Day 1  l  Day 2

CADC 2009 Program

Thursday, October 29, 2009 (day 1)


7:30 a.m.

Registration / Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.

Welcoming Address

Speaker:
Brian Gelfand, Montréal Exchange

8:40 a.m.

TMX 2010: New Opportunities

  • New initiatives
  • New markets and products
  • Integration update

Speaker:
Alain Miquelon, Montréal Exchange

9:20 a.m.

Interest Rate Markets

  • How credit spreads have narrowed and where they go from here
  • Overnight interest rate products and how they've fared since the easing of the credit crunch
  • Rise in inflationary expectations and what that means for your bond portfolio
  • Popular trades (US/CAD 10yr spread, BED spread, CGB-10yr swap/bond)

Moderator:
Glenn Goucher, CDCC
Speakers:
Earl Davis, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
Marc Larson, Bank of Canada
Jerry Summers, MF Global

10:10 a.m.

Break

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10:30 a.m.

Canadian Options: A Growing Opportunity

  • The Canadian options landscape: What has changed?
  • Evolving views from sell side and market makers
  • Challenges, threats and opportunities

Moderator:
Claude Cyr, Newedge Canada Inc.
Speakers:
Ian Macdonald, RBC Capital Markets
Lino Morra, BMO Capital Markets
Jeff Polzin, Wolverine Trading

11:20 a.m.

Over-the-Counter Derivatives and Centralized Clearing

Moderator:
George Kormas, CDCC
Speakers:
John McPartland, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Derek West, Autorité des marchés financiers

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 p.m.

The Case for Algo Trading Derivatives

  • Challenges to algo trading options/futures markets
  • Volatility: friend or foe of algos?
  • Opportunities for algo development
  • Bottlenecks to peak algo trading performance

Moderator:
Jim Smith, Trading Technologies International Inc.
Speakers:
Abe Kohen, FlexTrade (Presentation)
Robb Ross, White Indian Trading Company Limited (Presentation)
Andy Schumacher, J.P. Morgan Securities Canada Inc.
Andrew Yao, Credit Suisse

2:50 p.m.

Break

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3:10 p.m.

Trading Volatility

  • Canadian volatility versus S&P 500 VIX
  • Value of realized volatility versus implied volatility

Moderator:
Srikant Dash, Standard & Poor's
Speakers:
Shreyas Chari, Arrowhawk Partners
Samir Dhrolia, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Steve Elgee, Periscope Capital Management

4:00 p.m.

Carbon Markets

Moderator:
Jean Nolet, ÉcoRessources Consultants (Presentation)
Speakers:
Dr. Frédéric Brodach, DEXIA Carbon Fund Managers S.A. (Presentation)
Pierre Doumit, Enel Trade SpA - Adb Energy Management (Presentation)
Sara Ståhl, European Climate Exchange (Presentation)

5:00 p.m.

Cocktail

Friday, October 30, 2009 (day 2)


7:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

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8:30 a.m.

Meet the Managers: Hedge Funds and MX Products

Speakers:
Ranjan Bhaduri, AlphaMetrix Alternative Investment Advisors, LLC
Kamran Siddiqui, Polar Securities
Michael Yhip, Garrison Hill Capital Management Inc.

9:10 a.m.

Indices, ETFs and Derivatives

  • ETF creation and marketing
  • Where do we go from here?
  • Market quality for end users
  • Volume and liquidity trends

Moderator:
Rob Tasca, Montréal Exchange
Speakers:
Howard J. Atkinson, Horizons Exchange Traded Funds Inc.
Sid Oberoi, Standard & Poor's
Steve Sosnick, Timber Hill / Interactive Brokers
Steven Ulbrich, Promark Global Advisors

10:00 a.m.

Canadian Energy Markets

  • Futures on oil sands crude
  • Regulatory developments (e.g. position limits to curb speculation)
  • Opportunities in crude/natural gas trading (widening crack spreads; contango; LNG impact on natural gas)

Moderator:
Tom Pepevnak, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Speakers:
Gary Gault, Natural Gas Exchange Inc.
Calvin Johnson, CIBC World Markets Inc.
Tim Pickering, Auspice Capital
Jason Russell, Acorn Investments

10:40 a.m.

Break

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11:00 a.m.

Regulatory Developments

  • Global trends in derivatives regulation: exchange traded and OTC
  • Quebec derivatives regulation
  • Registration reforms

Speakers:
Jean-François Bernier, Interactive Brokers (Presentation)
Jacques Tanguay, Montréal Exchange
Derek West, Autorité des marchés financiers

11:40 a.m.

Buyside Adoption of Derivatives

  • Impact of the bear market on derivative adoption
  • Comments from fund sponsors (insurance companies, pension plans, endowments, foundations)
  • Comments from fund managers (asset managers, ETF providers and hedge funds)

Moderator:
Jason Taylor, Montréal Exchange
Speakers:
Mark Holleran, New Brunswick Investment Management Corp.
Savvas Pallaris, Alberta Investment Management Corp.
Guillaume Pichard, Ministère des Finances (Québec)

12:30 p.m.

End of conference

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