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To learn more about these exciting opportunities, please contact Nicole Suresky at 212-321-5112 or email nicole.suresky@thestreet.com. 
Merrill Lynch Global Prime Brokerage The needs of hedge funds and other leveraged clients can be broad and complex. We offer the powerful Merrill Lynch franchise as a solution to even the most complicated trading and financing objectives. The Merrill Lynch spectrum of hedge fund services includes global trading and sales, award-winning research, flexible financing and capital introduction. Chief among our offerings, however, is the individualized service offered to hedge funds that extends well beyond traditional relationships. MLPrimeSM, our Global Prime Brokerage business, is the portal to Merrill Lynch. Whatever your strategic objectives, we can deliver the resources you need:
 KBC Financial Products is a global specialist in the sales, trading and structuring of equity-linked and credit-linked financial instruments. Backed by the resources of one of Europe's leading bancassurance companies, the firm's team of over 400 professionals operates from offices in eight countries and includes a number of pioneers in the equity derivative, convertible bond, credit derivative and high yield markets. As of May 2003, KBC FP makes markets in over 4,500 instruments worldwide. KBC FP especially caters to the Hedge Fund community and has earned its unique reputation as a leader in non-cash products including: specialized funding transactions, equity listed options, structured equity derivatives, year-end portfolio structuring, convertible bonds, special debt situations, credit derivatives and hedge fund-linked structured products. 
The Financial Services Group at Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP acknowledges the complex financial services environment that exists. As a solutions-driven and creative firm, we play an active role in helping to effectively manage and grow businesses with an emphasis on start up entities. We consistently offer fresh ideas to our clients -- ideas designed to help companies reduce taxes, increase efficiency and streamline operations. The Financial Services Group at ABA provides a wide range of services to over two hundred fifty investment partnerships, hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds, fund-of-funds, off-shore funds, master-feeder funds, broker/dealers, mutual funds, investment and commodity advisors, family offices, securities specialists and traders. 
Advent Software Inc. is the world's leading provider of automated solutions for investment professionals. Advent's powerful solutions enable firms of all sizes to run their business effectively, maximize customer service and performance, and improve productivity and communication throughout their organization. Please contact Barbara McCarthy for more information at 415-645-1666 or bmccarth@advent.com. www.advent.com 
Burlington Capital Markets is an agency-based institutional brokerage firm, which strives to provide the highest quality of execution on every trade. Burlington provides conflict-free, cost efficient execution services to institutional traders seeking anonymity, liquidity, and discretion for large block, program and single stock directional trades. Burlington uses best of breed and proprietary trading systems to facilitate trading strategies, which are not only include pairs, VWAP and options, but also risk, statistical and index arbitrage trading. For more information, please contact Jaloyn Fockler at 212-402-6038 or email jfockler@burlingtonusa.com  Chicago Board Options Exchange 
Direct Trading was founded in 1997 to provide institutional investors better trade executions and lower trading costs. We now provide execution services to roughly 300 institutions that are trading in excess of 2 billion shares per year. We offer a full service trading desk as well as "Soft Dollar" programs to improve returns and lower operation costs. Direct Trading provides Institutional clients with top quality agency execution services in: Large block listed securities, Small order listed trading, NASDAQ, Options, Bulletin Board, Pink Sheet names, Baskets. Additionally Direct Trading's large customer base and order flow allow for our firm to find the natural buyers or sellers of your trade when necessary. For more information, please contact Bill Cronin, President, 888-227-0997 or, billc@dtrading.com. www.dtrading.com  Fitch Ratings is committed to providing the most forward thinking and transparent ratings and research to the fixed income market. In servicing this market, Fitch has a presence in more than 75 countries with over 40 offices worldwide. Growing our coverage rapidly, Fitch now rates more than 1,500 banks, 70 sovereigns, 800 insurance companies, 1,100 corporates and maintains surveillance on 3,300 structured financings and 26,000 municipal bond ratings in the U.S. tax-exempt market. With a combined analytical and professional staff of more than 1,200, many of whom possess over 10 years of specialized industry experience, Fitch exceeds expectations. Our ratings are recognized by regulatory authorities in the U.S. (NRSRO), U.K., France, Japan, and Hong Kong among others. Fitch Ratings is dual headquartered in New York and London and is wholly owned by FIMALAC, S.A., Paris. Please contact Gregg Novek, Managing Director at 212-908-0349 or gregg.novek@fitchratings.com Fitch Ratings, 1 State Street Plaza New York, NY 10004 - (212) 908-0500 www.fitchratings.com  FutureTrade www.futuretrade.com  Grant Thornton, LLP. Whether you are a start-up trying to attract new investors or a mature fund, you need an accounting and management advisory firm that is a player in the financial markets. At Grant Thornton, we understand the challenges of building a successful hedge fund or investment partnership. Our professionals provide practical advice and customized solutions on how to manage critical business issues. Explore our diverse range of services specifically designed for hedge funds/investment partnerships:
Hedge Fund Solutions is the comprehensive source for commission recapture, soft dollar, outsource trading, capital introduction, and other advisory services that enable hedge fund managers to run their funds more efficiently and reclaim their most important asset, time. To learn more about how Hedge Fund Solutions makes the lives of hedge fund managers easier contact Jim Zurlo, at 212-293-3475 or jzurlo@hfs-llc.com
Hemisphere, a BISYS company, is the largest hedge fund administrator in Europe and the second largest globally supporting approximately 200 clients and 400 hedge funds, fund of hedge funds and other alternative investment products. Hemisphere currently has approximately $56 billion in assets under administration providing services in Bermuda, Boston, New York and Dublin, Ireland. Its clients are global in scope and represent many of the industry's largest investment managers. Utilizing a combination of "best of breed" licensed technology and internally developed applications, Hemisphere provides an extensive range of outsourcing services to both onshore and offshore funds. These services include fund accounting and valuation, investor and transfer agency services, tax reporting, and director and corporate secretarial services. Hemisphere complements BISYS' existing mutual fund administration capabilities establishing the broadest array of fund services currently available from a single provider. 
Instinet, through affiliates, is the largest global electronic agency securities broker and has been providing investors with electronic trading solutions for more than 30 years. Our services enable buyers and sellers worldwide to trade securities directly and anonymously with each other, have the opportunity to gain price improvement for their trades and lower their overall trading costs. Through our electronic platforms, our customers also can access over 40 securities markets throughout the world. Instinet is committed to helping our Hedge Fund clients find the solutions they need to increase their trading performance and reduce costs. Instinet provides: Institutional Liquidity, Enhanced Speed, and Flexible Pricing. With Instinet, Hedge Funds have the benefit of one central resource that offers premium bundled services from execution through clearing and settlement. Hedge Funds can also leverage Instinet's robust trading infrastructure, which includes state-of-the-art tools with advanced trading functionality, independent investment research, and an experienced, professional sales trading desk. For more information about Instinet's Hedge Fund services, call Kevin Petrello at 212.310.7682. 
For over five decades, Neuberger Berman's Professional Investor Clearing Services has helped hedge funds and other professional investors concentrate on their strength- investing. We offer comprehensive back-office support, including centralized trading and administration; proprietary systems that integrate portfolio analysis with client performance and other applications; web-based access to systems and data; technology, infrastructure and marketing guidance; capital introductions; financing; access to internal research meetings with Fortune 1000 companies; and proprietary equity research. Contacts: Robert E. Akeson, Senior Vice President; 212-476-9039 - rakeson@nb.com. Raymond A. Catroppa, Vice President, Sales & Marketing; 212-476-5651 - rcatroppa@nb.com. 
NYFIX, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides FIX-compliant electronic trading technologies and infrastructure to the institutional trading community. Specializing in routing connectivity, straight-through processing solutions, and execution services for the global equities and derivatives markets, NYFIX streamlines trade processing by offering customers a complete solution to enter, manage, route and execute orders electronically in real-time. Through its NYFIX Transaction Services subsidiary, NYFIX provides execution and smart order routing solutions to hedge funds and other institutional investors. Through its Javelin Technologies subsidiary, NYFIX offers the most widely deployed FIX-based messaging solution in the financial industry. The NYFIX Network, the company’s central infrastructure, provides its clients with unparalleled connectivity through electronic links to brokerage firms, asset managers, independent floor brokers, exchanges and ECNs/ATSs. The NYFIX Network is one of the financial industry’s largest order routing networks and currently processes over a half billion shares of listed equity order flow daily. NYFIX solutions for the hedge fund markets include order management systems, trader workstations with streaming market data, trading infrastructure and network connectivity solutions.  MVP Financial LLC Prime Brokerage: As a fully dislcosed member NASD, NFA & SIPC introducing broker to Spear Leeds & Kellogg (SLK), we provide comprehensive custody and clearing services for your managed accounts. Direct Access: RediPlus is a direct access and remote trading platform providing access to the US, London, Stockholm, Helsinki, Madrid, German, Euronext, Brussels, and Amsterdam equity markets. Direct access to the US options markets. DVP accounts: keep your current prime broker account, open a DVP account with us and continue to enjoy the benefits of trading through MVP Financial LLC (e.g., a very competitive ETF commission structure). Hedge fund marketing and Capital Introductions: capture new assets by introducing managers to accredited investors and personalized marketing services that stay within SEC guidlines. Competitive rates. Soft dollar agreements: from rent to research. Agency trading desk: Too busy? Place your orders with our experienced agency desks.  Rothstein Kass is a leader in the financial services industry and has a long established tradition of helping financial organizations address a complex range of issues. The firm currently serves over 1,000 partnerships and offshore funds that invest in a variety of financial instruments including marketable securities and private equity investments. Rothstein Kass provides a wide range of services including management consulting, tax planning, accounting, audit, administration and compliance. RK Consulting is a licensed offshore administrator and provides a full range of outsourcing and administration solutions to hedge funds, private equity funds and fund of funds. Services provided by RK Consulting include computation of fund and investor net asset value, preparation of accounting records for financial and tax reporting, management of the receipt and disbursement of cash, communication with shareholders, maintenance of shareholder records and provision of general corporate services. 
Spartan Institutional Research Corporation is the buy-side community's leading resource for independent, unbiased, institutional research. Hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds and endowments rely on Spartan to seek out the most insightful unbiased research available. Spartan maintains a large proprietary database of independent analyst with expertise in all areas of research. After extensive reviews of the quality of all of the analyst groups in its database, Spartan selects the best of the analyst groups to represent on an exclusive basis. At this year conference Spartan will showcase the best in independent SHORT RESEARCH. To learn more about how we can help you make more informed investment decision, please contact: Jeffrey J. Scola - President & CEO jscola@institutionalresearch.com or Jason A. Weiss - Sales Manager jweiss@institutionalresearch.com at 646-638-3500. 
The CCBN StreetEventssm service provides buy- and sell-side firms with a one-stop solution for organizing corporate disclosure and brokerage event information with our industry standard Event Calendar, Event Briefs conference call summaries, and Event Transcripts. Fifteen thousand investment professionals at more than 1,000 firms already rely on our comprehensive, direct-from-the-source content. 
Terra Nova Institutional, a division of Terra Nova Trading, L.L.C., offers real-time market data and order execution for hedge funds and the institutional trader. Our integrated platform allows users to make well-informed, timely decisions and route orders directly to the markets of choice. We also offer a fully staffed Agency Sales Trading Desk to assist in special order situations. Additional services like portfolio trading, VWAP routing, conditional orders and stop orders bring an enhanced dimension to the trading arena. For more information, please contact: Joshua Teuber, Managing Director -j.teuber@tnto.net. Phone: (312) 827- 3634 or (888) 846-5072 www.terranovainstitutional.com  Tier 1 Research is an independent research firm covering the IT and Telecom markets often referred to as the Internet infrastructure industry. Founded in September 2000, the business model combines financial and strategic analysis of both public and private companies to bring a holistic perspective that merges the best of Wall Street with industry research. Tier 1 Research works with institutional investors, venture capital firms, enterprise IT buyers, and industry vendors as an extension of their competitive analysis team. Services include the daily "Infrastructure Insider", quarterly trend and market sizing reports, financial models, online databases with deeper operational and statistical details, and consulting services. Partners include: PrimeSourcing Advisors and AFCOM (for the enterprise IT buyers) and BNY/Jaywalk and Talmage Capital (for the institutional investor). The company is based in Minneapolis and has offices in New York and Silicon Valley. To learn more and receive some free golf balls, please visit our booth at the conference. Tier 1 Research's President Andrew Schroepfer can be reached at andy@tier1research.com and more information on the company can be found at www.tier1research.com  UNX, Inc. The Market Structure Experts. The pioneering Universal Brokerage firm, UNX combines the best features of ECNs, ATSs, agency brokerage, and direct access trading platforms. The company's single-sweep technology consolidates access to fragmented market liquidity, providing a comprehensive trading solution. UNX technology is based on a hybrid of order and quote driven intelligence.
UNX also offers multiple value-added services, including an agency trading desk and soft dollar/directed brokerage programs.
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