Event History
ICBI’s FUNDFORUM INTERNATIONAL
A Short History Of Europe’s Largest & Longest Running Mutual Fund Event
ICBI first launched FundForum in July 1990 and has been held annually ever since, making the 2010 event its 20th year running – as such, it is the longest running mutual fund event in Europe. In its early years, it attracted about 300 attendees but grew rapidly and is now the largest event of its kind with over 1000 global asset managers, distributors, analysts, advisors, academics and other leading experts participating each year.
Intellectual capital has always been the cornerstone of ICBI’s value proposition – based on extensive original one to one research every year with a wide range of distributors and producers –the conclusions ensure the FundForum agenda is as relevant and topical as can be for every year.
Why NEW FUNDFORUM INTERNATIONAL FOR 2010?
- We felt that extraordinary industry and market circumstances demanded extraordinary responses from FundForum. It was no longer enough just to bring the great leaders of the industry together. The asset management industry was crying out for focal point for the tough discussion of its transition into a new era.
- New FundForum is about using the exceptional seniority of the FundForum delegate pool to drive a refocussed industry agenda towards the needs of the end consumer of asset management products - and their distributors. As our recent one-to-one objective research with over 100 leading asset managers, intermediaries and top distributors showed, the key question on major player's lips was - How Do We Create A Vibrant Industry With A Credible, Useful And Sustainable Product, That The Investor Wants To Buy?. Why not Download our ThinkPiece from the Homepage and have a look yourself ..
- Eminating from the core issue of “How To Restore Credibility In The Eyes Of The Consumer”, New Fund Forum International 2010 is about the hard details of how European Asset Managers And Distributors can find a way to successfully address the key challenges facing their business.
- New FundForum Is A Dynamic New Approach To Finding Industry Solutions. With wide- ranging and vibrant discourse; not just from industry leaders, but also key external influencers and regulators and consumer advocates and customer experts never seen before at FundForum. It is also bringing a new wide range of new structured networking opportunities, the stage is set to find a new industry roadmap.
- Hear, engage, affect strategic outcomes for your industry and do business with over 1100 peers. For the first time, by attending the meeting place of Europe’s cross-border mutual fund distributors and producers at such a critical time in the industry's history,
- A unique opportunity shift is happening in 2010 and New Fund Forum is the catalyst. It's all to play for with the key incumbent and emergent distributors and asset managers coming to Monaco in June, all in one place, at one time.
- Energised. Commited. Intellectually Engaged over the entire four days. NEW Fundforum Interanational 2010 will be a fantastic opportunity for the industry to show that it is capable of significant change and move towards a Vibrant sustainable industry that delivers what it promises to Europe’s investors.
Audience Profile
The event typically attracts up to 1500 attendees from over 40 different countries and from all five continents. Attendees include CEOs / CIOs /Fund Managers/Heads of Business Development/Heads of Marketing and other senior executives from the Fund Manufacturers, Multi-Managers, Fund of Funds, Retail & Private Banks, Insurance Companies, Fund Platforms, Investment Banks, Custodians, Transfer Agents, & their advisors.
The most notable change has been the rise of distributors as a significant part of the audience pool, attracted by the fund selector oriented programme with key issues of direct relevance throughout the four day event.
Speaker Profile
The speaker faculty is renowned for comprising the most senior players of the global fund industry. Faculty members typically include CEOs / CIOs / Fund Managers and senior executives from the Fund Manufacturers, Multi-Managers, Fund of Funds, Retail & Private Banks, Insurance Companies, Fund Platforms, Investment Banks, Custodians, Transfer Agents, & their advisors.
The FundForum Global Series
In 2007 ICBI successfully launched FundForum Asia & FundForum Middle East, and in 2008 launched FundForum Latin America & FundForum USA.
FundForum TV
Fund Forum International 2009
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