Cboe Risk Management Conference 2019 | CBOE | 25 March 2019 | Park Hyatt Aviara Resort Golf Club & Spa, 7100 Aviara Resort Drive, Carlsbad, CA 92011, USA

Now in its 35th year in the U.S., the annual Cboe Risk Management Conference (RMC) is the foremost financial industry conference designed for institutional users of equity derivatives and volatility products.
Hosted by Cboe Global Markets, RMC is an educational forum dedicated to exploring the latest products, trading strategies and tactics used to manage risk exposure and enhance yields. Cboe RMC brings together top traders, strategists and researchers, enabling participants to learn the state-of-the-art in investment risk management from true experts in the field.
This year there will be a special emphasis on understanding the current market environment, volatility trades that make sense now, managing volatility and finding new opportunities.
Cboe RMC's agenda covers a variety of concepts, challenging attendees to think differently about how they manage portfolios, employ hedging techniques, utilize equity derivatives, and model and trade volatility. Topics – ranging from basic derivatives applications to advanced trading concepts – are current and relevant. Strategy discussion is overlaid with examples of actual trades and real-market applications.

Who Should Attend?

If you're a financial professional interested in learning the latest risk management techniques, how to trade and hedge volatility or simply master equity derivatives fundamentals, Cboe's Risk Management Conference is an event you need to attend:
• Institutional Traders
• Pension Plan Sponsors
• Insurance Professionals and Actuaries
• Portfolio & Mutual Fund Managers
• Investment Advisors and Consultants
• Hedge Fund Managers
• Foundation & Endowment Officials
• CFOs, CIOs and Corporate Treasury Executives

2019 Speakers

David Blitzer
Managing Director and Chairman, Index Committee

Yukon Huang
Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment

John Angelos
Sr. Director, Global Head of Institutional Buy-Side Client Solutions, Cboe Global Markets

William Bartlett
CEO and Managing Member, Parallax Volatility Advisers, LLC

Colin Bebee
CFA, Principal, Pension Consulting Alliance, LLC

Ruslan Bikbov
Director, U.S. Rates Strategy, Citi Research, Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

David Blitzer
Ph.D., Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee for S&P Dow Jones Indexes

Oleg Bondarenko
Professor of Finance, University of Illinois at Chicago

David Burkart
CFA, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Coloma Capital Futures LLC

John Coleman
Senior Vice President and Managing Director, R.J. O'Brien

Benn Eifert
Ph.D., Founder and CIO, QVR Advisors

Mohamed El-Hioum
Executive Director, Dynamic Strategies Structuring, UBS

Hani El-Sakkout
Chief Development Officer, Tradelegs LLC

Katherine Fogertey
Vice President, Global Investment Research, Goldman Sachs

Jeffrey Foley
Head of Business Operations, Wilshire Associates

Stacey Gilbert
Head of Derivative Strategy, Susquehanna Financial Group

Jack Hansen
CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Parametric

Jon Havice
President and Chief Investment Officer, DGV Solutions

Yukon Huang
Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Lucas Kawa
Cross-Asset Reporter, Bloomberg LP

Jennifer Keller
Managing Partner and Chief Financial Officer, Headwaters Solutions, LP

Alexander Krongard
Managing Director, DCS Advisory

Stephen Laipply
Managing Director, Head of U.S. i-Shares Fixed Income Strategy, BlackRock

Joshua Lisser
Senior Vice President, Head-Index Strategies, AllianceBernstein

Bill Looney
Vice President, Head of Index Options Strategy, Cboe Global Markets

John Marshall
Managing Director, Head of Derivatives Research, Goldman Sachs

Matthew Moran
Head of Global Benchmark Indexes Advancement, Cboe Global Markets

Anders Norrman
Head of Public Markets, San Diego City Employees Retirement System (SDCERS)

Roberto Obregon
Senior Research Analyst, Meketa Investment Group

Alex Reed
CFA, CAIA, Risk Specialist, University of Chicago, Office of Investments

Matt Rowe
Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Headwaters Solutions

Olivier Sarfati
Head of Equities, GenTrust

Steven Sears
Chief Investment Officer, StratiFi Technologies; Barron's Columnist and author of The Indomitable Investor

Zem Sternberg
CIO and Managing Partner, Lake Hill Capital Management, LLC

Edward Tilly
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cboe Global Markets

Mandy Xu
Chief Equity Derivatives Strategist, Credit Suisse

2019 Sponsors and Exhibitors

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• S&P Dow Jones Indices

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Credit Suisse
• Jane Street
• XFA

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• F(t) Options
• FTSE Russell
• Goldman Sachs
• iShares
• Societe Generale
• Spider Rock
• Velocity Shares
• WEX

GENERAL SPONSORS:
• Barclays
• Chicago Trading Company

EXHIBITOR:
• Numerix

MEDIA SPONSOR:
• Pensions&Investment