The Future of ESG Integration

Organization: Responsible Investor
Dates: 11 November 2009
Location: NH Barbizon Palace, Amsterdam (map)
Agenda & Speakers

From conference website: The Future of ESG Integration is the fourth in a series of ‘Responsible Investor Events’, which aim to bring top-level speakers from asset owners, asset managers and advisers together for targeted, practical discussion on pertinent themes of sustainable and responsible investment.  More . . .

The Future of ESG Integration

Organizer: Responsible Investor
Dates: 11 November 2009
Location: NH Barbizon Palace, Amsterdam (map)
Agenda
Speakers

From Conference Website: How institutional asset owners, advisors and fund managers are embedding ESG sustainability in their investments and operations.

The world’s largest investors are moving quickly to adopt and implement the environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI). Its impact is broadening rapidly within asset owners to incorporate ESG criteria for internal strategy, advisory work, manager hires and new asset products. The six UN PRI principles are fast becoming best practice in institutional investment. No one in the financial services industry can afford to be in the dark about these developments.

At the same time, the UNPRI has announced an ambitious five-year plan to mainstream responsible investment globally. This includes the creation of a public policy network, a focus on performance questions, closer links with government and new work streams on alternative asset classes including hedge funds, infrastructure and commodities. The conference will consider its implications.  More . . .

17th Annual Performance, Attribution, & Risk Management Forum (PARM 17)

Organization: ICBI
Dates: 23rd – 25th November 2009
Location: Hilton Tower Bridge, London (map)
Agenda & Speakers

From conference website: Where can you find the most cutting edge information? What are the risk & performance industry specialists working on now? Do you think you can find all of this out in 2 days? The answer is “yes”.  But the only way you can find all of this out is by attending the 17th Annual Performance, Attribution, & Risk Management Forum (PARM 17). This essential event continues to attract 120+ senior investment management attendees from around the world – and this year it is especially important to keep up with your peers in the industry.  More . . .

Organizer: Terrapinn
Date: 30 November -2 December 2009
Location: Le Meridien Etoile, Paris, France
Agenda
Speakers TBA

From Conference Website: Quant Invest 2009 will bring together the key players in the quantitative investment community. Quant Invest 2009 will be the ONLY European quant conference to bring together institutional and private end investors with the middle office quantitative fund experts who drive this fast growing industry.

* 2 year track record
* Over 120 attendees annually
* 30+ speakers
* All the leading quantitative investment professionals and investors
* Interactive panel debates
* Investor case studies
* Time-critical workshop
* 3 days of critical content
* Europe’s leading quant conference (More…)

EDHEC Alternative Investment Days 2010

Organizer: EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre
Dates: 8-9 February 2010
Location: The Brewery, London
Agenda: TBA
Speakers: TBA

From Conference Organizer: The EDHEC Alternative Investment Days include two conferences and a roundtable, which will be genuinely significant events for alternative investment professionals:

• the CNBC EDHEC International Herald Tribune Hedge Fund Roundtable of Global Thought Leaders, the theme of which will be “are the new initiatives to regulate the hedge fund industry an appropriate response to the financial crisis?”

• the EDHEC Hedge Fund Summit, which will address four major themes on the basis of new research from EDHEC who will draw the lessons from the financial crisis for the industry:

- How can we assess the financial crisis for the different hedge fund strategies?
- How to capture the operational risks of hedge funds and manage them better? A post-Madoff perspective.
- The role of hedge funds in institutional investment after the financial crisis.
- Why the ban on short sales was not a good idea.

• the EDHEC State-of-the-Art Alternative Investment Conference, which involves the presentation of the research results on the integration of different alternative investment classes or vehicles into asset management and asset-liability management. In 2010, five research projects will be exclusively presented by EDHEC’s professors and researchers and commented upon by alternative investment professionals:

- How to make asset diversification robust in the alternative universe
- ETFs and the alternative asset class
- How to invest in credit derivatives after the crisis
- What will the new forms of investment in commodities be?
- The role of real estate in long-term investment management

In addition to these events, the workshops conducted by the sponsors of the EDHEC Alternative Investment Days will feature their best practices or their research on key themes for alternative investments.
For any additional information on the conference or to enquire about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Vania Schleef by email: vania.schleef at edhec-risk.com or by telephone on +33(0)4 93 18 78 37.