The future of hedge funds - Roundtable for our banking & financial services customers
24 Jul 2009 | London
Hosted by Alison Burgin, Executive Director, the fourth in our roundtable series for banking and financial services customers provided everyone with the opportunity to hear first hand from Adam Slater, Senior Economist, Oxford Economics, a leading economic forecasting consultancy.
This exclusive and interactive roundtable provided delegates you with the opportunity to consider the future of hedge funds and how this new picture might affect their future skills needs.
Most importantly, delegates from a wide range of hedge funds were given the platform to share their own thoughts, experiences and challenges.
We are producing a discussion synopsis paper which will be available shortly. In the meantime you can read Adam’s presentation and find out more about his background below.
Presentation download:
The future of hedge funds (pdf, 848KB)
Discussion notes:
The future of hedge funds discussion notes (pdf, 165 KB)
Speaker Profile:
Adam Slater, Senior Economist, Oxford Economics
Adam Slater is a senior economist at Oxford Economics, responsible for contributing to and helping to communicate OE's global macroeconomic view including writing for and helping edit OE's regular publications. He has a particular interest in developments in financial markets, and specific forecast interests in the Japanese, Swedish and Danish economies. He is also involved in Oxford Economics' work on a variety of consultancy projects.
Before joining Oxford Economics, he spent more than ten years working as an economist and strategist in the City of London for Nomura, Rabobank and Calyon. During this period, he was responsible for analyzing a wide variety of economies in both the developing and the industrialised world. He also covered financial market developments, including developments in currency and bond markets, and worked directly with traders and salespeople to elaborate strategies for use internally and for dissemination to customers. Adam gained a first class degree in Economics from the University of Bath and also holds an MPhil from Cambridge University.
