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Over GBP125,000 raised for NSPCC at AIMA 25th anniversary event

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The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), has marked its 25th anniversary with a series of events including a charity dinner for member firms that raised over GBP125,000 for the NSPCC, the children’s charity.

Close to 300 guests attended the AIMA 25th Anniversary Charity Dinner at the Guildhall in London. The funds raised will enable the NSPCC to reach 25,000 more children through its pioneering Schools Service, delivered by trained volunteers who go into primary schools across the UK to talk to children about abuse and how to stay safe. 
 
The Charity Dinner, which featured keynote speeches by Emmanuel “Manny” Roman, the CEO of Man Group, and Peter Wanless, the CEO of the NSPCC, was one of a number of events to mark the Association’s anniversary.
 
AIMA’s 25th Anniversary Annual Conference on 24 September drew 400 attendees to the Guildhall and featured an address by the Rt. Hon. Greg Hands, the UK’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
 
The conference, sponsored by Simmons & Simmons, EY and State Street, also featured David Wright, the Secretary General of IOSCO, as well as a number of senior representatives of fund management firms including Simon Lorne, Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer of Millennium Management, and Stuart Fiertz, Co-Founder and President of Cheyne Capital Management.
 
The anniversary was also marked by a special one-off publication titled ‘25 Years in Hedge Funds’, which looked back at the last quarter-century for both AIMA and the global hedge fund industry.
 
AIMA CEO Jack Inglis (pictured) says: “Raising over £125,000 for the NSPCC was a fitting way to mark our 25th anniversary and underlined the strong charitable and philanthropic tradition in the hedge fund industry.
 
“We are hugely proud of everything which AIMA and the industry have achieved over the last 25 years, a period for hedge funds marked of course by globalisation, institutionalisation and increased regulation. In that period, from humble beginnings, AIMA has grown into a truly global organisation, with offices in every region of the world and close to 1,600 member firms in 55 countries.
 
“The international nature of investing, trading and regulation means it has never been more necessary for the hedge fund industry to have a global representative. The next 25 years will doubtless see even more change – but ever present will be AIMA, representing and speaking up for hedge fund firms, large and small, wherever they are based around the world.”
 

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