Events

Hedge Fund Executive Education Programme

The annual two and a half day Hedge Fund Executive Education Programme will take place from 19th to 21th October 2011. It will be open to players with interest in the Hedge Fund Industry such as investors, private bankers, finance practitioners, and professionals seeking a career in Hedge Funds. Sessions will be delivered by professors from the London Business School and the Singapore Management University, and will focus on areas such as hedge fund risks, investment strategies, and performance. To aid learning, the course will feature real world case studies, presentations by hedge fund managers, and discussions by professional hedge fund investors.


Date & Time	Selected Speakers	Topic	Venue
19-20 Oct 2011 0900 - 1815 21 Oct 2011 0930 - 1230	Bill Fung Professor,London Business School Melvyn Teo, Professor,Singapore Management University Bart Broadman Co-founder and Managing Director, Alphadyne Asset Management Tan Chin Hwee Partner,Apollo Fund Management Stephen Diggle Founder, Vulpes Investment Management James Liu Founder and Managing Director, OAKS Family Office	The Past, Present and Future of the Hedge Fund Industry	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St, Level 5, Executive Media Theatre
24-25 Nov 2010 0830 - 1745 26 Nov 2010 0930 - 1230	Bill Fung Professor,London Business School Melvyn Teo, Associate Professor,Singapore Management University Bart Broadman Co-founder and Managing Director, Alphadyne Asset Management Tan Chin Hwee Partner,Apollo Fund Management Stephen Diggle Managing Partner, Artradis Fund Management James Liu Founder and Managing Director, OAKS Family Office	The Past, Present and Future of the Hedge Fund Industry	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St, Executive Seminar Room 4-2 (Rm 0444)
28-29 Oct 2009 0830 - 1800 30 Oct 2009 0930 - 1500	Bill Fung Professor,London Business School Melvyn Teo, Associate Professor,Singapore Management University Anurag Das¸ Founder and Managing Partner, Rain Tree Capital Management Tan Chin Hwee Partner,Apollo Fund Management	The Past, Present, and Future of the Hedge Fund Industry (Jointly organized with the SMU Office of Executive Education)	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St ,Executive Seminar Room 4-1 (Rm 0443)

Annual Hedge Fund Conferences

A series of annual conferences, commencing in October 2007, will bring together the best minds from the academic world, the hedge fund practitioner and the investment community. Unlike other hedge fund conferences, these conferences will be by invitation only. They will be a unique and useful platform where practitioners, academics and investment community including from time to time regulators will be able to present their view points be it similar or very different on trends and issues concerning the hedge fund industry.


Date & Time	Speakers and Panelists	Topic	Venue
21 Oct 2011 0900-1300	Danny Yong CEO and CIO Dymon Asia Capital Willy Ng CEO and CIO J.H. Whitney Investment Management Bill Fung Visiting Research Professor of Finance, London Business School Adam Levinson CIO Fortress Asia Macro Fund Dr Bill Lu President Ortus Capital Jay Suresh Senior Vice President Protégé Partners Melvyn Teo Professor of Finance, Singapore Management University	Hedge Fund Symposium 2011: A New Asian Hedge Fund Landscape?	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St, 5th Level, Mochtar Riady Auditorium
26 Nov 2010 0930 - 1230	Christophe Lee Managing Director, FrontPoint Partners Chairman, Alternative Investment Management Association (Hong Kong) Low Han Seng Executive Director, United Overseas Bank Limited Bill Fung Visiting Research Professor of Finance, London Business School Melvyn Teo Associate Professor of Finance, Singapore Management University Anurag Das Founder and Managing Partner, Rain Tree Capital	Hedge Fund Symposium 2010: Regulations and the Other Challenges Facing the Asian Hedge Fund Industry	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St, Conference Hall 1
30 Oct 2009 0930 - 1500	Ng Nam Sin Executive Director, Development & External Group, Monetary Authority of Singapore James S. Chanos Founder and President, Kynikos Associates ( via video conference) Paul ffolkes Davis Senior Bursar of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Bill Fung Visiting Research Professor of Finance, London Business School Melvyn Teo Associate Professor, Singapore Management University Christopher Fawcett Co-Founder and CEO, Fauchier Partners	Hedge Fund Symposium 2009: The Future of the Hedge Fund Industry	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St, Conference Hall 1
12 Oct 2007 0930 - 1500	Christopher Fawcett Chairman, AIMA Bill Fung Professor, London Business School Stephen Diggle Artradis Fund Management Kishore Moorjani Credit Asia Capital David Lee Ferrell Asset Management David Roes Asean Investment Advisors Chan Chia Lin Fullerton Fund Management Hannah Goodwin Citigroup	1st Annual Symposium: The Challenges and Rewards to Being in Asia (By invitation only)	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St, Conference Hall 1

Hedge Fund Seminars

The ad hoc hedge fund seminars will feature speakers from the investment community and the academia. The seminars seek to address the issues and challenges faced by hedge funds. Possible topics include hedge fund due diligence, hedge fund education, fund performance persistence, fund local informational advantage, etc.


Date & Time	Speaker	Topic	Venue
27 Apr 2012 1100-1200	Aje Saigal, Consultant to Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, CIO-designate of Nuvest Capital	A New and Better Way to Invest for the Next Decade	SMU, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Seminar Rm 2-2 (Rm 2002) 50 Stamford Road
21 Jul 2011 1100-1200	Vikas Agarwal, Associate Professor of Finance, Georgia State University	Uncovering Hedge Fund Skill From The Portfolios They Hide	SMU, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Seminar Rm 2-3 (Rm 2004) 50 Stamford Road
28 Feb 2011 1230-1330	David N. Frechette, Senior Portfolio Manager, Goldman Sachs Asset Management	Investing through a Capital Structure Lens - Opportunities in the Current Corporate Environment	SMU, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Seminar Rm 2-2 (Rm 2002) 50 Stamford Road
12 Jan 2011 1100-1200	Adam Levinson Co-Chief Investment Officer, Fortress Macro Fund	Demystifying Macroeconomics in a ‘G2' World	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St, Conference Hall 1
11 Nov 2010 1000-1115	Monica Hsiao, Credit Trader, CQS	Asian Credit Market Overview: Outlook, themes and relative value opportunities	SMU, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Seminar Rm 2-2 (Rm 2002) 50 Stamford Road
21 May 2010 1430-1530	David Ong, Research Analyst, Octagon Capital	The Journey from IT to Finance	SMU, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Seminar Rm 1-1 (Rm 1013) 50 Stamford Road
08 May 2009 1500-1630	Anurag Das¸ Founder and Managing Partner, Rain Tree Capital Management	Approaches to Investing in Distressed & Special Situations	SMU, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Seminar Rm 2-3 (Rm 2004) 50 Stamford Road
27 Mar 2009 1500-1600	Tan Chin Hwee Partner-in-charge of Apollo capital market business in Asia	Joint event with CFA: Forensic accounting in Asia- Ability to pay does not mean willing to pay	SMU, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Seminar Rm 2-3 (Rm 2004) 50 Stamford Road
18 Mar 2009 1630 – 1930	Viral Acharya, Professor, New York University Sanjay Jhamna, Global Co-Head of Credit Correlation and Exotics Trading at JP Morgan John Paulson, President and Founder of Paulson & Co. Inc	2nd Symposium: Credit Derivatives; current issues and perspectives	5, avenue Kléber, 75016 Paris (This event is organized by BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre at HEC)
28 Nov 2008 1200 – 1430	Patrick Fauchier, Chairman and Founder, Fauchier Partners	Hedge Fund Investing - A Good Idea for for the Past or the Future?	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St, Conference Hall 1
14 Nov 2008 1100 – 1200	Christophe Grünig, Harcourt Investment Consulting AG	The Global Financial Crisis and What It Means for Investors in Hedge Funds	SMU, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Seminar Rm 2-3 (Rm 2004) 50 Stamford Road
23 Sep 2008 1200 – 1400	Melvyn Teo, BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre	Joint event with SFAA: Does Size Matter in Hedge Fund Industry?	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St, Conference Hall 1
14 Mar 2008 1500 – 1700	Giovanni Beliossi, Managing Partner of FGS Capital LLP	Active Quantitative Stock Selection: Theory, History, and Recent Experience	SMU, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Level-2 ,Seminar Rm 2-2 (Rm 2002) 50 Stamford Road
05 Mar 2008 1100 – 1200	Robert Smith, GETCO	Automated Electronic Trading	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St, Executive Seminar Room 5.1
12 Dec 2007 1100 – 1200	Melvyn Teo, BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre	Lessons from the Sub-Prime Crisis	SMU, Lee Kong Chian School of Business Level-2 , Seminar Rm 2-2 (Rm 2002) 50 Stamford Road
22 May 2007 1100 – 1200	Craig Asche, CAIA	The CAIA charter – the present and future in alternative investment knowledge	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St, Conference Hall 1
21 Mar 2007 1030 – 1130	David Woodhouse, Fauchier Partners	Asset Valuation in the Hedge Fund Industry	SMU, Admin Building 81 Victoria St, Executive Seminar Room 5.1

Last updated on 23 April, 2012 by BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre.