EDHEC Asset Management Days 2007 explored the uses of the most recent research advances and the latest industry innovations as new sources of value in investment management.   
 
The event, which attracted 720 delegates, was split over two days and was structured to appeal both to wealth managers and institutional managers. The schedule was organised into plenary sessions and workshops and targeted the whole spectrum of investors, asset managers and investment advisors whilst the plenary sessions were aimed more specifically at wealth management and private wealth managers. These sessions aimed to introduce these managers to new concepts and solutions for wealth management. The  plenary sessions covered such topics as Asset Liability Management in Private Banking, and the workshops looked at subjects like ETFs for Asset Allocation and Managed Futures and Commodities Trading.      
 
The second day centred on state-of-the-art tools for asset management and targeted institutional investors, asset managers and investment advisers as well as private bankers and family officers.  The plenary sessions looked at Dynamic Core-Satellite Management:A Revolution in Asset Management and other topics such as dealing with the deficiencies of indices.
 
The event also provided the opportunity for potential MSc students to get to know the areas of expertise within EDHEC's two finance programmes, MSc in Finance and MSc in Risk and Asset Management. Zakaria Guessous from Switzerland was one such student: I really appreciated the conference. It was just amazing and very interesting to meet all these people coming from all over the world. A number of the speakers in the conference were both members of the Risk and Asset Management Research Centre and  lecturers in EDHEC's finance programmes which gave Zakaria a clear impression of the quality of the teaching he could expect.  It also gave him the opportunity to meet David Hampton the programme manager of the MSc in Finance and provided the ideal situation to mix with other Risk and Asset Management students. 
 
Another indicator of the increasing significance of the Risk and Asset Management Research Centre was the appearance of Jean- René Giraud on CNBC Europe where he was able to voice his opinions on the topic of hedge fund default risk. This was as a result of a Risk and Asset Management Research centre study, on which he served as a co-author, and which examined the statistical properties of hedge fund failures and attempted to identify essential risk factors in hedge funds.