SPRING CONFERENCE AGENDA
April 14 -15, 2011
OMERS
Royal Bank Plaza, North Tower
200 Bay Street, 23rd Floor
Toronto, Ontario
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Thursday April 14th, 2011 |
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BIMA Spring 2011 Preliminary Agenda |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am |
BIMA Board Meeting |
| 8:00 am - 8:45 am |
Continental Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:50 am - 9:00 am |
Welcome Remarks
Milos Vukovic, RBC Asset Management |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am |
Panel - Regulatory Update
Moderator: Renee Colyer, Forefactor
Speakers: Torstein Braaten, MatchNow
Kent Bailey, OSC
James Twiss, IIROC
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| 9:45 am - 10:30 am |
Panel - New ATS Players in Canada
Moderator: Justin Schack, Rosenblatt Securities
Speakers: Peter Coffey, Instinet LLC
Darren Sumarah, Goldman Sachs Canada
Gary Knight, TMX Group
Dmitri Galinov, Credit Suisse |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am |
Coffee Break
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| 10:45 am - 11:45 am |
Panel - Inside the Liability Desk
Moderator: Craig Gaskin, TD Asset Management
Speakers: James Ehrensperger, BMO Capital Markets
Brian O'Hea, Cormark Securities
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| Noon - 1:15 pm |
Lunch sponsored by Cormark Securities
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1:15 pm - 2:00 pm
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Panel - How can the Buyside leverage available technology for Best Execution?
Moderator: Vidis Vaiciunas, Highstreet Asset Management
Speakers: Dan Kessous, Chi-X Canada
Andrew Hill, Instinet LLC
Tim Foote, Cormark Securities
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2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
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Panel - Where was that Execution? The Evolution of FIX and Execution Intelligence
Moderator: Michael Thom, Genus Capital Management
Speakers: Andrew Karsgaard, FPL Canada Chair, BMO
Capital Markets
Todd Lopez, GSET
Rob Pulkys, OTPP
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
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Coffee Break
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| 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm |
Panel - ETFs: A Deep Dive for Advanced Users
Moderator: Doug Clark, ITG Canada
Speakers: Kevin Gopaul, BMO ETFs
Greg Walker, Blackrock
Ian Williams, ITG Canada
Lewis Bateman, Horizons
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| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Cocktails - Liquidnet Canada offices |
| 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
Dinner sponsored by TD Newcrest (Buyside participants only)
e11even Restaurant, Maple Leaf Square, 15 York Street, Toronto ON, 416-815-1111 |
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Friday April 15th, 2011 |
| 8:00 am - 8:45 am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 am - 9:45 am |
Panel - Perspectives on Market Microstructure: Assessing the role of intermediaries, marketplaces and regulators in the Eco-system of equity trading
Moderator: Peter Haynes, TD Newcrest
Speakers: Michael Downey, NYSE Euronext
George Sofianos, Goldman Sachs
Craig Gaskin, TD Asset Management |
| 9:45 am - 10:45 am |
Q&A with Senior Exchange Executives
Moderator: Alison Crosthwait, Instinet
Speakers: Jos Schmitt, Alpha Trading Systems (9:45 to 10:15)
Kevan Cowan, TMX Group (10:15 to 10:45) |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am |
Presentation - Technicals for the Trader
Speaker: Jeff Degraaf, Renaissance Macro Research |
| Noon - 2:30 pm |
BIMA Members-Only Lunch
Moderator: Synthia St-Michel, Intact Investment Management |