Events

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	Selected Speakers	Topic	Venue
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
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 31 October, 2008 by BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre.