8.30 Registration and breakfast

8.50 Welcome address: Structured Products magazine

Chairman: Alan Kerr, Managing Director, HARBOURMASTER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

9.00
The future of investment products: back to basics?

-Investing in managed futures – a source of uncorrelated alpha
-The importance of liquidity and transparency in investment products -Structured products for managed futures and global macro
-Challenges for structured products going forward

Tony Gannon, Chief Executive Officer, ABBEY CAPITAL

9.30
Product trends in the Irish structured products market

- Current market trends in today's economic environment and their implications for structured products
- Liquidity requirements - demand for access and implications for the future
- The advantages of current listed products
- Rules based investment - alpha extraction, structured products vs. funds
- Dynamic strategies - investor requirements for transparency and active risk management

Mark Caffrey, Head of Structured Investment Products and Derek Sheehan, Corporate and Institutional, ULSTER BANK

10.00
Defying the market downturn – new opportunities for the Irish structured products market

- Why are clients finding it increasingly necessary to diversify their credit and market exposure?
- Soft protection vs. hard protection
- Income products in a low interest rate environment
- What's hot and what's not…

Emma Davidson, Head of UK and IE Structured Products Sales, CITI GLOBAL MARKETS

10.30

Morning break and an opportunity to visit the exhibition

11.00
Improving investor and distributor education- due diligence and building awareness

- The growing complexity of structured products
- Addressing the need for transparency in structured products
- Aligning the interests of distributors and investors
- How have banks reacted by changing the marketing and issuing of structured products?

Anna-Marie Finnegan, Structured Products Specialist, GOODBODY STOCKBROKERS

11.30
Structuring investments in a high volatility and low interest rate environment

- Calculating and managing exposure to volatility
- The role of structured products in maximising profits in a low interest rate environment

Mark Tully, Investment Analyst, DUGGAN ASSET MANAGEMENT

12.00
Designing and distributing structured products for HNW pension investors

- Product design – what’s prudent vs. what sells
- Distribution considerations – client & adviser understanding
- Suitability and blending with a pensions portfolio
- The outlook for the future

Dave Gribben, Managing Director, ITC GROUP

12.30
Lunch and an opportunity to visit the exhibition

13.30
Analysis and valuation of structured products

- Structured products and Financial Derivative Instruments in the UCITS framework
- Pricing of equity options: focus on Asian Quanto Basket Options
-Pricing of equity swaps
-Analysis of risk: Greeks and different approaches to risk management, Sensitivities of equity swaps

Marco Lazzarino, Head of Strategy Management Desk, Quantitative Investment Department and Simone Zola, Analyst, PRIMA ASSET MANAGEMENT IRELAND

14.00
Applying absolute return strategies to client portfolios

-Background to absolute return investing
-Relevance of absolute return strategies in client portfolios
- Comparing fund based and structured implementations
- Different strategies at work

Kieran Conlon, Director, ARIA WEALTH

14.30
Interactive business networking session:
An effective form of networking designed to build lasting business relationships

15.00 Afternoon break and an opportunity to visit the exhibition

15.30
UCITS fund wrappers

- Quick overview of the UCITS
- What's the logic of the wrapping solution
- Unique role of the Trustee / Custodian
- Will UCITS IV change it all?

Christian Lachaussee, Product Manager, OTC Derivatives, Hedge Funds and Structured Products, RBC DEXIA INVESTMENT SERVICES

16.00
A new way of looking at fund management for HNW investors

-Traditional investments haven’t worked
-The world is changing
-Alternative assets is the biggest asset class
-Asset backed funds
-Limited partnership structure
-New opportunities

Alistair Mawdsley, Sales Director, CONNAUGHT ASSET MANAGEMENT

16.30
Champagne roundtable: The future of structured products in Ireland

- Opportunities and trends for the structured products market following the crisis
- Will the market adapt to the challenging environment, and how?
- Identifying areas of growth
- Re-instilling investor confidence

Moderator: Alan Kerr, Managing Director, HARBOURMASTER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Dave Gribben, Managing Director, ITC GROUP
Kieran Conlon, Director, ARIA WEALTH
Emma Davidson, Head of UK and IE Structured Products Sales, CITI GLOBAL MARKETS

17.10 Chairman’s closing remarks

17.20 End of Structured Products Ireland conference and cocktail reception