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Network 2007 Sponsors
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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 50% physical commodity exposure, combined with our long-term experience has resulted in a 19-year annualized ROR of 21.68%. Visit us at www.abrahamtrading.com.
Alston & Bird LLP
Alston & Bird's alternative investment lawyers have substantial experience in the structuring, formation and management of hedge funds, publicly offered and privately placed commodity pools and private equity funds. We employ sophisticated alternative investment strategies in representing our clients, ranging from well-established institutions to fund managers venturing out on their own.
Aviva Capital Management
Aviva Capital Management, a subsidiary of Aviva USA, has nearly $20 billion in assets under management, and is an SEC registered and GIPS® compliant investment adviser specializing in traditional and alternative institutional income-driven asset management. This specialization allows us to offer you targeted investment advisory services for your income-driven needs.
Bode & Associates Inc.
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 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.
Campbell & Company, Inc.
Located in Towson, Maryland, Campbell & Company is now in its 35th year of managing alternative investment portfolios. Campbell & Company is one of the oldest, largest, and most consistently successful futures trading advisory firms in the United States. Campbell & Company manages approximately $12 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.
Chicago Board of Trade
The Chicago Board of Trade has been driving the standard in futures trading for over 158 years. Our fully integrated exchange offers liquidity, capital efficiencies, diverse products and industry safeguards that the marketplace demands. Our electronic trading engine and clearing process provides our customers with increased speed, enhanced functionality and lower transaction costs. The value proposition that we build for our customers is based upon strength of liquidity, state-of-the-art trading technology and innovation with a commitment to transparency and integrity. For more information about our markets and products, log on to the CBOT® Web site at www.cbot.com.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
CME is the largest and most diverse financial exchange in the world for trading futures and options - handling 1.3 billion contracts in 2006 worth more than $827 trillion. Founded in 1898, CME serves the risk-management needs of customers around the globe by offering the widest range of benchmark financial products available on any exchange, traded via the CME Globex ® electronic trading platform and on our trading floors. CME Globex is the only electronic platform to list trading on all major asset classes, including foreign exchange, interest rates, equities, commodities and alternative investment products such as weather and real estate, as well as NYMEX energy and COMEX metal futures. CME improves the way these markets work for customers everywhere by offering accessibility, reliability and execution speed. In addition, CME Clearing matches and settles all trades and guarantees the creditworthiness of every transaction that takes place in CME markets. 312.930.1000; info@cme.com ; www.cme.com
DMAXX
DMAXX has been providing middle and back office software to the Alternative Investment Industry since 1994. Our flagship product, TheBooks® , is a comprehensive, scalable application tailored to the needs of the advisor with managed accounts. With features like trading, reconciliation, accounting, performance reporting, and risk management, it is no wonder TheBooks® is used by dozens advisors of all sizes and styles.
DPM Mellon
DPM Mellon provides fund administration, back- and middle-office outsourcing, risk administration for fund managers, asset allocators, institutional investors and proprietary traders. DPM Mellon’s services include back-office transaction processing and reconciliation; independent portfolio valuation, daily NAV; consolidated reporting across managers, funds or prime brokers; and tax layering and reporting across jurisdictions.
Eclipse Capital Management, Inc.
Eclipse Capital Management, Inc. is an alternative investment management firm specializing in the research, development, and management of quantitative, model-driven trading strategies. Eclipse Capital provides absolute return investment strategies that include managed futures, global macro, tactical trading, and asset allocation to a global clientele of institutional, retail, and private investors. Founded in 1983, Eclipse Capital is based in St. Louis.
FIMAT Group
Fimat Prime Brokerage and Alternative Investment Solutions teams in London, New York and Tokyo provide dedicated services for the alternative investment community including selected Money Managers, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), Hedge Funds, Feeder Fund structures, Funds of Funds, Family Offices and other alternative Investors, such as Insurance companies, banks or pension funds.
Fimat Prime Brokerage and Alternative Investment Solutions teams offer a global and complete range of brokerage activities encompassing transaction, clearing, settlement, custody and financing of various asset classes. These asset classes include equities, bond, currencies, commodities and their related derivative products, such as listed futures and options, forwards, CFDs and swaps traded on a worldwide basis.
In addition, Fimat teams can help leverage the various capabilities of the broader Societe Generale Group, including high-end structured products such as equity-linked derivatives, structured notes and other customized institutional derivatives products. In addition, our teams enable clients to trade with a variety of investment firms whilst maintaining the cash, securities and exchange traded/OTC derivatives assets of their entire portfolio in a single location.
Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Strategies Group
Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Strategies ("HFS") has been in the business of finding, evaluating, and investing with leading hedge fund managers since 1969. Today, our team of 62 professionals manages over $18.0 billion for ultra-high net worth clients and some of the largest, most sophisticated institutional investors in the world. 1
1 As of December 31, 2006.
In Jun-97, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. acquired the assets and
business of Commodities Corporation Limited, a Princeton New
Jersey-based asset management firm established in 1969 specializing in
alternative investments, and contributed them to a newly formed wholly
owned subsidiary, Commodities Corporation LLC, which was renamed Goldman
Sachs Princeton LLC in May-01 and subsequently renamed Goldman Sachs
Hedge Fund Strategies LLC ("HFS") in Dec-04. Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund
Strategies LLC is a U.S. registered investment adviser, is part of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and is a wholly owned subsidiary of The
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Copyright (c) 2007, Goldman, Sachs & Co. All rights reserved. P07-20
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 for 100 separate accounts.
Investor Analytics
Investor Analytics (IA) provides cutting edge risk-management and risk-transparency services. IA's analyses include multiple risk analyses, portfolio stress and construction tools, custom aggregation/drill-down, and fully customizable reports. As a daily service, IA supports many areas: portfolio and risk management, marketing and client service all which benefit from our unique approach.
John W. Henry & Company, Inc.
Founded in 1982, by John W. Henry, John W. Henry & Company, Inc. (JWH®) 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 10 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 are at the leading edge of the global marketplace and regularly counsel clients on the latest innovations in financial products and business strategy and the latest changes in the regulatory environment.
Man Financial, Inc
Man Financial with offices in London, Chicago, New York, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Brisbane, Kansas City, Hong Kong and Taipei, is a leading participant on the major securities and futures exchanges world-wide. On many of these exchanges, Man is the leader by volume, primarily due to its institutional client base which is attracted by specialized desks, experience, and market knowledge.
Morgan Stanley Managed Futures
New York Board of Trade
The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) is New York's original futures exchange, where the world trades food, fiber and financial products. For well over a century, the New York Board of Trade has provided reliability, integrity and security in a global marketplace for cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, as well as a wide range of currency and index futures and options. Following a transaction that closed on January 12, 2007, NYBOT became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE). The Exchange represents a tradition of innovative services including floor and screen-based trading of its benchmark contracts (on the ICE electronic platform) as well as its exclusive eCOPS â electronic commodity delivery and documentation platform . For more information about NYBOT, please see www.nybot.com and www.nybotlive.com. To learn more about New York Board of Trade Futures & Options for Kids, the Exchange's non-profit group, please go to www.futuresandoptionsforkids.org.
New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc.
The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. is the largest physical commodity futures exchange and clearinghouse in the world and the third-largest futures exchange in the United States. Physically delivered contracts for energy, precious metals, copper, and aluminum trade by open outcry and are also available 23 ¼ hours a day on the CME Globex electronic trading system under a technology services agreement with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Approximately 300 energy and related contracts can be transacted off-exchange and submitted for clearing through the NYMEX ClearPort® clearing electronic platform. NYMEX Holdings, Inc., the parent company of the Exchange trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NMX.
Pensions & Investments
Every other Monday, P&I delivers critical financial news to executives responsible for the investment of large institutional assets such as pension funds, endowments and 401(k) plans. It reports on the strategies and trends shaping today's capital markets, follows the moves of the world’s largest funds and money managers, and provides important research and analysis. Subscriptions, advertising mailing lists, reprints, conferences and custom publishing are available.
Proskauer Rose LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP's Hedge Fund practice focuses on the establishment and representation of hedge funds and hedge fund managers in all aspects of their operations. Proskauer is one of the nation's largest law firms, with over 700 attorneys providing legal services to clients around the world. For more information visit www.proskauer.com.
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. 312-559-8887; dzarr@randfinancial.com
RBS Greenwich Capital
RBS, the 5th largest banking group in the world, provides RBS Greenwich Capital with the financial backing, global resources, and risk management expertise to enable it to meet the trading and origination needs of its customers, while maintaining an entrepreneurial culture that can offer personalized service and respond quickly to client needs and market developments.
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. RJO services a nationwide network of more than 250 introducing brokers and some of the world's largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions. RJO is a founding member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a full clearing member of the CBOT, NYMEX, NYBOT, COMEX, EUREX, LIFFE, ICE and offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on every futures exchange worldwide.
Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP
Sonnenschein's Fund Services Group provides a full range of legal services and capabilities to the alternative investment industry, particularly hedge funds. Seamlessly drawing upon the combined experience of lawyers throughout the firm's national practices, we bring to bear the appropriate resources and expertise necessary to effectively and efficiently deal with clients' needs.
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.
Sunrise Capital Partners LLC
Sunrise Capital Partners, established in 1980, manages over $1.5 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 dedicated to the managed futures investment class. The firm's Global Directional Portfolio program (GDP) seeks to preserve the attractive non-correlated qualities of the managed futures style class, while also delivering composite-like, top-tier performance to its investors.
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