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Forum 2006 Sponsors
ABN AMRO Global Futures
ABN AMRO is one of the world's leading financial institutions and is uniquely positioned as the largest foreign bank in the U.S., with one of the strongest balance sheets in the industry. We believe in building strong teams and strong relationships The rich diversity of cultures, expertise and experience we possess is harnessed to work on your behalf. Our goal is to create value for our clients through a constant focus on their financial services needs. Our network spans the globe, with over 100,000 employees in 59 countries and territories. ABN AMRO is now Europe's 10th largest bank and the world's 16th largest bank by total assets.
Abraham Trading Company Since 1988, Abraham Trading Company has offered professional money management by trading futures markets around the world. Abraham Trading Company's highly diversified portfolio, which consists of a 62% physical commodity exposure, combined with our long-term experience has resulted in a 17 year annualized ROR of 24.7%. Visit us at www.abrahamtrading.com
Alston & Bird LLP
Alston & Bird LLP is a full service law firm with 700 attorneys providing a full range of services to domestic and international clients. Our investment management group provides advice to investment advisers, commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators with respect to the structure, formation and management of hedge funds, private equity funds, and publicly-offered and privately-placed commodity pools. The firm's attorneys regularly advise clients on product innovations, trading requirements, regulatory developments and related activities. Additionally, the alternative investment management group is supported by the firm's extensive experience in securities and banking law, domestic and offshore taxation, ERISA and pension law and financial restructuring. www.alston.com
Bode & Associates
Bode & Associates is a public relations boutique dedicated to helping financial services providers develop and implement their marketing communications programs. From press relations, to logo and Web site development, to advertising, Bode & Associates helps clients maximize productivity by generating awareness of their products and services among key market segments
Calyon Financial Calyon Financial, a leader in the brokerage industry, offers institutional clients efficient access to all major global markets. With a suite of electronic trading solutions, dedicated client service representatives and 12 offices in key financial centers around the world, Calyon Financial is able to meet the needs of today's clients.
Campbell & Company, Inc. Located in Towson, Maryland, Campbell and Company is now in its 35th year of managing alternative investment portfolios. Campbell and Company is one of the oldest, largest, and most consistently successful futures trading advisory firms in the United States. Campbell and Company manages approximately $11 billion, including accounts for some of the largest and most sophisticated financial institutions in the world. The firm manages money for numerous public and private funds.
Chapman and Cutler LLP counsels pension funds, insurance companies, trusts, tax-exempt entities and other institutional investors in connection with investments in hedge funds and other alternative assets. Our experience includes advising on derivatives and structured finance products, distressed and other securities and options. We also represent fund sponsors and organizers, particularly those in the early phases of their business. Chesapeake Capital Corporation
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Known for global leadership in the financial marketplace, CME is the largest and most diverse financial exchange in the world for trading futures and options – handling over a billion futures contracts worth more than $460 trillion in a single year. Our innovative products cover major market segments including foreign exchange, interest rates, equities, commodities and alternative investment products – and improve the way these markets work for customers everywhere. In addition, our clearing house matches and settles all trades and guarantees the creditworthiness of every transaction that takes place in our markets. www.cme.com
DMAXX
DMAXX has been providing middle and back office software to the Managed Futures industry since 1994. Our flagship product, TheBooks , is a comprehensive, scalable application tailored to the needs of the CTA with managed accounts and is used by a wide range of advisors including several of the largest as well as some of the smallest in the industry.
DPM MellonDPM Mellon provides onshore and offshore alternative asset fund administration, portfolio valuation, daily NAVs, integrated risk administration and transparency solutions. Our suite of services is designed to solve all your administrative needs and improve your operational efficiency. DPM Mellon has the systems, infrastructure and experience to handle your toughest administrative challenges. Eclipse Capital Management, Inc.
Eclipse Capital Management, Inc. is one of the world's largest and most experienced alternative investment management firms specializing in the directional trading of financial futures, interbank foreign exchange, and equities. Since its incorporation in 1983, the firm has been at the forefront of innovation in global investment strategies and was among the first U.S. investment managers to extensively trade in the global futures markets. Today, it manages portfolios that include more than 40 different markets, representing the equity and financial instruments of the world's leading economies. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Eclipse Capital offers a variety of alternative investment products to institutions, trading managers and family offices throughout the world.
Fimat's Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS) has consolidated the provision of its dedicated services to the alternative investment industry. As one of the world's leading global brokerage organizations and part of Société Générale Group, Fimat offers a complete range of brokerage activities to institutional, commercial, and hedge fund users through a global network of 20+ offices and 60 derivative and stock exchange memberships.
Gar Wood Securities, LLC is a boutique institutional broker-dealer in Chicago , Illinois , with a branch office in New York , which service a select group of established and start-up hedge funds by providing them with Trade Execution, Prime Brokerage, Structured Products, and Third Party Marketing. Gar Wood Securities, LLC clears through Bear Stearns Securities Corp, which provides their clients with the best of both worlds; the personal attention from Gar Wood Securities, LLC and the strong capital base of Bear Stearns Securities Corp.
Investor Analytics provides cutting edge risk and transparency services including value-at-risk, stress tests, scenario analyses, and portfolio construction tools. IA's custom services are used by leading hedge funds and funds of funds as part of their own marketing, client service and portfolio management functions.
John W. Henry & Company, Inc. Founded in 1982, by John W. Henry, John W. Henry & Company, Inc. (JWH(r)) is an alternative asset manager that is one of the largest managed futures advisors in the world. Utilizing global markets in foreign exchange, financial futures and commodities, JWH historically has generated returns non-correlated to those of equity and fixed income investments. The firm manages assets for retail, institutional and private investors in the Americas, Europe and Asia. JWH's 11 investment programs, and funds for which JWH acts as manager or co-manager, offer investors a wide variety of investment solutions to suit various portfolios and investment strategies. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
The Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Financial Services Practice represents many of the world's premier hedge funds and money managers, major investment and commercial banks, leading firms and insurance companies, and several international exchanges. Our attorneys address the latest innovations in financial products and business strategy and the latest changes in the regulatory environment.
Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Lehman Brothers (ticker symbol: LEH), an innovator in global finance, serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Founded in 1850, Lehman Brothers maintains leadership positions in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private equity, and private client services. The firm is headquartered in New York, London, and Tokyo and operates in a network of offices around the world. www.lehman.com
Man Financial
Man's Metals team is both a member of the NYMEX and a Ring-dealing member of the London Metal Exchange. The 50-person LME team's reputation is based on superior performance in the core functions of market-making, order execution, trade clearing, and contract administration. Man's customers include the principal producers, processors, consumers, and dealers of the traded metals in all geographical regions. In addition, a significant portion of Man's extensive client portfolio consists of professional investors such as commodity trading advisors and hedge fund managers.
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP is among the 10 largest law firms in the world and has over 45 practice areas, including an extensive practice advising fund sponsors, investment managers, brokers and other financial services firms on product design, marketing, operations and compliance issues. For more information, go to www.mayerbrownrowe.com or contact Deborah Monson ( dmonson@mayerbrownrowe.com ) or Joseph Collins ( jcollins@mayerbrownrowe.com ).
Morgan Stanley is one of the best-known names in financial services: a leader in connecting people, ideas and capital to help our clients achieve their financial aspirations. The firm serves institutional and individual investors and investment banking clients, including corporations, governments and other entities around the world.
National Futures Association (NFA)
NFA is the premier independent provider of innovative and efficient regulatory programs and services that safeguard the integrity of the derivatives markets. Contact NFA at (800) 621-3570 if you have questions regarding CPO/CTA registration requirements and exemptions, disclosure documents, filing requirements for CPO pool financial statements, and other topics relevant to members of the Managed Funds Association.
The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. provides a liquid marketplace and global benchmark prices for the energy and metals industries. Trading is offered in futures and options contracts for crude oil and principal energy products, precious metals, copper, and aluminum. More than 180 related energy futures contracts that replicate popular over-the-counter transactions are listed for trading or clearing only on the NYMEX ClearPort ® electronic platform. Open outcry trading is also conducted in Europe for Brent crude oil and gasoil. Market participants in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and Switzerland actively trade the energy and metals futures markets via the NYMEX ACCESS ® electronic trading system.
Rand Financial Services, Inc.
Rand Financial Services, Inc . executes and clears futures and futures–options transactions on behalf of the world's major financial and agricultural institutions, non–clearing FCMs, hedge funds, commodity trading advisors, and high net worth investors.
Founded in 1993, Rand is a member of all major U. S. and international futures exchanges and is recognized as one of the premier FCMs in the industry. Rand is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bermuda-based Tewksbury Investment Fund Ltd. Rand endeavors to build strategic relationships with its clients to ensure long term growth by providing customized services ranging from facilities management to trade execution and clearing through RandConnect SM , its state-of-the-art electronic trading system.
R.J. O'Brien Founded in 1914, R.J.O'Brien & Associates (RJO) is one of the few privately owned futures commission merchants left in the industry. To date, RJO executes trades globally for over 75 CTAs and hedge funds and services a network of over 210 introducing brokers and some of the largest institutions in the world. RJO is a founding member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a full clearing member of the CBOT, NYMEX, NYBOT, COMEX, EUREX and LIFFE, and offers full service, 24-hour execution and clearing on every futures exchange worldwide to over 75,000 customer accounts. Sidley Austin LLP
With over 1,600 lawyers and 15 offices in North America, Europe and Asia, Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world's largest law firms. Sidley combines experience, in-depth knowledge and quality to provide a broad range of legal services to meet the needs of our clients
SSARIS Advisors LLC
SSARIS Advisors designs, structures and implements managed futures and hedge fund strategies for institutional and private investors. SSARIS is a joint venture between State Street Global Alliance LLC, a majority-owned subsidiary of State Street Global Advisors and a minority-owned affiliate of the Dutch pension fund, ABP, the third largest in the world, and the principals at SSARIS.
SunGard SunGard is a global leader in software and processing solutions, primarily for financial services firms. SunGard offers a fully integrated, end-to-end solution suite for the alternative investments industry. Visit us and see how we're helping Hedge Fund and Fund-of-Funds managers meet their portfolio/partnership accounting, valuations and risk management challenges head on. Sunrise Capital Partners, LLC Sunrise Capital Partners, established in 1980, manages over $2.0 billion in client and proprietary assets. Sunrise offers diversified trading in the foreign exchange and futures markets, utilizing a variety of trading methods, which provide clients with systematic diversification and high risk-reward returns. The company offers investment opportunities in domestic and offshore funds. Welton Investment Corporation
Welton Investment Corporation is an alternative investment management firm dedicated to the managed futures investment class. The firm's Alpha Strategies program seeks to deliver returns that are non-correlated and attractive on a return/risk basis. By so doing, Alpha strives to increase portfolio returns, lower volatility (or both) when blended with equities, hedge funds or traditional trend-following CTAs.
Winston & Strawn LLP
Winston & Strawn's financial services practice is committed to representing investment managers, funds, brokers, dealers, exchanges, market participants, investors, and other financial institutions in a broad range of complex regulatory and transactional matters. Our services are focused on the specialized business and legal needs of our clients, both U.S. and non-U.S., and involve a cross-disciplinary approach to transactional and project-specific matters, regulatory compliance counseling, tax advice, dispute resolution and representation before applicable regulatory authorities.
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