Presentations
Chairman's introduction
Jason Conway, Editor, ICFA Magazine, Incisive Media
Speaker Biography
Jason Conway is the editor of ICFA Magazine. A journalism graduate, Conway started his career reporting on two way trade and investment between Britain and the Indian subcontinent and he has since written for a range of trade publications and the national press and edited a number of specialist Indo-British journals.
In 1998 he joined the UK weekly pensions newspaper Professional Pensions and was deputy editor when he joined ICFA in 2000.
Hedge fund administration - Third party options
A presentation analysing the benefits of appointing third party administrators and the various options (jurisdictional and in terms of service providers) available to the market.
Robert Chin, Chief Executive Officer, ATC Fund Services
Speaker Biography
Robert started ATC Fund Services Curaçao in March 2003. Prior to joining the ATC group he was the managing director of Fortis Fund Services in Curaçao for ten years. Robert's professional experiences include a seven-year tenure as CFO of Dutch brokerage firm where he was a member of the European Option Exchange and the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
Robert started his professional career with Ernst & Young in Amsterdam.
Hedge fund administration - a question of domicile
A presentation exploring opportunities offered by the many offshore centres seeking to attract hedge fund business. It outlines the classic respective strengths of offshore service provision and offering some pros and cons in terms of jurisdiction selection, registration and administration of funds.
Garth Grisbrook, Solicitor, British Virgin Islands
Speaker Biography
Garth joined Conyers Dill & Pearman's London office in December 2005 and was admitted to practise as a solicitor in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Territory of the British Virgin Islands) in March 2006 and as a registered associate in the Supreme Court of Bermuda in March 2007.
Garth's practice focuses on British Virgin Islands law, with special emphasis on debt financing and mergers and acquisitions, although Garth has also advised extensively on squeeze outs under British Virgin Islands law, corporate migrations and listings of British Virgin Islands companies on the London Stock Exchange and AIM.
Regulation
A presentation analysing the key regulatory requirements surrounding hedge funds and their operations support.
Simon Morris, Partner Financial Services, CMS Cameron McKenna
Speaker Biography
Simon Morris joined Cameron McKenna in 1980, qualified as a solicitor in 1982 and has been a partner since 1988. He is a member of the firm's financial services group and advises financial institutions on commercial and regulatory matters. Simon has acted on many acquisitions and product launches, and has represented over 150 firms in regulatory and disciplinary proceedings brought by the FSA and its predecessors.
Simon is author of Financial Services: Regulating Investment Business (third edition forthcoming) and contributed to the Centre for Policy Studies' recent publication The Leviathan is still at large. He was an adviser to HM Opposition's Treasury Team on the Financial Services and Markets Bill. He is a member of the City of London Law Society Regulatory Law Committee and has been a member of FSA's Authorisation Manual Advisory Panel, with Profits Working Group and MiFID Lawyers' Consultative Group.
Case study
A presentation outlining the conversion of a managed account platform into a daily dealing fund.
Dermot Butler, Chairman, Custom House Administration and Corporate Services Ltd
Speaker Biography
Dermot Butler is the chairman of AIMA and is also the chairman of Custom House Administration & Corporate Services Ltd ("Custom House"). Dermot has more than 35 years' experience in the financial services industry. Dermot has worked variously as both a stockbroker and stock jobber (market maker or specialist) on the London Stock Exchange, and subsequently, as a commodity broker and as a principal dealer in commodity options on the London Metal and London Commodity Exchanges.
He was a founder member of McDonnell & Co Ltd. ("McD"), a Bermuda based fund management company which was set up in 1983 and was one of the first fund management companies to outsource all of its investment management functions. Early in 1989, Dermot moved to Dublin and established the Custom House Group of Companies, of which, today, the primary operating company is Custom House.
