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Fourth Annual Conference

Best Execution
How to Measure It -- How to Achieve It
In a Post-Reg NMS World

January 29, 2008
Bayards, New York City
(Map)




Agenda

 8:30      Breakfast with Exhibitors

 9:00      Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
               
Prof. Bernard Donefer,
Associate Director
                Subotnick Financial Services Center
                Baruch College, CUNY


 
9:15      Opening Roundtable: How to Balance Reg NMS
              Requirements with the Quest for Liquidity
               Moderator:
                 Lloyd Altman,
Senior Executive
                 Accenture
               Panelists:
                
Guy Cirillo,
AES Manager of Global Strategic Partners
                 Credit Suisse
                
Joseph Wald, Managing Director
                 Knight Equity Markets, L.P.
                
Diane E. Ambler, Partner
                 Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

10:00    Taking Advantage of Market Fragmentation and
             Exchange Consolidation
              
Stephen L. Schardin,
Managing Director - President
               Charles River Brokerage, LLC
              
Beau Alexander, Product Manager
               SunGard BRASS


10:30    Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

10:45    Optimizing Dark Pool Liquidity: A Practical Guide
               Moderator:
                
Joe Rosen,
President, RKA Inc.
                   Former Managing Director, Trading Technology, NYSE

               Panelists:
                
Kyle Zasky,
Managing Director
                 Knight Equity Markets, L.P.

                
J. Mark Enriquez, Managing Partner
                 Pulse Trading, Inc.
                
Harish Devarajan, Managing Director
                 Deep Value

                
David Weisberger, Managing Director
                 Lava Technology, Citi

                
Brian Gallagher, Executive Director, Electronic Trading
                 Morgan Stanley


11:45     Applying New Technologies to Achieve Best Execution
              
Robert Kissell,
Head of Quantitative Trading Strategy
               JP Morgan Chase

12:30    Luncheon with Exhibitors

  1:30    Compliance with New and Existing SEC Guidelines on Soft
             Dollars and Commission Arrangements (CCA
s and CSAs)
               Moderator:
                     
Kevin Petrello,
SVP - US Head of Commission Management
                 Lehman Brothers
               Panelists:
                
George Travers, Chief Compliance Officer
                 Golden Tree Asset Management
                
Robert Boylan, Vice President
                 Credit Suisse

  
2:30    Transaction Cost Analysis: Measuring the Total
             Cost of Trading
               Moderator:
                 Bill Conlin,
Chief Operating Officer
                 Abel/Noser Corp.
               Panelists:
                 Robert Kissell, Head of Quantitative Trading Strategy
                 JP Morgan Chase
                
Stephen A. Berkowitz, President
                 The Berkowitz Group, Incorporated


  3:15    Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

  3:30    Best Execution for Options and Other Non-Equity
             Instruments
               Moderator:
                
Abraham Kohen,
Director of Quantitative Strategies
                 FlexTrade Systems, Inc.
               Panelists:
                
Curtis Pfeiffer, Principal
                 Banc of America Securities LLC, Electronic Trading Services
                
Eric Karpman, Co-Chair, FIX Protocol Technical Committee
                   Member, Executive Advisory Committee, DataArt
                 John Barun, President and CEO
                 Capital Markets Consulting

  4:15    Evaluating Algo Strategies: Buy vs. Build
              
John Barun,
President and CEO
               Capital Markets Consulting

  4:45    Conference Adjourns
 





 

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