Pre-Conference Day: Monday 14 March 2011

The Masterclass will commence at 9.00am and end at 12.30pm. Led by qualified ground experts, this interactive session offers a premier learning platform for getting to grips with a particular aspect of your industry or responsibility.

With increasing difficulties and challenges to risk mitigation and portfolio construction, an alternative approach is imperative in addressing global economic influences and recent fundamental changes to capital market dynamics.

This session will equip institutional investors and asset managers with the theoretical and practical aspects of:

• Translating good strategy decisions into top class portfolio construction
• Revisiting asset allocation, risk budgets and the investment universe in building a lucid and compelling portfolio
• Evaluating portfolio construction methodologies in both traditional and alternative asset classes
• Institutional portfolio positions, biases and strategies – Active versus passive management and the degree of reliance on alpha in contrast to beta structures

Macroeconomic modelling and survival strategies for family offices in a changing global financial landscape

Tracking investor appetitie, capital deployment and yield generation across regions and asset classes - What are the evolving challenges to efficient portfolio construction?

Undertaking proactive asset management and realigning stakeholder interest in co-investments

In-house versus outsourcing: Is there a win-win formula for the investment management process?