Trade Tech Invest Ops 2017 (past event)
March 21 - 22, 2017
Renaissance Tampa International Plaza Hotel, Tampa FL
(001) 416-597-4753
Day 2 - Wednesday 22nd March 2017
08:00 - 08:15 Women in Investment Operations Breakfast - How can the investment operations industry better attract, develop and retain top female talent?
Networking Breakfast
08:15 - 08:50 Conference Registration & Networking BreakfastWomen's breakfast
08:15 - 08:50 ContinuesOpening Remarks
08:50 - 09:00 Chairpersons’ Opening Remarks
Women's breakfast
08:50 - 09:00 Continues09:00 - 09:20 Industry Perspective: InvestOps 2020: Achieving Middle and Back Office Hyper-Automation while Reducing operational Costs and Risk
09:20 - 10:00 All Star Panel: Building a data warehouse that delivers significant ROI: How to develop an enterprise-wide strategy that efficiently receives, consumes and distributes data
10:00 - 10:25 Fireside Chat: Guaranteeing data integrity in pricing procedures: How can you build robust controls that can validate and confirm price accuracy?
10:25 - 10:05 360 Perspective: Staying ahead of the game: How is the investment landscape evolving and what can operations do to guarantee their readiness for adapting to these trends?
Stephen Gouthro Head of Investment Operations Putnam Investments
Sonia Maloney COO Norrep Capital Management
Jeff Zoller Former Buy Side Head of Strategy, Risk and Compliance .
Herve de Laforcade Buyside Solution Manager Calypso Technology
Moderator:
Jon Ambos Buy Side Operational Leader and Advisor .
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What impact will increase M&A activity have on trading volumes and workflows? What will be required in terms of operational infrastructure?
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How will clients change their criteria for investment advisor selection? How can operations be optimized to create a more attractive model to new clients?
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Active vs. Passive funds: How can active funds compete in a low-cost, low-touch environment and what will be the implications for operations?
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How will changing technology, a shift in global wealth, and risk management disrupt the investment management industry over the next three to five years? Are asset managers becoming more like sell side institutions?
Herve de Laforcade
Buyside Solution ManagerCalypso Technology
10:05 - 11:45 Morning Break
11:45 - 12:05 Industry Perspective Investing in the right people, processes and technology: How to best allocate and manage resources in your department to best support business needs
12:05 - 12:50 Fire-Side Chat Revolution: Eliminating the risk of human error at the earliest opportunity: How can you minimize and rectify mistakes in an environment characterized by speed, increasing volumes and unpredictable volatility?
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A front or middle office concern? How to ensure accurate affirmation and confirmation as it increasingly occurs immediately after execution
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Minimizing operational risk when closing the books: How to secure a bird’s eye view of all trades across every PM
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How to build robust controls that will quickly identify and rectify errors in both high and low touch trading
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Pinpointing areas of concern: How to bolster the control framework to overcome issues surrounding risky, manual and complex processes
12:50 - 13:10 Case Study Revolution: Industry collaboration and leveraging standards. Buy Side case study of the adoption of FIX to automate post-trade communication
- FIX Buy Side working group focused on post-trade
- Group of buy side firms jointly designed and adopted a consistent use of FIX 4.4 for Confirm/Affirm flow
- Ability to leverage and extend existing FIX connectivity in place for orderflow
- Success and benefits achieved
