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As part of a series of seminars for independent directors of
Cayman Islands investment funds, the Cayman Chapter of the Alternative
Investment Management Association (AIMA) invited three representatives ... Preparations are well under way for the meeting of the International
Tax Planning Association at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at the beginning of
December. To people attending a conference, the entire event seems to
happen spontaneously and without any prior preparation. Efforts to create a new operating framework that will enable the world to navigate out of the current financial crisis, and prevent such a catastrophe from recurring, are fraught with their own challenges. The Cayman Islands captive insurance sector welcomed a large number of visitors to its booth during the Risk and Insurance Management Society 2009 annual conference and exhibition, despite reduced visitor numbers.The three day event, held at the Orange County Convention Centre, Orlando, Florida, from 20-23 April, 2009, saw over 7,300 visitors ranging from risk and insurance management executives to brokers, insurers and service providers. This year’s GAIM Ops Cayman conference may have been scaled back in size with 250 attendees making up about half of last year’s turnout, but the more intimate setting did not succeed in reflecting a mood of austerity – quite the opposite. In fact the three-day conference, dedicated to the operational issues facing the hedge fund industry, and held at the Ritz-Carlton beginning on 27 April, was decidedly upbeat. The organisers, Stuarts Walkers Hersant, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cayman National Funds Services, hosted a full-house with a roster of speakers of international calibre. Attendees were impressed by the level of expertise exhibited by internationally renowned economists, lawyers and liquidation specialists sporting a veritable alphabet soup of qualifications
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