Blackrock Hedge Fund

The 2009 UK Opalesque Roundtable was sponsored by Newedge Prime Brokerage Group ( www.newedgegroup.com ) and held at their office in London with:

1. Anthony Ward, co-founder and Chairman Armajaro non-executive Armajaro Trading Limited

2. Aref Karim, founder of quality management of the capital

3. Douglas Shaw, CEO Alpha Strategies specialties, BlackRock

4. Duncan Crawford, Head of presentations of the capital, the group prime brokerage, Newedge Group

. Emmanuel Roman, Co-Chief Executive Officer, officer of GLG Partners 5

6. Giles White, Partner and CIO, Partners MaxCap

7. Lawrence Staden, the founder, GLC

8. Max Gottschalk, Executive Managing Director, Gottex

9. Oliver Dobbs, director of IT portfolio management, CQS

When Opalesque UK has published its first Roundtable in June 2008, the hedge fund industry had the worst storm yet to come. Today, one year after the unforgettable events of Q4 2008, the industry is still restructuring, but the survivors to move forward quickly.

In this new Opalesque Roundtable, the managers participating hedge funds and hedge fund investors information on:

• How the United Kingdom some of the largest hedge funds fare in 2008?
• What changes have been implemented in the future?
• What are the opportunities for hedge funds and their investors are focused right now?
• How to set up and use of managed accounts?
• Investors embrace UCITS 3 funds that are increasingly being undertaken by other management companies?
• Advantages and disadvantages of being a hedge fund manager public
• How do managers based in the United Kingdom respond to the directive ISA?
• With income tax is 50%, which will be migrated to Switzerland?

The 2009 UK Opalesque Roundtable can be downloaded here:

http://www.opalesque.com/RT/RoundtableUK2009.html

All other previously published Opalesque Roundtable Scripts can be accessed here:

http://www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=archiveRT

About Opalesque:

Matthias Knab, Director of Opalesque Ltd, moderates the Opalesque Roundtables. Matthias Knab is an internationally recognized expert on hedge funds and alternatives.

In 2003 with the publication of its daily newspaper market alternative, Opalesque successfully launched an information revolution in the coverage area of the Media Fund: "Opalesque changed the world by bringing transparency where there was opacity and by providing a service for the accuracy of professional relationship. " - Nigel Blanchard, Culross. This hybrid financial news service, which combines proprietary industry news and filtered third party reports, has been credited by industry insiders with many providing accurate, accurate, and vital public notoriously guarded .

Each week, Opalesque publications are read by over 600,000 industry professionals in over 160 countries. Opalesque is the only publisher of daily hedge fund that is read by the elite managers themselves (http://www.opalesque.com/op_testimonials.html).