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Conference:
Day 1
11 October 8am - 5:30pm
Day 2
12 October 8am - 5:30pm
Post conference workshop:
13 October, 9:00am - 5:30pm
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Meet our sponsors...
Lead sponsor
HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world with US$730bn of assets under management worldwide. HSBC's international network comprises around 8,000 offices in 88 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. HSBC launched HSBC Exchange Traded Funds in August 2009 because we believe that ETFs have an important role within the broad range of market access products that HSBC can offer to investors. We intend to be among the leading ETF providers within three years by leveraging our asset management, sales, trading and securities services capabilities to progressively build a comprehensive range of ETFs which provide our clients with an opportunity to invest in both developed and emerging markets indices across a range of asset classes.
For more information on HSBC ETFs, their performance and funds holdings, please visit www.etf.hsbc.com or e-mail etfs@hsbc.com
Gold sponsors
About Commerzbank Corporates & Markets
Commerzbank Corporates & Markets (C&M) is the corporate and investment banking segment of Commerzbank AG, providing a broad range of products and services to corporate and institutional clients in Germany, Europe and beyond. The business incorporates advisory and capital markets activities in debt, equities, commodities, fixed income and currencies with a strong focus on derivatives and structured products. C&M aspires to be clients’ partner of choice when it comes to the development and execution of smart solutions for all their financing and capital market needs. Visit our website: https://cbcm.commerzbank.com/
STOXX Ltd. is a joint venture of Deutsche Börse AG, Dow Jones & Company and SWX Swiss Exchange. Launched in 1998, in advance of the European Monetary Union, the introduction of the euro and the creation of the Eurozone, the Dow Jones STOXX Indices became Europe’s leading equity indices in a fast and impressive success story. By consistently responding to market requirements, STOXX Ltd. further expanded its strategy beyond Europe. Together with Dow Jones Indexes, 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. These are licensed to more than 800* companies around the world as the basis for investment products. For more information visit www.stoxx.com or www.djindexes.com
EasyETF, off the beaten track Trackers
The EasyETF range is a unique offer, benefiting from the combined expertise of AXA Investment Managers and BNP Paribas in fund management, market-making, as well as distribution. Its aim is to give investors access to an ever growing variety of asset classes (equity, bonds, money market, credit, real estate, commodities, Shariah equities etc.) and diverse economic sectors (Bank, Health, Media etc.) as well as thematics (Infrastructure, environment, Nuclear etc..) in order to allow them to fine-tune the performance of their asset allocation strategies.
The EasyETF product range now includes 50 trackers, of which 47 are listed on Euronext Paris, 10 on Deutsche Börse, 2 on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SWX) and 7 on Borsa Italiana for a total of €4.4 billion* in assets under management. The first sector range in the Eurozone, it currently includes:
- 16 equity trackers linked to the largest Global, European, Emerging markets ; Asian and African indices;
- 9 trackers on thematic indices : socially responsible investment through the ASPI Eurozone index, environment, luxury, agribusiness, water, nuclear, infrastructure; Shariah compliant investment,
- 10 sector trackers;
- 3 trackers on listed real estate on the Eurozone, Europe and Global;
- 2 money market trackers on the Eurozone and the USA;
- 3 iBoxx sovereign bond trackers on the Eurozone;
- 2 trackers on credit derivatives on iTraxx® indices;
- 5 commodity trackers.
Further information on the EasyETF range and trackers investment strategies is available on www.easyetf.com. *Status: as of end July 2008
 UniCredit is a major international financial institution with strong roots in 22 European countries as well as representative offices in 27 other markets, with over 10,000 branches and approximately 170,000 employees. In the CEE region, UniCredit operates the largest international banking network with around 4,000 branches and outlets.
UniCredit's Corporate & Investment Banking and Private Banking (CIB & PB) is the Strategic Business Area providing products and services designed for all corporate customers (from SMEs to Multinationals), for institutional clients as well as for high-net-worth households, entrepreneurs and professionals.
UniCredit Corporate & Investment Banking gives companies, from small and medium Corporates to multinationals and institutional clients, access to the largest network of banks in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as to branches in major financial centers worldwide. The successful collaboration between our network’s relationship managers and specialists in our product lines (Financing & Advisory, Markets, Leasing, Global Transaction Banking) enables UniCredit to respond promptly to our clients’ entrepreneurial requirements. Thus, UniCredit supports the growth and internationalization of the Group’s corporate and institutional clients, creating sustainable value for all stakeholders.
 Nomura is a leading financial services group and the preeminent Asian-based investment bank with worldwide reach. Nomura provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in over 30 countries. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs over 27,000 staff worldwide. Nomura's unique understanding of Asia enables the company to make a difference for clients through three business divisions: retail, wholesale (global markets, investment banking, and other wholesale), and asset management. For further information about Nomura, please visit www.nomura.com.
Silver sponsor
The Russell Indexes are a comprehensive family of U.S. and global equity indexes which allow investors to seamlessly track performance of distinct market segments worldwide. Created in 1984, the Russell Indexes are the most widely used benchmarks by U.S. institutional investors. Today over $4.4 trillion in assets are benchmarked to them. We apply the transparent and objective index methodology we invented originally for the U.S. indexes to the world's equity markets in order to create the Russell global index family. Our pioneering approach to global definitions of cap-size and our fully modular index design for no gaps or overlaps in coverage lead to indexes that are more reflective of the market and therefore make more accurate benchmarks and investment vehicles. Whatever index you require, chances are there is a Russell Index that meets your needs.
Russell Index futures are now trading on ICE and are available there exclusively from September 2008.
For more about the Russell Indexes, see www.russell.com or visit our booth.
Thomson Reuters provides trusted and innovative indices and index-related services to the investment community in help investors make better investment decisions. Our index business leverages our global footprint and unparalleled coverage of the financial markets to provide our clients with: Beta-tracking indices, Alpha-generating indices, Custom index services and Outsourced index calculation services. Whether you require indices for benchmarking, or development of investment vehicles, Thomson Reuters provides a range of index solutions to satisfy your requirements.
Associate sponsor
SPDR ETFs are a fund family of country, region and sector specific exchange traded funds. Offered by State Street Global Advisors, SPDR ETFs provide professional investors with the flexibility to select investments that are precisely aligned to their investment strategy. Recognized as an industry pioneer, State Street Global Advisors created the first ETF in 1993 (SPDR S&P® 500) and manages more than $200 billion of ETF assets worldwide (as of June 30, 2010).
For comprehensive information on our ETFs, visit us at spdrseurope.com.
Exhibitors
 NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With more than 8,000 listed issues, NYSE Euronext's equities markets -- the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Arca and NYSE Amex -- represent nearly 40 percent of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, the leading European derivatives business and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index and Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: www.euronext.com
 Since 1996 Wiener Börse provides a range of tradable indices which track the performance of stocks from Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Russia, Kazakhstan, the Ukraine and China. Some regional indices sponsored by Wiener Börse cover also the area of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. These indices are used by almost all international issuers as underlying for their structured products and also for ETFs. More information available on www.indices.cc
Wiener Börse operates the only securities exchange in Austria, running a state-of-the-art trading infrastructure for the cash market, derivative market and structured products. More information available on www.wienerborse.at and www.derivativesmarket.at
 Dow Jones Indexes ( www.djindexes.com) is a leading full-service index provider that develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best-known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes offers more than 130,000 equity indexes as well as fixed-income and alternative indexes, including measures of hedge funds, commodities and real estate. Dow Jones Indexes employs clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. Dow Jones Indexes is part of CME Group Index Services LLC, a joint venture company which is owned 90 percent by CME Group Inc. ( www.cmegroup.com) and 10 percent by Dow Jones & Company ( www.dowjones.com), a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com).
With nearly 1,500 indexes spanning six continents, NASDAQ OMX is home to some of the most widely watched indexes in the world including the NASDAQ-100 (NDX) and the OMX Stockholm 30 (OMXS30). We specialize in providing full-scale, premium index services to financial products issuers, sponsors and investors and offer custom index design services, flexible licensing agreements, complete index calculation services and real-time data dissemination.
In addition, NASDAQ OMX is helping to expand the trading and investment landscape with new opportunities in ETFs, ETNs, futures, options, structured products and other investment and derivative securities. Visit indexes.nasdaqomx.com
 Indxis is a total index services provider offering the full spectrum of index capabilities, including: index creation, licensing, calculation, maintenance, distribution, and custom index software development. Indxis offers a unique services platform, where we can manage all components of your index business or handle individual areas. Our index calculation technology is the chosen technology for some of the largest world’s largest index companies. Our proprietary investment methodologies form the basis of an assortment of successful financial products offered by major investment management firms worldwide. For more information please visit www.indxis.com
Jane Street Financial Limited, a Jane Street affiliate located in London, is authorized and regulated by the UK Financial Services Authority. JSFL is a proprietary trading
firm specializing in providing liquidity in European-listed ETFs, and provides continuous prices via the electronic order books of European exchanges . The firm is also active in the over-the-counter market , providing competitive risk prices for select counterparties.
JSFL trades all ETFs on a proprietary basis and does not charge commissions
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