Absolute Returns Funds Conference 2009

Rethinking Correlations: Alternatives in the post financial age

Park Hyatt, Melbourne

8 September 2009

Program Highlights:

• How the world’s most sophisticated investors are pursuing absolute returns – Greg Moessing, managing director, Cambridge Associates.
• A statistical snapshot of what’s working in the hedge fund industry – Meredith Jones, managing director, Pertrac.
• Liquidity and fees – correlated at last? – Panel discussion featuring Simon Ibbetson, head of CPG Advisory, Ross Barry, Watson Wyatt and Con Michalakis, CIO of Statewide Super.
• How hedge fund beta has fared in the last 12 months - Gregor Andrade, Principal, AQR Capital Management.
  
  
• Covering all your bases with a convergent-divergent approach – Ric Thomas, head of alternative investments, State Street Global Advisors.
• Investing in Systematic Global Macro: Performance, Risk and Correlation Characteristics – Bob Murray, investment committee member, Graham Capital
  
  
• Optimising your alternative beta portfolio – Lars Jaeger, partner and head of alternative beta strategies, Partners Group.
  
• The end of Asset Allocation? Finding true diversity using alternative investments. – Panel session featuring Guy Stern, head of multi-asset fund management, Standard Life Investments; Jon Glass, CIO of Media Super and Sydney University Endowment; Ray King, director, Sovereign Investment Research.
• Private equity secondaries – why the asset class is poised to pick up. – Matthew Arkinstall, Greenpark Capital.
• Hedge Funds of Funds – the new norms post GFC. – Randall Dillard, CIO, Liongate Capital, Richard Keary, founder, BT Hedge Fund of Funds Business.
• What we have learned from the crisis – chaired by Merrill Lynch.

The previous two Absolute Returns conferences have consistently attracted Australia’s largest wholesale investors and gatekeepers, as well as some of the most innovative providers of alternatives product from around the world.

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