Why New FundForum is Essential To Your Future Business Success

Ten Cost-Effective Benefits

Hear 35 CEOs On How To Respond To Emergent Industry Agenda Affecting The Ongoing Success Of Your Business Model Read more.

We ask - What Are The Business Models For Sustainable Growth Going Forward? You need to know first hand how the industry is reshaping through external forces such as regulators, or broader business trends affecting your business, such as the rise of telecoms or fmcg financial services as well as the increasing power of the consumer through customer advocates.


Be Sure Of Meeting With More European Distributors & Fund Selectors Than At Any Other Event, In A Period Of New Distributor Dynamics. Read more.

Make sure you find out who the who the new Global Distribution Leaders will be and what they want.

From the Distribution Summit focussing on “How Do We Redraw The Distributor / Manufacturer Relationship For A New Era of Fees & Transparency”. to the Country By Country Roundtables to The Special Thursday Customer Focus and New Research from leading analysts, make sure you understand the new dynamics.

Which Investment Approaches Will Investors Will Be Prepared To Adopt And Why? Read more.

How Must You Adapt Your Products & Distribution Strategy? Gain indepth knowledge, the hard details consumer group by consumer group.  For the first time at any major mutual fund event we present a deep focus on the consumer and their changing drivers, behaviour and product preferences. 

Remain Relevant To The B2B and B2C Customer Of Tomorrow?: Creating Customer –Centric Businesses – from the Boardroom Out Read more.

Through our Special Focus Thursday on “ Building A Customer –Centric Business” you have the exceptional chance to hear the latest research from specialist experts never seen before at FundForum. We present an unrivalled range of new information for business heads looking to see how existing businesses can learn and adapt from new innovations in customer -centric businesses.

The whole day is presided over by some of the leading CEOs and business heads in the European market such as  Joachim Faber, CEO, Allianz;  Alain Dromer, CEO, AVIVA; Philip Warland, head of Policy,  Fidelity, Standard Life, Alliance Trust, Schroders and Citi Consumer Group.

Be Party To Shaping The Pre & Post Retirement Product Of The Future That Delivers What It Says.  Read more.

Be party to top asset management leaders plans to develop products that deliver what they promise to the consumer in response to regulatory change.  Assess the implications for your marketing, product development and distribution strategies and learn directly from EU Regulators such as Eddy Weymeersh, Chairman CESR.

Best-Practice: Redrawing The Distributor / Manufacturer Relationship The Distribution Summit 28th June 2010 Read more.

NEW Distribution Summit 2010 28th June
Known for its intense discussion and high levels of interaction we present more Fund Selectors than ever before for 2010. With a whole new range of speakers drawn from sub-advisory, wholesale, private banks, wealth management and retail intermediaries or end distributors we will be intensely discussing one of the most critical practical issues facing asset management today - Redrawing The Distributor / Manufacturer Relationship For A New Era: Compensation, Partnerships, Transparency, Collaboration

Dont' Miss Cutting Edge Thought-Leadership and New Research, over 15 Pieces From New Asset Allocation to The Consumer Trust Gap....   Read more.

• Dr. Randolph B. Cohen, Assoc.Professor Finance, MIT SLOAN on the New Asset Allocation
• Suzanne Duncan, Financial Markets Industry Leader, IBM INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS VALUE on Plugging The Asset Management Trust Gap
• Shiv Taneja, MD, International Research, CERULLI ASSOCIATES on Forecasts And Trends 2010-2011:
• Hans Jürgen Schmolke, CEO , METRINOMICS on Fund Selector Preferences & Biases Country By Country
• Benjamin Phillips, Partner, Director, Research, CASEY, QUIRK & ASSOCIATES LLC on New Metrics For Sustainable Profitability:
• Lee Bryant, Founder, HEADSHIFT on Web 2.0 Innovation In New Customer -Facing Financial Platforms
• Christophe Langlois, Founder, VISIBLE BANKING on Customer Advocacy
• Patrick Dixon, Europe’s Leading Futurist, GLOBAL CHANGE on New Consumer Behaviour, New Competitors, New Asset Management Rules:
• Roger Peverelli, Founder, VODW on Changing Drivers of B2B and B2C Consumer Behaviour

Target, Connect And Do Business With Whom You Need: New Structured Networking Features Across The Event Read more.
In -Advance Peer To Peer Networking
• NEW FEATURE MYFUNDFORUM ADVANCE E- NETWORKING Four Weeks Of Pre- Event Interactive Meeting Planning
• NEW: PLAN, TAILOR AND PRINT OUT YOUR OWN DAILY AGENDA IN ADVANCE
  by Theme, Networking Format or day to maximise your time 
• ADVANCE LISTINGS OF FUND SELECTORS AND ASSET MANAGERS ATTENDING 
  
  At The Event: Four Days Intensive Face To Face Networking Opportunities
  
• NEW: THE SECURE ELECTRONIC DELEGATE LIST STREAMED ONTO YOUR BLACKBERRY OR IPHONE: To Help Identify, Message, Connect, Exchange Details By Mutual Consent on the day
• NEW: FUND SELECTOR ASSET MANAGER SPEEDNETWORKING : Every Day
• NEW INFORMAL COUNTRY BY COUNTRY ROUNDTABLES WITH FUND SELECTORS on product flows and customer preferences. Hear insights on France, German- Speaking Europe, Italy, Spain, BeNelux, Nordic Region & UK
• NEW: FUND SELECTORS CLOSED DOOR PORTFOLIO SESSIONS: Top Portfolio Managers’ Private View Showcases. 
• NEW: CEO/REGULATOR CLOSED DOOR BOARDROOM SESSION: Asset Manager CEOs and Regulators On Policy & Practice – in association with EFAMA and The Presidents’ Council – By Invitation Only CEOs Contact Programme Director, Jenny Adams at Jadams@icbi.co.uk to inquire
• NEW: USERSMART ROUNDTABLES: Informal Discussions On The Best Customer-Focussed Technology or Operational Business Solutions Led By Users and Their Distributors. To have your technology or solution discussed by your clients contact Ed Jones on ejones@icbi.co.uk for more details
• MORE SMALL GROUP CEO LUNCHES Every Day: Our highly successful, always over subscribed series of high profile, small group lunches with the most senior players int eh industry continues
• MORE CLOSE UP, INFORMAL Q&A WITH AN AUDIENCE WITH OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKERS & BOOKSIGNING: Every lunchtime have the unique opportunity to ask those awkward questions and get that booked signed from New FundForum's keynote speakers. Held in our Showcase Theatre at the heart of the event this is your chance to meet Europe's leading futurist and expert in global business trends, Patrick Dixon on Day 1, and Lehman Insider, Lawrence Macdonald  on Day 2 
• NEW: BUILDING A CUSTOMER-CENTRIC BUSINESS SMALL GROUP ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS: with our panel of CEOs and leading customer experts on the Special Focus Thursday
Ensure Your Firm Is Represented In One of Our Exclusive New Closed Sessions. 1. Fund Selectors Only: Portfolio Manager Showcase.  2. For Asset Manager CEOs Only in association with EFAMA,  The CEO/Regulator Boardroom Session on Policy and Practice.  Read more.

1. For Fund Selectors Only: Portfolio Manager Showcase. If your firm wants to present a Top Fund Manager to our Fund Selector community please contact Ed Jones ejones@icbi.co.uk

2. For Asset Manager CEOs in association with EFAMA,  The CEO/Regulator Boardroom Session on Policy and Practice. By Invitation Only. If your CEO wishes to attend this exclusive and very important session, please contact Jenny Adams jadams@icbi.co.uk 

Glamourous Social Events Still Make The Focal Point of The Largest Gathering of European Asset Manager Players and Leading Distributors.   Read more.

....and you still can't beat the Cote D'Azur for a location.

With our newly launched Fund Selector Only Dinner and VIP Drinks Reception, we also will be making sure that our famous evening socials are as attractive and effective as ever at enabling business to be done in the most informal and enjoyable way possible.

For further information please contact Ed Jones ejones@icbi.co.uk