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7th Annual Americas Structured Products & Derivatives Conference 2018
Register now at: www.StructuredRetailProducts.com/Americas
WHAT TO EXPECT ACROSS THE TWO DAY EVENT
CPD ACCREDITED DERIVATIVES MASTERCLASSGain a thorough grounding in Structured Products & Derivatives through our CPD accredited workshops run with the support of Tiago Fernandes & Tim Mortimer. See page 5 for more information.
7TH AMERICAS STRUCTURED PRODUCTS & DERIVATIVES CONFERENCEJoin senior representatives from local and international investment banks, insurance companies, retail & private banks, asset managers, hedge funds, IFAs, law firms, regulators, index providers, exchanges and the wider derivatives space to debate the most relevant topics facing the industry today. See page 6 for full programme.
NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
Network with the Structured Products and Alternatives industry throughout the two days and at our celebratory Awards Ceremony.
WHO WILL YOU MEET?
Breakdown of 2017 attendance:
45+Speakers50%
SELLSIDE
89%Decision-Makers
190Delegates Expected
50%BUYSIDE
Rest of Americas
20%
Europe
10%North America
70%
7th Americas Structured Products & Derivatives Conference 2018
Call: +1 212 224 3458 | Email: [email protected]
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?Company Type
• Capital Markets• Distribution• Equities and
Derivatives• Indices and ETFs• Investment Advisors• Investment Management• Investment Strategy• Listed Products• Private Banking• Retail Distribution• Retail Investment
Products
• Structured Equity Distribution
• Structured Investments• Structured Products• Structuring & Financial
Engineering• Wealth Management
• Broker Dealers• Clearing Houses • Exchanges • Hedge Funds • Investment Advisors • Index Providers • Industry Bodies • Associations • Insurance Companies • Investment Bank • Law Firms • Private Banks • Regulators
• Research Companies • Securities Companies • Technology Providers • Trading & Distribution
Platforms• Trading Companies • Wealth / Asset
Managers
Anyone involved with:
Gain a thorough grounding in Structured Products through CPD-accredited workshops run by independent experts.
Learn about asset allocation and how and when to use different products in client portfolios.
Discuss the latest trends and best practices in product design and regulations.
Discover how Fintech are changing the traditional distribution model and where the opportunities are.
Network with the Wealth Management & Fintech industry throughout the Conference and at our Awards Ceremony.
Join senior representatives from investment banks, wealth managers, product distributors, asset managers, regulators, product developers and actuaries to:
WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND?
"The best way to catch up with a new market is attending an SRP conference" Head of Structured Investment Services Platform, Natixis
2003Dr Robert Benson PhD, MSc, BSc (Eng) launches Structured Retail
Products
2009The credit crunch and economic
downfall had a huge impact on structured products
2007SRP becomes the largest
structured products database in the world
2011SRP acquired by Euromoney
Institutional Investor
201561% of the public surveyed had
very little to no knowledge about structured products
(SRP Street Poll).
2005Our second conference focused
on the evolving market for structured retail products in
Europe
2013New laws begin impacting the
ability of providers to distribute products in many markets
(PRIPS, PD, RDR, etc.)
2017South Korea becomes the
biggest structured products market by issuance
2004Inaugural Europe Structured Products Conference
2008Lehman Brothers Collapse
20123.3 million products in SRP’s database
201615 million products in SRP’s database
2018
2006SRP becomes the leading online information resource for the global structured products market
2010Structured products market declined by 27%
2014Beginning of ECB Quantitative Easing
CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF SRP CONFERENCES
7th Annual Americas Structured Products & Derivatives Conference 2018
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Wednesday 23th MayDerivatives MasterclassMEET THE TRAINERS
STRUCTURED PRODUCTS: INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP
9.00 Structured Products Market Overview• What is a structured product?• Global market overview.
09.45 Core Structured Products Strategies• Swapping coupons for upside.• Simple yield enhancement.• Why barriers are popular.• The wonder of auto-calls.
10.45 Refreshments
11.15 The Legal Framework - How to Remain Compliant• Identifying “Target Market” and why this is important.• Good practices to observe.• Recent examples of where it went wrong.
12.00 Lunch
STRUCTURED PRODUCTS: ADVANCED WORKSHOP
13.00 Cutting Edge• New choices in underlyings.• Fixed dividend indices and other propietary strategies.• New developments in payoffs.• Modelling structures and understanding risk.
14.30 Refreshments
15.00 Wrapping the Solutions & Product Ideas• What legal forms fo products take?• Where do they fit in a portfolio and how should they be marketed?• Product ideas for the future.
16.30 Wrap-up and Final Questions
Accredited by
TIAGO FERNANDESGlobal Head of Data, SRPTiago Fernandes is the Global Head of Data at SRP in London, which he joined from Caixa Geral de Depósitos, where he was an analyst for structured products in Portugal. Before that, Fernandes worked at BNP Paribas and at DIF Broker.
TIM MORTIMERFounder & Managing Director, FVCTim Mortimer is the founder and managing director of FVC. Previously, Mortimer was a quantitative analyst at Paribas, UBS and Zurich Capital Markets, responsible for product development and building models to price and risk manage a variety of derivatives-backed products.
7th Annual Americas Structured Products & Derivatives Conference 2018
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Thursday 24th MayConference08.10 Registration & Breakfast Women in Structured Products:
Breakfast and Talks
Chaired by Barbara Mullaney, Managing Director, Global Head, Citi Private Client Solutions, Citi
SRP are eager to inspire and connect women in Structured Products, who are, or are keen to become resilient, inclusive, ambitious, confident and responsible leaders. We are enthusiastic about equipping women with the tools, skills and insights to help them achieve their career goals. Come and join the private breakfast session to engage in an active discussion with networking opportunities.
09.00 Welcome
09.10 Keynote Address: Navigating a Mature Bull Market
Ed Clissold, Chief US Strategist, Ned Davis Research Group
09.35 Global Market OverviewTiago Fernandes, Managing Director, SRP
10.00 Platforms: Will Education be the Catalyst for Further Platform Development in the US?• What do clients want and need from platforms and what platforms are capable of?• What level of flexibility with structures and underlyings is available?• When will platforms improve their analytics tools for the investors to see how easy it is and the benefits of
putting structured products into a portfolio?• Will education and platform developments stimulate adviser and investor interest in products that are still
labelled as complex instruments?
Moderator:Chris Schell, Partner, Davis, Polk & Wardwell
Panellists:Jason Broder, Managing Director, Head of Third Party Distribution and Simon Platform, Goldman SachsBiju Kulathakal, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, HaloDonald Pogan, Director, Trading and Operations, Navian Capital
10.40 Networking Break
7th Annual Americas Structured Products & Derivatives Conference 2018
11.10 New Product Development: Reflecting the Regulatory Environment and Innovation?• What financial advisers want and how to interact with them to inform product design?• Delivering fiduciary-based structured solutions via fund-based products?• What is the appetite for creating and selling cryptocurrency-linked products?• Could UITs complement structured notes?• Could indices in a fund format align retail and institutional investors?• How can fixed income strategies be delivered?
Moderator:Steve Saltzman, Principal, Saltzman Associates
Panellists:Tom Haines, Senior Vice President, Capital Markets & Index Solutions, AnnexusKen Kwalik, Equity Derivatives Portfolio Manager, Harvest Volatility ManagementDaniel Yang, Partner, Alaia Capital
11.50 Indexing: Trends and Challenges• What are the new indexing trends? What strategies are seeing the most growth? Which ones are just being
piloted?• How to capitalise on the changes in indexing?• How to customise a particular index for a specific strategy?• Performance driving models: what are the effective ways of using index provider’s research and data to
implement strategies in an automated way?• European benchmarks regulation: the impact in the Americas
Panellists:Edward Allen, Managing Director, Head of Index Client Coverage, North America, MSCIAndre Corpuz, Managing Director, Vets IndexesRahul Saito, Director of Sales, North America, Stoxx
12.30 SRP Americas Performance & Market Presentations• What new products in 2017 are the most exciting?• Americas structured products performance.• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.• What are the opportunities in the region?
Presentation followed by a panel discussion
Moderator:Tiago Fernandes, Managing Director, SRP
Panellists:Manuel Meza Piza, Managing Director, Global Structured Solutions, BBVA BancomerMarco Trajano Mattos, Head of Structured and Funding Products, Itau
13.10 Lunch
14.10 Applying Fiduciary Standards, Here comes the SEC.Stephanie Nicolas, Partner, WilmerHale
14.40 RegTech: The Regulation of Technology and the Technology of Regulation• Is regulation keeping pace with technology?• Can technology be applied to regulation?• Integrating the law into electronic systems.• Are you technologically compliant?
Moderator:Richard Jory, Global Head of Content, SRP
Panellists:Anna Pinedo, Partner, Mayer BrownTom Selman, Executive Vice President, Regulatory Policy and Legal Compliance Officer, Finra
15.20 Networking Break
7th Annual Americas Structured Products & Derivatives Conference 2018
Register now at: www.StructuredRetailProducts.com/Americas
SRP’s Americas Awards Dinner & Ceremony
The SRP’s Americas Awards are the industry’s most prestigious accolade, designed to recognise the best buy and sell-side companies across Americas, as well as identifying the best service providers and distributors.
After the first day of the conference, we welcome you to join us for the evening to relax with a few drinks, excellent food and great entertainment.
To book your awards table, please contact Joe Burris [email protected] | +1 212 224 3458
19.00
15.50 Leading Distributors Forum - The Art of Distribution• What are the current challenges around distribution?• Has creating model portfolios for the client base become a norm?• How to choose a product to distribute?• Could defined outcome funds be the way forward and bring more business to the structured notes maket?• How UITs could open up opportunities in structured products as an alternative wrapper for retail investors?• Is a mutual fund regulatory structure more familiar and hence preferred choice to other investment structures
such as notes?• Specifics of regional markets in the Americas
Moderator:Barbara Mullaney, Managing Director, Global Head of Retail Relationship Management & Business Development, Citi
Panellists:Jerome Cloutier, Managing Director & Canadian Head of Sales, Global Structured Products, BMO Capital MarketsTom Layton, Vice President of Product Management, Raymond James Private Client Group Investment ProductsGlenn Lotenberg, Managing Director, Business Development Group, Advisors Asset ManagementDeryk Rhodes, Managing Director & Head of Market-Linked Products Trading & Origination, Incapital
16.30 Leaders’ Forum: In Conversation with Leading Manufacturers• What can bring scalability to structured products market?• Will thematic investment become mainstream at the time of millenials?• Regulation and how to keep your compliance costs at bay Moderator:Richard Jory, Global Head of Content, SRP
Panellists:Jason Broder, Managing Director, Head of Third Party Distribution and Simon Platform Goldman SachsAbid Chaudry, Managing Director, Head of Global Structured Products, BMO Capital MarketsBrooke Hammel, Co-Head of Retail Structured Products, Americas, Morgan StanleyManuel Meza Piza, Managing Director, Global Structured Solutions, BBVA Bancomer Larry Wilson, Managing Director, Head of Americas Retail Distribution, Structured Investments, JP Morgan
17.10 Closing RemarksRichard Jory, Global Head of Content, SRP
17.20 Drinks Reception
7th Annual Americas Structured Products & Derivatives Conference 2018
Register now at: www.StructuredRetailProducts.com/Americas
"Good opportunity to be updated by the different points of view of different buy- and sell-side" Head of Equity Derivatives Sales, BBVA Bancomer
Gain Essential CPD Points at both the Derivatives Masterclass and ConferenceT&C’s: Must attend the full day to qualify.
SRP’s Americas AWARDS DINNER & CEREMONY
The first day of the conference will be followed by the highly anticipated Awards Ceremony. SRP’s Americas Awards are designed to recognise the best Manufacturers, Distributors, as well as identifying the best Service Providers. As the industry’s most prominent awards ceremony, it is a must attend event.
Reasons to Attend:
Join us for the evening to celebrate the best in the industry, relax with a few drinks, excellent food and great entertainment.
To book your awards table, please contact Joe [email protected] | +1 212 224 3458
GAIN PUBLIC RECOGNITIONWith brand-building amongst Europe’s top Structured Products & Derivatives players
HOST YOUR CLIENTSand thank them for a successful
partnership
GAIN COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGEFrom attending the event you will be one of the first to know which companies are leading the
industry this year
THANK YOUR TEAMand show your appreciation for all their hard work
with a glamourous high-profile evening
Register now at: www.StructuredRetailProducts.com/Americas
THE WESTIN MICHIGAN AVENUE 909 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 Phone: +1 312 943 7200
SRP has negotiated a specially discounted room rate for delegates requiring overnight accommodation in Chicago. Once you have confirmed your registration for the conference, we will provide details on how to book your room at the discounted rate.
Venue Information
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AWARDS CEREMONY Limited availability To make sure your company is represented, book now by phoning +1 212 224 345 or emailing [email protected]
SELLSIDE:
For sponsorship opportunities and sellside passes please contact:
Joe Burris Head of Americas
[email protected]+1 212 224 3458
BUYSIDE:
Sell-side companies include: Investment Banks, Law Firms, Exchanges/Clearing Houses, Tech Companies, Consultancy/Accounting Firms, Index Providers, any other service providerBuy-side companies include: Retail Banks, Private Banks, Asset Managers, Fund Managers, Life Insurance Companies Prices are subjected to VAT if applicable
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