People are living longer. However,  figures from the Office of National Statistics show the number of healthy retirement years is not rising in line with the increase in life expectancy. Men and women who retire at age 65 can expect to spend 56% and 57% respectively of their retirement in good health, and 58% and 55%, respectively of their retirement free from disability. In other words, 40% of men and women in retirement will require some form of care.
 
 
Dilnot’s white paper proposes a number of key reforms intended to make long term residential care more accessible to the general public, including forcing local county councils to standardise their eligibility criteria to avoid the ‘postcode lottery’ scenario that currently exists across the UK’s 152 councils. What's not clear is how today's struggling government budgets, and more importantly capacity, will be able to look after such an aging population. 
 
 
 

In this breakfast seminar we explore how the care home sector has developed over the last twenty years and how regulation has shaped today's marketplace, whether care homes can deliver care and profitabilty without cannibalising one and other, and how modern hedge funds are picking up the reins following the fiasco of Southern Cross.

 
If you are a Private Equity House, Pension, Private Bank, Wealth Manager or Family Office, you should attend this free one hour seminar;
 

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This free Breakfast Seminar will explore how to optimise and capitalise on Share Class Hedging within Hedge Funds and Funds Of Hedge Funds.
 
If you would like to achieve best in class Share Class Hedging, or if you are just not sure whether your hedging process delivers, then you should attend this seminar.
 
Often this process is seen as a necessary evil rather than an opportunity, and banished to the bundled service provider such as Prime Broker, Custodian or Bank which has resulted in an expensive and inefficient service. We’ll look at new entrants to the market, and investigate whether they deliver better value and service, or whether better value can be delivered within existing frameworks.
 
John Godden, IGS CEO, will be chairing a panel of expert FX Hedging Specialists in this 60 minute session.
 
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Last year, in our hugely popular “Wake up to True CTAs” seminar, we introduced CTAs as an effective hedge against unforeseen market turbulence whilst “True CTAs” also generated their own Alpha over the long term. This complimentary feature of CTAs makes their inclusion on the overall portfolio strategy the most important Alpha Risk measure you can take.
 
In this follow up seminar we explore how CTAs can offer protection against the serious risk of inflation that has been foreseen over the next 24 months and why your portfolio is exposed without this insurance. We’ll also see if the “True CTA”  assertions are still valid and find out how they performed and protected in 2010.
 
John Godden, CEO of IGS AIS LLP, will be chairing a panel of expert CTA Investment Managers including Christophe Reech and Philip Catmur from Reech AIM Partners LLP, and Dr Nicholas Verwilghen from EIM in this 60 minute session.
 
If you are a Hedge Fund, Fund Of Fund, Pension or Family Office, you should attend this free one hour seminar;

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Last year, in our hugely popular “Wake up to True CTAs” seminar, we introduced CTAs as an effective hedge against unforeseen market turbulence whilst “True CTAs” also generated their own Alpha over the long term. This complimentary feature of CTAs makes their inclusion on the overall portfolio strategy the most important Alpha Risk measure you can take.
 
In this follow up seminar we explore how CTAs can offer protection against the serious risk of inflation that has been foreseen over the next 24 months and why your portfolio is exposed without this insurance. We’ll also see if the “True CTA”  assertions are still valid and find out how they performed and protected in 2010.
 
John Godden, CEO of IGS AIS LLP, will be chairing a panel of expert CTA Investment Managers including Christophe Reech and Philip Catmur from Reech AIM Partners LLP in this 60 minute session.
 
If you are a Hedge Fund, Fund Of Fund, Pension or Family Office, you should attend this free one hour seminar;
 
 
IGS would like to invite you to this free breakfast seminar which will attempt to explore the myths surrounding the CTA strategy and focus on what the future holds for this exciting Alternative Investment. John Godden, CEO of IGS Group will chair a panel of expert CTA Investment Managers including Christophe Reech and Philip Catmur from Reech AIM Partners LLP in this 60 minute session. Topics to be discussed;
 
Does Alternative Alternative equal CTA?
CTAs - the Optimum Inflation Hedge?
Why do CTA’s create an anti-correlated returns?
CTA’s - the Future or the Past
What is a True CTA?
 
 
Managed Futures is an alternative investment strategy that for the last twenty years has produced positive risk adjusted returns with low or negative correlation with the other traditional and alternative strategies.
 
This Breakfast Seminar will examine the strategy and focus on what the future holds for this exciting Investment type. Venue - Hotel Schweizerhof Zurich, Bahnhofplatz 7, CH-8021, Zurich, 26th January 2011 08.45am - 10.30am 
 
Attend this event if you are interested in understanding the world of CTAs in more depth. For more information or to register please contact  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
 
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