COOConnect is a peer group network of buy-side COOs willing to exchange information,
experience, opinion and analysis among themselves, comfortable in the knowledge
that the forum is not open to prime brokers, hedge fund administrators, custodians,
agent or third party securities lenders, lawyers, accountants, technology vendors,
insurers, recruitment consultants, journalists or press and public relations officers.
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As a COOConnect member you can interact with your fellow
COOs– ask questions, share news and views, conduct surveys, attend meetings and
webinars, and set up and run groups of your own – knowing you are talking to nobody
who is not a COO. You also enjoy exclusive access to rich databases of information
on prime brokers, administrators and vendors. As a COOConnect
sponsor you can sponsor COOs as members, question them, advertise, join
expert panels, post materials, and upgrade your directory listings.
Think TankAnother of the services provided by COOConnect to its members is access to a network of academics working in multiple fields at the leading universities of the United Kingdom. The network provides members with a virtual think tank, to which they can contribute their own experience and knowledge, as well as draw upon the research, ideas and innovative techniques of mathematicians, physicists, chemists, biologists and psychologists as well as economists and professors of finance. To match members with the academic expertise they need, COOConnect has formed a partnership with the Financial Services Knowledge Transfer Network (FS KTN). This is an organization whose sole raison d’etre is to facilitate the exchange of ideas, innovations, knowledge and technology between people working in the financial markets and people engaged in fundamental and applied research, data analysis and technology development at a wide variety of university faculties. COOConnect will be hosting a number of physical and virtual events, on a sponsored and an unsponsored basis, at which members can meet academics working in areas of interest to fund managers. We fully expect the exchanges to lead to formal research projects, in which an academic – typically assisted by a doctoral student – will explore an issue or analyse data on behalf of members or sponsors of COOConnect. FS KTN can help source matching funding for projects approved by its funding organizations. Indeed, one of the roles of the FS KTN is to help people working in the financial markets to obtain funding for new initiatives that draw upon discoveries, innovations and techniques developed by academics working at universities in the United Kingdom. COOConnect members will work with FS KTN principals on identifying funding opportunities and options for projects. |