The EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre will be staging the second edition of the EDHEC Institutional Days in Paris on June 12 and 13, 2008. The first edition of the EDHEC Institutional Days in November 2006 attracted over 800 institutional investors and asset managers to Paris and 1,200 delegates are expected to attend this latest event, which will feature more than 50 top speakers and panellists, including leading European institutional figures. The EDHEC Institutional Days are the most important initiative for delivering research results to finance professionals.

Two major events will take place on the first day of the conference: the ETF Summit will feature an exclusive presentation of the results of the EDHEC European ETF Survey 2008 and the unveiling of an EDHEC study on the merits and demerits of fundamental indices®; and the IPE EDHEC Institutional Asset Management Awards will be staged for the first time. These awards will evaluate the quality of the institutional asset management offerings from investment management firms in Europe.

The second day will feature the inaugural edition of the EDHEC-Wall Street Journal Europe Institutional Investor Forum. This exceptional event will include the participation of keynote speaker Jaap Maassen, First Vice Chairman of the European Federation for Retirement Provision and Director of Pensions and Member of the Executive Board, ABP Investments, who will be joined by panellists from leading European pension funds and insurance companies, the European Commission and the World Bank.

Over the two days of the EDHEC Institutional Days, the Pension Fund Conference will examine how regulatory and accounting constraints can be integrated into institutional investment management and will include an initial presentation of the results of the EDHEC European Investment Practices Survey; and the European asset management companies recognised for the quality of their active equity management in the Alpha League Table drawn up by EuroPerformance and EDHEC will present their investment processes and discuss the sources of their outperformance at the EuroPerformance-EDHEC Alpha League Table Forum.

Academic experts from the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre will also be presenting their applied research and discussing the results with the institutional investor and fund management communities on a range of themes such as:

- Dynamic allocation strategies with ETFs
- How to create successful commodities programmes
- Novel approaches to inflation hedging
- Dynamic risk budgeting in ALM
- How to design efficient indices and optimal benchmarks

For more information please contact :

Mélanie Ruiz - Tel.: +33 (0)4 93 18 78 19 - E-mail: eid2008@edhec-risk.com

To learn more: visit EDHEC Risk website.

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