Abundance Partners

Avenue Capital

Balyasny Asset Management

Canyon Partners

CDK Investment Management

Citi Securities and Fund Services

Columbus Circle Investors

Corbin Capital Partners, L.P.

Dearborn Capital Management

DiMaio Ahmad Capital

Emory Investment Management

Galtere Ltd.

General Motors Asset Management

Highbridge Capital Management

Hudson Bay Capital

Ivory Capital Management

Jefferies Asset Management

Lone Pine Capital

M.D. Sass Investors Services, Inc.

Magnitude Capital

Marshall Wace

Merion Investment Management

MetLife

Northern Trust

Silver Point Capital

Summit Rock Advisors

Third Avenue Management LLC

TIAA-CREF

Tocqueville Asset Management

York Group

8:15 am

Registration & Breakfast with Exhibitors 

9:00 am

Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

Boris Onefater, President & Chief Executive Officer, Constellation Investment Consulting Corporation

9:15 am

Keynote Address

Steven Nadel, Partner, Seward & Kissel LLP

9:45 am

2012: A Critical Year for Regulation

• How has Dodd-Frank changed the face of the hedge fund industry?  What lies ahead regarding hedge fund regulation?
• How can compliance teams be prepared for the onslaught of regulation?
• Form PF, Treasury Filings, etc.
• Is your firm at risk for posing Systemic Risk? What are the signs?
• Will the SEC develop rules that could cause a substantial number of hedge fund firms to acquire a broker-dealer license?
• What are the status, deadlines and technology available to monitor FATCA requirements? Should administrators help in this process?  If yes, how?

Moderator:
Kenneth Raisler, Sullivan & Cromwell

Panelists:
Jeffrey Cobb, Founder & Principal, Cobb & Associates PC
Greg Sonis, CCO, Eidesis Capital

10:45am

Morning Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

11:15 am

SEC Registration – What Happens After Registration?

• Should you hire a consulting firm not only to prepare for the registration but also to monitor compliance procedures?  In essence have these consultants become the company's compliance department?
• Technology is also an important component with registration. Should administrators provide some help in the compliance process and how?
  

12:00 pm

Operational Changes Needed in a Post-Crisis Marketplace

• What operational changes can be made within your fund to reduce risk and in turn attract investors?
• Is automation important?
• Should you increase the number of prime brokers you work with to reduce counterparty risk?
• How can reporting practices be improved?

Moderator:
Robert Saperstein, Legal & Compliance Consultant, Cantor Fitzgerald Investment AdvisorsLP

Panelists:
Keith Walsh, Director, Omgeo
Guillaume Detrait, Senior Managing Director, Chief Operating Office & Chief Enterprise Risk Officer, Welton Investment Corporation
Peter Neems, VP Solutions Management, SunGard Asset Management

12:45 pm

Lunch Break with Exhibitors

1:45 pm

Taking It Back- When Insourcing is the Right Option?

• If your firm has $100 million in AUM or more, would it be more cost effective to manage IT infrastructures internally?
• How would the firm handle the outsourcers and transition to taking back the outsourced operations?
• Should firms develop a hybrid situation?  What middle and back office operations should be moved in-house and which ones should be left with the outsourcer?
• Also, how could your firm handle hiring the IT management talent that would be needed to develop competitive IT infrastructures to support the fund’s strategies?

2:30 pm

Managing Your Firm's Outsourcers and Prime Brokerages

Even when using an outsourcer, hedge funds still have responsibilities for IT and administration that fall on the level below major outsourcing efforts such as the links to prime brokers, low-latency access to high frequency trading venues, major app providers, clouds, etc. Is it worth focusing on basic security, PCs, networking, Web access, applications, etc.? Or should a provider be found for these items as well?

Speaker:
Michael Cloherty, ReedITC
(formerly Deputy COO of General Motors Asset Management)

3:00 pm

Afternoon Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

3:15 pm

UCITS in the US

• Are UCITS funds growing in the United States? 
• Now that European investors have embraced the UCITS model will the US have to follow suit?   
• UCITS are also a big issue in Asia where there is some diversion on the definition of funds, derivatives, etc. As Asia is a magnet for investors, should the US and Europe know more about what is happening in Asia concerning UCITS funds?
• Would US fund operators using the UCITS model in the US bring a fresh stream of European investors? 
• What are the regulatory and operational hurdles?
• What are the IT requirements to facilitate UCITS funds?

3:45 pm

Fraud within Your Firm

• What are red flags for seeing fraud within your firm?  Is there a profile for the typical fraudster? 
• What should be included in your firm’s compliance and ethics policy?
• What guidelines should firms follow when they're in the market for anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance technologies?
• How will the SEC's forensic fraud detection approach work?
• What is the impact of specific anti-fraud provisions in the Advisers Act?

4:30 pm

Conference Adjourns