Exchangetradedfunds.com a information website will be announcing the winners of the 2009 Global ETF® Awards following a half-day Workshop on April 29th, 2010.
The event begins in the afternoon with the Workshop, which will feature two distinct sessions--the "Investors Discussion Forum" and the "Industry Discussion Forum". Each forum is designed to educate and to facilitate discussions on issues ranging from trading strategies for investors to new product developments and global regulatory challenges. Speakers from the American, European, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Latin American marketplace will be sharing their experiences using ETFs , ETCs amd ETNs in their respective markets.
The Workshop concludes with a cocktail reception that will be held before the Awards dinner.
About the Global Awards: The 6th Global ETF Awards® recognizes achievements in the ETP Industry. The winners were selected from over 500 votes cast by ETP industry entities worldwide and tabulation of statistical information. The exciting evening includes award presentations in 18 categories including Most Innovative ETF and ETP Product, Most Recognized ETF Brand, Most Innovative ETF Index, Most Proactive Exchange for ETF Derivatives, Largest Growth of Assets under Management among other categories.
The lead sponsor of the Global ETF Awards Dinner® and Workshop is the BNY Mellon. Other sponsor firms include Flowtraders, STOXX, Barclays Capital, Dow Jones, Emerging Global Advisors, International Securities Exchange, Knight, NASDAQ OMX, SPDRs, and Standard & Poor's,
Speakers include: David Abner, Director of Institutional ETF Sales and Trading, WISDOM TREE, Mark Abssy, Index & ETF Manager INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES EXCHANGE , Dilek Aykut, Senior Economist, THE WORLD BANK, Reginald M. Browne, Managing Director, Listed Derivatives Trading, KNIGHT EQUITY MARKETS, L.P., Richard Ciuba, Sr. Director Americas, DOW JONES INDEXES, Peter Crawford, Senior Vice President, IMS Client Solutions, CHARLES SCHWAB, Deborah Fuhr, Managing Director, Global Head of ETF Research and Implementation Strategy, BLACKROCK Dr. Hartmut Graf, CEO, STOXX, Richard Kang, Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research, EMERGING GLOBAL ADVISORS LLC Joseph Keenan, Managing Director, BNY MELLON , John Li, Chief International Business Officer, China Asset Management, Kathleen Moriarty, Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP, Pietro Poletto, Head of ETF Securitised Derivatives, LSE Group, Sanjiv Shah, Executive Director, BENCHMARK ASSET MANAGEMENT CO PVT. LTD ,Don Suskind, Senior Vice President, PIMCO Andres Eduardo Jimenez Velez, Head Equity Sales, INTERBOLSA, among others.
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