Industry leaders will discuss the future of alternative investments
Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, will feature as one of the keynote speakers at the event held at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman. “I am excited to be in the Cayman Islands for the Cayman Alternative Investment Summit,” Mr. Branson said. “The event has a very impressive range of speakers from the alternative investment industry that will make for some very interesting discussions on the future of the industry.”
The summit aims to attract 500 of the world’s leading institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, alternative investment managers, regulators, economists and service providers to debate the future of the industry under the theme “Innovation in alternative investments: Seeing what’s next”.
Industry speakers at the event will include Peter Clarke, CEO, MAN Group; Matt Botein, global head of Alternative Investments at Blackrock; Mel Lagomasino, the CEO of Genspring Family Offices; Anne Richards, chief investment officer for Aberdeen Asset Management and Mark Yusko, the CEO of Morgan Creek.
Organised by Alternative Investment Research Ltd., the summit is supported by of some of the largest companies in the world and in the Cayman Islands including KPMG, Deutsche Bank, Mourant Ozannes, Paladyne, Camana Bay and Virgin Unite.
“The Cayman Alternative Investment Summit is an opportunity for the industry’s elite to take an introspective look at itself, seeing where the industry has been and predicting where it will go in the future,” said Anthony Cowell, partner in Alternative Investments at KPMG in the Cayman Islands and editorial chairman of the summit.
“KPMG is proud to work alongside event organisers, AtWater Consulting Ltd and looks forward to the stimulating and thought provoking debate, set against the backdrop of the domicile of choice for alternative investments,” he added.
With 10,000 open-ended investment funds registered in the Cayman Islands, the summit aims to connect the leading domicile for offshore investment funds with the alternative investment industry’s most influential leaders.
Cayman Islands Managing Partner at Mourant Ozannes Neal Lomax said, “The launch of the Cayman Alternative Investment Summit is a significant milestone for the Cayman Islands.
We are delighted to be a major sponsor of the Summit in its inaugural year and we are confident it will prove to be unparalleled in terms of the quality of its participants, content and organisation.
“Our commitment to the Summit is reflective of Mourant Ozannes’ continued confidence in the future of the Cayman Islands as one of the world’s leading international financial centres.”
Media and association partners for the summit include Institutional Investor, Absolute Return, Cayman Financial Review, AIMA, FinAlternatives, Hedge Fund Alert, HFM Week, Albourne Village, Funddomiciles.com, CAIA and Investments & Pensions Europe.
Working with Sir Richard Branson, it is expected that the summit will contribute more than US$150,000 to Virgin Unite, the nonprofit foundation of the Virgin Group. Virgin Unite’s mission is to “connect people and entrepreneurial ideas to make change happen; to help revolutionise the way government, business and social sector work together – business as a force for good”.
For more information on the Cayman A. I. Summit and to register online, please visit www.CaymanAI.com.
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