The event will be held at the Downtown Association at 60 Pine Street, NYC on Thursday February 14^th.

A continental breakfast will be served at 7:30 AM, followed by the presentation at 8:00 AM.

The entire event will conclude prior to the opening of the U.S. Equities Markets.

Please RSVP to Mike Murray at 917.512.7250 or via email at mike.murray@shtg.com

DATE SENSITIVE!! - CONFERENCE IS THIS WEDNESDAY!

West Legalworks, a Thomson-West company

will be presenting a program (CLE/CPE credits):

"New Frontiers in Hedge Fund Due Diligence" 

March 19, 2008 in New York City

Millennium Broadway Hotel, 145 W.44th Street

New York, NY 10036  

Media Partners Include Hedge Fund Connection, Hedge fund Association and others

Learn Critical Insights and Best Practices for Investing in the 2008 Hedge Fund Market

Optimize Your Due Diligence to Minimize Risk

Hear From You Peers!

Registration Fee: $1295 - Group Discounts available

To Register or to request PDF Brochure Contact:

Steve Dressler
Account Representative
West Legalworks, A Thomson business
1-(800) 308-1700 Ext. 8425
Direct Dial: 1-(212) 337-8425
E-mail: steve.dressler@thomson.com

Financial Research Associates 4th Annual Fund of Funds Business Operations Forum is the only sophisticated two day event designed for COOs, CCOs, CFOs and back office partners to help you improve your firm’s business function and effectiveness. Scheduled for May 15-16, 2008, this comprehensive forum will give you the tools to maximize your operational efficiency. Whether you’re a small, medium, or large firm, our distinguished speaking faculty will show you how to enhance your fund’s effectiveness and optimize your back office productivity.

We’ve brought together the best of the fund of funds world to show you new strategies and techniques to strengthen your team’s operations. Together, they will cover:

• Best practices when designing and implementing a compliance program
• Tips for competing with other funds for the best and brightest new recruits
• Tools for writing a quality financial report
• Cross-border and international disclosure issues
• Prioritization and delegation of tasks
• Overview of marketing and advertising compliance for non-marketers
• Latest SEC hot button issues
• Practical advancements in technology and outsourcing for client servicing
• Best practices for compliance due diligence
• Opportunities for finding liquidity in your investments
• Creating an internal culture of compliance

• Our speakers are top industry professionals. These are accomplished leaders who will work from the ground up to help you build solid foundational knowledge.
• Our agenda is comprehensive. Why attend three or four conferences trying to tease out the information we so clearly present here, in a compact two-day format?
• We take your education seriously; the information is practical and actionable.
• We allow time for networking, so you can make contacts, start deals, and otherwise benefit from the fact that so many industry professionals are gathered in one place.

Tonkin’s

Key Issues in Private Equity Real Estate

September 23rd-24th, 2008

The Midtown Executive & Chemists' Club

Attendees at this event will:

*LEARN where the current inefficiencies exist and how you can capitalize

*FIND OUT how others in the industry are raising capital from pension and endowment funds

*DEVELOP your understanding of effective tax structures for your fund

Hear from the following industry leaders:

Scott Landress, Managing Principal, Liquid Realty Partners
Marcus Buerosse, Senior Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, Hearthstone
Sri Sambamurthy, Managing Director, Starwood Capital Group

Jeffrey  Barclay, Managing Director, ING Clarion

Dennis Yeskey, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Martin P. Kane, Senior Vice President, Talcott Realty Investors

Michael B. Cohen, Research Strategist, Property & Portfolio Research, Inc.

Paul Ryan, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Spencer Garfield, Managing Director, Hudson Realty Capital

Sarah Harris, Partner, Baker & McKenzie, LLP
Raj Tanden, Partner, Proskauer Rose, LLP

Robert J. Ivanhoe, Chair, Real Estate Practice, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Clint Myers, Senior Capital Markets, Property & Portfolio Research, Inc.
John C. Hart, Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Register Now For Best Rates!
 
To register, please visit:  http://www.TonkinCorporation.com or call: 646-895-7000

These are volatile times and the return of risk is affecting investors in different ways. The events of the past year have worried investors, and hedge funds are increasingly finding themselves geared towards tighter regulations.

Global Alpha Forum

September 16 - 18, 2008
The Alternative Investment Annual Meeting

Although set in Greenwich, Connecticut – "the hedge fund capital of the world" – the 2008 Global Alpha Forum is broader in scope than the standard hedge fund conference fare. The audience this year will once again consist of hedge fund managers, investors and advisors to hedge funds. The purpose of the conference is to bring international money allocators to Greenwich to meet the major participants in the U.S. Hedge Fund industry.

New program features have been added including: a gala networking reception on opening night, a tour of local hedge fund firms (for investors only) and special keynotes. Space is limited. Click here to reserve your space today!

Hosted By:

For questions or to register by phone, please call the Connecticut Hedge Fund Association at 203-319-1902.

Confirmed Participants Include:

• Rudolph W. Giuliani, Partner, Bracewell & Giuliani
• Larry Summers, Managing Director, DE Shaw; Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Daniel C. Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law & Policy, Yale University
• Glenn Hubbard, Dean, Columbia University School of Business
• Kevin Lynch, Head of Hedge Fund Research Group, Managing Director, CRA RogersCasey
• David Marchick, Managing Director and Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, The Carlyle Group
• David Wiederecht, President, Investment Strategy, GE Asset Management
• Martin Whittaker, Director of Environmental Finance Strategy, Mission Point Capital
• Paul Ezekiel, Global Head of Carbon Trading, Credit Suisse
• John A. Brunjes, Partner, Private Investment Funds, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
• Martin Leibowitz, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Equity Research Global Strategy
• Eugene A. Ludwig, Former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency
• Stephen Preston, Former Acting General Counsel of the Department of Defense; Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General with the U.S. Department of Justice
• Mark Yusko, Former CIO, University of N.C. & Founder, Morgan Creek Capital Management
• Andrew Baker, Deputy CEO, Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)
• Todd Groome, Head of Financial Markets, Stability Division, IMF
• Laurence B. Siegel, Director of Research, Investment Division, The Ford Foundation
• Michael Maduell, President, Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute
• Andrew Shrimpton, Former Head of Alternative Investments, FSA
• Peter C. Fusaro, Chairman & Founder, Global Change Associates
  

West Legalworks, a Thomson-Reuters business will be conducting the following conference:

HEDGE FUNDS: ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN TODAY’S CAPITAL MARKETS 

DECEMBER 11, 2008  

CITIGROUP CENTER ,153 EAST 53^RD STREET 50^TH FL. NEW YORK, NY 10022

REGISTRATION FEE: $995 GROUP DISCOUNTS APPLICABLE

TO ENROLL AND FOR ANY QUESTIONS CONTACT

STEVE DRESSLER 212-337-8425 steve.dressler@thomson.com

SUMMARY:

The subprime crisis remains the hot topic as financial institutions have recognized subprime-related losses and write-down exceeding U.S. $379 billon. The conference will focus on current issues impacting the Hedge Fund industry, featuring the current financial blood bath.

• Attendees will benefit from information expertly presented in the following topics:
• Current Issues Affecting Hedge Fund Activism
• Responses to Activism: How to Prepare and Respond to a Hedge Fund Attack
• Distressed Hedge Funds

Come learn from peers and colleagues how to prepare in these
uncertain times.

PROGRAM AGENDA:

PROGRAM FACULTY:

This conference is being co-chaired by Paul N. Roth, Partner, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. Roth is the undisputed expert on hedge fund formation. An astounding one-third of all hedge funds nationwide work with SRZ. Mr. Roth serves on the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD) Legal Advisory Board and is vice chair of the Subcommittee on Private Investment Entities of the American Bar Association. In addition, he has served as the chair of the Committee on Securities Regulation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is a past president of the Harvard Law School Association of New York City. He is listed in Who's Who in American Law and in The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Roth recently appeared on "Squawk Box" in a segment titled "Hedge Fund Masters Speak,"

Stephen Fraidin, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, is a co-chair of this conference. A leading practitioner in the merger and acquisitions arena, Mr. Fraidin’s practice includes the representation of major companies and investment groups, acquisitions, proxy contests and the representation of special committees and boards of directors regarding corporate governance and other matters. Mr. Fraidin has represented Forstmann Little & Co. since the creation of its leveraged buyout funds in a series of negotiated acquisitions and dispositions involving more than $30 billion, including its acquisition of Citadel Communications Corp.  He has also advised clients on numerous transactions including the following: Procter & Gamble Co. in a number of multibillion-dollar acquisitions; Northrop Grumman Corporation in its contested acquisition of Newport News Shipbuilding Inc.; and Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation in its merger with General Dynamics.

Mr. Fraidin has been a member of the board of directors, and he has also served as chairman of the Lawyers' Division of UJA-Federation of New York.  He is the 2002 recipient of the UJA's Joseph M. Proskauer Award.  Mr. Fraidin is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, and he has been a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School since 1987, teaching a course on "The Law and Economics of Corporate Control."  He is also a member of the National Advisory Board, and Board of Directors of the Children's Scholarship Fund.  Mr. Fraidin received his LLB from Yale Law School and his AB from Tufts University.

Mr. Fraidin is the author or co-author of a number of publications, including the following: "Toward Unlocking Lockups," co-authored with Jon D. Hanson, Yale Law Journal, May 1994; "Duties to Bondholders in Recapitalization and Restructurings," co-authored with Faith Stevelman, Practicing Law Institute's 23rd Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, November 1991; and "The Just Say No Defense," co-authored with Robert Lloyd Snyder, May 1990.

Speakers:

David A. Katz
Partner
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Rachel Posner
Senior Managing Director and General Counsel
Georgeson , Inc.

Roy J. Katzovicz
General Counsel
Pershing Square Capital Management

George Sard
Chairman and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Sard. Verbinnen & Co.

Joele Frank
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher

Henry Hu
Allen Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance
University of Texas School of Law

Stephanie Breslow
Schulte Roth & Zabel

John Tavss
Partner
Seward & Kissel

Marco V. Masotti
Partner
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

VENUE DETAILS:

Citigroup Center
Kirkland & Ellis LLP Conference Center, 50th Floor
153 E. 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022
Phone: (212)-446-4600

REGISTRATION FEE: $995 (GROUP DISCOUNTS APPLICABLE)

TO ENROLL CONTACT: STEVE DRESSLER 212-337-8425 steve.dressler@thomson.com