UPDATE (13-March-2008) -- Registrations are now being accepted for the SPA-2008 Conference for the discounted "first-mover advantage" rate, which expires on Friday, March 21. To access the discounted registration page -- click here. For those without a PayPal account, click on the link at the bottom left that says continue, and enter your information on the next screen.The SPA-2008 brochure is available here.
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Nearly 300 structured products professionals attended last year’s highly successful Structured Products Association annual conference in New York, and the SPA is taking North America’s longest-running and most highly attended structured investments event to the next level.
Focus on Distribution: In addition, the theme of this year’s conference is The Last Mile: the Future of Structured Products Distribution. The SPA Conference Committee has invited over fifty speakers from the distribution side to speak on the challenges they face in marketing, distribution, regulation, compliance and resources. Accordingly, SPA-2008 is focused primarily on bridging the needs of the distribution side – and providing a unique opportunity for the buy-side and sell-side to come together.
Awards Recognition for the Sell-Side: For the first time, SPA-2008 will present awards to some of the most innovative brokers and advisors using structured products in their clients’ portfolios. The recognition will be amplified in trade publications to encourage scores of other advisors to consider utilizing structured investments in portfolios.
New Location: The conference will move to the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York’s Grand Central in the center of the city, offering a highly accessible location to accommodate the growth in attendees.
Your participation in SPA events permits the Association to continue its successful efforts to position structured investments as a compelling new alternative in optimal asset allocation, and to remain out in front of legal, regulatory, tax and legislative issues. With a record $114 billion year in structured products sales in 2007, the SPA’s role in building the industry has been essential -- and it will become more ever more prominent.
SPA-2008 Participants from the Buy-Side (Confirmed or Invitees)
AG Edwards ALPS Ameriprise Blue Bell Claymore Countrywide Credit Suisse DWS Scudder E*Trade Eksportfinans Fidelity First Trust FIS-AAM Foreside Wholesaling Greenwich Research Hartford Life Incapital Invesco JPMorgan Private Bank JVB Kellogg LPL MyCFO Harris Bank Northeast Pension Consultants Northern Trust Nuveen Pershing Raymond James Raymond Jones Schwab Susquehanna UBS Wachovia Wealth 2k . . . and 20 more independent advisory firms and regional broker-dealers.
Topics for SPA-2008 (Some Speaking Roles Still Available)
MARKET GROWTH: What Distributors Need from Issuers to Double the Business in Two Years
EDUCATION: The Buzzword for the Future of Structured Products, But the Industry Needs to Do More
NEW MARKETS: Pensions Retirement Foundations Insurance Mutual Funds
REGULATORY: How the Industry Is in Front of Efforts from the SEC, Treasury, CFTC and Congress
NEW PRODUCTS: The Best of the New Generation of Structured Investments
INNOVATIVE INDEXING: 130-30 Strategies, Dynamic Indexes, Synthetic Hedge Funds
RETAIL’S FUTURE: Hear Directly from the Collective Crystal Ball of 50 Speakers on the Distribution Side
INDUSTRY CHALLENGES: How the Industry Responds to Anti-Competitive Efforts
Discounted "first mover advantage" registration for SPA-2008: $1,775
After Friday, March 21 the SPA-2008 single badge rate will be $1,975.
Contact structured.products.events@gmail.com for team discounts on 3-badge and 5-badge packages.
