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Network 2007 Sponsors
Advent Software Inc.
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.
CBOE FUTURES EXCHANGE
CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE ® ) is an all-electronic futures exchange. CFE is the leader in providing volatility futures products, including VIX ® and Variance Futures, which enable market participants to manage volatility risk and trade volatility directly. Contact Mark Haraburda at haraburda@cboe.com or Jay Caauwe at caauwe@cboe.com for more information.
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
Custom House Administration & Corporate Services Ltd.
Custom House Administration & Corporate Services Ltd., the only hedge fund administrator in the world to be awarded a Moody's Management Quality Rating, offers a full global hedge fund administration service, through its fully integrated offices in Dublin, Chicago and Singapore. For further information, please visit our Web site www.customhousegroup.com
Futures Industry Association
The Futures Industry Association is working with the industry to build an electronic give-up agreement system which will provide a global solution for executing and clearing brokers, customers and traders to electronically execute and store the FIA international uniform give-up agreement. For more information, visit www.futuresindustry.org or contact Krystal Atha -- katha@futuresindustry.org.
FXMarketSpace
FXMarketSpace, a 50/50 joint venture between Reuters, and CME, is the first centrally-cleared, global, over-the-counter foreign exchange (FX) marketplace. FXMarketSpace will be the first FX platform involving the entire spectrum of market participants including global and regional banks, asset managers, corporations, hedge funds and other market makers. The platform utilises CME's central counterparty model and clearing function, with access via Reuters premium desktop services and CME's API. The result is a platform that is uniquely positioned to reduce risk, provide deep liquidity, support anonymity and price discovery, whilst cutting costs and increasing efficiencies for inter-dealer and institutional FX transactions. For more information on FXMarketSpace, please visit www.fxmarketspace.com.
Globe Tax Services
Hedge funds working with GlobeTax add upwards of 50 basis points in performance by recovering excess foreign withholding taxes. GlobeTax, providing withholding tax recovery services to the hedge fund community since 1995, works on contingency and has strategic alliances with all major prime brokerage firms. No fees - no risk, no downside!
GoodBody Stockbrokers
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.
Intercontinental Exchange
IntercontinentalExchange ® (NYSE: ICE) operates the leading electronic global futures and OTC marketplace for trading energy commodity contracts, including crude oil and refined products, natural gas, power, coal and emissions. ICE also offers a range of risk management and trading support services, including cleared OTC contracts, electronic trade confirmations and energy market data. For more information, please visit www.theice.com.
Irish Stock Exchange
The Irish Stock Exchange is a long established, regulated and reputable European stock exchange. It is currently the world leader for the listing of investment funds with over 4,200 funds/sub-funds listed.
The ISE has experience of listing many types of investment vehicles including hedge funds, feeder funds, and multi-manager funds.
Lava Trading Inc.
Lava Trading Inc. is an innovative technology firm that develops high-performance trading solutions for the financial services industry. Lava products are created as true ASP solutions built to withstand maximum volumes in the most volatile conditions. As a cost effective and neutral provider, Lava's OTC, Listed and Foreign Exchange solutions are used by leading broker/dealers, including most of the top U.S. investment banks, as well as market makers, hedge funds and institutional investors. With its patented technology and capital markets expertise, Lava creates value-added trading solutions that combine speed, intelligence and reliability. Lava is a wholly owned, independently-operated subsidiary of Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) and member NASD/SIPC. For more information, visit www.lavatrading.com.
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.
Philadelphia Board of Trade
The Philadelphia Board of Trade ® (PBOT ® ), the futures trading subsidiary of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange ® (PHLX ® ) is reinventing the way futures are traded. We have leveraged our expertise as a proven leader in options trading technology to introduce a new destination for futures trading. PBOT currently offers futures trading on the Daily Expiry(TM) 3-Month U.S. Dollar BBA LIBOR(TM). Many new products are planned for 2007, including World Currency Futures, Treasury Futures and Sector Index Futures. For more information, contact Mark Monaco, Director of PBOT Marketing at 215.496.5382 or 267.767.7823.
Neither BBA Enterprises Limited, nor the BBA LIBOR Contributor Banks, nor Reuters, can be held liable for any irregularity or inaccuracy of BBA LIBOR(TM).
RBS Greenwich Capital
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.
RINA Systems
Rothstein Kass
Rothstein Kass' Financial Services Group has been providing services to alternative investments, broker-dealers and registered investment advisors for nearly 30 years. Our highly specialized staff dedicated to this unique industry keeps a close eye the on economic, tax and regulatory issues impacting your business. For more information visit www.rkco.com.
Sentinel Management Group
Since 1979, Sentinel Management has earned the trust and confidence of its clients as a pre-eminent investment manager of short-term cash for institutional investors. Sentinel provides clients with safety, same-day liquidity and competitive yields through well-managed portfolios of fixed income securities.
Standard & Poor's
Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations provides independent mark-to-market price evaluations used by our clients to help monitor portfolios, price statements, calculate margin, analyze holdings and fulfill various regulatory requirements. Our extensive coverage of over 4 million securities includes CMBSs, CMOs, ABSs, MBSs, U.S. corporates, treasuries, agencies, municipals, global equities, CDs, International fixed income, syndicated loans, swaps/swaptions, municipal performance indices, and odd-lot/retail pricing.
Sungard
SunGard's family of software and service solutions is designed to help streamline operations for hedge funds, funds of funds, private equity funds, alternative investment managers, and fund administrators. Stop by the SunGard exhibit booth to learn more about SunGard's offerings, including integrated portfolio management and accounting and investor accounting solutions. www.sungard.com/alternatives
Trading Technologies International, Inc.
TT provides hedge fund traders with superior trading screen technology, autotrading tools, execution results and risk mitigation. Trade the world's derivatives exchanges through X_TRADER® and TT's high-performance gateways. Or, access open APIs to create custom tools for black box and program trading, synthetic order routing, signal based trading and more. 312.476.1000; sales@tradingtechnologies.com ; Web site: ww.tradingtechnologies.com
UBS
UBS is the industry's largest FCM1, the world's largest wealth manager2, a top-tier investment bank, and a leading global asset manager. UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It employs around 72,000 people and operates in over 50 countries. The firm clears on 59 exchanges around the world, with 37 direct exchange memberships. Our strong, long-term credit ratings (AA+ Fitch, Aa2 Moody's, AA+ S&P), wrapped around our flexible client technology solutions, a multi asset class product offering and supported by a team defined by its entrepreneurial spirit, is a winning combination created to service all of your execution and clearing requirements.
1 CFTC 10/31/2006; 2 Scorpio Partnership 2006
UMB Investment Services Group
For 55+ years, UMB Investment Services Group has serviced some of the nation's top financial services companies. Our full array of services for alternative investment advisors and investors includes product formation assistance, custody, administration, fund accounting, investor accounting and servicing, and tax compliance.
For reliable, responsive, relationship-oriented service, call 888.844.3350 or visit www.umbisg.com.
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