{"id":30435,"date":"2012-07-31T06:41:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T10:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30435"},"modified":"2012-07-31T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:07:06","slug":"sir-richard-branson-to-speak-at-cayman-hedge-fund-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2012\/sir-richard-branson-to-speak-at-cayman-hedge-fund-summit.html","title":{"rendered":"Sir Richard Branson To Speak at Cayman Hedge Fund Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/branson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30438 alignright\" title=\"Sir Richard Branson \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/branson-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/branson-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/branson.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) \u00a0&#8211; Institutional investors, hedge fund CEOs, economists and academics are meeting November 1-2, 2012 at the\u00a0Ritz-Carlton in Grand Cayman\u00a0to discuss the global alternative investment industry.<\/p>\n<p>The key theme of the Summit is &#8216;Innovation in Alternative Investments: Seeing What&#8217;s Next&#8217;. One of the keynote speakers is Sir Richard Branson, the founder of multi-billion company Virgin Group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am excited to be in the Cayman Islands for the Cayman Alternative Investment Summit,&#8221; Branson said. &#8220;The event has a very impressive range of speakers from the alternative investment industry that will make for some very interesting discussions on the future of the industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other speakers include hedge fund specialists such as Peter Clarke, CEO, MAN Group; Matt Botein, Global Head of Alternative Investments, Blackrock; Mel Lagomasino, CEO, Genspring Family Offices; Anne Richards, CIO, Aberdeen Asset Management; Mark Yusko, CEO, Morgan Creek; Steve Shenfeld, President, Midocean Credit Partners; Jane Buchan, CEO\/MD, PAAMCO and Mark Okada, Co-Founder and CIO of Highland Capital Management.<\/p>\n<p>Also included is a fundraiser for Virgin Unite \u2013 the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group. \u00a0Working with Sir\u00a0Richard Branson, it is expected that the summit will contribute over $150,000\u00a0to Virgin Unite.<\/p>\n<p>The event is organised by Alternative Investment Research Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) \u00a0&#8211; Institutional investors, hedge fund CEOs, economists and academics are meeting November 1-2, 2012 at the\u00a0Ritz-Carlton in Grand Cayman\u00a0to discuss the global alternative investment industry. The key theme of the Summit is &#8216;Innovation in Alternative Investments: Seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16037,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-conferences","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30435"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30437,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30435\/revisions\/30437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}