• Highlighting market performance and identifying the success factors
• Summarising current market size, growth of strategies and asset allocation into hedge funds
• Evaluating current and emerging market trends and benefits of investing in Asian hedge funds
• Assessing global and Asia regulatory environment and the effects on your hedge fund strategy

• Does a hedge fund strategy have a life cycle? Why are funds moving away from long/short equity?
• Examining the differences in strategies allocations within Asia Pacific
• Exploring the opportunities of various hedge fund strategies in Asia and how they generate alpha
• Understanding how an effective strategy provide better business models for investors

• When to stop leveraging and how leverage affects performance
• Discovering how to achieve better transparency, greater control, less risks and higher returns
• Regulations and legislations governing hedge funds in Asia
• Determining the investment strategy which best suits your fund

• Compliance culture
• Corporate governance
• Directors responsibilities
• Disclosure and transparency

• Outlining the requirements, logistics and costs in setting up a hedge fund
• Understanding how to best reduce operational costs while maximising efficiency
• Fund management vs. fund distribution
• Identifying the right prime broker, fund administrator, legal advisor, and auditor
• Examining legal issues pertaining to setting up onshore and offshore funds

• Uncovering why incubators / FOFs / institutional investors are looking at emerging managers
• Identifying who the incubators and early stage investors are, and how they add value to emerging managers
• Will more players look at early stage managers/strategies in the future?
• Examining the techniques and parameters used by early stage investors during their screening process

• What additional due diligence parameters should be taken under consideration?
• What additional performances benchmarks are to be used?
• Understanding manager’s strategy and ensuring that he does not stray
• What should be the right exposure into emerging managers/strategies?

• Examining the distinct advantages of having emerging managers/strategies as part of your investment strategy
• Fast facts on the performance of emerging and non-emerging managers
• Evolution – what are some of the next trends and strategies to be looked at?

• Evaluating where lies the best opportunities geographically
• Adopting a successful marketing campaign in raising capital
• Developing new capital raising tactics and distribution practices to attract onshore and offshore money
• Tackling the challenges of raising capital as a new fund

• Why is that 90% of the hedge fund industry’s AUM is managed by only 10% of the funds?
• Why are investors remaining in non-performing hedge funds?
• Are most investors lacking the courage to invest in new concepts?
• What should be an ideal entry and exit points?

• Understanding global economic trends and movements
• Outlining the fundamentals for sustainable economic growth in the Asia Pacific
• Predicting next 12 months’ economy performance – Bullish or bearish? How to attain liquidity?

• Highlighting pension fund’s needs and concerns when allocating to hedge funds
• Discovering the benchmarks in manager and fund selection
• Adopting an alternative beta strategy
• Comparing hedge funds to other alternative investments and assessing the benefits of each style

• Understanding the concept and assessing how it benefits your investment strategy
• Analysing the different stages of a hedge fund and defining the stage to enter/exit a hedge fund so to generate better returns and capital protection
• Does absolute return equate to timing?
• Determining if timing actually affects your returns

• Understanding why international houses are attracted to Asia and starting a shop here
• Are fundamentals sufficiently sound to support this for the long term? Will stagnation of mature markets dampen opportunities in developing markets?
• Identifying the rudiments FOFs look for in an Asian hedge fund
• Evaluating the risks of political and social factors in mature markets affecting hedge funds
• Assessing the implications of consolidations and acquisitions on hedge funds

• Examining Singapore’s flourishing hedge funds market and assessing the drivers for this growth
• Evaluating key advantages of local knowledge that is inaccessible to foreign based fund managers
• Discussing the importance of the location of managers and supporting operations
• Analysing the different strategies Asia based managers utilize and the implications on generating alpha

• Is Japan back on the radar?
• Deliberating how Japan can rebuild its economy and investments space
• Addressing the developments of Basel II in Japan and what are the implications of raising assets in Japan
• Crystal ball: Where are hedge fund managers and institutional investors heading in the next 12 months?

• Understanding QDII and assessing the implications of QDII on Chinese investments
• Reviewing the performances of onshore and offshore funds in China and Hong Kong
• Examining current market conditions and determining the ideal strategy for Taiwan’s offshore and domestic managers
• Is your strategy outdated? Discussing how to implement long/short equity and multi-strategy in an innovative manner to generate alpha

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• Evaluating the economic prospects in Korea for alternative investments
• Establishing the ideal methodology to expand your exposure to Korea
• Determining the challenges and opportunities in adopting hedge funds in Korea

• Summarising corporate governance and infrastructure developments in India
• Reviewing the challenges hedge funds face due to continual changes in regulations and political issues
• Identifying the fundamentals in establishing a successful Indian focused hedge fund
• Assessing the challenges in achieving transparency
• Profiting from India’s upcoming trend through investing in consumer staples and utilities

• With a wealth of natural resources, evaluating where the market opportunities are and how to achieve positive returns in Indonesia
• Uncovering investment opportunities for hedge funds after the 10 years’ crisis in Thailand
• Analysing Malaysia’s policy developments and where lies the opportunities for alternative investments for foreign players
• With a reforming banking system and a vibrant economy, what opportunities exist for hedge fund managers in Vietnam – Asia’s newest emerging market
• Discovering how to manage risks and volatility in emerging markets