Chairperson's Opening Remarks

Jeffrey Rubin Chief Economist CIBC World Markets

• Predicting what the results of the US election will mean for Canada’s financial markets
• Assessing how the credit crunch is affecting global financial markets now and into the future
• Identifying potential economic risk within your firm and implementing strategy to mitigate that risk
• Outlining opportunities for the Canadian markets in equities, commodities, and other asset classes

Dr. Burton Malkiel Professor of Economics Princeton University

• Examining the remarkable economic transformation of China and why rapid growth is likely to continue
• Outlining why investing directly in China is complicated and risky
• An indirect way investors can benefit from the growth of China: Purchasing multinational corporations domiciled outside of China whose future growth depends upon the growth of China
• Implementing a lower risk strategy combining direct investments in Chinese companies with indirect investments in global China-linked companies

	Vidis Vaiciunas VP and Head of Trading Highstreet Asset Management
	Etienne Phaneuf Director, Sales and Trading ITG Canada Corp.

• Outlining your future trading goals to determine which EMSs will help you achieve your business objectives
• Debating the advantages and disadvantages of a broker-neutral EMS
• Deciding when to add another EMS onto your system vs. replacing your existing one
• Optimizing the integration process among your multiple EMSs and OMS

	Jatin Suryawanshi Managing Director, US Head of Algorithmic Trading UBS Investment Bank
	Iran Hutchinson Product Manager/Software & Systems Architect InterSystems

• Outlining areas where algorithms may not be available to support your written strategies and trading platform; how do you overcome this challenge?
• Cost reduction vs. alpha capture: identifying algorithms to accomplish different objectives
• Deciding which algorithm to use with an algo of algos: Is this the next generation of algorithmic trading?

Topic-Specific Roundtable Discussions
Pick the topic most critical to your day-to-day equity trading needs. Here you will participate in structured discussion lead by our industry experts. Free from Power Point slides and published materials, all participants are able to share and uncover the strategies that will lead to greater profitability of your trading desk in 2009.

Pramod Udiaver VP of Trade Management TD Asset Management

• Understanding the key elements of the TCA framework
• Challenges in implementing and maintaining the process
• Best practices to make TCA robust and effective

• How Best Execution is fundamental to your fiduciary responsibilities
  
• Why implementation of a Best Execution framework is more than a regulatory imperative
  
• How Best Execution improves business performance and increased returns for clients
  
• Determining how cost management and risk management contribute to Best Execution
  
• Identifying what are "Best Practices" in Canadian asset management to benchmark your firm against others

#3 Market Structure Changes: New Trading Trends And The Risk And Opportunities For Best Execution In Canada

• Examining how the Canadian buy and sell sides are currently affected by today’s market changes
• What are the best practices to source liquidity in multiple venues and achieve best execution?
• What technologies and strategies can help traders on the buy and sell sides achieve best execution?
• Debating if trading technology and the new marketplaces provide an adequate alternative to broker services for the buy side
• Uncovering how sell side can add more value to their clients and thrive during the change