So how can you get involved?

The Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) is a dynamic public agency with an overall responsibility for attracting inward investment into Bahrain, and is focusing on target economic sectors in which the Kingdom offers significant strengths.
 
Key areas of focus include manufacturing, ICT, and logistics and transport services as well as other sub-sectors. The Financial Services sector in Bahrain is particularly strong and the EDB supports in the continuing growth of the banking industry and key sub-sectors, including Islamic Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Insurance and Re-Insurance.
 
For more information on the Bahrain EDB visit www.bahrainedb.com; for information about Bahrain visit www.bahrain.com

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. We operate in 156 countries and have more than 152,000 people working in member firms around the world. KPMG LLP, the United States member firm of KPMG International, traces its origins back to 1897 and since 1994 has been a limited liability partnership registered in the state of Delaware. With more than 24,000 employees and partners, KPMG LLP is a leader among professional services firms.

KPMG’s U.S. Investment Management practice is one of the fastest growing sectors of KPMG LLP. We go to market via three distinct segments—Mutual Funds, Investment Advisers, and Alternative Investments to serve our clients with more than 900 experienced audit, tax, and advisory professionals across the nation. For more information about our practice and industry expertise, please visit: www.kpmg.com.

Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company, provides independent insight on collective investments including mutual funds, retirement funds, hedge funds, and fees & expenses to the asset management and media communities.

As the world's leading fund research and analysis organization, Lipper covers over 125,000 funds globally. Lipper delivers premium data, fund ratings, analytics, and commentary through specialized products.

Investment professionals around the world rely on Lipper everyday for unparalleled expertise and insight into the fund industry.

Additional information is available at www.lipperweb.com.

Access Data Corp., a Broadridge Company, is a leader in enterprise data management, analysis and reporting for the financial services industry. Today leading asset management firms and financial intermediaries utilize our proprietary technology and services to solve a growing problem in the financial services industry, the lack of data transparency.  Using our solutions, firms can gain visibility into how sales and assets are generated and address a myriad of challenges in distribution, compensation management, compliance and risk management. 

Access Data aggregates and enhances sales and asset data from all recordkeeping sources, across all distribution platforms. We then transform your sales data into a valuable business asset that can be leveraged by your distribution, compliance and finance business areas to improve the management of critical business processes and drive strategies for growth.

Allianz Global Investors is a diversified active investment manager with a strong parent company and a culture of risk management. With 23 offices in 18 countries, we provide global investment and research capabilities with consultative local delivery. We have $405 billion in assets under management for individuals, families and institutions worldwide, and employ over 500 investment professionals.*

At Allianz Global Investors, we follow a two-word philosophy: Understand. Act. It describes how we look at the world and how we behave. We aim to stand out as the investment partner our clients trust by listening closely to understand their challenges, then acting decisively to provide them with solutions that meet their needs.

*Combined worldwide AUM as of March 31, 2013

BBH’s Investor Services business provides cross-border custody, accounting, administration, and execution services in close to 100 markets for many of the world’s leading asset managers and financial institutions. With approximately $3.2 trillion in assets under custody and administration (1.), BBH is consistently ranked among the world's top global custodians, asset administrators, foreign exchange, and securities lending providers (2.). As one of the world’s leading global custodians, BBH appoints multiple non-captive, subcustodian banks to diversify risks, improve information, inspire competition and benchmark a statistical and qualitative comparison of all of the service providers within the market.

BBH operates a global business with sixteen locations, including Beijing, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Dublin, Grand Cayman, Hong Kong, Krakow, London, Luxembourg, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Wilmington and Zurich.

1. As of December 31, 2011

2. As measured by results in major industry surveys. Please see http://www.bbh.com/accolades for a comprehensive listing of recent industry accolades.

Dassault Systemes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, serves over 170,000 companies worldwide across 12 industries. Recently recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the world’s most innovative companies, Dassault Systemes provides purpose built platforms for Investment Managers to help manage operations more efficiently and to innovatively grow their business.
 
Many of the challenges faced today, from governance and compliance to product innovation, efficiency and repeatability can be met through digitization of manual processes, quite literally by turning the operating manuals into a living, breathing digital system.
 
If you currently use an array of spreadsheets, word documents and legacy solutions with significant operational risk, discover:

•         A fully digitized and unified Product, People, Document and Project management platform
•         Real-time transparency with an integrated view of all processes, documents and stakeholder progress
•         Full stakeholder collaboration, either locally or globally
•         Repeatable and configurable product creation and management
•         Proven rapid deployment with ROI measured in months – not years
 
Transform your fund lifecycle for the entire value chain of your business:
3DS.COM/FINANCIAL-SERVICES

Northern Trust’s Global Fund Services is a leading provider of fund accounting, fund administration, transfer agency, middle-office outsourcing and global custody to investment managers and their funds.  Our unique expertise extends across products, fund vehicles and domiciles, delivering the flexibility associated with a boutique administrator - but with all the advantages of one of the world's leading financial institutions.

Michael Blake
New Business Development
Northern Trust
T: (312) 444-5655
E: mb147@ntrs.com
northerntrust.com/fundservices

Schroders is a global asset management firm with over 200 years of experience and $344.5 billion in AUM as of December 31, 2012.  As an active, research-driven manager with a singular focus on investment excellence, Schroders provides a full range of domestic, international and global investment management strategies. Our investment capabilities span global, developed and emerging markets, and are supported by extensive in-house resources that include research teams, analysts, economists and portfolio managers - a network of more than 360 professionals throughout 27 countries – one of the largest office networks of any dedicated asset management company.

The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI)

is the representative body of the Luxembourg investment fund community. Created in 1988, the Association today represents over one thousand Luxembourg domiciled investment funds, asset management companies and a wide range of service providers such as custodian banks, fund administrators, transfer agents, distributors, legal firms, consultants, tax experts, auditors and accountants, specialist IT providers and communication companies. The Luxembourg Fund industry is the largest fund domicile in Europe and a worldwide leader in crossborder distribution of funds. Luxembourg-domiciled investment structures are distributed on a global basis in more than 50 countries with a particular focus on Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. For further information, do not hesitate to consult our website at www.alfi.lu

Cerulli Associates is a Boston, London and Singapore based research firm specialising in asset management and distribution trends in markets around the globe.

It blends industry expertise, original research, and data analysis to bring perspective to current market conditions and forecasts for future developments.  It provides financial services firms with guidance in strategic positioning and new business development.

Expertise covers manufacturing and distribution issues across core areas in the U.S. marketplace including: managed accounts, intermediary, retirement, insurance and institutional asset management.

Cerulli's international practice covers retail and institutional asset management and distribution trends on a global basis and in 40 countries worldwide.

Boston Office:
699 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116

GlobalCustody.net

The industry utility... presenting service providers and service offerings, rankings and ratings, and news and events.

Established in 1999, GlobalCustody.net operates an open model.  In stark contrast to the traditional media model of serving a limited number of paying subscribers, core content is free-to-air and registration is optional.  This open approach has built by far the largest reach across all industry participants.

BarclayHedge, a leading source for proprietary research in alternative investments since 1985, has provided services as a publisher, database and software provider, and industry consultant. Barclay’s 18 hedge fund indices and 10 managed futures indices are utilized worldwide as performance benchmarks for hedge funds and managed futures.

EPFR Global provides fund flows and asset allocation data to financial institutions around the world. Tracking both traditional and alternative funds domiciled globally with $15 trillion in total assets, we deliver a complete picture of institutional and individual investor flows and fund manager allocations driving global markets. Our market moving data services include daily, weekly and monthly equity and fixed income fund flows and monthly fund allocations by country, sector and security.

FTSE Global Markets offers the best in comment and analysis on the world’s equity, debt and alternative investment markets. In a market-place crowded by awards, league-tables, sponsored statements and advertorials there is a real demand for authoritative and independent information and analysis that can be valued and trusted by key decision makers. FTSE Global Markets is now the source that investment institutions and professionals active in the global equity, debt and alternative investments markets turn to, knowing that it provides objective coverage.

Link to: www.berlinguer.com

GlobalCustody.net

The industry utility... presenting service providers and service offerings, rankings and ratings, and news and events.

Established in 1999, GlobalCustody.net operates an open model.  In stark contrast to the traditional media model of serving a limited number of paying subscribers, core content is free-to-air and registration is optional.  This open approach has built by far the largest reach across all industry participants.

HedgeCo.Net is the leading online community for qualified investors, hedge funds and service providers.  For investors, HedgeCo.Net offers the premier free hedge fund database and powerful tools to search, rank and analyze potential investments.  HedgeCo.Net members enjoy access to daily news, manager columns, and a comprehensive directory of service providers.

Hedge Connection has been helping managers and investors through web-based research, events and advisory work since 2005. Hedge Connection is the first and only internet- based platform that offers hedge funds direct access to a membership of "opt-in" qualified active hedge fund allocators. Investor members join for free and gain access to detailed information on hedge fund members. All members receive invitations to member's only events and partner discounts.

http://www.hedgeconnection.com.

Get the Fresh Lowdown on Alternative-Investment Activities Every week, Hedge Fund Alert delivers the early intelligence you need to anticipate money-making openings in the fund-management arena. The newsletter tells you what tight-lipped fund managers don’t want you to know. It also uncovers the secret moves of investors and other industry players. See for yourself -- sign up for a 3-week FREE trial subscription to Hedge Fund Alert. Start your free trial at HFAlert.com, or call 201-659-1700

“HFMWeek is the leading publication in the Hedge Fund Industry - serving a global readership of Hedge Fund Managers, Fund of Hedge Fund Managers, Investors and the wider community.

HFMWeek is the largest and only globally circulated magazine to the alternative investment industry; it is also the only specialist periodical for the sector that’s published weekly. The HFMWeek brand further services the community by providing online news via the website and daily email alerts, informative monthly networking events in London and New York and Industry Awards.

HFMWeek is published by Pageant Media Ltd. Offices in London, New York and Dubai”

About Ignites: Ignites is the preeminent source for news about the mutual fund industry, reaching more than 50,000 leaders across the world of mutual funds daily. Ignites is known and appreciated for its unique format which mixes world-class original reporting with summaries of relevant stories taken from other publications. Currently, 96% of mutual fun professionals have made Ignites part of their morning routine.

myInvestorCircle is a peer group network that serves as a resource for professionals working within the institutional investment space. The network is designed to allow you to better connect with the issues and ideas which matter to you, facilitating the exchange of knowledge, experience, information and ideas. Membership of myInvestorCircle is free to accredited individuals working at pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and other end-investor organizations.