Network 2018 | Managed Funds | 22 January 2018 | Loews Miami Beach Hotel, 1601 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139, US

MFA’s Network 2018 Conference is the Association’s primary business development and networking conference. Hailed as one of the top networking events for the alternative investments industry, MFA’s Network 2018 Conference brings together top allocators, fund managers and leading industry service providers together for one on one allocator meetings, educational programming and investor-led roundtable discussions for three informative days. The conference provides manager suites, a targeted one to one allocator to manager ratio, top institutional pension consultants and a focus on emerging business issues and trends that are critical to allocators and fund managers in the systematic and fundamental space. All meetings are facilitated through our digital platform, the MFA Conferences & Events App.

2018 Speakers:

Richard H. Baker
President and Chief Executive Officer, Managed Funds Association

Kenneth J. Heinz
President, Hedge Fund Research, Inc.

Amy Bensted
Head of Hedge Fund Products, Preqin

Adam Duncan
Managing Director, Cambridge Associates, LLC

Jonathan Miles, CFA, CAIA
Vice President, Wilshire Associates

Christopher Solarz, CFA, CPA, CAIA
Managing Director, Cliffwater LLC

Peter T. Willett, CFA
Principal, Investment Consulting, Manager Research, Mercer

Pablo Calderini
President and Chief Investment Officer, Graham Capital Management

Bruno Crastes
Chief Executive Officer, H2O Asset Management

John Sitilides
Principal, Trilogy Advisors LLC, Consultant to the U.S State Department

Samuel N. Gallo, CPA, CAIA
Chief Investment Officer, University System of Maryland Foundation

Brian C. Mawdsley, CFA
Managing Director, the University of Florida Investment Corporation

Phillip Titolo
Portfolio Manager, MassMutual - Investment Management

Trent Webster
Senior Investment Officer, Florida State Board of Administration

Ronen Israel
Principal and Head of Global Alternative Premia Group, AQR Capital Management, LLC

Philip Kearns
Chief Investment Officer & Managing Director, D. E. Shaw Investment Management, L.L.C.

Michael Keough
Managing Member, Racon Capital Partners, LLC

Maarten Nederlof
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, Risk Premium Investment Management Company LLC

Ed Shim
Investment Officer – Diversified Strategies, Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois

MODERATORS:

Arvin Soh
Portfolio Manager, GAM

Michael S. Harris
President, Campbell & Company, LP

Ciana Becker
Portfolio Manager, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)

2018 Prime Partners:

• Credit Suisse
• Deutsche Bank
• J.P.Morgan

2018 Sponsors:

DIAMOND:
• Sociere Generale

PLATINUM:
• Bank of america Merill Lynch
• Cboe

GOLD:
• Bny Mellon
• Delta
• Goldman Sachs
• Grant Thorton
• Ubs
• Wells Fargo Securities

SILVER:
• Cohen & Company
• Morgan Stanley
• Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
• Intercontinental Exchange / ICE
• The Gemini Companies