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The next RMC US will be
March 7-9, 2018
Hyatt Regency Coconut Point
Bonita Springs, FL

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Monarch Beach Resort
Dana Point, California

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Going into its 34th year in the U.S., the annual CBOE Risk Management Conference (RMC) is the foremost financial industry conference designed for institutional users of equity derivatives and volatility products.

Hosted by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), RMC is an educational forum dedicated to exploring the latest products, trading strategies and tactics used to manage risk exposure and enhance yields.

About conference

HIGhlights

From Last Year's Event

The location

Monarch Beach Resort

We were delighted with our March 2017 stay at the Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, California. For 2018 we are happy to be returning to the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point near Ft. Myers, Florida. Always a favorite destination for RMC attendees, we appreciate the great food, outstanding service and casual elegance of this plantation style resort. Check back later for details-- but plan to join us there March 7 through March 9, 2018!

About Monarch Beach Resort
Nestled in the golden hillsides of Orange County, Monarch Beach offers deluxe amenities for guests to unwind. Play a round of golf on the award-winning Monarch Beach Links course complete with stunning views of the Pacific Ocean.

Or, if you’re looking to indulge in the ultimate spa experience, visit the Miraval Life in Balance Spa. There, you can spoil yourself with a massage, facial and many other spa services.

And of course, when it comes to food, a wide array of options are available to you from casual dining to an upscale culinary experience. No matter what you choose, you’ll experience the bright flavors southern California has to offer.

About the location

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS & AGENDA

The CBOE Risk Management Conference was held Wednesday, March 8 through Friday, March 10, 2017.
Join us next year, March 7-9, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point, Bonita Springs, FL

Previous Day Next Day

11:00am – 5:30pm

Conference Registration – Pacific Ballroom Foyer

11:30am – 12:30pm

Light Stand-up Lunch Buffet – Pacific Ballroom Foyer

12:30pm – 1:45pm

Pension Consultant White Papers on Funds and Use of Options Strategies

New research on Buywrite and Putwrite benchmark indexes that use S&P 500 or Russell 2000 options
Risk and return metrics of such options-based strategies compared to strategies involving multiple asset classes
Case studies on the use of options within pension plan asset allocations

Teri Geske, Consultant, Wilshire Associates

Teri Geske Presentation

Michael J. Oyster, CFA, Managing Principal & Chief Investment Strategist, Fund Evaluation Group, LLC

Michael J. Oyster Presentation

1:45pm – 2:00pm

Session Break

2:00pm – 3:15pm

The Decision Cycle for Downside Risk and Income-Focused Strategies

Investment metrics and the pitfalls of back tests
Implied vs. realized index return distributions - implications for investment strategy innovation
Options as building blocks for reshaping downside returns profiles
Income-focused strategies with low interest rate and credit risk using short volatility exposure

Carlos Chujoy, Portfolio Manager, Employees Retirement System of Texas

Carlos Chujoy Presentation

Joanne M. Hill, Research and Strategy, CBOE Vest
Aashish K. Vyas, Director of Portfolio Strategy, Swan Global Investments

Aashish K. Vyas Presentation

3:15pm – 3:30pm

Coffee Break

3:30pm – 4:45pm

Real Money: Institutional Liabilities and How Options Strategies Can Help

Pension plans face the tyranny of funded status ratios that are doubly geared to economic variables
Endowments face challenges with gifts and spending/expenses that are highly correlated to risk assets
Maintaining expected returns that risk assets provide is critical to meeting liabilities for institutions
Options and volatility-based strategies that lower volatility and cushion downside risks can better align assets with overall enterprise risk of institutions

Moderator/Presenter:
Jon Havice, President and Chief Investment Officer, DGV Solutions

Jon Havice Presentation

Panelists:
Neil Rue, CFA, Managing Director, Pension Consulting Alliance, LLC
Adam J. Smith, CFA, CAIA, Director of Investments, Mercy Health
David Warn, Head of Market Risk, Senior Portfolio Manager, The University of Chicago, Office of Investments

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Registration Continues

6:00pm – 8:30pm

Opening Reception: Cocktails and Dinner on the Grand Lawn (weather permitting)

7:30am – 8:30am

Buffet Breakfast on the Pacific Lawn, weather permitting, otherwise AVEO Table & Bar
Conference Registration continues in Pacific Ballroom Foyer

8:30am – 9:00am

Welcome and CBOE Update

Edward Provost, President & Chief Operating Officer, CBOE Holdings, Inc.

9:00am – 10:00am

Keynote: Position Sizing and Relation to Risk Management

Edward O. Thorp, Math Professor, Inventor, Best-Selling Author and Hedge Fund Manager

10:00am – 10:30am

Coffee Break

10:30am – 11:30am

Post-Central Bank Volatility: More Risk But More Alpha

Post 2008, unprecedented global central bank policy has heavily depressed volatility and starved markets for alpha causing active managers to deliver historically poor performance
However, CBs are losing their grip on volatility as the effectiveness of QE fades, and as the Fed’s put strike is forced lower with monetary stimulus shifting to fiscal
This should ultimately kill today’s winning “buy the equity dip/sell the vol spike” trade, resulting in higher volatility, but also more alpha as markets become less slaved to policy

Benjamin Bowler, Global Head of Equity Derivatives Research, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

11:30am – 1:00pm

Lunch and Networking – Pacific Lawn

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Panel on Sourcing Liquidity

Moderator/Presenter:
Henry Schwartz, President, Trade Alert, LLC

Henry Schwartz Presentation

Panelists:
William Bartlett, CEO, Parallax Volatility Advisors
Jean Cayla, Head of US Execution Trading, Optiver
Michael C. Khouw, President, Optimize Advisors, LLC and Chief Strategist, Tradelegs, LLC
Stephen J. Solaka, Managing Partner, Belmont Capital Group

2:00pm – 2:15pm

Session Break

TRACK A

2:15pm – 3:30pm

Impact of Flows on Cash and Derivatives Markets: Myths and Realities

The relationships between volume, illiquidity and volatility at market and security levels, and their evolution over time
How measures of equity illiquidity relate to levels of equity volatility and VIX
Impact of volatility control & risk parity funds and market maker option hedging on the cash market
Quantifying the impact of buywrite funds on index option markets
Changing impact of VIX ETP flows on the VIX derivative market and taming the VIX whipsaws

Maneesh Deshpande, Managing Director and Global Head of Equity Derivatives Strategy, Barclays
Tim Edwards, Ph. D., Senior Director of Index Investment Strategy, S&P Dow Jones Indices

Tim Edwards Presentation

TRACK B

2:15pm – 3:30pm

Options Out of This Country

International index construction
Unique economics of USD-denominated international ETF options
Using FX-equity correlation views to drive trade selection
Time-of-day volatility differences for index products that trade in hours when their constituent markets are closed
Brexit recap: evaluating cash-settled index option hedges such as with SPX, MXEA, MXEF and EuroStoxx, around the Brexit vote period

Rocky Fishman, CFA, Equity Derivatives Strategy, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
Ricardo Manrique, Executive Director, MSCI

Ricardo Manrique Presentation

Yoav Sharon, ‎Assistant Portfolio Manager, Senior Options Analyst, Driehaus Capital Management

Yoav Sharon Presentation

3:30pm – 3:45pm

Coffee Break

TRACK A

3:45pm – 5:00pm

Focus on VIX Options

A historical perspective on the evolution of volatility strategies from utilizing fixed strike options, variance swaps, to VIX futures and options
VIX options strategies for insurance, yield or simply expressing a view
Special properties of VIX options which make them unique, and how to take advantage of such properties

Moderator/Presenter: Ramon Verastegui, Managing Director, Head of Flow Strategy & Solutions, Americas, Société Générale
Jeremy Attali, Vice President, Jr. Portfolio Manager, Capstone Investment Advisors LLC
David Liebowitz, Managing Partner, Aroya Capital, LP

David Liebowitz Presentation

TRACK B

3:45pm – 5:00pm

Cross-Asset Volatility Trading; Relationships Between Credit Spreads, Fixed Income Volatility and Equity Volatility

Credit spreads & equity volatility; Interest rate & FX volatility; Policy rate & equity volatility; Pricing event & calendar risk; Cross asset skew & term structure; Risk parity & balanced portfolio hedges
Implied volatility as an awareness tool
Applications to multi-asset portfolios

John-Mark Piampiano, Head of Equity Derivatives Strategy, Seaport Global Securities LLC
David Rogal, Director and Portfolio Manager, BlackRock

7:15am – 8:00am

Breakfast on the Pacific Lawn (weather permitting, otherwise AVEO Table & Bar)

8:00am – 9:00am

The Growing Role of Predictive Analytics in Investing

Relationships between political/policy shocks and financial markets
Predictive signals from Twitter traffic
Signals from implied volatility measures

Moderator/Presenter:
Angela Miles, President, Miles Ahead Productions, LLC. Business First AM
Panelists:
Joe Gits, CFA, CEO and Co-Founder, Social Market Analytics (SMA)
William Speth, Vice President, Research and Product Development, CBOE
Eric Zitzewitz, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College

9:00am – 9:15am

Session Break

TRACK A

9:15am – 10:30am

U.S. Dispersion: Stocks, Sectors, and Indexes in a Changing Rate Environment

Inter/intra-sector & index dispersion and implications for volatility
Developments in equity-rate correlation and sector volatility bias
Market supply/demand dynamics and impact on implementation choices

Eric Rains, Portfolio Manager, BlueMountain Capital
Stewart Warther, CFA, US Equity & Derivative Strategist, BNP Paribas

TRACK B

9:15am – 10:30am

SPX Weeklys: Market Analysis and Long and Short Applications

Dynamics of how Weeklys differ from standard listed options
Systematic strategies using weekly options
Utility of Weeklys for just-in-time hedging, long or short volatility applications

Pravit Chintawongvanich, Head of Risk Strategy, Macro Risk Advisors

Pravit Chintawongvanich Presentation

Scott Maidel, Former Senior Portfolio Manager, Russell Investments

Scott Maidel Presentation

10:30am – 11:00am

Coffee Break

TRACK A

11:00am – 12:15pm

Options and Volatility Based Solutions for Insurance Companies

Moderator/Presenter:
Bill O’Keefe, Director of Derivatives & Customized Options, X-Change Financial Access (XFA)
Panelists:
Pawel Konieczny, Ph.D., CFA, Vice President, Client Solutions Group, Numerix
Brayton Li, Managing Partner, Abacus Partners LLC
Joyana Pilquist, CFA, Vice President, Derivative Portfolio Manager, American Equity Group
Dan Walsh, Derivatives Trader, Protective Life

TRACK B

11:00am – 12:15pm

Determining Edge in Options Trading – an Application of the Kelly Criterion

What do option markets say about potential events such as earnings, takeovers and expected dividends key announcements?
Trade construction via comparison of view and market-implied probability distributions
How to discern differences between traditional equity valuations and volatility levels

Ilya Feygin, Managing Director/Senior Strategist, WallachBeth Capital LLC
Stacey Gilbert, Head of Derivatives Strategy, Susquehanna Financial Group, LLC

12:15pm

End of Sessions

1:00pm

Golf Tournament at Monarch Beach Golf Links

1:00pm Shotgun Start (For all attendees. Preregistration is required.)

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Closing Dinner – Club 19

KEYNOTE speaker

Edward O. Thorp

Math Professor, Inventor, Best-Selling Author and Hedge Fund Manager

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