| Welcome to Buy-Side Tech: Global Equities Trading Forum, World Research Group's annual conference on equities trading and trading technology! As Buy-Side Tech continues its evolution, this year's event not only moves beyond quantitative strategies to address the full spectrum of issues facing the Buy-Side professional, but expands the breadth of its agenda to include global issues.
Craig M. Fullen, Portfolio Manager, Advanced Asset Management Advisors, Inc. expressed how "the expanded agenda ensures that just about everyone on the buy-side, whether from a major institution, hedge fund or even a local investment advisory firm will find this conference informative and beneficial."
October's comprehensive program convenes over 50 c-level speakers from hedge funds, investment banks, and asset management firms to share best approaches for mitigating trading expenses, diminishing risk, and targeting pools of maximum liquidity. 2010's enhanced agenda also lasers in on leading-edge topics including high frequency trading, high performance computing-system architecture optimization, strategies for advanced algo trading- and MUCH MORE!
Join us in October and hear from industry leaders like...
Rick Bookstaber
Senior Policy Adviser
SEC
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Robert L.D. Colby
Former Deputy Director, Trading and Markets
SEC
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Som Seif
President
CLAYMORE INVESTMENTS, INC.
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Don Suskind
VP & Head of ETF Product Management
PIMCO
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Matt Gray
CEO
SIMPLEX INVESTMENTS
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Ian Naismith
Portfolio Manager
SARASOTA CAPITAL STRATEGIES
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David Morton
Co-CIO, Chief Research Officer
FOXHALL CAPITALMANAGEMENT
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Ellen Lee
Vice President, Policy & Regulatory Risk
TD ASSET MANAGEMENT
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Victor Lebreton
CIO
QUANT HEDGE
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Irene A. Halpin
Executive Director, Equities Regulatory Counsel
J.P. MORGAN
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Eldar Nigmatulin
Senior Quantitative Trader
ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN
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Adam Afshar
President
HYDE PARK GLOBAL INVESTMENTS
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Sean Hendelman
Chief Executive Officer – Managing Partner
T3 CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
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Alison Graham
Principal
VOLTAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
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Janu Subramanian
Principal
JAI GURU CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
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Paul Schatz
President
HERITAGE CAPITAL LLC
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Joseph Saluzzi
Co-Founder
THEMIS TRADING LLC
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Jonathan Kanterman
Managing Director
STILLWATER CAPITALPARTNERS, INC.
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Marc L. Baum
General Counsel and Partner
OFFIT CAPITAL ADVISORS
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James J. Angel
Professor
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
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Marc Groz
Managing Director, Head of Corporate Development
SPM LLC
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Renee Colyer
President
FOREFACTOR
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Mark Longo
Founder
THEOPTIONSINSIDER.COM
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Paul Zublake
Senior Analyst
AITE GROUP, LLC
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Dennis Fox
Director of Equity Trading
MUNDER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
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John McClure
CEO
PROFIT SCORE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
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Matt Samelson
Principal
WOODBINE ASSOCIATES
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Jayaram Muthuswamy
Professor of Finance
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
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William Koehler
CIO
ETF PORTFOLIO PARTNERS
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Ashish Pabalkar
Institutional Sales
QUANT CAPITAL
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Carl James
Global Head of Trading
Fortis Investments
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TBD, LIQUIDNET
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TBD, UBS
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...AND MORE!
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Keynote Speaker - The SEC's Senior Policy Advisor
Rick Bookstaber is Senior Policy Adviser at the SEC. He has worked at Bridgewater Associates, run the Quantitative Equity Fund at FrontPoint Partners and was in charge of risk management at Moore Capital Management. In the investment banking arena, he managed firm-wide risk at Salomon Brothers and was a member of Salomon's powerful Risk Management Committee. He also spent ten years at Morgan Stanley, and was Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mr. Bookstaber received a Ph.D. in economics from MIT.
Learn from Buy-Side Leaders at Banks, Hedge Funds, and Asset Management Firms
Enjoy case examples, view points and best practices presented by industry leaders representing companies such as:
ALLSTATE INVESTMENTS
AKSEL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
D.E. SHAW
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK
ICM ASSET MANAGEMENT
INVESCO
COMPUTER TRADING CORP.
PHILADELPHIA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
PLIMSOLL CAPITAL
STATE STREET GLOBAL ADVISORS
EMERGING MARKETS MANAGEMENT
BARUCH COLLEGE CUNY
STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS
QUANTIA CAPITAL
BRAZOS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
PASKEWITZ ASSET MANAGEMENT
BRIGHTPOINT CAPITAL
SHAFFER ASSET MANAGEMENT
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
PUTNAM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
IRIDIAN ASSET MANAGEMENT
TYKHE CAPITAL LLC
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ROOSEVELT INVESTMENT GROUP
BLUEMOUNTAIN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
ING INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
SSGA
REVERB CAPITAL
SAWGRASS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
AQ STRATEGIES LLC
INFINIUM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN
QUANTITATIVE BROKERS
HIGHSTREET ASSET MANAGEMENT
MAJOR HEDGE FUND
SCT CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
HARRIS ASSOCIATES
TURNER INVESTMENTS
SAC CAPITAL
TIAA-CREF
NORTHERN TRUST
TETHYS TECHNOLOGY
GOLDMAN SACHS
AITE GROUP
WESTWATER CORPORATION
TABB GROUP
EVENTMONITOR
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Calling All Presenters
The 2009 conference was a huge success and we want you to be part of it in 2010! If you have an interesting example of a success story, a field-tested solution or a case study of a way your organization has "jumped the curve" in the area of equities trading, please let us know. For consideration for this event, please prepare your proposal and contact Ian Grody at 646-723-8040 or ian.grody@worldrg.com.
Voices of the Industry on WRG's Buy-Side Tech Series
Timely, informative, great opportunity to network when it couldn't have been more valuable!
Kenneth McCue
Strategic Advantage Capital, LLC
I've attended many conferences and I believe your operation to be one of the best I've seen!
Ron Schoenberg
Trading Desk Strategies
I enjoyed the conference: the group of people is very interesting and your team organized it extremely well.
Yuri Balasanov
AQ Strategies
I really enjoyed being there and I met a lot of people that I knew and didn't know. It is funny that although that conference is small compared to some of the big industry ones, it seems to have a high concentration of interesting people.
Robert Almgren
Quantitative Brokers
Great stuff and I learned a lot
Ben Batory
Brightpoint Capital
Enjoyed the conference very much, thanks!
Dmitry Koltunov
Highbridge Capital Management
For more information or to register, please contact the World Research Group toll free by phone at (800) 647-7600 or via e-mail at info@worldrg.com.
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