The ETF Summit at the EDHEC Institutional Days in Paris on June 12 and 13 next will provide practitioners with the outputs of EDHEC's research in the fields of risk management and asset allocation supported by Exchange Traded Funds. The summit will look at new uses for classic ETFs, novel forms of investment in the traditional classes, including new types of equity indices and new ETFs offering access to alternative strategies and classes. In addition to EDHEC's plenary sessions, the asset management companies that are partnering with EDHEC on this conference will be conducting six workshops on the latest innovations in the area of ETFs.

Noël Amenc, director of the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre, will be analysing the results of an exclusive survey of 200 top institutional investors, the EDHEC European ETF Survey 2008. During his presentation, Professor Amenc will be looking at new trends in ETF usage, the perceived benefits and drawbacks of ETFs vis-à-vis other indexing products, the adoption of ETFs and the core-satellite framework across the various asset classes and perceptions of ETFs as vehicles for alternative investment.

Apart from the ETF Summit, the second edition of the EDHEC Institutional Days will feature a series of other important initiatives for delivering research results to finance professionals:

The EDHEC-Wall Street Journal Europe Institutional Investor Forum will bring together the foremost figures in the financial services industry to discuss the impact of prudential regulations on investors' ability to meet their long-term investment objectives. The Pension Fund Conference will unveil the results of EDHEC's research in pension fund management and discuss a variety of issues relating to investment processes and techniques. At the EuroPerformance-EDHEC Alpha League Table Forum, the asset managers recognised for the quality of their management of equities will discuss the sources of their outperformance. The IPE-EDHEC Institutional Asset Management Awards will distinguish the best institutional asset management offerings in terms of active portfolio management, strategic asset allocation, and risk management. The State-of-the-Art Institutional Asset Management Master Class and the three Institutional Investment Management Seminars will demonstrate to investors how to use the most recent tools to improve their investment processes and will present novel approaches to inflation hedging and new access modes for investment in hedge funds, commodities, and real estate.

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