Build your own event programme and either mix-and-match from the 60 sessions on offer, or stick to a stream and fully immerse yourself in one strategic area.
Conference Agenda
7th March 2012, Lancaster London Hotel, London
08.00 Registration and coffee
08.45 OsneyMedia’s welcome address
08.50 Chair’s welcome address and table introductions
09.00 Developing your architecture to optimise the flow of data into the front office
- How do you deliver clean data to the front office effectively?
- Ensuring accuracy, accessibility, and speed – central processing and STP
- What can you build into your architecture to improve flow – bottle necks and how to avoid them
Jason Gish, Head of Front Office Operations, Equities, M&G Investment Management
09.30 Sustaining high performance in the front office whilst keeping costs down
- Streamlining your structure for maximum effect
- What technology is out there to help you enhance your front office systems
- Where can you cut costs without cutting performance?
10.00 Managing risk in the front office
- Relationship of the risk manager with portfolio managers
- Value added by risk management processes
- Day-to-day risk management of the front office
Dr. Thorsten Neumann, Director of Investment Processes and Risk Management, Union Investment Institutional GmbH
10.30 Morning coffee
11.00 PANEL DISCUSSION: OMS vs. EMS – Changing landscape of front office systems
- What systems are people using and why?
- Consolidation or best of breed?
- Business case for a full service provider solutions vs. an annual lease with a consultancy
- Changing competitive landscape – new products and fresh vendors
Paul Maxwell, Head of Front Office Technology, Investec Asset Management
Tom Cunningham, Head of Front Office IT, Threadneedle
Robin Strong, Director, Buy-side Market Strategy, Fidessa
11.45 CASE STUDY: Building a bespoke front office systems
- Simulating, modelling and back-testing – building semi-automated systems
- Working in-house – what areas do you need to invest technology and people in?
- To what extent do you need to rely on vendor technology alongside your own?
Mark Holt, Head of Systematic Implementation, BlueCrest Capital Management
12.25 Roundtable discussion The chair directs discussions from the top three issues at your request
13.00 Networking lunch
