Inside ETFs – Europe Conference

Organizer: Terrapinn
Dates: April 12 to 13, 2010
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands (Mövenpick Hotel)

From Conference Website: The world’s largest and most informative ETF conference – Inside ETFs – moves to Amsterdam in April 2010 to stage its first European event. Targeted at an audience of institutional investors and consultants, the conference will address the major issues of interest to ETF users, including portfolio construction, how to compare ETFs, and the key areas of trading, liquidity, tracking and fund structure.

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Family Alternative Investment Conference

Organizer: Campden Conferences
Dates: April 20 to 21, 2010
Location: Monaco (Sporting d’Hiver)

From Conference Brochure: With turbulence in the financial sphere beginning to subside, families, private investors and their family offices are once again looking to alternative investments. However, with dreams of absolute returns being proven to be just that, and with regulations abounding from policy makers across the globe, alternative asset classes have evolved into markedly different animals. The Family Alternative Investment Conference gives families, private investors and family office executives the chance to come together with global experts to discuss opportunities and risks within alternative investments.

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HFR Industry Summit: Mid-Year 2010

Organizer: Hedge Fund Research, Inc.
Dates: April 21 to 22, 2010
Location: London (Claridge’s Hotel)

From Conference Brochure: The event is a private engagement featuring some of the industry’s most influential hedge fund managers and most sophisticated and significant investors. As with our previous engagements, the Summit is developed to engender a dynamic interaction between participants and institutional investor attendees and focus on the themes most relevant to hedge fund industry allocators in the current environment.

The structure of the event will be a one day General Session featuring four Strategy Sessions: Macro, Equity Hedge, Event Driven & Credit and Relative Value. Each of the sessions will contained four or more hedge fund managers, who sequentially and independently addressed the audience on the most relevant themes in their strategy, the overall industry or specific to their fund, with a focus on characterization of the most compelling opportunities moving forward. When each of the four participants complete their independent presentation, the moderator opened the session up for audience questions. To underscore the caliber of content and quality of speakers for the Summit, video clips from each of our previous engagements are available for review.

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CAIA/CFA Conference

Organizer:CAIA/CFA
Dates: April 21 to 22, 2010
Location: London, England (Chartered Accountants’ Hall)

From Conference Brochure: From distressed debt to commodities, alternative energy, developing markets, and private equity, this conference aims to evaluate emerging opportunities with a wide range of risk and reward profiles and diversification benefits. But as alternative investors redefine risk and find ways to take advantage of these potentially significant opportunities through new or well-established alternative strategies, it is equally important to keep a close watch on possible structural changes in markets stemming from deleveraging, government interventions, and the unpredictable nature of economic recovery.

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Hedge Fund Managed Accounts 2010

Organizer: IIR
Dates: April 26 to 29, 2010
Location: London, England (Dexter House)

From Conference Brochure: The only event in 2010 focused on the impending boom in managed account platforms for investors, platforms, hedge funds and service providers.

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BAI Alternative Investor Conference

Organizer: BAI
Dates: April 27 to 28, 2010
Location: Frankfurt, Germany (Chamber of Commerce and Industry)

From Conference Website: The focus of AIC will be more than ever on the institutional investors’ side, who have adopted an important role within alternative asset classes within the scope of portfolio diversification and are thus participants of significance.

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European Pensions & Investments Summit 2010

Organizer: Marcys Evans
Dates: May 10 to 12, 2010
Location: Montreux, Switzerland (Fairmont Le Montreux Palace)

From Conference Website: The European Pensions & Investments Summit 2010 will bring together senior-level executives from Europe’s largest organisations with a select and diversified group of leading edge Sponsors. Do not miss this opportunity to network with your peers and form new alliances. Get a head start on your competition and start building relationships today.

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NAPF Investment Conference

Organizer: IFIA
Dates: May 10 to 12, 2010
Location: Edinburgh, Ireland (Edinburgh International Conference Centre)

From Conference Brochure: The NAPF Investment Conference is an exceptional event specifically designed to address the key investment choices, challenges and changes faced by defined benefit and defined contribution pension funds and institutional investors.

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Global ARC London

Organizer: Global ARC
Dates: May 17 to 19, 2010
Location: London, England (The Landmark Hotel)

From Conference Brochure: Where the Global Pension/Endowment and Hedge Fund Communities Meet

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Investor Forum and Awards 2010

Organizer: IPE Real Estate
Dates: May 26 to 28, 2010
Location: Amsterdam (Hotel Okura)

From Conference Brochure: The IPE Real Estate Investor Awards is the first event to honour investors for performance, transparency and innovation within the real estate sector.

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GAIM International

Organizer: ICBI
Dates: June 15 to 17, 2010
Location: Monaco (Grimaldi Forum)

From Conference Brochure: With a huge range of interactive, targeted and face to face features & formats GAIM International provides four days of bringing together buyer & seller in the most constructive, compelling and time saving ways possible for all parties. Ask how we can help you meet and engage with who you want.

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