EDHEC Institutional Days in Paris on June 12-13

This new joint event will capitalise on the previous success of both events, with the most recent editions having attracted in total more than 1,500 institutional investors, asset managers and private bankers. By merging the two events, EDHEC's intention is to establish the most important European conference for institutional investment management in Paris.

The philosophy behind the EDHEC Institutional Days is to allow research results to be compared with the practices and needs of European institutional investment professionals. EDHEC's independence, the original approach which leaves time for both instruction and discussion during the sessions, and the highly selective speaker panel, make the EDHEC Institutional Days an ideal conference for European institutional investors who are concerned about maintaining best level practices in both technical and conceptual terms.

The EDHEC Institutional Days 2008 will take place over two days in Paris on June 12-13 on the renovated site of CNIT- La Défense and will include four conferences, panels, and forums with genuine significance for European institutional investors.

ETF Summit. The second ETF Summit will be devoted to the new forms of ETFs, whether involving new forms of indices or investment in the traditional classes or new asset categories or classes. EDHEC Wall Street Journal Europe Institutional Investor Forum. The subject of the forum will be how to evaluate the solvency of institutional investors. On the basis of a report specially prepared by the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre, a debate moderated by the editorial team of the Wall Street Journal Europe will put into context the challenges and limitations of the application of the new Solvency II directive for the institutional investor community. EDHEC Pension Fund Conference. This conference involves the presentation of EDHEC's research into the management of pension funds by EDHEC's professors and researchers and comments from a panel comprising the CIOs of the major institutional pension funds. Topics in 2008 will range from the integration of regulatory constraints into the management of European pension funds to how to evaluate the risk of inflation. EuroPerformance EDHEC Alpha League Forum. This forum allows the asset management companies recognised at the European level for their active management of equities within the Alpha League Table drawn up by EuroPerformance and EDHEC, and published by the Financial Times and Les Echos, to present their investment processes. The presentations take place in the form of workshops introduced by EuroPerformance's analysts and conducted by the asset management company selected.

Alongside these four events, EDHEC will be organising training seminars that will allow investors and asset managers to assess the regulatory challenges and technical progress in the area of institutional investment.

EDHEC Solvency II Seminar L'Etat de l'art de la gestion institutionnelle EDHEC MiFID Seminar Stratégies alternatives 2008 EDHEC Commodities Seminar Immobilier financier

EDHEC has long-standing historical ties with a number of weekly and monthly magazines in the financial industry. For the EDHEC Institutional Days, EDHEC is delighted to have set up a special partnership with two media publications that are highly respected sources of information for European institutional investors: the Wall Street Journal Europe on the EDHEC Wall Street Journal Europe Institutional Investor Forum and Investment & Pensions Europe.

In partnership with Investment & Pensions Europe, EDHEC will be presenting the inaugural IPE EDHEC Institutional Asset Management Awards at a special gala dinner. This event, which is independent from, but in synergy with, the EDHEC Institutional Days, will be an occasion to honour the best European asset management companies. The awards will be attributed on the basis of a methodology defined by the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre in collaboration with an advisory committee made up of major European institutional investors. 500 pension fund representatives will be invited to the gala awards ceremony.