MARE FORUM Investments 2007

Where can you get the best from your cash?

And what risks must you run?

Thursday 31 May 2007

Astir Palace Hotel

Athens - Vouliagmeni - Greece
 

INTRODUCTION

Shipping is the catalyst of world trade, and with booming trade for the last five years, shipping has been booming too. We all know that. But being the willing servant of the world economy is a two-edged sword. It makes shipping vulnerable to swings in the world economy. When the boom comes, shipowners serving that sector get rich. When the crash comes, they crash too.
Shipping cannot control demand, so any investment in shipping is at the mercy of factors no shipowner can control. Get the timing right, and a global crisis can make you rich, as it did for so many big names in the tanker industry. But many of those big names have moved their money out of shipping, and the recent good times have sucked new money in.

Should you follow Niarchos and move your money out of shipping? Are there other sectors which can give you a better return with less risk?

At this unique investments conference, specifically for shipowners and those who fund them, major international figures will map out the shipping markets in a global context, and seek to anticipate the crises which could make shipowners either suddenly rich, or suddenly poor.

They will measure the shipping markets against that background, and then ask if other sectors as real estate, aviation, tourism, private banking, luxury and collectors items, bio-energy, bio-technology, hedge funds etc. can offer a better and safer return.

This is not a display case for capital providers with clever tricks. It is a serious forum where serious investors can face up to the fundamental forces which affect their wealth.

The Mare Forum conferences are a major discussion forum for leading shipowners. The discussion at this Athens gathering will challenge their world views, and shake the perceptions of lenders.

Come and ask where the clever money will go next,
and where the sensible money will stay.

Jannis Kostoulas
Managing Director
Mare Forum

THE SPEAKERS
 

DOMINIQUE MOISI
Deputy Director, Institut Francais des Relations Internationales

HARRIS VAFIAS
President & CEO StealthGas Inc.

DR JOHN COUSTAS
President & CEO,DANAOS Corporation

ROBERT BUGBEE
President and Chief Operating Officer, OMI Corporation

MAURO BALZARINI
Chairman, Siba Ships Spa

GEORGE ECONOMOU
Chairman and CEO, DryShips Inc.

STAMATIS MOLARIS
CEO, President and Director Quintana Maritime Limited

GEORGE GOURDOMICHALIS
CEO, G.Bros Maritime SA

DIEDERIK LEGGER
Managing Director, Rolldock

Antonio Cosulich
Managing Director, Fratelli Cosulich

Roberto Giorgi
President V.Ships

MARIELLA BOTTIGLIERI
Managing Director, Giuseppe Bottiglieri di Navigazione SpA

PAUL SLATER
Chairman, First International Corp

Leonidas Dimitriades-Eugenides
Chairman, Eugenides Group

JOHN TZOANNOS
Secretary General, Ministry of Mercantile Marine, Greece

HARRIS ANTONIOU
Managing Director, Global Shipping Group and Transportation FORTIS

TOBIAS KÖNIG
Managing Partner, König & Cie. GmbH & Co. KG

CHRIS WIERNICKI
President and COO of ABS

UGO SALERNO
CEO RINA

COLIN CRIDLAND
Director Research, Braemar Seascope

JEAN-FREDERIC LAURENT
Head of Research, Barry Rogliano Salles

NICK HUBBARD
Howe Robinson & Co. Ltd

ANTHONY ARGYROPOULOS
Managing Director, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. USA

DIMITRIS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS
SVP, Head of Shipping Group, BU Europe, Commercial Clients, ABN AMRO BANK

JOHN GUY
Partner, Merlin Corporate Communications

DR. MARTIN JUNGINGER
Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development Utrecht University

WILLEM AALDERS
CEO - Alternative Asset Advisers

COSTAS LEMOS
Director Risk Management, La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild S.A.

EMILIOS AVGOULEAS
Ass.Professor in Piraeus Univercity

ANNA KOENIG
Head of Private Banking, Europe
American Express Bank

Guy Verberne
Head of Economic Research
Fortis Merchant Banking / Global Markets
FORTIS GROUP

ANTONY ZOLOTAS
Managing Director, Eurofin

BERT VAN LEEUWEN
Research Department NCF Aviation Fund

Theo Xenakoudis
Managing Director, International Registries, Inc (Greece)
/Marshall Islands Registry

Philip X. Larkos
Co-founder, Vice-Chairman and Chief Financial Officer
SFS Group Public Company Ltd

Hugo Modderman
Dolfinance, Agents for DVB Bank America NV

Dr. GEORGE P. PATRINOS
Assistant Professor
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and
Chief Scientific Officer
Asklepeion BioMed, Lausanne, Switzerland

Philippe van den Abeele
Managing Director
Castalia Fund Management (Uk) Limited

Maro Varvate
President, Ocean Finance Ltd

ALAN GAVIN
Marine Director, Lloyd's Register

Basil Mavroleon
Managing Director, Charles R. Weber Co., Inc.

Rajaish Bajpaee

President, The Eurasia Group of Companies

GILBERT BRUNNER
Managing Director, FairEnergy

STATHIS GOURDOMICHALIS
G.Bros Maritime SA

 WANG CHUN LIN
Executive Director
Pacific Basin Shipping
 

  The conference programme will be published by the end of February

INFORMATION
For further information on the conference please contact:

Mare Forum
Beurs – World Trade Center
P.O. Box 30027
3001 DA Rotterdam
The Netherlands
T: +31 10 281 0655
F: +31 10 270 9870
E: info@mareforum.com