MFA Forum 03
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Prime Sponsors



DMAXX
Morgan Stanley Managed Futures
Sidley Austin LLP
Sunrise Capital Partners, LLC



Preliminary Schedule of Events
Monday, June 11  | Tuesday, June 12 | Wednesday, June 13 

Tuesday, June 12
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration Open
Exhibit Hall Open
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast
Sponsor: Morgan Stanley Managed Futures

9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

General Session Panel
Legal/ Regulatory Update

Moderator:
John G. Gaine
, MFA President
Panelists:
David Franasiak
, Partner, Williams & Jensen
Eliot Raffkind, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld LLP
David Sawyier
, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Sponsor: Aviva Capital Management

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Refreshment Break
Sponsor: SSARIS Advisors, LLC

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
General Session Panel
Politics & Economics: How Main Street Affects Wall Street

Intro Remarks:
Bernadette Budde
, Sr. VP, Business Industry Political Action Committee
Moderator:
Brian Hurley, Horizon Cash Management LLC
Panelists:
Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal
Greg Hinz, Crain’s Chicago Business
Jim Kirk, Chicago Tribune
12:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Luncheon
The New Green Financial Markets

Keynote Speaker: Peter Fusaro, Global Change Associates Inc.
Sponsor: New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc.

2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
General Session
Unearth the Rewards of Socially Responsible Investing

Moderator:
Jim Kharouf
, Editor, Environmental Markets Newsletter
Panelists:
John DeSantis
, Civic Capital Group
Peter Fell, Kenmar Group Inc.
Sanford Selman, Asia West LLC
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Exhibitor Reception/Refreshment Break
Sponsor: IntercontinentalExchange (ICE)
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
MFA Annual Meeting
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Off-Site Cocktail Reception 
The Chicago History Museum
Shuttle buses leave at 5:30 p.m.
Sponsor: FIMAT Group

Sponsors List

Abraham Trading Company Aviva Capital Management Blue Star Jets Bode & Associates, Inc. Calyon Financial Campbell & Company, Inc. Chesapeake Capital Corporation Chicago Mercantile Exchange DMAXX DPM Mellon Eclipse Capital Management, Inc. FIMAT Group Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Strategies Group IntercontinentalExchange Investor Analytics John W. Henry & Company, Inc. LaSalle Global Fund Services Man Financial Morgan Stanley Managed Futures New York Mercantile Exchange R.J. O'Brien Sidney Austin LLP Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP SSARIS Advisors, LLC Sunrise Capital Partners, LLC Welton Investment Corporation Winston & Strawn LLP

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