GARNET's core theme is ‘Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: the Role of the EU’. To integrate research from Europe and beyond, GARNET organises an international conference every year starting 2006. This one, held in Amsterdam, will be the first.

Sessions: 'Why Do Investors Chase Return Trends?'; 'The Effective Cost of Fund Terms to Private Equity Investors'; 'Do Market Timing Hedge Funds Time the Market?' and 'Time-Varying Liquidity Risk and The Cross-Section of Stock Returns'.

The European Risk Management Seminar is specifically designed to give agriculture and food industry executives a detailed business approach to managing price and profit margin risks via strategic market instruments. Tailored specifically for a European audience, though relevant to all those...