Sponsors

Lead Sponsors

RBC Capital Markets is A Premier Investment Bank that provides a focused set of products and services to institutions, corporations, governments and high net worth clients in 160 countries. With over 3,100 employees, we operate out of 75 offices in 15 countries and deliver our products and services through operations in North America, Europe, the U.K., Asia and Australia. We work with clients around the world to help them raise capital, access markets, mitigate risk and acquire or dispose of assets. According to Bloomberg, we are consistently ranked among the top 20 global investment banks.

RBC Capital Markets is part of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), one of the largest providers of financial services in the world. RBC has more than US$640 billion in assets and one of the highest credit ratings of any financial institution - Moody's Aaa and S&P AA-.



Deloitte Center for Financial Services
Headquartered in New York City, the Deloitte Center for Financial Services provides insight and research to help improve the business performance of banks, private equity, hedge funds, mutual funds, insurance and real estate organizations operating globally. The Center helps financial institutions understand and address emerging opportunities in risk and information technology, regulatory compliance, growth, and cost management.

The Center brings a financial services integrated view to Deloitte and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity that provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, and tax services to select clients.



Associate Sponsors

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the largest central counterparty clearing services in the world, which provides clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.


Standard & Poor's is the world's premier provider of investment research, market indices, credit ratings, financial data, and fixed income research and analysis. With more than 10,000 employees and offices in nearly two-dozen countries, S&P is valued by investors and financial decision-makers everywhere for its analytical independence, market expertise and thought leadership.

The global leader in credit ratings, in 2008, S&P Ratings Services published more than 1,150,000 new and revised ratings, and has issued ratings on debt securities in more than 100 countries. The total amount of debt S&P rated in 2008 was approximately US$2.8 trillion.

S&P is also known for its world-famous benchmark portfolio indices - the S&P 500 in the United States and, globally, the S&P 1200. More than $1.5 trillion in assets around the world are directly tied to S&P indices, and more than $5.0 trillion in assets are benchmarked to them.


SunGard is one of the world's leading software and technology services companies.  SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves 25,000 customers in 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 380 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. For more information, visit www.sungard.com.