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Forum 2007 Exhibitors
ACA Compliance Group
ACA Compliance Group is a full-service compliance consulting firm comprised of former SEC, NASD, state regulators, securities attorneys, and senior compliance managers. ACA provides compliance solutions for investment advisers, investment companies, broker-dealers and hedge funds. For more information, please call Damon Zappacosta at 973.631.1085 or visit www.acacompliancegroup.com.
Australian Securities Exchange
As one of the world's top 10 listed exchange groups, the ASX Group was created through the merger of Australian Stock Exchange and Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) and operates under the brand Australian Securities Exchange. SFE traded almost 80 million contracts in 2006 over equity, interest rate, commodity and energy markets.
BlackRock
BlackRock is recognized as a premier provider of global investment management, risk management, and advisory services. The firm manages portfolios and provides investment solutions for a broad array of investors that include corporate, public, and union pension plans, insurance companies, mutual funds, endowments, foundations, charities, corporations, official institutions, and individuals worldwide. Headquartered in New York, BlackRock serves clients from offices in 18 countries, maintaining a major presence in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. We offer a cross-disciplinary approach which provides the benefit of all our proprietary resources and exceptional people combined with a strong commitment to customer service. BlackRock manages the BlackRock Liquidity Funds, one of the oldest and largest institutional money market fund families. www.blackrock.com
Caledonian Global Fund Services
Caledonian Global Fund Services is a leading provider of specialized administration services to the alternative investment industry. We offer a fully outsourced front to back office solution to alternative investment managers, hedge funds and fund of funds. Our suite of services includes back office accounting, investor reporting (including AML), and tax advisory and reporting services. Our dedicated integration team assists with new launches, conversions, file transfer protocols and implementing our outsourced technology solutions.
Caledonian Global Fund Services administers assets of over US $13 billion in offshore and US funds from offices in the Cayman Islands, Chicago and the Isle of Man.
Calyon Financial
Calyon Financial, a leading global brokerage firm, offers institutional investors efficient access to all major financial and commodity markets. With a complete suite of electronic trading solutions, a dedicated client service model and 16 locations in key financial centers around the world, Calyon Financial meets the needs of today's investors.
Chicago Climate Exchange
Chicago Climate Exchange® (CCX®) is a premier and unique financial institution designed to advance business, environmental and social goals. CCX is the world's first and North America's only active voluntary, legally binding integrated trading system to reduce emissions of all six greenhouse gases, with offset projects worldwide.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
CME is the largest and most diverse financial exchange in the world for trading futures and options - handling more than 1.3 billion contracts worth more than $827 trillion in 2006. Founded in 1898, we serve the risk-management needs of customers around the globe by offering the widest range of benchmark financial products available on any exchange, traded via our CME Globex® electronic trading platform and on our trading floors. Our innovative products cover major market segments including interest rates, equities, foreign exchange, commodities and alternative investment products. Please contact CME at 312.930.1000; info@cme.com; www.cme.com
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
DTCC Deriv/SERV is the leading provider of automation solutions for the global, over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market. We offer a family of services that brings greater efficiency and reduces the risk of processing a wide range of credit, equity and interest rate derivatives products. DTCC's derivatives service are offered through DTCC Deriv/SERV LLC, a subsidiary of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation,
Eurex
Eurex, the international futures and options exchange, offers global electronic access to a broad range of highly liquid international benchmark derivatives. With market participants connected worldwide and a trading volume exceeding 1.526 billion contracts in 2006, Eurex is the market place of choice for the derivatives community. www.eurexchange.com
Futures Industry Association
FIA is the only association representative of all organizations that have an interest in the futures market. FIA has more than 180 corporate members, reaching thousands of industry participants. Regular Members are FCMs, responsible for more than 80% of the customer business transacted on U.S. futures exchanges. Through these members we represent the needs of futures industry customers; in fact, FIA members include the top 20 firms in terms of customer equity. Associate Members include international exchanges, banks, legal and accounting firms, IBs, CTAs, CPOs and other market users, and information and equipment providers headquartered in the U.S. and abroad. The FIA’s new electronic give-up agreement system (EGUS) is the result of a multi-year project to introduce efficiencies into the give-up process. The system provides a global web-based solution for executing and storing the FIA uniform standard give-up agreement and is administered by Markit Group, a respected provider of automated solutions to the financial services industry. Nineteen FCMs have provided funding for the project and are committed to integrating it into their give-up processing: Banc of America, Barclays, Bear Stearns, Calyon Financial, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Fimat, Fortis Bank Global Clearing, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, Man Financial, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Prudential Bache Commodities, RBS Greenwich Futures and UBS. The first phase of EGUS gives all parties to the give-up agreement the opportunity to execute all variations of the agreement online. In the second phase, firms will be able to download information contained in the give-agreements into their in-house or vendor systems. Visit FIA’s booth in the Exhibit Hall for more information!
Horizon Cash Management LLC
Since 1991, Horizon Cash Management has been the leading purveyor of cash management solutions to the alternative investment industry. Horizon creates and manages customized, short-term fixed income portfolios for clients worldwide, while offering liquidity management expertise to help clients achieve the highest level of capital efficiency. Currently, Horizon manages over $3 billion in assets in 100 separate accounts.
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE)
IntercontinentalExchange® (NYSE: ICE) operates the leading global, electronic marketplace for trading both futures and OTC energy contracts and the leading soft commodity exchange. The company also offers risk management and trading support services, including customized market data offerings, clearing solutions and electronic trade confirmations. For more information, please visit www.theice.com.
LaCrosse Global Fund Service
LaCrosse Global Fund Services is a global provider of operations, middle-office and administration services for complex hedge funds. LaCrosse delivers flexible, customized solutions to sophisticated fund managers around the world, so they can increase focus on markets and financial performance.
Manchester Trading LLC
Manchester Trading LLC is a discretionary trading firm with a unique and well developed niche in the world of futures and options trading. Our trading strategy builds on statistical and quantitative insights, painstakingly developed, rigorously tested, and successfully traded over two decades. Chairman and Chief Trader Victor Niederhoffer is one of the most talented and profitable hedge fund managers today. Since the creation of the fund in 2002 and after five years of research dedicated to profitability and risk management, he has given investors nearly a five fold return on their money.
Montréal Exchange
The Montréal Exchange has created an organized and well-structured market that has as its central features transparency, efficiency and performance. It provides investors with a wide range of currency, equity, index and interest rate derivatives as well as financial and risk management tools adapted to market needs. Global participants can trade Montréal Exchange's derivatives through a connection to SOLA(TM)--the most efficient and functional trading platform.
National Regulatory Services
National Regulatory Services (NRS) is the most respected consulting firm servicing the securities industry. Our industry experts provide soft dollar and best execution guidance, mock SEC exams, and due diligence reviews for your firm. NRS ComplianceEssentials™ is the all-in-one tool simplifying compliance. Visit www.nrs-inc.com or call 860.435.0200 for more information.
New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc.
NYMEX is the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange and clearinghouse and the preeminent energy and precious metals futures and options trading forum, providing liquidity and market transparency. Its benchmark contracts are available through the CME Globex® electronic trading system for more than 23 hours a day, including side-by-side with the trading floor. Additional off-exchange contracts may be submitted for clearing through NYMEX ClearPort®. The Exchange has received and maintains an AA+ counterparty credit rating from Standard & Poor's.
Rothstein Kass
Rothstein Kass' Financial Services Group has been providing services to alternative investments, broker-dealers and registered investment advisors for nearly 30 years. Our highly specialized staff dedicated to this unique industry keeps a close eye the on economic, tax and regulatory issues impacting your business. For more information visit www.rkco.com.
Sentinel Management Group
Since 1979, Sentinel Management has earned the trust and confidence of its clients as a pre-eminent investment manager of short-term cash for institutional investors. Sentinel provides clients with safety, same-day liquidity and competitive yields through well-managed portfolios of fixed income securities.
Singapore Exchange Limited
Singapore Exchange (SGX) has developed a niche as an Asian Gateway amongst international exchanges, providing a one-stop solution for trading and risk management in the Asian time zone through a suite of derivatives and securities products. These include major Asian equity index and interest rate derivatives, as well as local and regional securities, structured warrants, ETFs and REITs.
Standard & Poor's
Standard & Poor's is a leading provider of independent fixed income evaluations (municipal, taxable, global, cds, syndicated loans, swaps) that support securities operations, fund accounting and portfolio accounting worldwide. Additionally, we provide equities, dividends, descriptive data (full bond descriptions), CrossWalk (securities to entity linkage) and Associated Obligor for bonds.
Swapswire Inc.
SwapsWire is the innovative electronic network for buy-side clients, dealers, inter-dealer brokers and prime brokers to exchange trade data, confirm OTC transactions and achieve straight-through-processing. Communication is direct with a counterpart and legal confirmations are in place within minutes of execution. For further information, please contact Claire Lobo on (+1) 646 429 1725.
Trading Technologies International Inc.
UBS Financial
UBS is the industry's largest FCM1, the world's largest wealth manager2, a top-tier investment bank, and a leading global asset manager. UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It employs around 72,000 people and operates in over 50 countries. The firm clears on 59 exchanges around the world, with 37 direct exchange memberships. Our strong, long-term credit ratings (AA+ Fitch, Aa2 Moody's, AA+ S&P), wrapped around our flexible client technology solutions, a multi asset class product offering and supported by a team defined by its entrepreneurial spirit, is a winning combination created to service all of your execution and clearing requirements.
1 CFTC 10/31/2006; 2 Scorpio Partnership 2006
Forum 2006 Exhibitors
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