4th Annual Trading and Investment India Summit

Hear what your clients are expecting over the next 12 months

At TradeTech India 2012, I had the opportunity to speak to most of the buy-side delegates, trying to understand what are their expectations and needs over the next 12 months, especially in this environment of uncertainty. Hear are what your clients have to say:

• As trading is expected to double over the next three years in India, the use of algorithms will definitely grow. Therefore the need of brokers’ services to improve the algo trading offerings is important. What value can they add to the buy-side.
• Despite the global economic turmoil, about 37% of them indicated that their organisation’s budgets would stay the same as in 2011. Encouragingly 13% responded that their budgets are not affected. So long as the spend is on effective brokers’ electronic trading tools, vendors’ technology and systems to help increase and accelerate their trading capabilities. But they will be more selective of tools, technology solutions and systems they would spend on.
• As many domestic buy-side traders are looking into adopting SOR and algorithmic trading tools in the next 12-18 months, they want to find out how proficient these tools are in improving their trading efficiency. Many are still trying to understand more on the usage and what costs and strategies are they looking at from the brokers.

For more information on how we can help you find a match with your clients, please email us at wbrinfo@wbresearch.com

If you would like to a speaker at the 2013 event, please contact Jaime at Jaime.ng@wbresearch.com

5 reasons why you should sponsor in 2013

1. A motivated marketplace - You will meet more than 65% senior traders, heads of IT and fund managers from the buy-side in 2013. These are your clients who are eager to understand how to adopt algo/SOR tools or find ways to improve their trading strategies. The event is free for qualified buy-side who has responsibility for trading, technology or investment decisions in their business. We will grow the buy-side attendees to more than 200 for 2013.
2. Get to know your clients better! Fantastic opportunities to find out:
   • what are your Indian clients looking for in the near future and expecting from you
   • what are the changes happening in their firms especially during this volatile time
   • what are their challenges in adopting or using your/your competitors electronic trading tools
   • from your them how your competitors are responding to their expectations
3. Keep your solution on your clients’ short list especially in times of recession – It was highlighted that trading in India is expected to double over the next three years; therefore we will see the use and adoption of algorithms from buy-side traders soar. This is the opportunity for you to promote how your new electronic trading and technology tools are being used to create value.
4. Examine key industry changes today - The hot topics that really matter are investigated in-depth at TradeTech India. For 2013 some of the hottest topics to be discussed will include:
   • Determining how does algo trading perform in the last 12 months – to what extend does it cuts down transaction costs and allows fund managers to take control of their own trading processes
   • How will algo trading in India impact the technol¬ogy spend?
   • Assessing which broker’s algorithm is best to use for a particular stock or strategy
   • Identifying new revenue streams and strategies to make profit in an environment of uncertainty
5. Because the buy-side is there, all the brokers attend, whether they are the big bulge bracket firms or the more regional brokers. This year they made up 27% of our audience. If you are a vendor who sells to the sell-side, this is the only one stop shop where you can meet the heads of electronic trading and trading technology.

Here is a sample of the companies that were in attendance at TradeTech India 2012. If you would like to take a look at the full list, email us at wbrinfo@wbresearch.com and we will forward you a copy. (Please quote the code “Web” when doing so)

• Account
• Aegon Religare Life Insurance
• Axis Asset Management
• Birla Sun Life Asset Management
• EM Capital Management, LLC
• Fidelity Investments
• Goldman Sachs Asset Management (India) Private Limited
• ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company Limited
• IIFL Mutual Fund Ltd.
• IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company Limited
• JF Asset Management Ltd
• Morgan Stanley Investment Management
• Motilal Oswal Asset Management
• Puneet Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd.
• Sundaram Asset Management Company Limited
• T Rowe Price International Inc.
• BNP Paribas Securities India Pvt. Ltd.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Daiwa Capital Markets India Private Limited
• Nomura
• Religare Securities Limited
• UBS AG
• Credit Suisse Securities (Singapore) Pte Ltd
• Deutsche Securities Asia Limited
• Goldman Sachs (India) Securities Private Limited
• IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company Limited
• Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited
• Star Union Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Company Limited
• Stonehenge Asset Management LLC
• Financial Technologies
• RTS Realtime Systems India Pvt. Ltd.