{"id":37733,"date":"2013-08-29T10:08:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=37733"},"modified":"2013-08-29T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:10:06","slug":"timothy-geithner-to-speak-at-asia-hedge-fund-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2013\/timothy-geithner-to-speak-at-asia-hedge-fund-event.html","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Geithner To Speak At Asia Hedge Fund Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"download\"<\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund giant\u00a0SkyBridge Capital is hosting\u00a0the second annual\u00a0SkyBridge Alternatives “SALT” Asia Conference.\u00a0Timothy Geithner\u00a0<\/b>, 75th\u00a0United States\u00a0Secretary of the Treasury, will be speaking at the event along with other hedge fund luminaries. The conference will take place at the Marina Bay Sands in\u00a0Singapore\u00a0September 24-27, 2013.<\/p>\n

Other featured speakers for the invitation-only event include:\u00a0Jean-Claude Trichet\u00a0<\/b>, Former President of the ECB (2003 -2011) & Former Governor Banque de\u00a0France\u00a0(1993-2003;\u00a0John Lipsky\u00a0<\/b>, Former First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (2006-2011);\u00a0Jin Liqun<\/b>, Former Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, China Investment Corporation (CIC);\u00a0Tharman Shanmugaratnam<\/b>, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Finance,Singapore; and\u00a0Nassim Taleb\u00a0<\/b>,\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/i>Bestselling Author<\/i>, “The Black Swan” and Distinguished Scientific Advisor, Universa Investments.<\/p>\n

“SALT Asia will convene approximately 1,000 decision makers, industry experts, finance professionals and members of the alternative investment community to discuss and debate key economic trends, geopolitical events and investment strategies for the year ahead.’ Skybridge said in an announcement, “The conference will also provide a forum for networking, with one-on-one and group meeting spaces and evening entertainment.”<\/p>\n

“SALT Asia is truly a global summit, bringing together leaders and professionals from every area of the world, to meld disparate views and challenge one another’s thinking, as well as share best practices and make connections,” said\u00a0Anthony Scaramucci, managing partner at SkyBridge. “We are excited for this year’s program, which we believe will produce some great ideas for navigating the global markets and economy in the year ahead.”<\/p>\n

Current confirmed speakers for SALT Asia include (in alphabetical order):\u00a0Marc Faber\u00a0<\/b>, Editor & Publisher of “The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report”;\u00a0Jeffrey Jaensubhakij<\/b>, President, GIC Asset Management;\u00a0Steve Kuhn\u00a0<\/b>, Partner & Head of Fixed Income Trading, Pine River Capital Management;Antony Leung\u00a0<\/b>, Senior Managing Director & Chairman of\u00a0Greater China, The Blackstone Group;\u00a0Adam Levinson\u00a0<\/b>, Chief Investment Officer, Fortress Asia Macro Fund & Co-Chief Investment Officer, Fortress Macro Fund;\u00a0Deepak Narula\u00a0<\/b>, Founder & Managing Partner, Metacapital Management;\u00a0Guan Ong<\/b>, Principal, Blue Rice Investment Management & Former Chief Investment Officer, Korea Investment Corporation;\u00a0\u00a0Adrian Ryder\u00a0<\/b>, Chief Investment Officer, Queensland Investment Corporation;\u00a0Manraj Sekhon\u00a0<\/b>, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, Fullerton Fund Management;\u00a0Ty Wallach\u00a0<\/b>, Partner, Paulson & Co.; and\u00a0Danny Yong\u00a0<\/b>, Chief Investment Officer, Dymon Asia.<\/p>\n

Alex Akesson
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New York (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund giant\u00a0SkyBridge Capital is hosting\u00a0the second annual\u00a0SkyBridge Alternatives “SALT” Asia Conference.\u00a0Timothy Geithner\u00a0, 75th\u00a0United States\u00a0Secretary of the Treasury, will be speaking at the event along with other hedge fund luminaries. The conference will take place at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16045,16037,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-hedge-funds","category-hedge-fund-conferences","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37733","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=37733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37736,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37733\/revisions\/37736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}