11th-12th December 2008
The Dorchester, London

So far 2008 has been a year full of challenges for Private Equity, in the wake of the economic downturn of last year. However those involved in Private Equity are proving to be versatile as they adapt to the changing market conditions and find new methods and models for doing business.

Private Equity investors and practitioners cannot afford to fall behind the competition in overcoming these key market challenges and need to be on top of the latest and most innovative ways of making money in a volatile environment. To ensure that you stay ahead there is only one place that you need to be this December. Capital Creation London 2008.

Building on 8 years of Capital Creation, Europe’s leading Private Equity investment networking event that focuses on enhancing relationships between GPs and LPs, WBR now brings to you Capital Creation London. This one day conference will bring together senior executives from the leading LPs, GPs and institutional investors to meet and discuss the outlook for Private Equity in 2009. Discussion will centre around the opportunities in the coming year and how best to harness its potential to ensure high returns and profit margins across the private equity industry.

29 Jan 2009
The Westin, Sydney

The world’s leading institutional equity trading summit is coming to Oz! This focused one day summit is designed to solve your desk’s biggest challenges.
With the potential entrance of alternative exchanges and the launch of dark pools in Australia the hunt for liquidity heats up. Where is the liquidity flowing and what is best execution? Join your peers as leading buy-side and sell-side gather in Sydney to kickstart 2009 and address these critical issues.

For marketing opportunities please contact Rani Kuppusamy at Tel: 6408 9215 or email: rani.kuppusamy@wbresearch.com

For speaking opportunities please contact Desiree Tung at 6408 9205 or email: desiree.tung@wbresearch.com

For sponsorship opportunities please contact Ivy Ng at Tel: 6408 9207 or email: ivy.ng@wbresearch.com

24th – 27th February 2009
Tower Hotel, London

With the financial world still struggling to come to terms with the credit crisis, IT executives find themselves in a tough position. Innovation remains critical - particularly in the areas of low latency trading and high capacity systems - but new opportunities must aggressively be sought out to enhance efficiency, and cut costs…

Now in its second year, TradeTech Architecture is Europe’s largest meeting of CTOs and CIOs from the capital markets. The event brings together more than 300 senior capital markets IT executives, all of whom will be using the event’s high level networking and learning opportunities to enhance the capabilities – and cost effectiveness – of their IT organisations.

“TradeTech Architecture is the most important event of the year for staying ahead of the latest trends and strategies in financial markets IT"

Gerald Le Donne, CTO,
Credit Suisse

Whether you’re an investment bank, buyside firm, hedge fund or stock exchange – and whether you work on the infrastructure or development side of the fence – TradeTech Architecture 2009 features dedicated content to help you make the right IT choices at a time of unprecedented uncertainty.

· CIO priorities: Re-examining the role of IT leadership in the capital markets

· Leveraging virtualisation technologies to reduce the cost footprint of your IT infrastructure

· Rationalising your software architecture to reduce licensing costs & enhance performance

· Maintaining innovation in the areas of low latency trading and high capacity systems

All the very latest on hardware acceleration, SOA, grid, cloud, data fabrics, network intelligence, business process automation, programming for multi-core, disaster recovery, IT risk, and much, much more!

Emirates Towers, Dubai, UAE
March

TradeTech Middle East 2009 will feature:

• MORE buy side speakers and delegates
• MORE regional participation – speakers representing all Middle East markets and nations
• MORE in-depth, solution driven content
• MORE streams and break out sessions allowing you to tailor your conference experience
• MORE support from local and regional exchanges, regulators and solution providers
• MORE essential master-class workshops
• MORE technology solutions to support your trading
• MORE asset classes covered in more details
• MORE access to key players from throughout the Middle East in interactive networking sessions
• PLUS – the Middle East’s leaders in trading and technology honored in the inaugural TRADETECH MIDDLE EAST AWARDS

March 2-4, 2009
Marriott Marquis, New York, NY

With 230+ buy side in attendance at last year’s event, TradeTech USA is the largest North American event specifically designed to tackle your equity trading challenges. Hear how industry leaders are planning to generate alpha as market structure changes, fragmentation of liquidity increases and exchanges continue to evolve.

If you’re interested in speaking at TradeTech USA, contact Sara Wessman at Sara.wessman@wbresearch.com or 239-431-6328

March 10th - 12th 2009
Le Meridien, Piccadilly, London

Increasing consumer expectations, volatile investment markets and mounting pressure from FSA’s Retail Distribution Review are making change inevitable for the financial services distribution market in the UK. With consumers demanding a more service-oriented financial advice, a growing number of advisers and wealth managers have abandoned commission-driven selling and embraced the principles of holistic financial planning to put their clients' interests first.

FinPlan 2009 has been designed for all new model advisers and those who are transitioning or are planning to transition to new model financial planning. Designed by advisers for advisers, this event is where you will meet and learn from some of leading figureheads in the UK financial advisory space today. If you are looking into how you can add more value to your clients, deliver better service and successfully transition to the new model, you definitely shouldn’t miss out on this event.

For inquiries regarding speaking opportunities or how you can get involved with FinPlan 2009, contact Lisa Giusto on 020 7368 9345 or lisa.giusto@wbr.co.uk.

March 16-18, 2009
Venue – Bridgewaters, NYC

Reference data has changed the way financial institutions are functioning across disparate parts of their back office operations. You know that your ability to acquire, aggregate, integrate, analyze and utilize your data is critical to remain competitive. At FIMA 2009 your registration = guaranteed innovation. You’ll walk away with a clear path for your own success based on the unparalleled expertise of the industries leading speakers.

The FIMA 2009 conference is currently in production.

• For inquiries regarding speaking opportunities, contact Jarrett Spagnoli at 646-200-7463 or  jspagnoli@wbresearch.com  
• For inquiries regarding sponsorship opportunities, contact  Alice Ann Gentry Zaslavsky at  646-200-7475 or aliceann.zaslavsky@wbresearch.com
• For inquiries regarding marketing partnerships, contact Josephine Andrews at 646-200-7448 or jandrews@wbresearch.com

TT China – 23rd March Shanghai
TT Korea - 25th March – Seoul
TT Taiwan – 27th March – Taipei


WBR is proud to launch its TradeTech North Asia Roadshow, 3 one day events taking place over the course of a week in China, Taiwan and Korea.

TradeTech North Asia will offer you the most timely and comprehensive agenda on institutional equity trading on these three thriving equities markets.

The programme is still under development but we will be delivering:

- leading insights from the local regulators and exchanges
- interactive roundtables and debate with a cross section of international and local electronic trading experts
- original and incisive content developed in conjunction with our Advisory Board

All three events are of course in simultaneous translation.

For marketing opportunities please contact Rani Kuppusamy at Tel: 6408 9215 or email: rani.kuppusamy@wbresearch.com

For speaking opportunities please contact Andrew Thake at 6408 9210 or email: andrew.thake@wbresearch.com

For sponsorship opportunities please contact Ivy Ng at Tel: 6408 9207 or email: ivy.ng@wbresearch.com

April 2009
London

Commodity Investment Summit is Europe’s leading commodity investment and trading conference bringing together pension funds, private banks, family offices, investment consultants, asset managers, investment banks, commodity exchanges, hedge funds, traders and physical producers. Unlike our competitors we make sure we address all your key commodity investment and trading issues making sure this is the only event to attend if you want to return to your business better equipped to deal with the key aspects of commodity investing and trading.

21st - 24th April 2009
CNIT la Défense
Paris

TradeTech is the leading industry forum dedicated to high-level discussion on the major challenges facing the equity trading market, with a particular focus on the rapid development of trading technology and constantly evolving market structure.

With over 500 senior buy side professionals attending in April 2008 and over 1800 attendees, this was the world’s largest ever gathering across the entire equity trading landscape. No other conference brings together so many industry leaders in one place. TradeTech Europe 2009 will be addressing the big picture view of the state of the markets and how priorities are changing, as well as examining the latest updates on trading and technology in an increasingly fragmented market structure.

May 2009
Russia

TradeTech Russia 2009 is dedicated to strategic analysis of Russia’s growing equities and derivatives markets. The conference will examine the current and future investment opportunities for both local Russian and western investors. Key experts from the Russian stock exchanges, Russian buy and sell side community focus on the infrastructure and technology needs of the market, debating the future of custody, electronic trading, the return of many expatriate Russian equities back on to the Russian stock exchanges as well as look into the future market growth and developments.

TradeTech Russia 2009 is part of world renowned TradeTech Events. These are the world’s largest industry forums dedicated to high-level discussion on the major challenges facing the trading community across a number of asset classes, with a particular focus on the rapid development of trading technology and constantly evolving market structure. In short TradeTech events are the place not only to debate but actually shape the future of the markets. www.tradetechequity.eu

19-20 May 2009,
Mumbai

TradeTech is a successful global brand of events which examines the trading and market infrastructure and the underlying technology issues. Bringing together traders, fund managers and technology heads from the buyside (long only asset managers, institutional investors and hedge funds) with the sellside (brokers, vendors and exchanges), TradeTech events have an industry reputation which is second to none.

TradeTech India 2008 Ensures You Fully understand the opportunities within the Indian market for the advancement of electronic trading as well the latest regulatory developments from SEBI . Stay ahead of the competition by learning from the buy side what equity trading strategies and technologies yield the highest returns. Align your trading desk for maximum profitability by learning the latest developments in dark pools, algo trading and best execution

• For inquiries regarding speaking opportunities, contact Andrew Thake at +65 6408 9210 or  Andrew.Thake@wbresearch.com
• For inquiries regarding sponsorship opportunities, contact  Pete Mitchell at  +971 (0)4 365 4118 or pete.mitchell@wbr.ae
• For marketing opportunities, please contact Jo Bance at +971 4 365 4136 or jo.bance@wbr.ae

9-10 June 2009
Westin

With 150 buy side and over 275 in attendance in 2008, TradeTech is a must attend event specifically designed to tackle your Japanese equity trading challenges. Don’t miss out on your chance to network, brainstorm, and learn from the forward thinkers from the top financial institutions to discuss market structure changes, the increase in dark pools, algorithmic trading, best execution, and much more. Spend the most productive days away from you trading desk to ensure you return with strategic insight into valuable trading strategies that ensure you stay ahead of the competition and generate higher profits in 2009.

For inquiries regarding speaking opportunities and sponsorship please contact Andrew Thake at +65 6408 9210 or email Andrew.thake@wbresearch.com

For marketing opportunities, please contact Rani Kuppusamy at +65 6408 9215 or email rani.kuppusamy@wbr.ae

TradeTech West 2009
September 2009 - San Francisco

Go West ... and find relief from bleak market conditions at TradeTech West 2009.

With 165+ senior-level buy side traders and 400+ total attendees, TradeTech West is the premier West Coast equity trading event specifically designed to help you boost the performance of your trading desk—even in a highly volatile market.

This is your best opportunity to discover the latest technological advancements in electronic trading, examine the rapidly evolving global trading landscape, and gain strategic insight into the crucial issues affecting the overall performance of your desk.

Help guide your desk to profitability in this bear market—register for TradeTech West 2009 today!

Speaking Opportunities
Sara Wessman
239-431-6328
sara.wessman@wbresearch.com

Sponsorship Sales & Exhibition Opportunities
Paul Massoud
646-200-7490
pmassoud@wbresearch.com

Marketing Opportunities
Amol Tembe
646-200-7442
atembe@wbresearch.com

September 2009

FIMA Asia focuses on strategies that will allow data management executives to measure the quality of their data, understand how to improve their internal processes, ensure data consistency across their enterprise, and deal with market challenges.

For more information, please visit www.fima-asia.com.

Solution Provider Speaking Opportunities, Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities:
Marie-Eve Cote, +97 1 4365 4133 or email her at marie-eve.cote@wbr.ae

September 2009
Le Meridien Beach Plaza, Monte Carlo

As highlighted at Capital Creation 2008 by Jon Moulton and other leading industry professionals, the fragile and steadily weakening financial market conditions present the private equity industry with substantial and business-critical challenges to contend with. As the impact of the credit crisis continues to escalate throughout the global financial system, profoundly affecting the prospects for all asset classes, it is critical for those invested and operating within the private equity sector to collectively engage the current challenges being faced.

Capital Creation is now well established as Europe’s leading private equity investment networking conference focused on enhancing relationships between GPs and LPs. Taking place in the glamorous setting of Monaco, the conference brings together an audience of senior professionals from the leading private equity funds, fund of funds and institutional investors. No other event will give you access to so such a diverse audience of senior private equity professionals.

Commodities Portfolio Management (CPM) 2009
September 2009 - Chicago, IL

Commodities provide unparalleled diversification and inflation-hedging benefits for institutional investors.

At Commodities Portfolio Management (CPM) join 125+ commodity experts to ensure you gain the maximum rewards of this non-correlated asset class. Hear your institutional investor peers discuss commodity allocation and portfolio structuring.

Also learn from the leading asset managers and commodity product and indices providers on future market outlooks and investment strategies. Prepare your fund for long-term, higher returns by joining us at CPM 2009.

Sponsorship or Exhibition Opportunities
Ariel Borkowsky
646-200-7476
ariel.borkowsky@wbresearch.com

Speaker Opportunities
Debra Haym
646-200-7465
dhaym@wbresearch.com

To ensure that you receive all the latest news on this event and to find out about media partnership opportunities, pleaese contact:
Amol Tembe
646-200-7442
atembe@wbresearch.com

For general information, please email us at:
cpm@wbresearch.com

September 2009
London

DerivaTechTrader is Europe’s leading derivatives trading and technology summit. Every year, the event brings together leading buy-side derivative traders from all asset classes.

For questions about the scope of DerivaTechTrader, including topics to be covered, speakers, and speaking opportunities, contact Yasemin Karaman at Yasemin.karaman@wbr.co.uk or +44 (0) 207 368 9896 For information about sponsorship sales and exhibition opportunities, please contact Henry Wallis at +44 (0) 207 368 9559 or henry.wallis@wbr.co.uk.

To ensure that you receive all the latest news on this event and to find out about marketing opportunities, contact Audrey Dagiste at audrey.dagiste@wbr.co.uk or +44 (0) 207 368 9423 For general inquiries, please contact us at derivatechtrader@wbr.co.uk.

29th September 2009
America Square Convention Centre, London

Emerging Europe Investors Summit promises to be a full day of insightful debate, interactive panel discussions and networking opportunities. This is your chance to meet with the most experienced and well regarded experts from the regional and international buy and sell sides, brought together to give you first hand strategic information about CEE and Southeast Europe capital markets and trading landscape.

To secure premium exhibition and sponsorship opportunities, contact Henry Wallis via phone, + 44 (0) 20 7368 9559, or via email: henry.wallis@wbr.co.uk

For questions about the scope of Emerging Europe Investors Summit, including topics to be covered, speakers, and future speaking opportunities for the event, contact Yasemin Karaman at yasemin.karaman@wbr.co.uk or + 44 (0) 20 7368 9896

To ensure that you receive all the latest news on this event and to find out about marketing opportunities, contact Nicholas Dowdeswell at nicholas.dowdeswell@wbr.co.uk or + 44 (0) 20 7368 9413

October 2009
South Africa

With 100 buy-side and over 200 in attendance in 2008, TradeTech South Africa is the leading trading and technology event designed specifically to address the South African equities trading market. 2009 will see the third year of this increasingly successful event.

For questions about the scope of TradeTech South Africa, including topics to be covered, speakers, and speaking opportunities, contact Lisa Giusto at lisa.giusto@wbr.co.uk or +44 (0) 207 368 9345. For information about sponsorship sales and exhibition opportunities, please contact Simon Bloom at +44 (0) 207 368 9499 or simon.bloom@wbr.co.uk

To ensure that you receive all the latest news on this event and to find out about marketing opportunities, contact Hannah Reading at hannah.reading@wbr.co.uk or +44 (0) 207 368 9439.

For general inquiries, please contact us at tradetech@wbr.co.uk

November 2009

FIMA is Europe’s premier reference data management conference. In its 7th year, FIMA 2009 will bring together over 400 senior data management executives from across the buy side and sell side, all striving to improve data quality, achieve short term ROI for data management projects, reduce operational risk and remain compliant to new and existing regulations. If you’re heading up or working within reference data projects, FIMA will ensure you return to your organisation better equipped to manage your key data challenges.

For questions about the scope of FIMA 2009, including topics to be covered, speakers, and speaking opportunities, contact Miles Dixon at miles.dixon@wbr.co.uk or +44 (0) 207 368 9585. For information about sponsorship sales and exhibition opportunities, please contact Henry Wallis at +44 (0) 207 368 9559 or henry.wallis@wbr.co.uk

To ensure that you receive all the latest news on this event and to find out about marketing opportunities, contact Nicholas Dowdeswell at nicholas.dowdeswell@wbr.co.uk or +44 (0) 207 368 9413. For general inquiries, please contact us at fima@wbr.co.uk

November 2009
Singapore

TradeTech Asia 2009 will bring together over 400 key players from the region’s institutional investors, asset managers, hedge funds, investment banks, exchanges and regulators. It’s Asia’s largest meeting of the Buy-Side and Sell-Side, dedicated to high-level discussion of the key challenges involved in trading equities and derivatives throughout the region.

'Attending TradeTech Asia ensures you have the right information at your disposal to make the right choices in a world of alternatives and fading transparency.'
Matt McKeith, Head of Dealing, First State Investments

For further inquiries contact Andrew Thake at +65 6408 9210 or Andrew.Thake@wbresearch.com

25 November 2009
The Tower Guoman , London

TradeTech Liquidity promises to be a full day of insightful debate, interactive panel discussions and networking opportunities.  This is your chance to meet with your fellow traders and hear just how they’re attacking the same challenges facing your desk.

To secure premium exhibition and sponsorship opportunities, contact Henry Wallis  via phone, + 44 (0) 20 7368 9559, or via email: henry.wallis@wbr.co.uk

For questions about the scope of TradeTech Liquidity, including topics to be covered, speakers, and future speaking opportunities for the event, contact Yasemin Karaman at yasemin.karaman@wbr.co.uk or + 44 (0) 20 7368 9896

To ensure that you receive all the latest news on this event and to find out about marketing opportunities, contact Hannah Reading at Hannah.reading@wbr.co.uk or + 44 (0) 20 7368 9439

February 2010
www.TradeTechForeignExchange.com

TradeTech Foreign Exchange is a forum that brings together leading FX traders from the buy-side and the sell-side to discuss and debate core issues pertaining to:

Spend the most productive days away from you trading desk to ensure you return with strategic insight into valuable trading strategies to help you stay ahead of the competition and generate alpha.

For information about sponsorship sales and exhibition opportunities, please contact Paul Massoud at pmassoud@wbresearch.com or 646-200-7490

For questions about the scope of TradeTechFX, including topics to be covered, speakers, and future speaking opportunities for the event, contact Victoria Roginskaya at victoria.roginskaya@wbresearch.com or 646-200-7527

To ensure that you receive all the latest news on this event and to find out about marketing opportunities, contact Gaianti Surajbali at gsurajbali@wbresearch.com or 646-200-7446

For general information, please email us at tradetechfx@wbresearch.com

May 2010
New York, NY

Between the surge in market data volumes and the race for low latency, having an agile technology architecture and infrastructure in place is absolutely essential to handling the demands of today’s financial markets and maintaining your competitive edge.

TradeTech Architecture is designed to facilitate high-level discussion on best practices in leveraging your existing technologies, making the most of a limited budget, and making sense of all the new technology offerings available to you today. This is your opportunity to network with your peers and develop actionable strategies for running a stronger, more efficient IT organization that can meet the needs of the business and withstand significant growth over the long term.

For questions about the scope of event, including topics to be covered and speaking opportunities, contact Debra Haym at dhaym@wbresearch.com or 646-200-7465.

December 2010
New York, NY
www.tradetechderivativesusa.com

TradeTech Derivatives brings together leading buy-side derivative traders from all asset classes. In today’s volatile markets, the buy side embraces the hedging and enhanced returns that derivatives offer and is looking for technology solutions to better trade these complex products. Join over 125 buy side derivative traders to discuss cutting-edge strategies for multi-asset derivative trading, electronic trading and automation, and a general derivatives market outlook.

For questions about the scope of TradeTech Derivatives, including topics to be covered, speakers, and speaking opportunities, contact Sara Wessman at sara.wessman@wbresearch.com or 646-200-7467.

For information about sponsorship sales and exhibition opportunities, please contact Paul Massoud at 646-200-7490 or pmassoud@wbresearch.com

To ensure that you receive all the latest news on this event and to find out about marketing opportunities, contact Amol Tembe at 646-200-7442 or.atembe@wbresearch.com.

 For general inquiries, please contact us at tradetechderivativesusa@wbresearch.com