Workshop 1

• The regulator's view of hedge funds and related standards
• The changing shape (and size) of hedge funds
• What lies on the horizon for UK’s market players?
• How do hedge funds operate in more volatile times?
• Lessons for asset managers from recent market events

• Rising to the challenge: ensuring and proving continuous compliance
• Removing the barriers to asset growth
• Keeping up with client growth and volume, and diversity of client mandates

• Insider dealing – were rumours to blame for the HBOS and Bear Stearns share price collapse?
• Voluntary Hedge Fund Standards - Will the they help to increase trust in the industry and help to fend off additional regulation?
• Technology solutions – how can technology empower hedge fund managers?
• How can hedge funds adequately stress test their complex financial products?
• Can anyone keep up with compliance rule changes?
• Finding the right compliance model

Thomas Deinet, Hedge Fund Standards Board
Simon Morris, partner, Financial Services, CMS Cameron McKenna
Alan Leale-Green, chief executive, MMS Regulatory Solutions
Helen Parry, consultant editor, Complinet