S&P GSCI® Commodities Seminar 2011
Prepare for Tomorrow's Volley of Commodity Spikes and Punch-throughs
September 22nd 2011, London
S&P Indices cordially invites you to a complimentary half day seminar.
Leading investment banks, institutional investors and exchanges will debate current commodities issues in the market place today and what the future holds for commodities.
Our faculty of speakers includes: Barclays Capital, Citi, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, BAML, ICE, CME, Source, Hermes, Société Générale, Lyxor ETFs, Blackrock, The Economist.
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Seminar Programme
| 14:00 | Set Your Cap for True C3 Beta: Crude, Copper & CornDavid Blitzer, Managing Director & Chairman of the S&P Index Committee |
| 14:20 | Keynote: Why Invest Now? New Answers to Old QuestionsKevin Norrish, Managing Director Commodities Research, Barclays Capital |
| 15:00 | Simon Wright, Senior Editor, The Economist Helps Set the Record Straight on Supply–Demand Cause & Effects for Both Investors and ProducersDoes institutional investing impact today’s spot prices? Panelists: David Hemming, Hermes |
| 15:45 | Break |
| 16:00 | Lessons Learnt : A Two Year Retrospective that MattersCorrelations have synchronized, but when can we expect a positive reversion to the mean? Moderator: Mike McGlone, S&P Indices
Panelists: Trent Stout, BAML |
| 16:45 | Get Ready For Tomorrow's ApplicationsHigh volatility? Constructing optimal portfolio solutions with a complex of betas Moderator: Jodie Gunzberg, S&P Indices
Panelists: Jigna Gibb, Barclays Capital |
| 17:15 | Cocktail |
Speakers
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David M. BlitzerDavid is a managing director and the chairman of the S&P Index Committee with responsibility for security selection for S&P’s indices and index analysis and management. |
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Kevin NorrishKevin Norrish is a Managing Director in the Commodities Research team at Barclays Capital. Based in London, his expertise lies in metals and energy markets. Lately, he has focused on the analysis of commodities as an asset class and presenting of the Research team’s strategic views to Barclays Capital’s investor client base. |
Simon WrightSimon Wright is the energy and commodities correspondent for The Economist’s print edition. The job includes covering the oil and gas industry as well as mining, shipping, steel and big bits of infrastructure. He joined The Economist in 1989 as a researcher. Since then his roles have included stints as the letters editor, world this week editor and writing about business and finance for economist.com as well as acting as deputy news editor for the paper’s website. |
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David HemmingDavid is the portfolio manager for the three commodities funds run by Hermes Fund Management Limited, in addition to providing an advisory service in commodities allocation for two funds in a joint venture with Deutsche Bank. David joined Hermes in 2006. Prior to working at Hermes, he was an assistant portfolio manager at State Street Global Advisors. |
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Kamal NaqviKamal Naqvi is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, based in London. He is the Head of Institutional Commodity Sales. Mr. Naqvi has over 15 years experience in the resources industry. In his current role, he is responsible for the origination and distribution of commodity related investment products to the Bank's customers around the world. |
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Jean-Luc AmosJean-Luc joined ICE Futures Europe in 2011 and works within the Market Development team. His role entails facilitating the development, growth and promotion of ICE’s new and existing energy Futures and OTC markets. Prior to joining ICE, he worked at Platts as a forward curve and futures editor. Subsequently, Jean-Luc joined KBC Process Technology and worked as an oil supply consultant where he specialised in oil fundamentals, in particular upstream supply forecasting. |
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Andrea L. GrilloAndrea heads J.P.Morgan's Commodity Investor Solutions Sales team for the EMEA region. Prior to J.P.Morgan Andrea worked in Commodity sales and structuring at Goldman Sachs having previously held multi asset sales roles at leading European investment banks. Andrea joined J.P.Morgan in 2009. |
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Michael John LytlePrior to joining Source, MJ was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley in London where he was focused on the creation, marketing and distribution of multi-asset class retail structured products. |
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Ravi RamachandranRavi is responsible for the development, structuring, and marketing of commodity investor products for institutional and retail investors. His team has developed the various commodity indices that Citi currently markets and structures custom commodity investment solutions for clients. He has been with Citi since October of 2004. |
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Jigna GibbJigna Gibb is a Director in Commodity Investor Structuring at Barclays Capital. Based in London, she is responsible for commodity investor product origination. The platform extends from Private Equity, the iPath franchise and local exchange listed products in Americas, Europe and Asia. |
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Allan LaneAllan is the Head of The Product Services & Analytics Group, comprising the Client & Product Solutions teams. This group provides quantitative support to the iShares Product Development and Sales & Marketing teams. The key areas of expertise include investment research, proprietary index research, ETF trading strategies and designing model portfolios. |
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Christophe Cordonnierhas been working at SGCIB in the commodities sphere since 1997 in various fields of the industry from debt issuance to derivatives. |
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Nizam HamidNizam Hamid is a Managing Director and Head of Lyxor ETF strategy and Deputy Head of Lyxor ETFs, in this role Nizam is focused on business strategy, product development and research. He joined the group in November 2010 having previously spent two years at iShares in London, where he was in charge of sales strategy for Europe and Asia, building up the institutional and wealth research reports. |
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Michael McGloneMichael leads global product management for S&P Commodity Indices. In this role, Mike oversees day-to-day management of the S&P commodity index activity and authors Market Attributes – a monthly snapshot that highlights recent developments in the marketplace as measured by the S&P GSCI and S&P Strategic Futures Indices. |
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Jodie GunzbergJodie M. Gunzberg is director, commodity indices, at S&P Indices. Jodie is responsible for the product management of the S&P Commodity Indices, which includes the S&P GSCI, widely regarded as the leading measure of general commodity price movements and inflation in the world economy. |
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Samantha DartSamantha Dart joined the Commodities Research team, in the Global Investment Research Division, in March 2006. She has since worked on global energy markets, primarily focusing on natural gas markets. Prior to joining the firm, Samantha graduated from the University of Chicago with a PhD in Economics, where she was also a research assistant to the 1992 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Gary Becker, for a number of years. Her doctoral dissertation analyzed inefficiencies in water markets in California. Samantha is originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is currently based in London. |
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Trent StoutManaging Director and Co-head of Global Commodity Index and Products at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Trent is responsible for developing, structuring and trading a wide range of commodity indices and commodity linked products. He is based in London and works closely with global sales and origination teams to service the full spectrum of clients including institutional, corporate and individual. He has been with the firm since February 2006. |
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Julie WinklerJulie Winkler was appointed Managing Director, Research and Product Development of CME Group in August 2007. In this role, she leads the team responsible for monitoring derivatives markets for important opportunities and meaningful risks that have a significant impact on how CME Group and market participants do business. |
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