AXA Rosenberg manages long only as well as long-short strategies. We offer Large and Small Cap strategies for global and regional portfolios as well as the US and UK. Long-short strategies, which we have been managing since 1995, are offered for US, Europe, Japan and also on a Global basis.
www.axarosenberg.com

Bank of Bermuda's Global Fund Services (GFS) division has been providing a comprehensive range of fund administration, custody, banking, trust, and investment services internationally for over forty years. It is focused on providing packages of services to the international investment industry including hedge funds, fund of funds, emerging market funds, traditional funds and private equity funds. GFS's business approach is predicated on highly skilled and motivated staff providing the very best tailored client service. GFS works proactively with specialist and emergent investment managers to provide a range of services configured to their unique needs.

GFS has established a long-term partnership agreement with US-based Advent to provide specialised accounting and valuation systems platforms to support our hedge fund and fund of funds businesses globally. GFS's international network of offices including Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dublin, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Luxembourg, New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore enables us to work collaboratively with a wide range of managers and institutions around the world. Our clients can choose to place their business in jurisdictions that meet both their needs and those of their investors.

Contact Details:

In the Americas:
Contact: Fergus Healy
Tel: +1-212-715-6454
Email: fergus.healy@bankofbermuda.com

In Europe:
Contact: Drew Douglas
Tel: +44-207-296-4125
Email: drew.douglas@bankofbermuda.com

In Asia Pacific:
Contact: Joanne Murphy
Tel: +1-852-2847-1432
Email: joanne.murphy@bankofbermuda.com

SILVER SPONSOR:



Citigroup (NYSE: C), the preeminent global financial services company with some 200 million customer accounts in more than 100 countries, provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, insurance, securities brokerage, and asset management. Major brand names under Citigroup's trademark red umbrella include Citibank, CitiFinancial, Primerica, Salomon Smith Barney, Banamex, and Travelers Life and Annuity

The increasing demand for alternative investments based on hedge funds has been embraced by a number of our specialist desks. Citigroup has developed a comprehensive approach to this sector by combining risk management, regulatory capital optimisation, balance sheet, lending, and capital market structuring capabilities. Salomon Smith Barney is also global leader in both fixed income and equity prime brokerage. Our product breadth enables us to service a broad range of investment strategies within the industry - from equity long-short, event driven, and convertible arbitrage to capital structure arbitrage to specialised fixed income, currency and macro funds

Capital protection (CPPI), and Securitisation (CFOs) are just a couple of the techniques we specialise in to allow managers to access new investor markets. The possibility of distributing these collaborative products through Citigroup's private banking and institutional networks also exists.

We take the time to understand your business so we can partner with you to help you achieve your strategic goals.

www.citigroup.com

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Lazard Asset Management, which comprises investment management organisations in London, New York (where the firm has its headquarters), Tokyo, Sydney, Frankfurt and Paris operates as a global investment organisation. Investment analysis is drawn from our own professionals based all over the world, and portfolios are constructed taking into account the specific needs of each client.
The firm is privately owned, giving great organisational stability, which is a significant factor in our ability to retain and recruit the highest calibre of staff. Today we manage US$ 70 billion of assets of which US$ 4 billion are in alternative strategies including long/short, fixed income and closed-end investing.
www.lazardnet.com

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Gabelli Asset Management has operated under a simple premise since 1977: to earn a simple return for our clients. We do this through a variety of value-added products in the high net worth and institutional marketplace using fundamental research. The firm is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (GBL), and has a diversified product mix to serve the financial objectives of a broad spectrum of investors. We are research-driven fundamental investors focusing on “value with a catalyst” investing, based on the principles of Graham & Dodd, and further adapted by our Chief Investment Officer, Mario Gabelli, with his development of private market value analysis.

In the alternative investment marketplace, we have a family of absolute return products with dedicated teams looking for investment opportunities, utilizing the Gabelli philosophy of investing. In today’s volatile markets, we believe such investment vehicles provide our clients with proven absolute returns that can meet their investment goals.

We have been managing absolute return portfolios since 1977 and introduced our first targeted portfolio, our merger arbitrage fund in 1985. Another such portfolio was launched in 1986 focusing on U.S. special situations, followed by two offshore funds in 1989. Building on the firm’s strengths in the global-event driven value investing, several new hedge funds have been added to balance investors’ geographic and strategy requirements.
www.gabelli.com

GALA DINNER SPONSORS:



Aspect Capital Limited is a specialist money manager at the forefront of research into financial markets. Anthony Todd, Eugene Lambert, Martin Lueck and Michael Adam created the London-based company in 1997. All four were key figures behind the development and success of Adam Harding and Lueck (AHL) one of the most successful hedge fund managers globally and now part of the Man Group plc. With a fresh vision, the founders of Aspect set about building a progressive investment company that applies quantitative research techniques across a broad spectrum of products and markets. Aspect secured substantial backing from a major Swiss institution and recruited a high calibre team of research, trading and operations professionals. This has provided the solid foundation for Aspect's continued growth.
www.aspectcapital.com



Henderson Global Investors Limited is a dynamic participant in investment markets across the globe, providing a wide range of investment products and services to institutions and individuals in Asia Pacific, Europe, and North and South America. Henderson is the international investment management subsidiary of AMP, the international financial services group. It manages over £98 billion (as at June 2002) in assets and employs more than 1,600 people around the world. Henderson has a clear focus on investment management. Its purpose is to build people's wealth and security through skilful investment. Our goal is to be a world class investment management company, operating globally.
www.henderson.com



Julius Baer Investments Ltd. (JBIL) is the London based arm of Julius Baer's institutional asset management business and specialises in the management of fixed income mandates across all sectors. Our investment process is driven by fundamental in-house research with in-depth credit analysis and emerging market skills. The investment style is active and diversified, with great attention paid to risk/return and the emphasis on client service. JBIL also manages the first directly invested hedge fund ever launched by the Julius Baer Group while equity, balanced and alternative fund of funds mandates are offered in association with other offices within the Group.
http://www.juliusbaer.com

OTHER SPONSORS:



Fortune Asset Management is a London-based asset management company, regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Founded in 1996, the company is focused on the alternative asset area, and manages a number of multi-manager funds. Fortune also acts as sponsor for a select number of early-stage hedge funds.

All our funds are co-advised by our affiliate research company, Global Fund Analysis Ltd and the legendary hedge fund investor Jack Schwager, Wall Street veteran and author of the Markets Wizards books.
www.fortune.co.uk



BrunnerInvest AG was founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1991 by Erwin Brunner as an independent asset management company catering to private and institutional clients.
Erwin Brunner and his team have a long and proven track record in asset management. Due to its boutique atmosphere and close client relations, superior service and outstanding products can be guaranteed. BrunnerInvest is solely focused on selecting and combining funds based on qualitative and quantitative criteria. Through its excellent industry relations and long-standing experience BrunnerInvest is able to select the best-in-class funds all over the world.

Contact details
BrunnerInvest AG
Utoquai 31
8008 Zürich
Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)1 269 50 90
info@brunnerinvest.ch
http://www.brunnerinvest.ch



Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, founded in 1969, has more than 330 lawyers providing sophisticated legal counsel on general corporate law (including investment management, securities, banking, asset-based lending, structured finance and business reorganization), litigation, real estate, intellectual property, employment and employee benefits, tax, trusts and estates and environmental law.

In September 2002, the firm opened a London office led by partners Daniel S. Shapiro, a senior US tax partner, and UK fund lawyer Christopher Hilditch. The firm's Investment Management and Regulatory Group, recognized as the market-leading hedge fund practice in the United States, now offers unparalleled experience advising on the full range of issues raised by the creating, structuring and management of US domestic and international hedge funds.
www.srz.com



GaveKal, an independent research firm, offers institutional investors advisory services on tactical asset allocation. Through the study of monetary policy, fiscal policies, secular trends, technical analysis and asset class valuations, GaveKal aims to develop a dialogue with subscribers oriented around the relationship between the economies and the financial markets.
www.gavekal.net

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EXHIBITORS:



EquityStation, Inc.

We bring you advanced technologies that help you find liquidity and reduce transaction costs. In the pursuit of best execution, we bring you access to the ITG Platform, which electronically transmits orders to an array of liquidity sources including POSIT® and TriAct(tm), ITG's proprietary matching systems, as well as works trades through VWAP and SPI SmartServer(tm) technologies. Send trades to DOT (NYSE), OTC (NASDAQ) Market Makers and ECNs.

Satisfying our client's execution needs and reducing transaction costs are the goals that drive EquityStation.

ITG Inc. (Member NASD, SIPC) is a wholly owned broker-dealer subsidiary of Investment Technology Group, Inc.
www.equitystation.com





TMF
The TMF Group is a financial services organisation and has offices in 20 countries. Currently the group has over 600 staff. Head office of TMF is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The group has 3 operating divisions (management and accounting services, fund services and financial services).

We administer from our Dutch offices over 100 investment funds and other entities. Amongst the investment funds we service, there are funds listed on the Dublin, London and Amsterdam Stock Exchange. The investment funds have their legal seat in either BVI, Cayman Islands, Netherlands Antilles or in The Netherlands. For some of them, we produce daily fully reconciled NAV and financial statements.

We administer also Dutch regulated funds. In these cases TMF is appointed the Administrator/Trustee. Dutch Central Bank performed a due diligence on our organisation in connection with some of the mandates we have (competence of management, KYC policy, systems, procedures and controls).
www.tmf-group.com



Fundnexus is a straight-through-processing solution for the offshore fund investment industry. It is an online investment transaction platform that electronically links the fund manager, the administrator and the investor, facilitating investment in traditional and alternative offshore funds.

Fundnexus automatically enhances the fund's electronic delivery, provides automatic reporting and reduces the operational risk of paper processing.
www.fundnexus.com



E*TRADE Securities, a division of E*TRADE Group, has ten years experience in providing global brokerage services to institutional investors. Our institutional services are available 24 hours a day, covering 39 markets through our regional trading centres in London, New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Not only do we offer traditional cross-border discount trading and specialist administration services, we have evolved to provide electronic trading, market making, and provision of independent research. Our client list includes the leading investment management companies, life insurance companies, merchant banks, as well as the fast growing hedge fund investment community.

E*TRADE Securities offers reliable and timely cross-border execution and settlement at extremely competitive prices. Our suite of electronic trading services is flexible to accept orders delivered by various means in a secure environment. E*TRADE Securities provides proprietary trading software which enables clients to pass single and multiple orders simultaneously. We also can receive orders via FIX delivered direct from client's order management systems or through routing networks. The settlement process is integrated into our system to provide seamless electronic processing.

As part of our service commitment, we provide dealing and help desk support in each region to handle client enquiries.

For further information, please contact:
Jeremy Slade
Head of Institutional Sales
E*TRADE Securities Limited
Direct: 020 7516 1438
Main: 020 7516 1300
jslade@etrade.com

Callum Campbell
Institutional Sales
E*TRADE Securities Limited
Direct: 020 7516 1433
Main: 020 7516 1300
callum.campbell@etrade.com

www.institutional.etrade.com




Measurisk is an independent, Full Service Provider (FSP) in the risk management industry. Our web-based risk solution enables the investment professionals worldwide to optimize risk, maximize return and make informed investment decisions without the development and maintenance costs of software applications.
Our risk services are uniquely designed to meet the specific needs of the capital market participants. We serve the alternative market space by providing the optimum level of risk transparency to both investors and hedge fund managers alike. Our Earnings-at-Risk and FAS 133 products are designed to assist CFOs and Treasurers in reducing earnings volatility and meeting FASB compliance. Pension funds, insurance companies, and other institutional investors utilize our Institutional risk offering to manage risk across their multi-manager, multi-asset class portfolios. Measurisk is committed to providing the highest level of service and support to its clients.
www.measurisk.com




EasyScreen - Empowering The Fund Manager
Directly trade multiple products on the world's electronic markets from a single user-friendly screen. One platform, one account. Enjoy integrated risk management and offset margins over different products and exchanges. Use the EasyScreen Data Centre ASP solution to access multiple equity and derivative markets. Minimal hardware requirements.
Harness the power that has formerly been the exclusive preserve of the global brokerages - from your own desk, over any network, at a fraction of the cost. Take control with the EasyScreen Data Centre.
Find out more...contact:
Jeremy Gaunt / Maria De Figueiredo +44 (0)207 6454600
sales@easyscreen.com
www.easyscreen.com




Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Luxembourg
The LCF Rothschild Group has over 30 years experience in hedge fund investments, pioneering the multi-manager approach by launching the first fund of alternative funds in 1969.

Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Luxembourg, a member of the LCF Rothschild Group, has particular expertise in hedge fund administration, currently providing services to a number of structures including hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, multi-manager funds and private equity funds.

We have established a specialist Fund Desk, our highly skilled team dedicated exclusively to alternative funds. This innovative service offers due diligence, follow-up of estimated valuations and equalisation, as well as pricing analysis of the underlying funds.
www.lcf-rothschild.lu

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Global Fund Analysis is a London-based international fund research and consulting firm, and a member of The Fortune Group. Established in 1996, and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom, GFA equips investors to make informed investment decisions in relation to internationally marketed mutual funds and hedge funds.
With a strong conviction that investment skills reside in individuals, our focus in finding these active investment managers. Our universe of funds exceeds over 10,000 traditional and hedge funds which we distill down to an investable universe of around 100 funds in four categories: relative value, event driven, and opportunistic strategies plus long-only investing. As well as providing incisive research reports on "best of breed" managers in each of these categories and sub strategies, our team of experienced analysts offers manager search and portfolio construction advice to many of the world's most prestigious investment groups.
www.globalfundanalysis.com