Sponsoring Organizations

Event Partners 

CBOE

CBOE, the largest U.S. options exchange and creator of listed options, continues to set the bar for options trading through product innovation, trading technology and investor education. CBOE offers equity, index and ETF options, including proprietary products, such as S&P 500 options (SPX), the most active U.S. index option, and options on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). Other products engineered by CBOE include equity options, security index options, LEAPS options, FLEX options, and benchmark products such as the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (BXM). CBOE's Hybrid Trading System incorporates electronic and open-outcry trading and is powered by CBOEdirect, a proprietary, state-of-the-art electronic platform that also supports the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), C2 Options Exchange (C2), CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX) and OneChicago. CBOE is home to the world-renowned Options Institute and www.cboe.com, named "Best of the Web" for options information and education.

CBOE is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with all trades cleared by the OCC.

Nexus Risk Management

Nexus Risk Management provides clear, transparent and complete solutions for managing risk. As a company, we focus exclusively on risk. Specializing in Asset Liability Management, Dynamic Hedging and Enterprise Risk Management, we deliver tools, training, expertise and execution to enable our clients to maximize risk efficiency.

Worldwide we work closely with insurance companies and pension plans, rating agencies and regulators, leading experts from academia and the investment industry as well as reinsurers and other counterparties to bring together deep industry knowledge, leading edge techniques and best practices from around the world. Using robust ALM and LDI frameworks that are fully integrated within ERM we deliver state of the art dynamic hedging programs, asset management within a risk framework and risk optimization.

Through our offices in Toronto, Seoul, Hong Kong and Chicago we provide highly specialized services to our clients globally.

Conning

Conning is a leading asset manager for the insurance industry, with almost $85 billion in assets under management through its Hartford and Dublin investment centers as of November 30, 2011. For more than 25 years, Conning has built its asset management business to meet the investment and financial needs of insurers. The Company's unique combination of asset management, risk and capital management solutions and insurance research helps clients achieve their financial goals through the implementation of customized business and investment strategies. Founded in 1912, Conning is headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, with additional offices in New York, London, Dublin, Cologne and Hong Kong.