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FORUM 2012
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KEyNOtE spEaKErs
DamE amELIa chILcOtt FawcEtt martIN KLLstrm ash wILLIams
Chairman, Hedge Fund Standards Board Portfolio manager responsible for hedge fund investments, AP1 Executive director and CIO, Florida State Board of Administration
Lies, damned lies and statistics: the truth about performance the art of hedge fund investing: Where do hedge funds fit in? Consultants: trojan horse or modern-day saviour? Portfolio alchemy: How to mix the perfect portfolio is bespoke the 21st-century fund of funds? revealed: the secrets of making macro work Politics and performance: Who is in charge in Europe?
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Why attend
Highlights of the investhedge Forum
Under the theme The Pursuit of Performance, this years investhedge Forum has been designed to take a look at the rapidly changing hedge fund investing landscape.
As more investors buy hedge funds directly the two-day event will look at how they can do this, how funds of funds are adapting and, more importantly, how they can continue to harness the performance they need to fund future liabilities. There will be in-depth panel discussions with both hedge funds and their investors to uncover what it is that investors want and what is on offer for them to achieve their goals. Performance is still paramount, but today so is due diligence, risk management, transparency and how hedge funds are delivered. Reinforcing the importance of the investor and the increasing collaborative endeavours between allocators and their advisors, this global event is marked with two end-investor keynotes: Ash Williams from Florida State Board of Administration and Martin Kllstrm from AP1. The event will be of relevance to all hedge fund allocators wanting to know where the performance opportunities of tomorrow are coming from as well as hedge funds wanting to meet and learn from their potential future investors. I look forward to seeing you in October.
Martin Kllstrm
AP1 Martin Kllstrm is the portfolio manager responsible for hedge fund investments ($1.6 billion) at AP1. AP1 manages $35 billion worth of assets and is part of the Swedish state pension system. Martin has researched hedge funds in different capacities for close to 10 years. Prior to heading up the hedge fund portfolio, he was responsible for the private equity portfolio at AP1 with fund commitments of $1.8 billion.
Ash Williams
Florida state board of Administration Ash Williams is the executive director and CIO of the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA). The SBA manages assets under broad investment authority granted by the boards trustees. The trustees are Floridas governor, chief financial officer, and attorney general. Among the over $150 billion in assets under management are those of the Florida Retirement System (FRS) Trust Fund. Prior to joining the SBA, Ash was a managing director at Fir Tree Partners.
Panellists
The InvestHedge Forum will bring together some of the most successful managers and investors to discuss the outlook for the industry. Speakers include:
tim bond, Odey Asset Management leonard charlton, Dalton Strategic Partnership steve charlton, NEPC russell clark, Horseman Capital Management Alexandre col, Banque Prive Edmond de Rothschild loic Fery, Chenavari Investment Managers christian howells, Aberdeen Asset Management david Kuenzi, Aurora Investment Management damien loveday, Towers Watson roxanne martino, Aurora Investment Management Andrew mccaffery, Aberdeen Asset Management Anne marie morley, Aurora Investment Management maarten nederlof, PAAMCO George Papamarkakis, North Asset Management emily Porter-lynch, Universities Superannuation Scheme ian Prideaux, Grosvenor Estate Anne richards, Aberdeen Asset Management scott schweighauser, Aurora Investment Management subhra tripathy, Aberdeen Asset Management mark unferth, CQS mike Weston, DMGT Pensions
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Programme
day one: 2 October 2012
09.30 10.15
registration, breakfast and introduction revealed: the secrets of making macro work. Has transparency and political intervention taken the edge off global macro, or are there managers out there still able to find pockets of performance? How do they do it? Whats the story in Europe, who will be the next to fall and will they ever be allowed to fail? Who is in charge: politicians, regulators or the financial centres? Will the PIIGS ever fly again? What are the strategies for exploring stressed and distressed opportunities in Europe and beyond? lies, damned lies & statistics: the truth about performance. A pension fund that invested in a FoHF
in 2008 is going to believe that the performance has been appalling, but is that the full picture? How have the other asset classes performed? Did they buy protection or performance? Are they benchmarked correctly? Are the hedge funds in the right part of the portfolio? Over time, do the investments look better? Is it about timing? What do investors really want? How can hedge funds be used properly to maximise performance?
11.00
coffee break Keynote speaker: Ash Williams, Florida state board of Administration ctAs & quant strategies: the ultimate must-have for non-correlated returns? Returns may have been
tepid in recent years (post-2008) but when the equity markets have tanked, commodity trading advisors and other quant strategies have generally been among the best at preserving capital and delivering returns such as most recently in May 2012. Will these strategies continue to be best at delivering non-correlated returns?
lunch Keynote speaker: dame Amelia chilcott Fawcett, hedge Fund standards board concurrent workshops: topics to be announced see over for details coffee break long/short equity: is it no longer working? Who has the ideas that still make it compelling? Recent years have been very difficult for long/short equity strategies, with returns generally being low to non-existent over the past five years, and with rising correlation to markets leading many investors to lose faith in the ability of the strategy to deliver in such a macro-driven market. But some managers have still been able to deliver strong positive returns during this period and this panel will feature some of them, who will talk about how they have been achieving such returns, as well as the opportunities they see and their strategies for the future. Workshop: topics to be announced see over for details consultants: trojan horse or modern-day saviour? The main reason most investors are moving to consultant-driven direct investments is that they want to cut costs. But is moving to the direct model really saving that much? Is service, due diligence and monitoring being compromised and are there conflicts? What will happen in three years time when portfolios are reviewed? As consultants are increasingly being hired as outsourced CIOs, is there a way to harness the due diligence power of funds of funds with the access and expertise of the consultants? How much does all this actually cost the pension fund? And who gets the blame when things go wrong?
with a private viewing of shakespeare: staging the world
17.00 17.45
18.30
doors open and breakfast the art of hedge fund investing: Where do hedge funds fit in? To some investors, hedge funds are
all tarred with the same brush and treated the same way. But sophisticated hedge fund investing is about mixing different and complimentary managers, in different sizes, at different times and most importantly for different reasons; are the newer direct investors missing out on the performance potential of some less obvious strategies?
Keynote speaker: martin Kllstrm, AP1 coffee break is risk management and transparency killing performance? Institutional investors are doing everything they can not to get burned. They want all the risk management and transparency they can get, and the managed account industry is thriving because of this fear. But is this fear killing the golden performance goose? Can investors have it all? Workshop: topics to be announced see below for details lunch credit and distressed: the epicentre of hedge fund returns for an era of deleveraging? With
the after-shocks of the financial crisis continuing to reverberate amid the ongoing crisis for banks in the eurozone, it seems to be only a matter of time before an avalanche of distressed credit comes to the market especially in Europe. But will this finally provide the cascade of opportunity for hedge funds that has been predicted ever since 2008 and when will it start to happen? A panel of managers and investors in the credit markets discuss the outlook.
11.45 12.30
13.45
14.30
regulation: Whos really in charge of the hedge fund industry? Regulators can make or break a hedge
fund industry by dictating that an industry should be brought onshore. How can hedge funds and funds of funds work with the regulators to design a win-win situation that both protects the investors and enhances the value of their investments? Will the new JOBS Act in the US allow US hedge funds and funds of funds to market more freely, and will less of them hide their performance behind the SEC marketing acts?
15.15
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Attendees
More than 350 delegates from the industrys leading firms attend the InvestHedge Forum each year. The breakdown of attendees last year was as follows:
Other industry professionals 2% Service providers 19% Funds of funds, end investors and consultants 42% Hedge funds 37%
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Awards 2012
ArbitrAGe 5 YeArs Aberdeen Orbita Capital Return Strategy Bodleian Partners Edmond de Rothschild Prifund Alpha Uncorrelated SSARIS Relative Value Strategy AsiA & emerGinG mArKets strAteGies 5 YeArs Penjing Asia Market Independent Fund Persistent Edge Asia Partners Persistent Edge China Partners SAIL Asia Pacific Managers cOmmOdities & nAturAl resOurces 5 YeArs Aurelian Global Resources Opus Commodities Fund Pinnacle Natural Resources Fixed incOme & credit 5 YeArs GHF Sicav Fixed Income A Lighthouse Credit Opportunities Opus Fixed Income Fund Permal Fixed Income Holdings mAnAGed Futures 5 YeArs ACL Alternative Fund Crown Managed Futures FRM Sigma Fund Lighthouse Managed Futures Fund GlObAl mAcrO 5 YeArs GAM Trading IV SSARIS Global Macro & CTA Trading Capital Holdings Gms $100m-$500m 5 YeArs Balestra Spectrum Partners Culross Global Fund Double Eagle Capital Ace Fund HDF Multi Reactive SkyBridge Legion Strategies
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Gms $500m-$1bn 5 YeArs Cube Global Multi-Strategy Fund Prisma Spectrum Fund SkyBridge Multi-Adviser Hedge Fund Portfolios SSARIS Absolute Return Strategy Gms >$1bn 5 YeArs Aurum Isis Fund Corbin Pinehurst Partners DGAM Diversified Strategies Fund EnTrust Capital Diversified Fund Magnitude International Prisma Spectrum Fund us strAteGies 5 YeArs Magnitude US Partners New Providence Fund Sire Partners van Biema Value Fund Voyager Partners
The above nominations are based on 11 months of performance data. Final nominations will be announced at the end of August based on 12 months of performance data. Nominations are subject to submitting a strategy allocation sheet for June 2012. These categories are provisional and may be subject to change.
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