6th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards

Alternative Investment News’ 6th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards recognizes the hedge funds, fund of funds, endowments, foundations, and corporate and public pension funds that have stood out for their notable accomplishments in alternatives investing during the past year.

This year’s nominees will be honored and winners will be announced and awarded ‘oscar-style’ at the dinner and ceremony on June 25th at the majestic Cipriani Wall Street.

This gala awards dinner, held in conjunction with Institutional Investor Conferences’ Hedge Fund Investor Symposium, will host more than 400 leaders from across the hedge fund industry and is an event not to be missed!

Evening Agenda:
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.: Cocktail Reception
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.: Dinner and Awards Ceremony
10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.: Awards ‘After-Party’ Sponsored by: Fraser Yachts

Dress Code:
Black-tie preferred
To Reserve a Seat / Table

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Brokering Change: A Wall Street Multicultural Women’s Exchange Interbank Conference

Save the date!

Goldman Sachs cordially invites you to save the date for the Brokering Change: A Wall Street Multicultural Women’s Exchange Interbank Conference. The half-day conference will be held from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Bayard’s in New York City, immediately followed by a cocktail reception.

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Registration
12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Conference
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception

Please contact for more information

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Catalyst Provides Fresh Research on Women’s Business Leadership

Catalyst, the top think tank for women’s workplace issues, relaunched its new website on June 12, 2008. The new site is packed full of studies, interviews and news stories on diversity and inclusion practices of major companies, women in leadership positions and the advancement of women of color.

Founded in 1962, Catalyst is a major nonprofit membership organization working with businesses worldwide to build inclusive workplaces and expand opportunities for women and business. At The Glass Hammer, we consider Catalyst to be a reliable source for research data on the subjects that women in law, finance and business find most important. They also host the Catalyst Awards, kind of like the Oscars for diversity and gender-inclusiveness the the workplace.

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Surviving Market Volatility: Advice from Risk Management Practitioners

Please join 100 Women in Hedge Funds for a discussion on portfolio risk management. As we reflect back on a heart-wrenching first quarter of 2008, where market volatility caused a number of spectacular collapses in hedge funds, not to mention banks, we ponder what best industry practices in risk management would have helped preserve capital in a tumultuous market. Our panelists come with a wealth of experience in managing various risks, both financial and business risks, in hedge funds and we look forward to their thoughts in the following areas:

* The usefulness of quantitative models, such as Value at Risk and stress testing
* Portfolio liquidity management in times of financial distress
* Investor liquidity management – risk of portfolio liquidity versus investor liquidity
* Lessons learned from the current liquidity crisis
* Best practice in managing counterparty risk
Networking and cocktails before and after session

RSVP required

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The Firing of Erin Callan

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Last week’s big news in the on going fall out inside the financial services industry was the fall of Erin Callan and Joseph Gregory. While there are varying levels of speculation on why Ms. Callan was demoted so quickly after her promotion to the CFO position, one thing is clear: in this industry when things get tough CEO’s start shuffling the desk chairs. When banks start to falter, the pressure hits everyone in the bank but ultimately lands squarely on the CEO.

Richard Fuld, the CEO of Lehman is no exception and now makes the most current example. Promoting Callan to the CFO position was controversial, and it seems clear when the quick turnaround didn’t happen he moved her out. Fuld has been the CEO of Lehman for a long time, but if he can’t pull the bank out of its disarray he may well be the next casualty of this economic downturn.

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Managing Maternity for Women in IT Careers

In this highly interactive workshop you will be exploring the dual roles of being a mother and a committed IT professional.

You will address childcare and working options tailored to individual values and look at how to maintain professional relationships whilst setting appropriate boundaries.

This workshop will give you tangible take-away tools, helping to smooth transition between the maternity announcement, handover to replacement cover and return to work.

Through one-to-one work as well as group discussion you will improve your confidence by aligning your personal and professional values and feel better prepared for what it means to be a successful working mother.

This workshop will be facilitated by Dr Suzanne Doyle-MorrisSuzanne is a professional speaker and accredited coach who received her PhD in Educational Research from the

University of
Cambridge. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the experiences of successful women in male-dominated fields. Today she helps these organisations retain, recruit and develop their high potential female employees. For more information on her and her services, please visit www.doylemorris.com

If this course is of interest to you, please email Sarah Lilley at slilley@womenin.co.uk or call on 020 7422 9213.

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2008 Technology Management Conference & Exhibit

SIFMA’s 28th Annual Technology Management Conference & Exhibit is the industry’s leading event with over 300 vendors and 7,000 attendees.

The conference will address:

Communications, market data, information security, trading room support, web and Internet technology, and information systems.

The conference will focus on the rapidly-changing use of technology to drive productivity, comply with regulatory requirements, and adapt to converging markets, products and investors.

The Exhibit will explore:

Products and services in data processing, market data, information security, trading room support, web and Internet technology, information systems and other related technology activities.

For more information regarding the program, please contact Art Trager at atrager@sifma.orgor 212-313-1246

For registration costs link to: https://events.sifma.org/2008/107/event.aspx?id=534

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Microinsurance- From Corporate Underwriting to MFI Customer

Join other FWA members to learn about the global growth and global reach of microfinance and microinsurance.

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Study Finds Gender Bias Still Rampant in the Legal World

By: Heather Morse

A new study led by a sociologist at the University of Iowa has found that despite the legal profession’s success at hiring more women lawyers, these women remain less likely to be promoted to partner.

According to study leader associate professor of sociology Mary Noonan, women who practiced in a firm for five or more years were 13 percent less likely than men to make partner; even if their qualifications were equal, regardless of whether they had children.
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2008 FWA Directors Dinner

FWA directors will talk about the current economic situation and its ramifications as well as how they came to their positions, through networking, recruitment and specializations.

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