ETF Securities continues its series of conference calls for finance professionals:
UCITS III and Permitted Investments
Date: Tuesday 7th September 2010
Time: 11:00am and 15:00pm London Time
Speaker: Townsend Lansing, Product Development & Structuring,
ETF Securities
This call will discuss:
- Key issues concerning UCITS and investing in ETCs
- ETCs and Embedded Derivatives
- Summary and Conclusions
- Question and Answer Session
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Gold and Sovereign Risk: What's Behind the Rise of Gold and Will it Be Sustained?
Date: Thursday 9th September 2010
Time: 11:00am and 15:00pm London Time
Speaker: Martin Arnold, Senior Analyst,
ETF Securities
This call will discuss:
- The rise of sovereign risk a new key driver of returns
- Investment Characteristics of Gold
- Fundamental Drivers of the Gold Price
- The outlook for gold
- Summary and Conclusions
- Question and Answer Session
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Palladium: A Producer's Perspective - Norilsk Nickel on the Palladium Markets
Date: Tuesday 14th September 2010
Time: 11:00am and 15:00pm London Time
Guest Speaker: Anton Berlin, Head of Department, Market Analysis and Development,
Norilsk Nickel
This call will discuss:
- Palladium Market Fundamentals
- Mining Challenges
- Recycling Basics
- On-Ground Stocks
- Automotive Use and Trends
- Other Industrial Applications
- Luxury Palladium
- Palladium Investment
- Summary and Conclusions
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Bio:
Anton Berlin is currently the Head of Market Analysis and Development for Norilsk Nickel, a leading global mining company headquartered in Russia. Norilsk Nickel is Russia's largest producer of nickel and palladium and a major supplier of copper, cobalt, gold, platinum and other platinum group metals to world markets. Mr. Berlin has held this post since 2003. He has been with Norilsk Nickel since 1999. He was also Senior Lecturer at Moscow State Aircraft Technology University from 1999 to 2003.
Prior to working for Norilsk Nickel, Anton was the Head of Laboratory at Moscow State Aircraft Technology University and the Head of Foreign Trade Department at Elincom Company.
Anton was educated at Moscow State Aircraft Technology University, receiving a Masters Degree with a specialty in Systems Engineering and Production Administration for Aircraft Instruments and Flight Control Systems. He was born in Moscow, where he resides with his wife and two children.
The Outlook for Oil and Natural Gas: Fundamental Price Drivers and How Futures Curve Dynamics Affect Returns
Date: Thursday 16th September 2010
Time: 11:00am and 15:00pm London Time
Speaker: Nicholas Brooks, Head of Research and Investment Strategy,
ETF Securities
This call will discuss:
- Introduction to ETF Securities
- Flow and Price Trends: What do They Tell Us?
- Futures Curve Dynamics: Recent Trends and Key Drivers
- The Fundamentals of Oil and Natural Gas: Long-term and Short-term Developments
- Summary and Conclusions
- Question and answer session
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The Investment Case for Gold
Date: Tuesday 21st September 2010
Time: 11:00am and 15:00pm London Time
Guest Speaker: Marcus Grubb, Managing Director, Investment Research and Marketing,
World Gold Council
This call will discuss:
- Why Gold? Its Role in an Investment Portfolio
- Long Run Supply and Demand Fundamentals
- Recent Price Drivers
- The Dollar
- Inflation Concerns
- Official Sector Purchases
- The Search for Diversification and Portfolio Insurance
- Summary and Conclusions
- Question and Answer Session
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Bio:
Marcus' key role is to drive forward the World Gold Council's research into the strategic role for gold in investment portfolios, catering for the needs of private banking professionals, family offices and endowments, institutional investors and their respective advisors. He leads the World Gold Council's investment programme globally.
Marcus has over 20 years experience in the investment industry and a strong background in financial products, in particular global equities and derivatives. As global head of equities for Rabobank he built and ran the global primary and secondary equities business. Marcus was the founder Chief Executive of Swapstream, the largest inter-bank dealing exchange for interest rate swaps with €8bn of tradable liquidity which is now owned by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Prior to this during the mid-1990s, he was a top-rated investment strategist at UBS, Salomon Brothers and SBC Warburg, Marcus graduated in 1983 from Oxford University with top first class honours in History & Economics.
To Double Dip or Not: Playing the Growth Cycle Using FX ETCs
Date: Thursday 30th September 2010
Time: 11:00am and 15:00pm London Time
Speaker: Martin Arnold, Senior Analyst,
ETF Securities
This call will discuss:
- The macroeconomic landscape
- Recent FX trends
- FX strategies to exploit a potential double dip
- Summary and Conclusions
- Question and Answer Session
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