The Global Financial Leadership Conference provides a unique opportunity for sponsors to get involved with a strategic event designed specifically for opinion leaders in the institutional investment sector, including financial and banking institutions, hedge funds, plan sponsors, portfolio and mutual fund management firms, corporate treasuries and propriety trading firms.
The complete list of Global Financial Leadership Conference Sponsors can be found below, current as of March 4, 2008.
William Blair & Company, L.L.C. is a Chicago-based investment firm offering investment banking, asset management, equity research, institutional and private brokerage, and private capital to individual, institutional, and issuing clients. Since 1935, we have been committed to helping clients achieve their financial objectives. As an independent, employee-owned firm, our philosophy is to serve our clients' interests first and foremost. We place a high value on the enduring nature of our client relationships, the quality of our products and services, and the continuity and integrity of our people. William Blair & Company's offices include Chicago, Boston, London, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Zurich.
For more information, about William Blair & Company, please visit www.williamblair.com.
Newedge, the joint venture bringing together Calyon Financial and Fimat, is a major force in global multi-asset brokerage, with a world-leading position in the execution and clearing of listed derivative products. With a presence in 25 locations across 17 countries, Newedge offers a full range of execution and clearing services covering options and futures contracts for financial products and commodities, as well as for money market instruments, bonds, FX, equities and commodities on OTC markets. Newedge also provides a range of value added services including prime brokerage, asset financing, electronic trading and order routing, cross margining, and the centralized reporting of client portfolios. Newedge, which primarily serves institutional clients, provides access to more than 70 exchanges worldwide.
Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., provides financial information, analysis, advice, and credit ratings globally. Standard & Poor's Index Services, a leading provider of equity indices, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet the widest array of investor needs. The S&P/Citigroup Global Equity Index is the comprehensive index series that covers more than 10,300 companies in 53 countries. The S&P Global 1200, an investable index for the world, combines seven indices: the S&P 500 for the US, the S&P Europe 350, the S&P/TOPIX 150 for Japan, the S&P/TSX 60 for Canada, the S&P/ASX 50 for Australia, the S&P Asia 50 and the S&P Latin America 40.
Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR) maximizes the value IT brings to the business by helping CIOs more effectively manage the business of IT. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's leading IT organizations, including more than 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies.
For more information about Compuware, please visit www.compuware.com.
HP NonStop servers are powerful servers that deliver the highest level of service of any platform. They are best used for complex environments, key business-critical applications that require 24 x 7 availability, large databases for data integration, real-time high-transaction environments and real-time computing. These high-end servers, which leverage industry standards, provide leading 24/7 availability and virtually unlimited scalability capabilities out-of-the-box. These out-of-the-box capabilities make it a flexible platform that is easy to manage and cost effective. The HP NonStop systems continue to be the high-availability leader, meeting the most demanding needs of enterprise customers whose success absolutely depends on reliable, 24 x 7 operation.
Located in Chicago, Fortis Clearing Americas LLC is a general clearing member on over 25 global exchanges including all major U.S. securities and derivatives exchanges with additional access to 19 other international exchanges via established third party relationships. Worldwide, Fortis provides access to over 60 international exchanges with global clearing memberships on over 50 exchanges.
Fortis Clearing Americas is a low-cost, customer-centric clearing provider of exceptional quality dedicated to servicing professional investors. Fortis Clearing Americas offers customers the ability to focus on their core business (proprietary trading) using robust, creative and competitively priced solutions, optimize use of capital with innovative financing arrangements and reduce costs by leveraging the Fortis infrastructure and exchange memberships. Fortis Clearing Americas does not conduct proprietary trading. Member SIPC.
