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Hedge Funds Breakfast Club

December 2021 Meeting

December 8, 2021, London | 8am - 1000am GMT

The events of the past 18 months have emphasised the necessity for hedge fund managers to have a robust middle and back office function; investors are increasingly focused on the ability of a manager to run a business as much as deliver strong investment performance. AlphaWeek's December 2021 Hedge Funds Breakfast Club meeting will bring together hedge fund managers to learn from leading service providers in a private setting to discuss the current opportunities and challenges and what kinds of technologies can help managers to thrive into 2022 and beyond.

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Agenda

0800 - 0830: Registration & Breakfast

0830 - 0835: Opening Remarks

0835 - 0855: Presentation 1: Raising Capital Better – How Technology Can Be Leveraged To Improve Your Investor Communications And Raise AUM

Presenter: Paul Das, Founder, CEO, ProFundCom

0855 - 0915: Presentation 2: Tech Stack For The Future Of Compliance

Presenter: Pouya Azimi, Vice President, Head of Risk, Laven Partners

0915 - 0935: Presentation 3: Managing The Risks In Establishing And Scaling Your Fund Operations

- Interfacing with brokers, prime brokers, crypto-custodians, administrators and regulatory hosts

- Controlling expenditure for the manager and the fund

Presenter: Dave Shastri, Chief Strategy Officer, Truss Edge

0935 - 1000: Networking

1000: Close

 

Speakers

Pouya Azimi: Vice President, Head of Risk, Laven Partners

Pouya Azimi

Pouya Azimi is the Head of Risk at Laven Advisors where he is responsible for monitoring and managing Laven’s investment management platform's portfolios. Before becoming the Head of Risk, Pouya previously worked as an investment and operations due diligence analyst and was in charge of assessing different funds strategies and performance track records. Before joining Laven in 2015, Pouya worked as a quantitative researcher at OSSIAM Inc. (a Natixis affiliate) in Paris where he assisted with equity portfolios optimisation. Pouya has a background in engineering as well as financial modelling across a wide range of strategies. He holds a master’s degree in international finance from HEC Paris and is a graduate engineer from the University of Toronto. Pouya is a CFA charter holder.

 

Paul Das: Founder & CEO, ProFundCom

Paul Das

Paul is the Founder and Managing Director of ProFundCom. Starting the business in 2003, Paul wanted to fulfil a vision to provide digital engagement analytics that would directly benefit sales and marketing processes in financial institutions. This has lead to ProFundCom being totally focused on helping the financial services industry use digital marketing to raise AuM.

Fifteen years later, Paul and his team have successfully built the leading digital marketing platform for finance that brings all elements of digital activity – email, web and social media – into one place.

Paul remains extremely hands-on with heading up the product and client teams and he is also responsible for setting and managing company strategy in conjunction with the executive board.

Paul has an excellent pedigree in software from working at AT&T, Microsoft and Apple, both in the UK and the USA and holds a first-class degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from Kingston University – where he was also the winner of the Cadence Design Prize for his final year project.

 

Dave Shastri: Chief Strategy Officer, Truss Edge

Dave Shastri

Dave has over 30 years of banking and investment experience. He is the CSO of Truss Edge, the complete software and operations platform for hedge funds, CTAs and ETFs and he is also the CEO of MATware , the portfolio management system for institutional investors in hedge funds and private equity. Dave was Managing Director of FundXchange which was acquired by Zurich Financial Services. For over 18 years he was at the Bank of Bermuda with his last position as Vice President and Head of Business Development of Global Fund Services, EMEA and he has assisted managers in establishing hedge funds since 1992. Dave is a director of a number of prominent private investment businesses.

 

Sponsors

Laven Partners

Established in 2005, Laven is a UK, EU and US-based integrated compliance consultancy with its own regulatory software, servicing the financial industry. A pioneer in the industry, we are leaders in financial services providing intelligent and intuitive commercial and practical advice, giving clients the benefit of our diversified, yet balanced expertise.

 

 

ProFundCom

ProFundCom is the leading digital marketing platform in finance, built to exacting compliance and security standards. With over 15 years in the industry, ProFundCom delivers unrivalled digital marketing reporting and analytics. ProFundCom currently works with over 45 retail and institutional fund providers, boutiques and private banks around the globe.

 

 

Truss Edge

Truss Edge was created at a multi-strategy hedge fund for real-time monitoring and control of its global trading teams with complex instruments, markets, limits, strategies, and risk. We have expanded with our software application Safari to support a wide diversity of investment groups and meet their demands for exceptional support with our cohesive team, technology, and infrastructure.  We provide managers with either their complete end-to-end single system platform and operations or a configuration that meets their specific needs.  Our clients’ gain the advantage of a faster, more precise, robust, and cost-effective foundation.

We deliver continuous improvement through monthly software releases. Truss Edge is flexible so that managers can select the features that work for their business.

  • Proven investment front, middle and back-office software
  • Fully integrated STP, single platform: trading, settlement, reconciliation, reporting, risk, dashboard, and accounting
  • Plug and play software as a service and operations as a service
  • Total instrument coverage.

Registration

Registration is free for investment managers and investors. Click the buttons below to request a complimentary ticket.

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Venue

The Cavendish Hotel, 81 Jermyn Street, St. James, London SW1Y 6JF