank and institutional securities company specializing in Latin America. The company’s client base is comprised of major financial institutions and qualified investors in Latin America, as well as of the international financial community with investment interests in the region. Headquartered in the United States since 1999, Bulltick Capital Markets maintains a geographic footprint that extends across Latin America with full-service offices in Miami, New York, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina; and a dedicated team of more than 150 professionals. Bulltick provides diversified financial products based on its local know-how and international expertise, through its strong local presence, clearing agreements and global relationships.
Bulltick LLC, an affiliated company of Bulltick Capital Markets, is member of the FINRA, SEC, NFA and SIPC.
 BNamericas is the leading source of business information in Latin America. We produce and deliver daily English and Spanish regional news coverage across 12 sectors and complementary business intelligence and information that keeps you informed of the opportunities, projects, rankings and what your competition is up to in the region. We provide in-depth coverage and analysis on Banking, Electric Power, Information Technology, Infrastructure, Insurance, Metals, Mining, Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Privatization, Telecommunications, and Water & Waste. By focusing on these vertical sectors, BNamericas provides you with the precise information needed to ensure your own organization makes the best decisions moving forward.
www.bnamericas.com
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Gold sponsor
Vision Brazil Investments, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is focused on investment management and structured finance. Vision is a leader in originating and structuring asset based lending and structured finance transactions in Brazil, focusing on the following segments: Agricultural Credit, Real Estate Development and Securitization, Consumer Finance, Restructured Debt Distressed Debt Recovery, Renewable Energy and Agricultural Land Investment.
Vision aligns its interests to investors by taking relevant equity risk in transactions originated and structured by them.
www.visionbrazil.com
 Bradesco established BBI Banco de Investimento with the aim of strengthen, giving focus to and developing new niches in activities related to the Brazilian and international capital markets. BBI seeks constant innovation in its products and services to provide its clients with the best alternatives, and consequently foster companies’ development. www.bradescobbi.com.br
Showcase sponsors
 Optimal Investment Services is the alternative investment arm of Grupo Santander. Optimal has over 18 years of investment experience managing Funds of Hedge Funds with over USD 10 billion in assets under management.Optimal offers a range of alternative investment services and products including fund of funds, managed accounts and advisory services. Through its offices in New York, Longon, Geneva, Madrid, Tokyo and Singapore Optimal caters to a broad network of clients including institutions, pension funds, asset managers, intermediaries and high networth individuals.
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 Providing Brazilian expertise with global standards to worldwide investors: Unibanco is a Brazilian financial conglomerate listed in the NYSE and Bovespa with over 80 years of history. Unibanco Asset Management (UAM) is the investment management company of the group and one of the largest and most recognized companies in Brazil. Among other facts, UAM created the first equity mutual fund in Brazil, pioneered in managing Pension Funds' money and was first in the FoHF business. UAM is an expert in Brazilian Risk managing more than US$ 47 billion in over 500 mandates for equity funds, macro hedge-funds, FoHFs and others.
 Moneda is a dedicated Latin American asset manager running USD 2.0 billion in the region since 1993. Our investment philosophy is bottom up, research driven, company specialists with a small/mid cap bias. We are management owned and our sole business is asset management.
Our main investment strategies have demonstrated a solid and consistent track record since 1994, year when our first strategy was launched to invest in Chilean small caps.
Some of our investment funds strategies are Absolute Return which aims to get advantage of both sides of the economic cycle in Latin America looking to generate uncorrelated returns than the market where it invests; Lat-Am Corporate Debt; and Lat-Am and Chilean Long Only Small & Mid Caps Equities.
www.moneda.cl
Silver sponsors
 The British Virgin Islands’ progressive and transparent environment makes it one of the leading domiciles for the establishment, operation and regulation of investment business and its functionaries. Its well-developed professional infrastructure, modern regulatory framework and cost-effective corporate regimes have resulted in the registration of more than 4,000 funds and some 700 managers and administrators in the BVI. The BVI International Finance Centre (IFC) is a dedicated Government unit with the remit to enhance and promote the reputation of the BVI as a premier international business centre. Working in partnership with the private sector, the IFC provides assistance and advice to those seeking to utilise the facilities of the BVI as a hub for financial services.
 BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK® is a leading global agency broker used by institutional traders, broker-dealers, hedge fund managers, market-makers and portfolio managers worldwide. Tradebook provides a comprehensive front-to-back execution, clearing and settlement solution for equities, futures, options and FX instruments. Founded in 1996, Tradebook is a leading electronic consolidator of global liquidity, offering its global customer base with trading solutions in over 60 global markets via eight offices on five continents. Many leading buy-side institutions and broker-dealers have come to rely on Tradebook's commitment to customer service and unique blend of innovative trading algorithms and algorithmic trading strategies to help them seek best execution on one integrated platform.
www.bloombergtradebook.com
Awards host
 The Bermuda International Business Association (BIBA) is an organization of more than 100 resident companies offering: accounting, legal, banking, management, telecommunication, e-business, IT and international trust and fund services. As home to the leading financial, insurance, reinsurance and E-business specialists, and impressive growth in the number of funds setting up, Bermuda has cemented its role as the premier international financial jurisdiction of choice. Its unique geographic position allows full access to North American and European markets together with its recognized and effective regulatory framework and long established, “KYC” philosophy, makes Bermuda an exceptional base for financial service needs. By utilizing the support services provided by our member companies, BIBA can assist you in realizing the advantages of doing business in Bermuda.
 MarketAxess operates one of the leading platforms for the electronic trading of corporate bonds and certain other types of fixed-income securities, serving as an electronic platform through which our more than 675 active institutional investor clients can access the liquidity provided by our broker-dealer clients. MarketAxess’ multi-dealer trading platform allows our institutional investor clients to simultaneously request competitive, executable bids or offers from multiple broker-dealers, and to execute trades with the broker-dealer of their choice. MarketAxess offers our clients the ability to trade U.S. high-grade corporate bonds, European high-grade corporate bonds, credit default swaps, agencies, high yield and emerging markets bonds. Through Corporate BondTicker™, MarketAxess also provides data and analytical tools that help our clients make trading decisions, and we facilitate the trading process by electronically communicating order information between trading counterparties. Our DealerAxess(R) trading service allows dealers to trade fixed-income securities with each other on our platform.
Gala dinner sponsor
 TriAlpha is a subsidiary of the Stonehage Group. The Stonehage Group was established in 1976 and has two business divisions – Stonehage, which is engaged in wealth management and fiduciary services, and TriAlpha, its asset management division which was established in 1999. TriAlpha is a dynamic asset management house with an absolute return bias. Since inception it has developed a range of fund of hedge funds, long only multi manager funds, traditional equity and bond funds, multi asset class funds, private equity, property and boutique funds. Our highly experienced investment professionals are organised into specialist teams, each drawing synergistically on the expertise and perspective of the others. Assets have risen steadily to circa US$2 billion across the range of investment products.
The TriAlpha Group has offices in London, Jersey and South Africa and can draw on the support of the parent company, which also has offices in the locations above as well as additional offices in Switzerland, Israel, Australia, the USA and the British Virgin Islands.
Exhibitors
 Butterfield Fund Services (BFS) provides a broad range of administration services to alternative investment vehicles through operations centers located in; Bermuda, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and The Bahamas. BFS proudly acts as administrator for a number of the world’s leading investment management groups including; hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, private equity funds, insurance companies, and family offices. Establishing and administering alternative funds is an increasingly complex process requiring a broad range of specialized capabilities. With our professionally qualified and experienced staff, industry proven computer systems, and international capabilities, BFS is well positioned to meet the unique requirements of sophisticated investment managers worldwide. Butterfield Fund Services employs over 250 staff and is supported by more than 1,500 colleagues within the Butterfield Bank Group. Assets under administration exceed US$ 80 billion with full administration services being provided to over 800 funds, employing a highly diverse universe of investment strategies.
 Citco Bank is the recognized world leader in providing specialized trading and custody for international fund holdings. For institutional clients (primarily Banks) as well as Fund of Funds, Citco Bank offers a unique custody service to alleviate the administrative burden of locating, subscribing in and keeping track of investments in international funds. Thru Citco Funds Net 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. In the mutual fund area, besides 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 Funds Net , the online trading and custody platform, is specifically designed for high volume transactions, allowing Internet access through a single point to all trading and custody functions.
 GBM is a brokerage firm specialized in Asset Management Activities since its foundation. GBM has no ties with commercial, industrial or service groups, therefore all decisions taken are completely impartial and focused only on portfolios. Our sole activity is portfolio management and our success depends on the satisfaction of our clients based on the management of their resources. Consequently, our client's objectives are fully aligned with ours. Specialization in Consulting, Operation, and Administration of Resources
We administer Pension and Saving Funds and Treasuries among others (as of today, we manage 185 private funds totalling aproximately 4.8 billion pesos). We buy and sell fixed income and equity instruments, as well as manage 27 investment funds (15 fixed income, 8 equity and we distribute 4 of NAFIN's funds) valued at approximately 1.42 billion pesos. GBM has always been characterized by its high participation in financial markets.
 Appleby is a leading provider of offshore legal, fiduciary and administration services. Uniquely positioned in the key offshore jurisdictions of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Jersey and Mauritius, as well as the international financial centres of London and Hong Kong, the group offers objective jurisdictional business solutions. Approximately 675 lawyers and professional specialists deliver sophisticated, specialised services primarily in the areas of Corporate and Commercial, Litigation and Insolvency, Trusts and Property. Clients include global public and private companies, financial institutions, and high-net-worth individuals.
Amicorp Fund Services has been active as a hedge fund administrator since 1995. Our core business includes NAV calculation, shareholder services, fund set-up and corporate management. This complete package of support services allows our clients to focus on their core competences of investment management and capital-raising. We distinguish ourselves by ensuring the highest level of accuracy of our end product, and by committing to a timely delivery of our services. Amicorp Fund Services is an integral part of the Amicorp Group, a worldwide financial services group with over 450 employees in over 20 countries, and offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
 CIBC Fund Administration Services is a division of CIBC Bank and Trust (Cayman) Limited. CIBC Cayman is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce with approximately 115 staff in the Cayman Islands. CIBC Cayman provides full service fund administration but can also provide customized offerings from a “menu”, such as trustee services only or share register/transfer services only. In addition to a fund administrator’s license, CIBC also holds a Class A Bank and Trust license and accordingly offers administration, banking and trustee services as a one stop service package.
www.cibc.com
 Orc Software (SSE: ORC) provides powerful solutions for the worldwide financial industry in the critical areas of advanced derivatives trading and low latency connectivity. Orc’s competitive edge lies in its depth of knowledge of the derivatives trading world gained by deploying advanced solutions for sophisticated traders for over 20 years. Firms use Orc’s solutions to deploy sophisticated trading strategies such as for futures arbitrage, pairs trading, market-making, and other ultra-low latency and/or high-frequency trading strategies. With Orc CameronFIX and the Orc market gateways, firms can establish low-latency, high-reliability connections to customers, brokers, and world markets.
Orc Trading and Orc Connect provide the tools for making the best trading and connectivity decisions… strong analytics, unmatched market access, powerful automated trading functionality, high performance futures and options trading capabilities, ultra-low latency, and risk management.
Orc’s customers include leading investment banks, trading and market-making firms, exchanges, brokerage houses, institutional investors and hedge funds.
Orc provides timely sales and quality support services from its offices across EMEA, Americas and Asia Pacific.
www.orcsoftware.com
 From our offices in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Dubai, Hong Kong, Jersey, London and Tokyo, the Walkers Group provides legal and management services to the leading FORTUNE 100 and FTSE 100 global corporations and financial institutions, capital markets participants, investment fund managers and growth and middle market companies. Our global presence means we are always open and accessible to our clients - in all time zones. Walkers focuses principally on corporate and international finance law with an emphasis on capital markets and structured finance, asset finance, hedge funds and private equity. The firm delivers clear, concise and practical advice based on an in-depth knowledge of the legal, regulatory and commercial environment in the Cayman Islands, BVI and Jersey. Walkers is experienced in all types of international and cross-border transactions and welcomes a close working relationship with clients and their professional advisers.
Named by HedgeWorld Limited as the top law firm for hedge funds by total assets of funds and assets of non-US funds, Walkers has an international reputation as the leading hedge fund and private equity funds practice in the Cayman Islands, advising market leading asset managers, promoters and institutional investors in the investment world for more than four decades.
www.walkersglob al.com
Strategic event partner
 Eurekahedge is world’s largest independent data provider and research house dedicated to alternative investments. Maintaining coverage of over 17,600 funds across all strategies and asset classes, Eurekahedge is the most widely used and quoted alternative research house worldwide.
Eurekahedge has produced a market-leading research data suite from which our hedge fund and Islamic fund indices are derived, an array of region-specific hedge fund, private equity fund, Islamic fund and real estate fund databases and directories, as well as a collection of educational guides for both funds and investors. Founded in 2001, Eurekahedge has offices in Hong Kong, London, New York and Singapore. For more information, please contact Agnes Yea, Director of Marketing and Communications at agnes@eurekahedge.com or +65 6212 0900. US toll free: 1866 578 4852, UK toll free: 0800 404 8106. |
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This is your best sales and marketing opportunity of the year. If you are serious about being positioned as a market leader in Latam's alternative investment industry, then this is the event you need to be at!
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