| Absolute Return Symposium - Agenda |
| Thursday, March 16, 2017 | ||||||
 08:00 - 08:40 | Delegate registration & breakfast | |||||
| 08:40 - 08:45 | Welcoming remarks | |||||
| 08:45 - 09:30 | Investor Outlook: What are investors expecting from hedge funds in 2017? [More Info] Adam Blitz, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, Evanston Capital Management Michelle McCloskey, President, Man FRM Eric Nierenberg, Senior Investment Officer & Director of Hedge Funds and Low Volatility Strategies , Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (MassPRIM) Daniel Schatzman, Director of Hedge Fund Research, Wolfson Group Susan Barreto, Editor of InvestHedge, Hedge Fund Intelligence | |||||
| 09:30 - 10:15 | UCITS in the US [More Info] Andrew Dreaneen, Head of Liquid Alternatives, Schroders Andrew Dollery, Director, Prime Services, Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking Christian Lee, Senior Portfolio Manager, Itau USA Asset Management Carter Lyons, Managing Director & Head of Global Investor Relations, Two Sigma Investments Keith Black, Managing Director, Curriculum & Exams, CAIA Association | |||||
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee break & networking | |||||
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Keynote Address [More Info] Jane Buchan, Chief Executive Officer, PAAMCO | |||||
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Stream I: Equities: In Search of Opportunities Long & Short [More Info] Barbara Ann Bernard, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, Wincrest Capital Steve Deitch, Co-Portfolio Manager, Duet Group Brian Gonick, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Senvest Management Mark Gordon, Senior Portfolio Manager, AlphaGen Capital Glen Kacher, President & Portfolio Manager, Light Street Capital Betsy Battle, Chief Investment Officer & Founding Partner, Lone Peak Partners Management | |||||
| 11.30 - 12.15 | Stream II: Macro: Certainty in an Uncertain World [More Info] Jason Dillow, Chief Investment Officer, Halcyon Capital Management Said Haidar, President & CEO, Haidar Capital Management Robert Surgent, Portfolio Manager, Field Street Capital Management Adam Perez, Senior Investment Director, Cambridge Associates | |||||
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch & networking | |||||
| 13:15 - 14:00 | Making Sense of the Data Deluge [More Info] David Fiszel, Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Honeycomb Asset Management Michael Marrale, Chief Executive Officer, M Science Sara Noble, Chief Product Officer, Qineqt Paul Crowley, Co-Founder & Managing Member, Gradient Fund Management Rachael Levy, Senior Finance Reporter, Business Insider | |||||
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Credit: A Shrinking World of Opportunity? [More Info] Denise Crowley, Head of Securitized Credit, ZAIS Group Emanuel Friedman, Co-Founder & CEO, EJF Capital Joseph Naggar, Partner & Senior Portfolio Manager, GoldenTree Asset Management Simone Foxman, Reporter, Bloomberg | |||||
| 14.45 - 15:15 | Coffee break & networking | |||||
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Staying Ahead of the Curve: Investing in Innovation [More Info] Michal Dziegielewski, Director of Investment Research, FQS Capital Partners Ben Hoffstein, Chief Technology Officer, Pine River Capital Management Adam Pfefer, Director of Corporate Information Technology, Davidson Kempner Capital Management Gaurav Suri, Chief Executive Officer, Arcesium Viktor Ula, Managing Principal, PivotalPath Arthur Berd, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, General Quantitative | |||||
| 16:00 - 17:00 | View from the Top: Expertise from the Firms of the Year [More Info] Chris Hardy, Chief Compliance Officer, Whitebox Advisors Alec Litowitz, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Magnetar Capital Andrew Rabinowitz, President, Partner & Chief Operating Officer, Marathon Asset Management Richard Shapiro, Partner, Portfolio Manager & Co-Head of Equities, Wexford Capital Patrick Kelly, Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer, Brigade Capital Management Lawrence Delevingne, Reporter, Reuters | |||||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Drinks & networking | |||||
