Sponsors

For more than 50 years, the professionals in Deloitte LLP's banking and securities practice have assisted clients in charting and creating business opportunities. We provide a spectrum of audit, consulting, finance, tax and risk services to these clients: commercial, community, mortgage and foreign banks; thrifts; finance companies; credit unions; full service, broker-dealers, retail and online brokerage companies; national and regional boutique firms; investment banks; and electronic communications networks and exchanges.   Our multi-disciplinary approach allows us to provide regional, national and global services to our clients. Our banking and securities practice is recognized for bringing together teams with diverse experience and knowledge to provide customized solutions for all clients - from audit and tax services, to compliance and regulatory services to aspects of business transformation including strategy and operations, human capital, enterprise applications, outsourcing and technology integration.

iQor (www.iqor.com) provides business process outsourcing to some of the best-known companies in the world from 21 Centers of Excellence in five countries and four continents. iQor's 10,000 employees work with award-winning, state-of-the-art technology that affords maximum flexibility to iQor customers to tap the best skills of a global workforce. It serves clients from a range of industries including financial services, telecommunications and government. Its services include customer care, customer retention and revenue recovery.

Automated Trader is the first global magazine dedicated to automated and algorithmic trading, and offers in-depth business and technical coverage through comprehensive news, features, in-depth articles on best practice/techniques and detailed user case studies. In addition to thousands of CTAs, hedge funds, proprietary trading operations and conventional asset managers globally, Automated Trader is also read by all major sellside participants in automated and algorithmic trading.

The Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) is an independent, member-based global industry association that promotes greater understanding of and a more favorable climate for private equity and venture capital investing in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, Central/Eastern Europe and Russia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

EMPEA was founded in 2004 with the belief that private equity can be a critical driver of economic growth in emerging markets while simultaneously generating strong returns for investors.

In support of its mission, EMPEA:
- Researches, analyzes and disseminates authoritative global information on emerging markets private equity
- Convenes meetings and conferences around the world
- Offers professional development programs including monthly Webcasts
- Collaborates with stakeholders from across the globe

EMPEA's members represent more than 50 countries and nearly $500 billion in assets under management.

Eurekahedge is the world's largest independent data provider and research house dedicated to alternative investments. Maintaining coverage of over 20,400 funds across all strategies and asset classes, Eurekahedge is the most widely used and quoted alternative research house worldwide.

Eurekahedge has produced a market-leading research data suite from which our hedge fund and Islamic fund indices are derived; an array of region-specific hedge fund, private equity fund, Islamic fund, real estate fund, enhanced equity fund (SRI) and socially responsible investment fund (SRI) databases; as well as a collection of educational guides for both funds and investors.

Founded in 2001, Eurekahedge has offices in London, New York and Singapore.

For more information, please contact Agnes Yea, Director of Marketing and Communications at agnes@eurekahedge.com or +65 6212 0900.

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Founded in 1995 when global hedge fund assets were just approaching the $250 billion mark, The Hedge Fund Association (HFA) is a not-for-profit international group of industry professionals with a mission to provide a forum for thought leaders, innovators, practitioners and investors who are shaping the way business is conducted in the global hedge fund industry.

JustMeans is a social media platform and distribution channel for companies and non-profits to communicate their sustainability or social responsibility activities by using all the methods of social media. We have one of the fastest growing online communities of executives interested in social responsibility.

Since 1998, The M&A Advisor has been connecting merger, acquisition, financing, and turnaround experts online and in conferences, awards galas and email Alerts. The M&A Advisor publishes proprietary information and resources for professionals involved in any and every aspect of mergers and acquisitions. The company operates the leading website member community for mergers, acquisitions and finance professionals, The M&A Advisor Network, www.maadvisor.com.

The Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is the nation's only public museum dedicated to finance, entrepreneurship and the open market system.  With its extensive collection of financial documents and objects, its seminars and educational programming, its publication and oral history program, the Museum portrays the breadth and richness of American financial and economic history.  In addition to permanent exhibits on the Financial Markets, Money, Banking, Entrepreneurship and Alexander Hamilton, current exhibits include "Tracking the Credit Crisis" and "The Women of Wall Street."  For more information, visit www.moaf.org.

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Seeking Alpha (www.seekingalpha.com) is the premier financial website for actionable stock market opinion and analysis.  Handpicked from the world's top blogs, money managers, financial experts and investment newsletters, Seeking Alpha publishes more than 250 articles daily.  Seeking Alpha gives a voice to over 3000 contributors, providing access to the nation's most savvy and inquisitive investors.  The award-winning site is the only free, online source for over 3,000 companies' quarterly earnings call transcripts including all of the Russell 3000 Index. Seeking Alpha has 40 million page views each month and combined with their distribution partners (Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, Reuters, Bnet, Etrade and others) has a total reach of 50 million unique monthly readers.   Seeking Alpha was named the Most Informative Website by Kiplinger's Magazine and received Forbes Magazine's 'Best of the Web' Award.