Conference Program 2008

Staff Writer | 07 October 2008 |19:20 PM

Plenary Sessions

9.00am Official Welcome: Damien Hatfield, principal Hatfield Liptak Advisors.

9.10am The 10 things I hate about hedge funds: Timothy R. Barron, chief executive, RogersCasey (US).

9.45am Risk 1: Multi-dimensional risk management - Managing risk in a portfolio of hedge funds and funds of funds: Mark Everitt, director of risk management, BlackRock Alternative Advisors (US).

10.20am Risk 2: Risk control in single strategies, issues with shorting: Michael Hintze, founder of CQS (UK).

10.50am Morning Tea

Concurrent Stream A
Chair: Michael Ohlsson

11.15am 130/30: Equity strategies in a volatile environment: Jonathan Shead, senior product engineer, State Street Global Advisors, Australia Services Limited

11.45am What super funds need to know about private equity and what general partners would like to tell them: Steven Hall, managing director, Brookvine.

12.15pm "How To See in the Dark: the secrets of surviving black swans, bubbles and 15 years running a fund of funds business.": Kevin Gundle, director, Aurum Funds Ltd (UK).

Concurrent Stream B
Chair: Colin Tate

11.15am A greener shade of alpha - in search of climate change related investment opportunities: Paul Newland, vice president, synthetic and alternative asset management, Merrill Lynch.

11.45am Private equity in new technologies – beyond Silicon Valley: Bruno Raschle, founder and managing director, Adveq (Zurich).

12.15pm Credit Where Credit’s Due – opportunities in today’s fixed income markets for absolute return investors: Ed Dove, president Augustus Asset Managers (UK).

12.45pm Lunch

Concurrent Stream A
Chair: John Schaffer

1.45pm The credit and distressed debt cycle - Opportunities from the impact of regulatory and accounting changes: Frank Jordan, partner, Golden Tree Asset Management (US).

2.15pm The rise of hedge fund beta: Gregor Andrade, principal, AQR Capital Management (US).

2.45pm Risk-free Alpha - master manager and tax efficiency: Jonathan Green, NSW T-Corp, Tony O’Grady, Corporate Value Associates and Vicki Martyn from NAB Custody.

Concurrent Stream B
Chair: TBC

1.45pm Private equity and the secondaries market – when the time is right for investing: Marleen Groen, principal founder and CEO, Greenpark Capital (UK).

2.15pm Currency from an investor’s viewpoint – risks to be hedged and a new alpha source: : Brad Holzberger, CEO, Asset Management, QIC.

Introduction by Donald Hellyer, managing director,

2.45pm Activist funds – when will they come to Australia? Stephen Mayne, founder of Crikey.com and shareholder activist.

3.15pm Afternoon Tea

Plenary Sessions continued

3.40pm The Perfect Storm – hedge funds in a down-sizing financial system: Tom Strauss, managing member and head of hedge funds of funds, Ramius LLC (US).

4.10pm Sustainable growth: investing for the long term. Sean Lucy, head of carbon solutions group, National Australia Bank.

4.40pm What investors think about alternatives in the current environment. Survey results presented by Jon Glass, principal, FineAnswers.

4.50pm Liquidity – do super funds need to worry? Panelists: Ray King principal, Sovereign Investment Research, Tony Tuohey, trustee and investment committee chair, Vision Super, and John Gethin-Jones, CEO, Intech Investments. Chaired by Kevin Gundle, chief executive, Aurum Funds (UK).