Sponsor for the 7th Quantitative Asset & Risk Management Workshop 2012

Gold sponsor

Black Rock
iShares
Black Rock - iShares: BlackRock is one of the world’s pre-eminent asset management firms and a provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world. Our clients can access our solutions through a variety of product structures, including iShares® ETFs.
iShares is the world’s leading provider of exchange traded funds (ETFs), managed by BlackRock Advisors (UK) Ltd, with total assets under management of $597 billion* globally. Investors can use iShares ETFs to gain a diversified exposure to the performance of key benchmarks and asset classes including: equities, fixed income, emerging markets, property and alternatives. The offering allows investors to implement various investment strategies ranging from core/satellite, tactical allocation, risk management to cash equitation.
* Source: BlackRock ETF Landscape report end November 2011

Diaman Sicav Diaman Sicav

 

Sponsor

Factset

Factset:  For more than 30 years, financial professionals worldwide have relied on FactSet to deliver the financial data and software solutions they need to drive their analysis. With FactSet, you gain a powerful analytics tool tailored to your workflow, the broadest scope of data available, and access to industry-leading client service. Our top priority is ensuring that you always have the most accurate data and the support you need to use it effectively.

FactSet consolidates all the tools you need to monitor the global markets, public and private companies, and equity and fixed income portfolios in a single, intuitive interface. With personalized workspaces for one-click access to the data and analytics you need, financial analysis has never been easier.

FactSet lets you analyze companies, view market data in real time, generate investment ideas, and manage portfolios on a single platform. Easily examine a range of data, including prices, financials, earnings estimates, research reports, and news. Your proprietary data is integrated with hundreds of commercial content sets, so complete information is always just a click away.  For a live demo, visit the FactSet stand at the DIAMAN Quantitative Asset & Risk Management Workshop. FactSet. The difference between perform and outperform.

Banque Degroof

 

Banque Degroof Group : Fondata nel 1871 da Franz Philippson, Banque Degroof è la prima banca privata e indipendente del Belgio.
Sin dalla creazione, il suo core business è la gestione di patrimoni, con un’identità fondata sui principi di eccellenza, etica, relazioni a lungo termine e soluzioni personalizzate.
Forte di una lunga esperienza, la Banca offre una gamma di servizi completa e integrata:

  • Asset management
  • Amministrazione e custodia di fondi d’investimento
  • Attività di mercato
  • Analisi finanziaria
  • Credito
  • Strutturazione finanziaria



Ubs UBS is a global investment banking and securities firm with a strong institutional and corporate client franchise. Consistently placed in the top tiers of major industry rankings, it is a leading player in the global primary and secondary markets, especially for equity, equity linked and equity derivative products.
UBS Equity derivatives Team is widely recognized for its consolidated expertise In offering innovative and flexible investment instruments such as: Certificates, Structured Bonds and Structured Funds, ETC and ETF. These instruments are available on a large number of different asset classes and are tailored made according to clients’ preferences and needs.
1741 Asset Management SA (www.1741am.com) is the successor of the asset management unit of Wegelin & Co. Private Bankers. This was the result of a recent reorganisation of the Wegelin Group. 1741 AM will focus 100% on asset management whilst the private banking activities will continue under the newly branded company Notenstein Banca Privata SA, (www.notenstein.ch). Both companies belong to Raiffeisen Group Switzerland, the third largest banking group in Switzerland serving 3.2 mln client with ca. EUR 120 bln AuM.

1741 AM’s focuses on the development of innovative investment solutions aiming to deliver superior risk adjusted return to institutional investors worldwide. 1741 AM’s close links with leading universities such as the University of St.Gallen and the Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich assure that the newest research flows into investment strategies and enables them to evolve over time. 1741 AM’s is the investment manager of 1741 Asset Management Funds SICAV and of 1741 Specialized Investments Funds SICAV.

Concrete examples of 1741 AM innovative work are Global Diversification® which seeks superior diversification by utilizing the “risk parity” methodology and by applying a proprietary multi-dimensional tail risk control, the trend following strategy Diversified Trends® and the Dynamic Indexing® and Active Indexing®, which seek to redefine indexing methodology in the global equity space
Diaman Sim Diaman Sim
Moody's
Moody’s Analytics helps capital markets and credit risk management professionals worldwide respond to an evolving marketplace with confidence.  The company offers unique tools and best practices for measuring and managing risk through expertise and experience in credit analysis, economic research and financial risk management.  

By providing leading-edge software, advisory services, and research, including the proprietary analysis of Moody’s Investors Service, Moody’s Analytics integrates and customizes its offerings to address specific business challenges.
Visit us at moodysanalytics.com or contact us directly:


Pablo Barbagallo Assistant Director – Product Specialist Tel:

+ 44-20-7772-1699 pablo.barbagallo@moodys.com

 Veneto Banca nasce oltre 130 anni fa nel trevigiano. Oggi è a capo dell’omonimo gruppo, presente in Italia e nell’Est Europa con 8 istituti di credito.

Oltre alle funzioni di capogruppo Veneto Banca serve il Nord Italia attraverso oltre 300 filiali distribuite in Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lombardia, Piemonte, provincia di Imperia, Ferrara e Roma.

La mission dell’istituto è: essere una realtà innovativa e autonoma, leader nei propri territori, capace di fornire servizi di qualità e di generare, con etica e responsabilità, valore nel tempo per soci, clienti e dipendenti.

 Veneto Banca scpa - Sede legale: Piazza Dall’Armi, 1 – 31044 Montebelluna (TV)
Centro Direzionale: Via Feltrina Sud, 250 – 31044 Montebelluna (TV)
N° verde: 800373797 - mail: posta@venetobanca.it

MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software. MATLAB®, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation.
MathWorks products are used throughout all the industries as fundamental tools for research and development. Financial professionals worldwide are using MathWorks products to develop and implement increasingly complex financial models, analyze substantial volumes of data, and operate under tightening regulation. By standardizing on MathWorks products, they work in a single environment to:
•    Analyze data and create forecasts
•    Measure, manage, and attribute risk
•    Develop, test, and implement trading strategies
•    Calculate prices
•    Determine cash flows
•    Construct, optimize, and value portfolios
•    Implement quantitative applications into front-office systems

More than 5.000 colleges and universities and the major business schools around the world use MathWorks solutions for teaching and research in a broad range of technical disciplines.

Contact details: Tel. +39 011.2274700 – info@mathworks.it
To learn more on MathWorks solutions for Financial applications: http://www.mathworks.com/financial-services/

 

Media partners

hedge fund research

 BarclayHedge, a leading source for proprietary research in alternative investments since 1985, has provided services as a publisher, database and software provider, and industry consultant. Barclay’s 18 hedge fund indices and 10 managed futures indices are utilized worldwide as performance benchmarks for hedge funds and managed futures.

 

Wilmott

Wilmott.com is without doubt the leading online resource for the quantitative finance community. The website is a crossroads for quants around the world. Whether discussing highly complex and specific problems, providing advice,software comparisons, or jobseeking, the Forum is the first port of call for quants wanting to find out the latest.

 

Morningstar

Morningstar

 

 

Fondi online

Fondi online

 

Albourne Village Albourne Village
Banca Finanza

Banca Finanza è il mensile di riferimento del settore creditizio e finanziario destinato a operatori del settore, imprenditori, direttori finanziari e amministrativi di piccole e medie imprese.
Unico mensile del settore ad essere distribuito anche in edicola.
Oltre all'apprezzatissima struttura principale, grande consenso hanno riscosso le sezioni recentemente inserite:
- Gestione multimanager, nata per seguire l'evoluzione e la distribuzione dei prodotti finanziari;
- Finanziamenti alle PMI , dedicata al rapprto bancaimpresa, alla luce delle normative di Basilea 2;
- Tecnologia & Informatica, ove si analizzano le strategie messe in atto dalle aziende bancarie nel campo dell’informatica e della tecnologia, una sezione di alto profilo che raggiunge tutti i responsabili IT del settore.
Sito web: http://www.newspapermilano.it/

Dmf New Media

Dmf New Media

 

 

The Mankoff Company
The Mankoff Company is a marketing and event consultancy concentrating on all areas of the financial community with an expertise in trading technology. The Mankoff Company partners with our clients to determine need and designs targeted and results-driven networking forums, interactive seminars, lead-generation campaigns, product promotion campaigns and other b2b events.

With over 20 years of sales and marketing expertise, The Mankoff Company offers the following services
    . Business to business conferences
    . Customized seminars
    . Targeted networking events
    . Marketing, IR and PR presentation and promotional materials
    . Marketing and promotional consulting services
    . Lead generation campaigns and events

 

MondoAlternative, who has born from the ten-year experience of MondoHedge, is the first and only Italian multimedia provider of financial information entirely dedicated on alternative investments.

MondoAlternative offers the following services with its website www.mondoalternative.com: the access to a Database with report of quantitative and qualitative analysis for all the Italian hedge funds, more than 2.200 offshore hedge funds, the investible indices, the alternative UCITS funds and calculates the indeces of the Italian FOHFs and of the alternative UCITS funds in collaboration with Eurizon AI.
The editorial products are the monthly magazine MondoAlternative in Italian and English version and periodical dossiers about specific topics.
In January 2010 it started an additional research and editorial hub through the acquisition of ETF Consulting and the launch, by ETF Consulting, of MondoETF, the first Italian monthly magazine focused on ETF and ETC markets.

Contact: Tel. +39 02 67339151 – info@mondoalternative.com – www.mondoalternative.com 

Etf Consulting, leader in the financial information on European Exchange-Traded Funds, was established in early 2004 on the success of www.etfs.it (currently www.etfplus.net), the first web site in Europe entirely dedicated to ETFs, launched in 2002. At present, the company's core business is the collection and processing of data on ETFs industry, as well as related consulting,  training and information activities. In early 2010, MondoAlternative SpA, the first and only Italian multimedia data provider focused on alternative investments, has expanded its outreach to the ETFs and ETCs sector through the acquisition of a majority stake of ETF Consulting, with the aim of creating a second specialized center of publishing and research.

Among the first initiatives there’s been the launch of MondoETF, the first Italian monthly magazine entirely dedicated to the ETFs and ETCs industry. It offers a 360 degrees view of these products, with a main focus on Italian and European markets, providing insights, analysis, interviews, research and investment ideas on specific and topical subjects.

Contacts: Tel. +39 02 6733 9156 - info@etfconsulting.com - www.etfplus.net

Advisor Advisor

Get the Fresh Lowdown on Alternative-Investment Activities
Every week, Hedge Fund Alert delivers the early intelligence you need to anticipate money-making openings in the fund-management arena. The newsletter tells you what tight-lipped fund managers don’t want you to know. It also uncovers the secret moves of investors and other industry players. See for yourself -- sign up for a 3-week FREE trial subscription to Hedge Fund Alert. Start your free trial at HFAlert.com, or call 201-659-1700.

 

Ampersand World, located in Geneva, is a highly qualified team with a main focus on Top Talent search for the commodity trading.

The team combines passion and years of expertise in human resources, management and operational positions with a focused background in international trade and offers services of excellent quality at both local and international levels.

    . Talent search / executive search & recruitment
    . Trade lab / training
    . Trading events / Networking afterworks, HR breakfasts
From now, feel free to visit our website www.ampersand-world.com

Brighton House Associates is a research company that collects valuable investor information through one-on-one interviews that reveal investor fund strategy preferences, fund manager requirements, and allocation timelines.

Through these interviews, the BHA research team identifies where alternative institutional capital is currently in play and where it will be allocated.  BHA’s unique ability to pinpoint where investors are targeting their dollars helps fund managers significantly improve their marketing efforts. www.brightonhouseassociates.com

  allaboutrisk.com is  the destination site for all things Risk!  It brings together the suppliers and buyers in risk management, compliance and trading and is aimed squarely at the Energy/Commodities trading and Financial Services markets.
The key features of the site include; comprehensive vendor directories, risk events, vendor comparison reports, daily news, weekly newsletter and an annual risk software report.  Our next risk software report will be published in May 2011.
For more information please contact Jane Stoll on +44 (0)20 7193 6737 or by email at jane.stoll@allaboutrisk.com or visit www.allaboutrisk.com
 Founded in 1990, UniMoney is a leading company in the linguistic services sector, specialized in the economic, financial and legal field.
Our services:
•    Translations of financial, legal, technical, IT and journalistic texts (financial statements, fund and stock exchange reports, bank documents, contracts, appraisals, presentations, press releases, manuals, articles, websites, etc.).
•    Interpreting services for business meetings, conventions, congresses (liaison, consecutive, simultaneous and whispered interpreting)
We translate from and into the main European languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch.
Our translators are mother-tongue professionals, specialized in their respective work sectors and with many years of experience.
Our translations are given special added value by the fact that they are all carefully checked. Each text is translated into another language by a native speaker and is subsequently reviewed by a colleague to ensure a very high quality end product.
UniMoney is an associate of Federlingue, an Italian association of linguistic service companies providing translation, interpreting and language courses, and it fully embraces its professional ethics as the basis for proper and constructive performance of activities in its business.

E-mail: info@unimoney.it
Phone Number: +39 02-39.32.58.78
Website: www.unimoney.it

 

IOS Press (www.iospress.nl) publishes around 100 international journals and approximately 130 book titles a year, ranging from computer sciences and mathematics to neurosciences and physics. IOS Press embraces new technologies for the dissemination of information. All journals are available online and an online book platform was launched in 2006.

Algorithmic Finance is both a nascent field of study and a new high-quality academic research journal that seeks to bridge computer science and finance.

The interdisciplinary journal Risk and Decision Analysis emphasizes on convergence, synergies and risk. It will be a useful and high quality publication, bridging theory and practice.

IOS Press: Nieuwe Hemweg 6B 1013 BG Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 20 688 3355 - Fax.:+31 20 687 0019 - info@iospress.nl

 

Endorsement

Aiaf

Aiaf

 

Institutional Investor Journals Institutional Investor Journals
Aifirm

Aifirm

 

Ascosim

Ascosim

 

 

Gold sponsor

Black Rock

iShares

Diaman Sicav

Sponsor

Factset

 

Banque Degroof

Ubs

Diaman Sim

 

 

 

 

Media Partners

hedge fund research

Wilmott

Morningstar

Fondionline.it

Albourne Village

Banca Finanza

Dmf

The Mankoff Company

 

 

Advisor

 

 

 

Endorsements

 Aiaf

Iij

Aifirm

Ascosim