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This year at FundForum International, Anat Bar-Gera joins us during the Global Growth summit, joining Julius O. Akinyemi, Liesbet Peeters and Anthony Stonefield in a discussion on transforming the entrepreneurship and business landscapes in emerging markets through technological innovation. Ahead of Anat’s participation at FundForum, we learn more about her work in Africa at the...

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Nick Hungerford, CEO at Nutmeg, will be joining us at FundForum International in 2013, participating in a panel on emergent innovators for catering to the digital customer in investment management.  Ahead of FundForum International, Nick tells us a bit about Nutmeg, and how it is revolutionising the customer’s experience in digital D2C advice Nick Hungerford...

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Christian Keller, MD at My Finance Coach, will be presenting new research this year at FundForum International 2013 on Gen Y Education – Financial Education strategies for the next generation of customers.  Ahead of his participation in Monaco, we learn a bit more about the work My Finance Coach have been doing. When you left...

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FundForum International 2013 is very pleased to have Julius Akinyemi presenting in Monaco this month.  Ahead of his participation at FundForum International, Julius shares some of his thoughts on the capabilities of mobile technology, and how they can shape the industry in the future. By Julius Akinyemi –Entrepreneur in Resident – MIT Media Lab /...

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FundForum International welcomes back Leading behavioural finance academic Greg B. Davies, MD, Head of Behavioural and Quantitative Investment Philosophy at Barclays Wealth. Greg is also an experimental composer, having recently co-creating the open outcry opera.  Watch our filmed interview and hear how a behaviour finance sound art/reality opera performance has got trader’s hearts and minds racing....

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Ahead of his participation at FundForum International 2013, Markus Hill shares some of his research with FundForum on Private Label Funds.  Markus will be speaking at FundForum International, analysing the demand for boutique funds in Germany. You can download the full FundForum International programme here.   By Markus Hill, Independent Asset Management Consultant “What the...

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Ahead of FundForum International, Peter Ryan, CEO of The MicroLoan Foundation, speaks with us about his work in Microfinance.  Peter will be speaking in a session on Impact Investing at this years FundForum International event. Like International Aid, Microfinance has come under fire recently, but Peter Ryan describes what to look for in a “good microfinance” organisation...

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Daniel Enskat and Robert Warren will be speaking at FundForum International 2013, delivering some great new research on re-branding Mutual Funds for Gen Y, and screening a showcase of some of the winning entries from a film competition run with the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.  See a snapshot of what to expect...

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FundForum International 2013 is delighted to welcome Nick Rees, Absolute Return Partners, to this years event. Nick will be speaking in the Global Distribution Summit at FundForum International this June.       In December 2013, Nick Rees (37), a UK-based investment manager will row across the Atlantic Ocean, unsupported.  To put the size of...

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What Is (and Isn’t) Funny About Economics? Yoram Baumann PhD will have the honour of launching the inaugural “Hair Of the Dog” Address at FundForum International 2013.  A California biding, left-wing libertarian  in love with comedy, economics and climate change, he is also “the world’s first and only stand-up economist”.  Not many economists have shared...

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