Schedule

08.30 Registration & Coffee

08.50 Chairman's Introductory Speech
Welcome and comments on the agenda
Pierre Lavaud, Founder & CEO, JetFin, CH

Pierre Lavaud

Founding Partner and CEO of JetFin. "Mr. Lavaud is member of Sustainable Finance Geneva". From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Lavaud was head of sales and marketing for Capital Fund Management (CFM) a fund manager with close to $ 4 Billion under management in Long/Short arbitrage, CTA and volatility arbitrage funds. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Lavaud worked as European Sales Manager for UBITRADE. A leader in derivative capital markets (futures and options), UBITRADE provide cutting-edge software for the capital market industry. From 1992 to 1996, he worked as Sales Engineer in the Industrial Automation department of BOSCH, one of the 10 largest German industrial conglomerates, in Germany, Italy and United Kingdom. Mr. Lavaud is fluent in French, English, Italian and German. He graduated from Grenoble Ecole de Management.

09.00 The Macro Picture

• Macro Overview : commodity geopolitics
• Commodities as an Asset Class
• Sustainability & Commodities

COMMODITIES

09.40 Commodities

• Commodity price exposure through the combination of Futures and Stocks

• Volatility, Liquidity and Risk Management in Commodity Strategies

10.20 Coffee Break

EQUITY STRATEGIES

10.50 Listed Equity

• Commodities and Emerging Economies
• Equity listed strategies

11.30 Hedge Funds

• Commodity risk control and capital preservation
• Active management in commodities
• Hedging possibilities

12.30 UCITS III & Commodities

• Current innovations in the UCITS III for Commodities
• How to fill the gap between indexation and active management
• Risk management & implementation of complex commodities trading strategies
• The limits of UCITS III

13.00 Networking Lunch

SECTOR SPECIFIC STRATEGIES

02.00 Energy

• Power Trading as an investment proposal
• Renewable Energy : a disruptive technology?
• Wind and Solar opportunities & risks

02.40 Gold, Precious Metals

• How to build a gold and precious metals portfolio?
• Is gold still a "safe heaven" asset?
• What’s the outlook for silver, platinum and other precious metals?

03.00 Metals and Mining

• Opportunities and risk in the metal segment
• Copper, aluminium, nickel, zinc specificities
• Mining as an investment proposal

03.40 Afternoon Tea Break

REGION SPECIFIC STRATEGIES

04.10 Emerging Markets

• Activist Financing on Commodities, an opportunity for growth in Emerging Markets

• Asian and Australian Commodity and Energy Opportunities

INVESTORS

04.50 Funds of Funds & Allocators

• What is the right approach for Funds of Funds to invest in commodities?
• Open debate with prominent allocators about the right approach to address commodity and energy investments
• Active v/s passive investments

05.30 Final Investors

• The point of view of final investors (pension funds, private bankers and HNWIs)
• Strategies when investing in commodities
• Dedicated exposure or diversified portfolios?
• Creating the ideal commodities portfolio

06.00 Chairman's closing remarks
Pierre Lavaud, JetFin, CH

Pierre Lavaud

Founding Partner and CEO of JetFin. "Mr. Lavaud is member of Sustainable Finance Geneva". From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Lavaud was head of sales and marketing for Capital Fund Management (CFM) a fund manager with close to $ 4 Billion under management in Long/Short arbitrage, CTA and volatility arbitrage funds. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Lavaud worked as European Sales Manager for UBITRADE. A leader in derivative capital markets (futures and options), UBITRADE provide cutting-edge software for the capital market industry. From 1992 to 1996, he worked as Sales Engineer in the Industrial Automation department of BOSCH, one of the 10 largest German industrial conglomerates, in Germany, Italy and United Kingdom. Mr. Lavaud is fluent in French, English, Italian and German. He graduated from Grenoble Ecole de Management.

EVENING EVENT

07.00 Networking Cocktail & Standing Buffet Dinner Reception
At the trendy "Riverside Café" in Geneva
Good food and Jazz Band
Ideal for networking in good atmosphere
Rue du Rhône 19 -1204 Geneva / Tel: +41 223113200

10.30 End