Summerson Goodacre

Introduction
The Hedge Fund world is growing rapidly with more and more money pouring into ever larger funds This new seminar aims to outline how they operate, their trading styles, plot their growth and understand their attractions. In today’s ever-changing environment the seminar will also put their significant growth in context and offer some ideas of how might develop in future.

The presentation will cover the following:
 

• A brief history of the development the Hedge Fund industry
• Their position in world markets
• Their structures and regulatory environment
• Their size
• The big names
• Changing trends in trading styles
• Criticisms
• Threats ahead?

  Speaker:
  Paddy Osborn has over 20 years of market experience, both as a trader and as a technical analysis service provider. He began his career trading Japanese Equity Derivatives at Japanese Securities House, NKK, before joining Tradermade International Ltd. and then BETA Group.

  Paddy appears regularly on CNBC to give his technical views on the markets and has given seminars to traders from many of the world’s top financial institutions. He has also appeared on discussion panels at financial conferences and has given technical analysis presentations to banking audiences across the globe.

  Paddy holds the IFTA CFTe Level 2 Certificate, a Diploma from the Society of Technical Analysts and is a graduate of the University of Reading, where he gained a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Computer Science.

  Who should attend?
  Those who need to obtain an overall insight into the way in which Hedge Funds operate and their overall impact on the Market.

  Those who work in a specialised field within the securities market and who wish to see how their specialist knowledge fits into the overall operations of their organisation. Those in the insurance and fund management considering placing capital into this low regulatory but performing sector.

  Those who wish to up-date their knowledge of a marketplace which has changed beyond recognition in recent years.

  CPD:
  A certificate of attendance will be provided to all attendees, which may be considered appropriate by your company for the accrual of CPD hours. Delegates will qualify for 3 CPD hours.