Event Listing

Smart Energy International is the smart energy industry’s platform to the future. The event will focus on integration strategies for all the different components of the smart energy ecosystem. Featuring three key tracks on Energy Sustainability, Operations Excellence and Customer Engagement, the event will deliver insights from local and international utilities, government agencies and leading technology vendors.

The Private Equity Summit for Institutional Investors is designed for institutional investors to address current trends in Private Equity, Venture Capital and Leveraged Buyouts. Set to take place in September 2010, this private equity conference will investigate a variety of investment avenues and the most effective strategies for investing in each. We will discuss such issues as private equity portfolio theory, fund of funds as an investment vehicle, private equity buyouts in emerging markets, real estate opportunities and pitfalls, fixed income alternative investments, international investing, and more. In addition, we will cover operation and taxation issues, as well as valuation guidelines in order to keep attendees ahead of the curve. 

For information regarding cost, registration, and hotels, please see our website or email marketing@opalgroup.net

Healthcare reform has ushered in a new round of M&A activity in the provider market. A new and more energetic deal making environment is being driven by legislation enabling tens of millions of previously uninsured individuals to seek health services, by mandated IT infrastructure investments and by a strengthening economy and credit market.

However, given the many uncertainties such significant changes in the business landscape bring, the full contours of this new healthcare world are still revealing themselves. Many questions remain: What should providers do to position themselves for the full impact of healthcare reform? What geographic locations will experience increased demand for providers? Which market segments lack the economies of scale required for success? What terms and conditions will be available in the finance markets?

The 3rd Annual Healthcare Deal Making Summit – acknowledged as the industry standard forum for intelligence gathering and relationship building – is specifically designed to empower healthcare dealmakers with the latest expert analysis and the best opportunities to network with fellow executives. Leading players representing healthcare providers, private equity investors, commercial lenders, investment bankers and Washington insiders will come together to share their perspectives, gain market insight and develop the relationships that lead to deals.

Renowned for offering attendees the opportunity to hear from the highest level of speakers, the Healthcare Deal Making Summit will again represent the forefront of the market intelligence and the best chance to network with the people you need to make deals happen.

Opal Financial Group is proud to present its annual global asset allocation conference, which is designed to explore strategies and techniques employed to augment returns and mitigate risk in global asset allocation. This event addresses asset allocation strategies relevant to Public Pensions, Endowments, Foundations, Taft-Hartley Funds and Family Offices.

For information regarding cost, registration, and hotels, please see our website or email

marketing@opalgroup.net

Taking place on the 13th October 2010 in Singapore, the 2nd Annual CFO Asia Summit is Asia’s leading forum for the finest financial minds to understand the changing role of the CFO. Supported by the Asia Wall Street Journal, this event will gather some of the most influential CFOs to discuss how CFOs can contribute towards strategy development and value creation by combining financial discipline with strategic insights.

The European Alternative and Institutional Investing Summit will bring together institutional investment and private wealth management industry professionals from throughout North America and Europe for three days of engaging discussions on a wide range of common investment challenges and opportunities in both traditional and alternative investments. As we move forward, the ever-quickening pace of globalization compels investors and managers to continuously look beyond their own borders for innovative solutions to increasingly complex investment decisions. This event is a unique opportunity for meaningful exchange with colleagues from both sides of the Atlantic on a wide range of investing topics that are common to all who are charged with the management of institutional and sizable private assets.

UNIQUE CONFERENCE FORMAT
This alternative investing conference will exclusively feature dialogue driven panel discussions led by institutional investors, consultants and academics. Power Point presentations are prohibited.

DIVERSE PARTICIPANT DEMOGRAPHIC
The European Alternative & Institutional Investing Summit will feature participants from over a dozen countries from throughout Europe and North America.

Speakers include: Olivier Blanchard, IMF; Alfredo Sáenz Abad, Banco Santander; John S Varley, Barclays and William R White, OECD. Join these and other key figures from governments, regulatory bodies, financial institutions and international organizations to discuss vital issues such as:

• How can exit strategies from crisis-driven stimulus measures best be timed?
• Are the Financial Stability Board and the G20 providing enough support for macroprudential supervision?
• What is the role of investment banks in restoring growth?
• Investors looking for growth have focused on emerging economies, but are prospects secure or are new risks developing?

Registration
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/gff

Value creation for private equity funds and investors
Meet the leaders in Brazilian private equity - Partner with 150+ local and international investors, fund managers, and businesses
Seek the best deals- Discover opportunities in established and overlooked markets, from energy and infrastructure to consumer services and information technology
Maximize your return on investment - Formulate the strategies that will generate the best returns for your funds
 
What’s in it for me?
 
Investors
• Find the best fund managers in the region
• Profit from investment opportunities in established and overlooked markets
• Meet local private equity players and develop global partnerships
 
Fund Managers
• Uncover new strategies in exits, financing and operations
• Identify which sectors and companies will outperform in 2011
• Navigate Brazil’s evolving regulatory and business environment
 

Global Directors Forum's  "Private Equity Convention Russia ( CIS) & Eurasia" 2-3 December  2010, London  is designed as a networking platform for bringing together all the major general and limited partners investing and operating in  Russia,  the countries of the former USSR, China, India and the Middle East.

This convention will be assembled and delivered as the discussion based networking platform, where private equity professionals will be able to exchange their views and opinions in a friendly but structured conversation.
There will be no presentations or speeches in the discussion rooms, just extended exchange of opinions, ideas, and networking.
Everyone participates in the conversation equally and to their own willingness. A participant may choose and join any of the discussion he/she may find most useful. GDF meetings do not aim to gather the greatest number of participants, only the most senior: Alchemists of SuccessTM

Global Directors Forum's  "Private Equity Convention CEE & Northern Europe  3-4 February 2011, London  is designed as a networking platform for bringing together all the major general and limited partners investing and operating in  Central Eastern Europe and Northern Europe.

 

This convention will be assembled and delivered as the discussion based networking platform, where private equity professionals will be able to exchange their views and opinions in a friendly but structured conversation.
There will be no presentations or speeches in the discussion rooms, just extended exchange of opinions, ideas, and networking.
Everyone participates in the conversation equally and to their own willingness. A participant may choose and join any of the discussion he/she may find most useful. GDF meetings do not aim to gather the greatest number of participants, only the most senior: Alchemists of Success^TM