13 - 15 May, 2025
Palais des Congrès de Paris
Our guest speaker will examine the interplay between politics and finance, and how past elections have shaped the financial landscape. Gain insights on how to navigate the complexities of election cycles and their impact on global markets, economies and investment strategies.
Stephen Yiu launched the Blue Whale Growth Fund in 2017. The fund may only be 7 years old, but the manager is already being compared to the best stock pickers out there. Stephen’s big break came through the billionaire Peter Hargreaves, co-founder of the UK’s largest investment platform, Hargreaves Lansdown, who seeded the fund with $30 million (currently at $1.5bn AUM). Stephen’s fund has delivered significant outperformance versus its peers and index ETFs, with a total return of over 140% vs. average global funds at 78%.
In this session Stephen will explore equity investing trends, the long-term impacts of passive investing on SMEs and the capital market function, and how active managers can survive the index fund storm.
Our guest speaker will take attendees through the transformative journey of equity trading over the last 25 years. From human trading to the world of automation and AI- driven decision- making, uncovering the milestones that have redefined our market.
TradeTech has been bringing the equity trading community together for 25 years, through the dotcom bubble, 2008 financial crisis, flash crash, coronavirus, and the more recent stock market meltdown caused by a yen carry trade. In this panel we will bring together market experts who have been involved in TradeTech since its inception to share their views on how the equities market has developed over the years, and expectations for the next decade. Speakers will look to answer the following big three questions:
*By invitation only*
**Hosted under Chatham House and by Invitation only**
This is an invitation-only session hosted under Chatham House, open to 15 buy side Global/European Heads of Trading and senior traders from private banks. This will provide an opportunity for private banking traders to collaborate on their shared challenges and projects with a group of senior peers who have similar priorities.
Limited availability so please register by emailing Anna on: anna.andrews@wbr.co.uk
This panel will feature heads of trading who have different organisational structures and reporting lines (investment, operations, technology), as well as a CIO on how they view trading in the investment process. They will talk through the merits and drawbacks of each organisational model, how to strike the right balance of strategic alignment and technological innovation, and the optimum structure for a high performing desk.
Track Chair: Rebecca Healey, Managing Partner, Redlap Consulting
**Hosted under Chatham House**
Relax with a glass of fizz as you reflect on the latest market insights and industry updates shared over the past couple of days.
These interactive roundtables provide the perfect opportunity to sum-up your findings, consolidate new connections and collaborate on lessons learnt with your peers, whilst we pour the bubbly