UK

22 - 23 March 2010

This course explores the Operations Risk management function and mitigation strategies. It is intended to move the participants beyond the international compliance requirements for operations risk and into an understanding of risk as a value added proposition, increasing the bank’s profitability and structural strength.

This practical one day course is designed to provide an insight into the area of UCITS, showing how funds may select eligible assets and demonstrate how these instruments may be employed to achieve different investment objectives.

Effective and accurate credit risk management is crucial for all financial institutions including banks, lenders and investors. This timely and topical course is created to equip delegates with practical risk analysis skills and enable them to make informative business decisions.

24 - 26 March 2010

This practical 3 day course is designed to provide you with in-depth understanding of LBO and Merger methods in order to make effective business decisions based on sound valuation of businesses. You will gain the tools to value and account for a merger of two businesses and explore the concept of synergy valuation.

This one day programme provides a great introduction to bond and money markets. You will be taken through the fundamental bonds concepts, their structures and uses by government and corporates. The strategies for bond pricing and quantifying risk will help participants understand main market mechanisms. Finally, other money market and inflation linked securities will be explained in detail.

Pricing discrepancies, conservative investment policies and continuing economic uncertainty all resulted in a slowing private equity secondaries market in 2009. The inaugural Capital Creation Secondaries 2010 summit will reveal the key drivers behind the impending surge in deal volume, highlighting the issues that will be at the forefront of increased activity. Learn how the most prominent industry leaders in the secondaries field are adapting to a stabilising economy to maximise deal flow in 2010 and beyond

ETF Securities and The World Gold Council invites you to attend this unique opportunity to gain valuable insight into the fundamental factors driving gold prices, insights into future supply and demand and the outlook for Gold.

ETF Securities and The World Gold Council invites you to attend this unique opportunity to gain valuable insight into the fundamental factors driving gold prices, insights into future supply and demand and the outlook for Gold.

This conference examines the likely shape of future OTC Derivatives Regulation given the efforts by transatlantic regulators to achieve a shift to more centralised system of clearing and settlement.

Subjects covered:

• Current Regulatory Initiatives
• Recent Market Developments
• Clearing and Execution of the OTC Transactions
• The Future of non-CCP Cleared Products
• Increased Trade Transparency

Featuring presentations by:

David Bailey Capital Markets Sector Manager, Financial Services Authority
Theo Lubke Senior Vice-President, Banking Supervision Group, Federal Reserve
Bank of New York
Peer Ritter Financial Markets Infrastructure, Internal Markets Directorate,
European Commission

21 - 22 April 2010

IIR’s Private Equity Exit Strategies conference has been extensively researched with the market and is designed to give Private Equity professionals an in depth knowledge of exit strategies, both current and future, to enable you to deliver maximum returns to your investors.