Singapore

3 - 4 December 2012

Alpha Asia is the leading forum for the world’s investors to re-evaluate portfolios, seek new investment opportunities and gather knowledge and opinions from market experts and analysts in order to build a sustainable investment portfolio that maximizes returns. 

 Following the success of Asialaw’s well-established annual Asia-Pacific In-house Counsel Summit in Hong Kong, the Southeast Asia Summit in Singapore will tackle a range of issues pertinent to the daily lives of corporate counsel in the region. These include the enforcement of legal rights in growth markets, foreign ownership restrictions, and political instability. These issues remain challenges for growth economies and businesses, and have been highlighted as major barriers to doing business in Southeast Asia.

 16-18 October 2012

 
Agriculture Investment Summit 2012 is an event for investors and agriculture companies to learn about partnership & investment opportunities in agricultural commodities, companies and farmland in Asian regions.
 
It is the definitive knowledge platform for investors in Asia to learn about how to invest in the agriculture sector, with comprehensive updates on all investment classes – companies, land, agriculture funds, ETFs and other products.
 

14 – 16 May 2012 - Dubai
21 – 23 May 2012 - Singapore
 
The business world today has never been more turbulent and uncertain and the ultimate measure of decision making in any context is and will be financially inclined. Consequently in the new challenging business environment it is imperative that managers and professionals responsible for management and leadership of the companies, subsidiaries and divisions should be able to understand financial jargon, use and understand the financial information to engage in financial discussions and take ownership for management and control of their respective organisations. 
 

 21 - 22 May 2012

Salvo’s two day course on advanced risk management for banking institutions focuses on the best practices in modeling liquidity risk undertaken by leading financial institutions after the lessons learned from the global financial crisis. The course tackles liquidity risk in conjunction with other risk categories (traditionally seen as disjoint risk classes) such as market and credit risk. The course leads the attendees through all relevant liquidity risk measures that are being adapted to reflect the newly created complexities of modern financial markets such as analytics, forecasting, measurement and risk indicators & metrics. In addition, the course will cover the key areas of funds transfer pricing, stress testing, contingent planning and the new regulatory requirements under Basel III.

7 - 8 March 2012

Assessing high growth SEA sectors through private equity investments

Join over 150 of the region’s leading CEO's, chairmen and business owners focused on buyouts, growth capital, distressed asset and venture capital investment assessing the top opportunities in Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia.

10 - 12 April 2012

Volumes in the derivatives market keep expanding. According to BIS (Bank for International Settlements) the total notional amounts outstanding grew by 18% in the first half of 2011, reaching $708 trillion by the end of June 2011. At the end of October 2011, the yield on the one year German Bund turned negative. In addition, regulators are working around the clock implementing new regulations that will create mandates to form SEF (Swap Execution Facilities).

This course covers interest rate derivatives, currency swaps as well as volatility and variance swaps. Risk management will also be covered.

19 - 21 March 2012

Participants in this workshop will develop a framework for recognising and analysing qualitative and quantitative project risks, and learn how to choose the optimal funding structure when financing green-field projects and facility upgrades in the energy sector. You will also understand how Excel models are used to assess project debt capacity, return on investment, and other metrics common to attractive deals.

The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 opens the door to the secretive world of high-frequency trading, the most controversial form of investing today; in the name of protecting the algorithms they have spent so much time perfecting, speed traders almost never talk to the press and disclose as little as possible about how they operate.

The Speed Traders Workshop 2012, led by Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders, An Insider’s Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, reveals how high-frequency trading players are succeeding in the global markets and driving the development of algorithmic trading at breakneck speeds from the U.S. and Europe to India, Singapore and Brazil.

27 - 28 March 2012

Commodities Week Asia 2012 is Asia’s only event that brings together institutional investors, asset managers, fund managers, investment banks, brokers, exchanges and technology providers to discuss the latest trends, opportunities and challenges in the commodity marketplace.