Some of the topics to be addressed at Global ARC Boston 2008 include:
What lessons should hedge fund managers and institutional investors learn from the ongoing credit crisis?
Heading into the presidential election, what are the emerging currency and political risks and how will they impact upon institutional investor portfolios?
Is the global currency system headed for renewed instability?
Behavioural finance: how markets really behave in times of stress
Hedge funds and the disintermediation of banks
Global macro: the investor perspectives
The role of managed futures as a portfolio diversifier during periods of heightened market volatility
Why quant managers need to evolve from data mining to quant testing of original ideas
Continuing our long tradition of Institutional investor great debate.... : This house believes that institutional investors should dramatically increase their allocations to illiquid strategies as the market has overreacted to market risks and is currently paying an excessively high illiquidity premium.
Utilising managed futures as portfolio diversifiers