Outlook 2017 | Managed Funds Association | 28 November 2017 | The Pierre, 2 E 61st St, New York, NY 10065, US

As the leading association of the global hedge fund industry, MFA convenes prominent alternative investment professionals, institutional investors, policy makers, investment counter parties, and service providers at the Outlook 2017 Conference, its hedge fund leadership conference, each fall in New York.

The Outlook 2017 Conference inspires a forward-looking dialogue on the critical issues impacting global investors and fiduciaries. The Outlook 2017 Conference program focuses on the global markets, public policy, the needs of institutional investors, and the key trends that foster change for alternative investments. The conference is comprised of over 400 top investors, fund managers and thought leaders from the global alternative investment community who convene to discuss and debate market trends and focus on where, why and how they are investing today.

2017 Speakers:

Steve Algert
Managing Director the J. Paul Getty Trust

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

Indrajit Bardhan
Global Head of Prime Services, Credit Suisse

Tim Barrett, CFA
Associate Vice Chancellor & Chief Investment Officer, Texas Tech University System

M. Barry Bausano
President, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Chairman of Hedge Funds, Deutsche Bank

David Ben-Ur
Chief Investment Officer, CAM Capital

Jane Buchan
Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company

Jay Clayton
Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Larry Fink
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock

Anne-Marie Fink
Chief Investment Officer, Matheys Lane Capital Management L.P.

Eddie Fishman
Managing Director, The D. E. Shaw Group

Paul Fleming
Global Head of Hedge Funds, Alternative Investment Solutions, State Street Corporation

Duncan Ford
Partner, Chief Operating Officer, Marshall Wace LLP

Steve Fraidin
Vice Chairman, Pershing Square Capital Management, LP

Sam Gallo
Chief Investment Officer, University System of Maryland Foundation, Inc.

Mike Greenstein
Partner, Global and U.S. Alternative Investments Assurance Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

James H. Grossman, Jr., CPA, CFA
Chief Investment Officer, Pennsylvania Public School Employee’s Retirement System

Jody A. Gunderson
Managing Principal, CarVal Investors LLC

Anders Hall
Vice Chancellor for Investments and Chief Investment Officer, Vanderbilt University

Michael S. Harris
President, Campbell & Company, LP

Jonathan Hitchon
Chief Operating Officer, Two Sigma Investments, LLC

Ray Iwanowski
Co-Founder and CIO, SECOR Capital Advisors

Natalie Deak Jaros
Partner, Financial Services Office, Ernst & Young LLP

Joseph O’Brien
President and Chief Executive Officer, A.G. Hill Partners, LLC

Andrew Palmer
Chief Investment Officer, Maryland State Retirement and Pension System

Rebecca Patterson
Chief Investment Officer, Bessemer Trust Company, N.A.

Ari Paul
Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner, BlockTower Capital

Jay Peller
Co-Head of Fund Services Division, Citco Fund Services (USA) Inc.

Rob Pohly
Founder, Samlyn Capital, LLC

Peter Salvage
Global Head of Hedge Fund Services, Bank of New York Mellon Alternative Investment Services

Matt Sidman
Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Three Bays Capital LP

Judy Smith
Founder and President, Smith & Company

Alex Stein
Managing Director, Two Sigma Investments, LP

Adam J. Szubin
Former Acting Treasury Department, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

David Villa
Chief Investment Officer, State of Wisconsin Investment Board

Jeffrey Weber
Partner, President & Chief Operating Officer, York Capital Management

Ash Williams
Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer, Florida State Board of Administration

Joel Yarmon
Partner, Pipeline Capital Partners

David Zervos
Chief Market Strategist, Jefferies LLC

2017 Sponsors:

• BNY Mellon
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Bloomberg Brief
• CAIA Association
• CITCO
• CME Group
• Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
• Cboe Global Markets, Inc.
• Citi
• Credit Suisse
• Davis Polk
• Delta
• Deutsche Bank
• EY
• GlobeTax
• Grant Thornton International Ltd
• Grassi & Co.
• Hedge Fund Alert
• The Hedge Fund Journal
• J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank
• KPMG’s Alternative Investment Funds
• Kirkland & Ellis LLP
• Kramer Levin
• Linedata Asset Management
• Lowenstein Sandler
• Preqin
• PwC
• SS&C
• Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking
• State Street
• UBS Investment Bank
• Wells Fargo Prime Services