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Meet our sponsors
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Barclays Capital
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Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs.
Barclays Capital has offices around the world, employs more than 26,000 people, and has the global reach, advisory services and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide.
For further information about Barclays Capital, please visit our website www.barcap.com
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ING Investment Management
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ING Investment Management is the ING Group's main asset manager. ING IM manages assets on its clients' behalf at its regional centres of expertise (Europe, the Americas and Asia), while benefiting worldwide from a direct commercial presence in more than 30 countries. Close collaboration between the three regions thus allows all clients permanent access to the Group's entire expertise.
For further information about ING Investment Management, please visit our website www.inginvestment.com
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Jupiter Asset Management
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Jupiter is an investment management business focused on generating investment out-performance across its range of investment capabilities, which include UK, European and emerging markets equities, specialist equities (such as financial sector equities) and fund of funds products. Jupiter’s core strength in equity investment management is complemented by capabilities in fixed income, hedge and absolute return funds.
Jupiter is a market leading fund manager in the UK retail mutual fund market based on the size of its AUM and net sales, its strong investment performance track record, the strength of its brand and presence in key distribution channels. At 31 December 2009, 75% of Jupiter’s AUM (£19.5bn) was in mutual funds, the majority of which are open-ended funds directed towards retail investors through intermediated distribution channels in the UK. In addition, Jupiter provides investment management services to institutional clients, private clients, investment trusts and hedge funds. Visit our website: www.jupiteronline.co.uk/
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PIMCO
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As we head into a new economic environment characterised by muted growth in developed economies relative to emerging economies, high unemployment and greater government intervention than was typical prior to the onset of the global financial crisis, better allocation strategies aimed at rebuilding and protecting portfolios are going to prove increasingly crucial. Adopting a differentiated approach to asset allocation, which focuses on diversification across key global risk factors and seeks to explicitly hedge ‘fat tail’ events, has merit in such an environment. At PIMCO, we adopt a forward-looking approach to asset allocation driven by the full expression of our cyclical and secular investment views.
For more information on PIMCO visit www.PIMCO.com
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Mn Services
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With more than 60 years experience, Mn Services is one of the leading fiduciary managers and pension administrators in the Netherlands. We manage assets totalling in excess of GBP 55bn (December 2009) and administers pensions for 1.9 million members of various pension funds and approximately 36,000 employers. In the UK we focus exclusively on fiduciary management. We are wholly owned by pension funds who are also our clients. Our fiduciary management solution covers everything from investment strategy design to reporting. Our clients choose us because of our independence, expertise, alignment with their fiduciary duties, and solid investment results.
For further information about Mn Services, please visit our website www.mn-services.com
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SIG Susquehanna
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Our story started as the idea of a group of college friends more than twenty years ago. They envisioned creating a company that would combine their intellectual capabilities, decision making skills, and capital resources to compete in the world's options and securities markets. Pooling their strengths, they were able to make strong trading decisions and, over time, surpassed the competition.
Today, the Susquehanna International Group of Companies (SIG)* continues to grow by focusing on the same basic principles: exercise sound decision making and focus on positive expectancy. And even though we have grown to be a worldwide team of more than 1,500, we hold true to the casual, collaborative atmosphere that's our foundation.
For further information about SIG, please visit our website www.sig.com
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World Gold Council
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Founded in 1987, the World Gold Council is an organisation formed and funded by the world's leading gold mining companies with the aim of stimulating and maximising the demand for, and holding of, gold by consumers, investors, industry, and the official sector.
As well as undertaking marketing initiatives to drive demand, the World Gold Council is also instrumental in working to lower regulatory barriers to the widespread ownership of gold products, helping to develop distribution systems and promoting the role of gold as a reserve asset in the official sector.
For further information about the World Gold Council, please visit our website www.gold.org
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Hermes
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Hermes is a multi-boutique asset manager, independent of any broader financial services organisation. With our past and future aims firmly based around a long term and responsible approach, we have developed a business model which combines both specialist investment teams and products with a robust operating platform from which to run them. Our pension fund management service, Hermes Pension Fund Management Limited ("HPFM") runs alongside our multi-boutique structure and acts as the executive arm of the BT Pension Scheme ("BTPS").
For further information about Hermes, please visit our website www.hermes.co.uk
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Stoxx
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STOXX Ltd. is owned by Deutsche Börse AG and SIX Group AG. Launched in 1998, in advance of the completion of the European Economic and Monetary Union, the introduction of the Euro and the creation of the Eurozone, the STOXX indices have become Europe's leading indices in a fast and impressive success story. By consistently responding to market requirements, STOXX Ltd. further expanded its strategy beyond Europe. STOXX Ltd. operates as a globally integrated index provider, covering the world markets, developing, maintaining, distributing and marketing a comprehensive global family of strictly rules-based and transparent indices.
For further information about Stoxx, please visit our website www.stoxx.com
Deutsche Börse (www.dax-indices.com) and SIX Group (http://www.six-swiss-exchange.com/indices/overview_de.html)
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Stoxx
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ETF Securities is a provider of Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs), Exchange Traded Currencies (ETCs) and 3rd generation Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). The management of ETF Securities pioneered the development of ETCs, with the world's first listing of an ETC, Gold Bullion Securities in Australia and London in 2003 and then the world's first entire ETC platform which was listed on the London Stock Exchange in September 2006. www.etfsecurities.com
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EFAMA
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EFAMA is the representative association for the European investment management industry. EFAMA represents through its 26 member associations and 42 corporate members about EUR 13 trillion in assets under management of which EUR 7 trillion managed by 53,000 investment funds at end 2009.
For further information about Stoxx, please visit our website www.efama.org
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