Upcoming Chapter Meeting

The MTA UK Chapter of London invites you to their next meeting on Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 at 6:00 pm at a brand new venue - the Senate House. The featured guest speaker will be Patrick Oberhaensli, Managing Director at Syndex Capital Management. This event is FREE for all that wish to attend. Please see the complete details below. We hope to see you there!

DATE: Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

TIME: 18:00 - 20:00

LOCATION:

Senate House
Malet Street
Bloomsbury
London, WC1E 7HU

TOPIC: "Another look at Managed Futures: the technical factors behind that distinctive strategy"

Managed Futures at the index level have delivered the long term value added the investor looks for and therefore became a separate asset class within alternative area. Still, they are not used that extensively in the institutional portfolios despite the availability of more than 1000 programs! We will focus on what drives the Managed Futures strategy from an aggregated (top level) perspective. This will allows us to specify a benchmark that is a simplification of the reality but is still very diversified. Its main characteristics are the technical nature with varying parameters depending on the underlying markets, the costs involved and the diversification versus the index components.

SPEAKERS: Patrick Oberhaensli, Managing Director at Syndex Capital Management

Patrick Oberhaensli is Global Head of Sales at Syndex Capital Management since July 2011 and Member of the Research Committee. He is responsible for broadening and deepening Syndex' client base in Switzerland and abroad, and he helps to closely tailor the product palette to the current needs of institutional and B2B investors. Previously, Patrick was responsible for the development of the Swiss Institutional business within the Robeco group since November 2005. Before, he spent 13 years at UBS in Audit, Investment Banking and Institutional Sales. Throughout his career, Patrick has acquired extensive cross-asset class expertise in multiple domains such as Structured Products, Quantitative Strategies and Alternative Investments. Patrick is CFA, CAIA, CMT, FRM and ERP charterholder.

COST: Free for all attendees

RSVP: MTA Members and Affiliates, please register online. Non-members, please contact Tyler Wood to register.

This chapter meeting qualifies for 3 Continuing Education (CE) Credits.

Chapter Chair

Alex Spiroglou, CFTe, MSTA, alex@TraderTD.com

Alex was an Investment Manager for Odin Capital Management, a FSA regulated global macro investment management firm. Additionally to his trading book, he also setup the Proprietary Trading Department and designed the Inhouse Training Course to train aspiring Junior Traders. Alex also designed the “Hedge Fund Trader Incubation Program”. Before joining Odin he spent two years at Futex Proprietary group, trading futures across all asset classes. Strategies were low frequency, medium term strategic (2-4 weeks). Main market focus was across all asset classes, on core European and US Fixed Income, Equity Indices, FX (7 different cross-rates), and Commodities. During his tenure at the firm he was offered a partnership and a directorship for the Futex Investment & Trading Academy (FITA), where he would author the trader training modules.

Previously he was researching and developing cross asset (intermarket) trading strategies for the Ulysses Global Macro Hedge Fund (listed ISE). Before that, he was at the “Derivatives Sales and Trading” desk of Energon Capital Finance, where he was doing advisory derivatives portfolio management and heading the Northern Greece Desk. Additionally he continued working on developing proprietary cross asset (global macro) relationships and strategies.

Alex started his career in Contalexis Financial Services (CFS) in 1999 (one of the top 5 broker/dealers in Greece at that time) at the “Equity Sales and Trading” desk, while proceeding to the “Derivatives Sales and Trading” desk in 2001. He later headed the Northern Greece
derivatives Desk.

Alex is also the founder of “Trader Training & Development ltd” that seeks to train aspiring professional traders and incubate future hedge fund managers.

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