Forum 2012 is MFA’s 18th annual managed futures and global macro strategies conference designed to bring managers and investors together for networking, education and business development. Forum 2012 is June 12-13 at The Fairmont Millennium Park, Chicago.
Forum 2012 will feature “Meet the Manager” booths in an exhibit hall to facilitate opportunities for managers and investors to become acquainted and learn more about one another’s investment needs and solutions. Also new to the Forum 2012 schedule, an afternoon of “Manager Salons” for pre-selected managers to host open discussions with groups of investors, allocators and other managers. Two 45-minute roundtable discussions of four different strategies will be managed and led by a Forum 2012 sponsor firm.
The German state development bank this week proved a digital bond can survive losing its registrar. It was another proof of concept for digitalised bonds but only the ECB can make the market real
Investor appetite for CLO ETFs is increasing in Europe, as the asset class matures. But regulation and investor wariness may limit the eventual size of the market, writes Thomas Hopkins, meaning it will be some time before it can reach the scale of that in the US
