MONTREAL, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The 6th Annual World Alternative Investment Summit 2007, a major gathering of alternative investment professionals, end investors and advisors, will take place at the Hilton Bonaventure in Montreal, Canada November 5 - 7. In addition to presentations and panel discussions by leading specialists and stakeholders, the Summit now features a series of Capital Introduction sessions in which hedge fund managers briefly describe their fund's philosophies and answer investors' questions.
The Summit, an initiative of Canadian Hedge Watch Inc. and the Canadian Institute of Financial Planners, began as a local Toronto forum on the international hedge fund industry in 2001. Over the past several years it has taken on a truly global aspect and now attracts over 500 hedge fund specialists, end investors and advisors from around the world and 80-plus highly respected speakers from Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and North America. This Canadian event is one of the largest and most highly esteemed conferences in its field. Complete information on the Summit is available at http://www.waisc.com/.
Previous keynote speakers at the Summit have included David Longworth, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, Paul Moore, Vice Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission and Dr. Philippa Malmgren, a former advisor to the George W. Bush administration. Among the speakers confirmed for WAISC 2007 are: Kevin Birkett, Director - Asset Management, Dubai International Financial Centre, Dr. Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group, Andrew Alford, Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager, Goldman Sachs & Co. and Jerome Davis, Elected Employee Representative & Board Chairman, New Orleans Municipal Employees' Retirement System.
Tony Sanfelice, President of CHW says, "Our event, which has been growing tremendously every year and has been attracting the largest crowds in Canada has become one of the largest alternative investment events in North America. The growth in consumer awareness of hedge funds and other alternative investments, and in capital committed to these areas has created the need for a major alternative investment conference such as ours. The tremendous interest level in this subject area has allowed us to build on the success of prior Summits."
Canadian Hedge Watch Inc.
