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Americas Structured Products & Derivatives Conference New York | 11 & 12 June 2015

Hear from the industry's leading experts:Deland KamangaCo-Head, Global Structured ProductsBMO Capital Markets

Darren McKallChange for Manager, Investment Funds & Structured Products BranchOntario Securities Commission

Reid MuoioDeputy Chief, Complex Financial Instruments UnitU.S Securities and Exchange Commission

Emmanuel ValetteHead of Cross Asset Solutions – AmericasSociete Generale

Ben FultonCEOElkhorn Investments

Alan J GrissomGlobal Head of InsuranceS&P Dow Jones Indices

Rick SilvaMD, Co-Head of Equities and Investment SolutionsWells Fargo Securities LLC

Amy SochardSenior Director Advertising RegulationFinra

David WoodMD, Head of e-Business, Cross Asset Solutions Societe Generale

Benjamin BowlerCo-head of Global Equity Derivatives ResearchBank of America Merrill Lynch

Barbara MullaneyGlobal Head of Strategy and Distribution Citi Private Client Solutions

John C. SicilianoMD, Global Strategy Lead, Asset Management Advisory PwC

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11 & 12 June 2015 | Hilton Midtown Hotel | New York

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PROGRAM

DAY 1 - THURSDAY 11 JUNE

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7:30am Coffee and Registration Available for sponsorship

8:15am Welcome

8:30am Keynote Address John C. Siciliano, MD, Global Strategy Lead, Asset

Management Advisory, PwC

9:00am Global Market Overview

9:30am Strategy Indices: Incorporating Risk Factors • Trends in product development • Does managing risk factors give an investor too many

moving parts? • Does smart beta complement or compete with market-

weighted indices?

10:20am Networking Break Available for sponsorship

Distribution of Derivatives and Structured Products Break-out Sessions and Educational Workshops

11:00am Stream A Independent Valuation, Disclosure & Transparency • Do banks see the value of transparency? • Valuations – what form of legal disclosure will be required? • The success of estimated initial value in the US • Transparency of index providers as calculation agents? • Lessons from European initiatives – the Kid, Priips: all good?

11:00am Stream B Distribution of Structured Products: benefiting

from the Insurance Wrapper • The value proposition of annuities - indexed annuities and other insurance wrappers • Where are the institutional and retail opportunities for

financial institutions? • The advantages of insurance-wrapped products • What are the opportunities oustside the US?

11:50am Stream A Structured Products - ETNs - ETFs: Choosing the Right Vehicle to get you there! • Trends in ETFs and ETPs • What are exchanges doing to promote listed products? • Their role in liquidity, asset allocation, portfolio hedging and

investment management • What are the advantages of each especially in light of: – Their use as underlyings – Posting collateral – Clearing houses – How can exchanges help OTC trading? • Index construction and using ETFs in asset allocation

11:50am Stream B

Seeking More Sophisticated Underlyings • Maintaining exposure to Europe • Exposure to commodities, through equity indexes & physical • Is wrapping or distribution more important?

12:40pm Lunch Available for sponsorship 1:40pm Stream A

Opportunities across Canada: an Open Forum with the Leaders in Canada

• Does Canadian banks’ expansionist ambitions mean opening up the domestic market to competition? • Protectionism makes Canada uncompetitive and the end- investor loses out. Discuss.

1:40pm Stream B

Opportunities across Latin America - growth of the Mexico market and product development in Brazil • The emergence of an Equity Culture in Mexico • Regulation in Mexico: Friend or Foe • Brazilian Structured Product markets moves retail? • Frontier market landscape: Opportunities in Uruguay, Peru and Colombia

2:30pm Strategies for Wealth Management • What structured solutions do high net worth investors need? • Which derivative strategies are enhancing returns? • Implementing the right strategy with the right client • Views from the leading private banks and family offices

3:20pm The Future of e-commerce: Boom or Bust? • How quickly are we becoming “electronic”? • Platforms, Meta platforms, ‘multi issuer platform’ or exchanges? • Is e-trading the future? If so what form will it take? • e-commerce: how do we connect trading books with the client?

4:10pm Break Available for sponsorship

4:40pm Structured Products: Disassembling Products and Dissecting the Risks and Rewards

• A look under the hood of current products from three different viewpoints

• Which products would you invest in and why? • Where is the risk for the banks and investors? Has it been

presented transparently?

5:30pm Leaders’ Forum: In Conversation with Leading Manufacturers

• Are investment banks hindering the development of Structured Products?

• TLAC – The death knell for Structured Products? • Are listed products eating your lunch? • How will technology regulation and geopolitics make our products fit for the age of digital banking?

6:20pm Closing Remarks

6:30pm Drinks Reception Available for sponsorship

7:30pm Awards Dinner

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DAY 2 - FRIDAY 12 JUNE

Americas Structured Products & Derivatives Conference

PROGRAM

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8:30am Coffee and Registration Available for sponsorship

9:00am Welcome Address

9:10am Legal Roundtable: Working with the Regulator and Unfathoming the Plethora of Relevant Global Legislation

• Development and Insight • Discussion of foreign offerings; 3a2 • Review of recent enforcements • Internal compliance issues and developments • Discussion of complexity • Unraveling appropriate European directives

10:10am Roundtable: Q&A with Regulators Open dialogue with Regulators from North America • Marketing structured products • The application and enforcement of regulations • What are the risk/regulatory concerns around

research-based indices? • What is a complex product Education? • Regulatory concerns with e-platforms

11:10am Networking Break Available for sponsorship

11:40am Investing in Commodities and Energy • The revival of oil-based products • Equity and index-based versus the physical • The clean energy underlying 12:20pm Volatility: an Asset Allocation Decision or Risk

Management Strategy? • How can investors use volatility in their portfolio? • Expiry of futures and options – is it just a case of market timing? • Features of tradable indexes in different volatility regimes • Risk control index within fund versus a structured product or

ETF from the investor’s point of view?

1:00pm Closing Summary

1:10pm Lunch Available for sponsorship 2:00pm Conference Ends

CONFIRMED PANELISTS:

Benjamin BowlerCo-head of Global Equity Derivatives ResearchBank of America Merrill Lynch

Luciano Diaféria AngeloCFA, Products - Retail and Distribution StrategyItaú BBA

Nestor CubidesDirector Cross Asset Solutions & StrategiesBank of America Merrill Lynch

Tom BalcomFounder 1650 Wealth Management

Ben Fulton CEO Elkhorn Investments

Matt GinsburgExecutive Vice PresidentWells Fargo Securities

Alan J GrissomGlobal Head of InsuranceS&P Dow Jones Indices

Joe InzerilloManaging DirectorBNP Paribas

Richard JoryGlobal Head of ContentSRP

Chris WarrenManaging DirectorDeutsche Bank

Daniel WeissHead of Due DiligenceNational Planning Holdings

James JockleChief Marketing OfficerNumerix

Steve MarshallCEOHybrid Financial

Reid MuoioDeputy Chief, Complex Financial Instruments Unit U.S Securities and Exchange Commission

Greg KingExecutive Vice PresidentGlobal X Funds

Sheryl J MooreFounder & CEOLooktoWink.com

Matt MoranVP Business Development Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Barbara MullaneyGlobal Head of Strategy and DistributionCiti Private Client Solutions

Bill O’KeefeDirector of Derivatives & Customized OptionsXFA

Manuel Meza PizáGlobal Structured Solutions Latin America - Managing DirectorBBVA Bancomer

Sebastien ValléeDirector Guaranteed Product DevelopmentDesjardins Group

Ricardo ManriqueExecutive Director MSCI Indexes

Bo ParrishPortfolio ConsultantDorsey Wright & Associates

Darren McKallManager Investment Funds & Structured Products BranchOntario Securities Commission

Deland Kamanga Co-Head, Global Structured ProductsBMO Capital Markets David WoodMD, Head of e-Business, Cross Asset SolutionsSociete Generale

Rebecca CheongHead of America Equity Derivatives StrategyUBS Securities LLC

Brandon IgyartoExecutive Director, Head of Third Party U.S Retail Distribution, Structured InvestmentsJP Morgan

Matteo AndreettoGlobal Head of SalesSTOXX Limited

Rachid LassouedGlobal Head of Financial Engineering GroupBloomberg LLP John TessarManaging DirectorJVB Financial

Jan Scibor-Kaminski Managing Director SRP

Jim Roccas Managing Director Parametric Risk Advisors

Edward O’DonnellHead of Liquid Real Assets, AmericasDeutsche Bank Asset and Wealth Management

Fabio PassosHead of AssetAllocation, Credit Agricole (Brazil)

Jon EckerMD GasGenscape

Amy SochardSenior Director Advertising RegulationFinra

Rick SilvaCo-Head of Equities and Investment SolutionsWells Fargo Securities LLC

Emmanuel ValetteHead of Cross Asset Solutions - Americas Societe Generale

Please refer to website for up-to-date program www.StructuredRetailProducts.com/Americas

Call: +1 212 224 3458 Email: [email protected]

11 & 12 June 2015 | Hilton Midtown Hotel | New York

OUR SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS:


Silver Sponsors:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

Among the many innovations the Citi Private Client Solutions Group offers to individual and institutional investors are notes, deposits, certificates, OTC derivatives, warrants, funds, rules-based investment strategies, municipal securities and taxable fixed income. Citi’s investments are designed to meet a range of financial goals, including yield enhancement, hedging portfolio risk and access to global markets. Learn more: www.citifirst.com and www.funds.citi.com

Bloomberg was founded in 1981 with one core mission: to bring transparency to capital markets through access to information. Today’s Bloomberg — with more than 15,500 employees in 192 locations in 73 countries around the globe — builds on that foundation. The company’s strength – delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately – is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 320,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg’s enterprise solutions build on the company’s core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively.

Through Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and three magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuits, covers the world with more than 2,400 news and multimedia professionals at 150 bureaus in 73 countries. For more information, visit www.bloomberg.com

Credit Suisse AG is one of the world’s leading financial services providers and is part of the Credit Suisse group of companies. As an integrated bank, Credit Suisse offers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking and asset management. Credit Suisse provides advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as to retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is headquartered in Zurich and operates in over 50 countries worldwide. The group employs approximately 46,400 people. The registered shares (CSGN) of Credit Suisse’s parent company, Credit Suisse Group AG, are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CS), in New York.

Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.

MSCI Inc, is a leading provider of investment decision support tools to investors globally, including asset managers, banks, hedge funds and pension funds. MSCI products and services include indexes, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and governance tools. The company’s flagship product offerings are: the MSCI indexes with approximately USD 8 trillion estimated to be benchmarked to them on a worldwide basis; Barra multi-asset class factor models, portfolio risk and performance analytics; RiskMetrics multi-asset class market and credit risk analytics; IPD real estate information, indexes and analytics; MSCI ESG (environmental, social and governance) Research screening, analysis and ratings; ISS corporate governance research, data and outsourced proxy voting and reporting services; and FEA valuation models and risk management software for the energy and commodities markets. For more information, visit www.msci.com

Nasdaq Global Indexes has been creating innovative, market-leading, transparent indexes since 1971. Today, our index offering spans geographies and asset classes and includes diverse families such as the Dividend and Income (includes Dividend AchieversTM), Global Equity, Fixed Income (includes BulletShares®), Green Economy, Nordic, Commodity and Sharia Indexes. With the 2015 acquisition of Dorsey, Wright, & Associates, we are one of the largest providers of smart beta indexes by benchmarked assets, and continuously offer new opportunities for financial product sponsors across a wide-spectrum of investable products and for asset managers to measure risk and performance. We have a robust advisor services program and provide custom index solutions to clients worldwide. Visit us at Nasdaq.com/Indexes or follow us on Twitter @NasdaqIndexes.

Bronze Sponsors:

Exhibitors:

HSBC Holdings plc, the parent company of the HSBC Group, is headquartered in London. The Group serves customers worldwide from more than 6,100 offices in 73 countries and territories in Europe, Asia, Middle East, North Africa, North America and Latin America. With assets of $2,634B as of December 31, 2014, the HSBC Group is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations.

HSBC, through its Wealth Management Sales (WMS) group, is a leader in the distribution of retail structured products in the US. Our cross-asset class platform delivers structured investment solutions through a full range of formats including registered notes, EMTNs, MTNs and Certificates of Deposit.

HSBC has been recognized by StructuredRetailProducts.com in the past as the Best Equities House in the Americas (2013) and Best Sales, Best Performance and Best Overall Provider in the Americas (2012). HSBC has also been recognized by Greenwich Associates as the US Retail Structured Products Quality Leader for the past six years. For more information, visit www.hsbc.com

At the core of Societe Generale’s universal banking business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified and leading player with nearly 10,500 professionals present in more than 31 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. Standing by its clients across sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank tailors solutions for them by capitalising on its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets. For Corporates, Financial Institutions and Public Sector: providing a global advisory approach (M&A, debt, equity transaction, capital structure, and asset & liability management), as well as quality capital raising solutions across the debt and equity spectrum, optimised financing and expert risk management responses notably in the realm of foreign exchange and rates derivatives. For Investors: offering reliable and sound investment opportunities and risk management solutions through its integrated global markets platform delivering seamless access to markets (equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and derivatives), as well as advice and solid financial engineering, quality of execution – both Agency and principal, forward-looking research across asset classes, an industry-leading clearing proposition and prime brokerage services.

For more information, visit www.sgcib.com

For more information on sponsorship and exhibition opportunities please contact Joe Burris:E: [email protected] T: +1 212 224 3458 W: www.StructuredRetailProducts.com/Americas

Americas Structured Products & Derivatives Conference


WELCOME

We are happy to bring our successful Americas event to the pulsating heart of the American financial industry – New York! As always, we have worked tirelessly to research our program and have invited the best, most knowledgeable speakers to share their expertise and views with you over the coming days. The 4th Americas Structured Products and Derivatives conference will bring together senior representatives from retail banks, insurance companies, investment banks, fund managers as well as law firms, regulatory bodies and independent investment advisors to discuss how to evolve the industry successfully.

Join them to meet potential clients at networking events and cocktail receptions, understand emerging business opportunities, and participate in thought-provoking discussions on the future of the business and how regulations and technology will affect the market. I look forward to seeing you in June.

Richard Jory, Global Head of Content, [email protected]

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?Company Type

The Americas Structured Products & Derivatives Awards are the industry’s most prestigious honors, designed to recognize the best buy-side and sell-side firms from across the Americas, as well as as well as identifying the best providers.

Following the first day of the Conference where the real networking begins, we welcome you to join us for a fun evening to relax with a drink, excellent food and great entertainment.

SRP AWARDS:

Senior managers involved with:

• Equity Derivatives • Structured Products• Index Business• Listed Products • Distribution• Capital Markets• Equities and Derivatives• Retail Distribution• Retail Investment Products

• Structured Equity Distribution• Structured Investments• Structuring & Financial

Engineering• IFAs• Investment Management• Investment Strategy• Private Banking• Wealth Management

• Brokers • Clearing Houses • Exchanges • Hedge Funds • IFAs • Index Providers • Industry Bodies • Associations • Insurance Companies • Investment Banks

• Law Firms • Trading & Distribution

Platforms• Private Banks • Regulators • Research Companies • Securities Companies • Technology Providers • Trading Companies • Wealth / Asset Managers

BEST HOUSE, CANADA

1. Bank of Montreal 2. National Bank of Canada 3. Desjardins

BEST HOUSE, AMERICAS

1. JP Morgan 2. Citi 3. Barclays

BEST HOUSE, USA

1. JP Morgan 2. Morgan Stanley 3. Goldman Sachs

BEST HOUSE, LATIN AMERICA

1. Monex 2. BBVA 3. Santander

BEST HOUSE AMERICAS 2014 RANKING


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SRP has negotiated a specially discounted room rate for delegates requiring overnight accommodation in the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel. Once you have confirmed your registration for the Conference, we will provide details on how to book your room at the discounted rate.

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FEEDBACK FROM OUR PREVIOUS CONFERENCES:FEEDBACK FROM OUR PREVIOUS 2015 CONFERENCES:

All the sessions I attended were very informative. Interesting and practical information was shared, together with cutting edge insights as to where we may be heading in the future. It was great to see so many industry specialists gathered in the one place.Counsel, Clifford Chance

Very exciting opportunity to be in the epicentre of the industry and catch the latest trends.Head of New Products, Moscow Exchange

Highly professional event.CEO, Fairmat

The conference focuses on intercultural exchange. The networking promoted our understanding and mutual appreciation for others in the industry and in this respect it was quite a successful event.Managing Director, Deutscher Derivate Verband

It was very interesting and also great fun!Director, Europe, OIC Options Industry Council

Excellent!Sales Director, Wordflow

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