Organizers

Capital Link
Capital Link is an international investor relations and financial advisory firm that assists international institutions, stock exchanges and companies to: develop and maintain access to European and North American investors, take advantage of favorable opportunities in the international capital markets, identify and approach the proper business and financial partners. Our services range from corporate and capital markets advisory to internet-based financial communications, to investor targeting and the organization of corporate roadshows and investment conferences...more

New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the world's leading and most technologically advanced equities market. The NYSE is by far the world's largest market, and more capital is raised at the NYSE than in any other equities market. The Exchange is home to nearly 2,800 companies with a total global market capitalization of $21.0 trillion, including $7.6 trillion for 447 non-U.S. companies from 47 countries. NYSE-listed companies range from "blue chip," to many of the world's leading technology companies, and young, high-growth enterprises....more

Citigroup
Citigroup Asset Management Ltd. is an active manager that uses core growth and value strategies. The firm invests on a global level, but focuses mainly on European companies. The firm offers a variety of investment horizons, and also offers a number of strategies specific to large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap investments. The investment process adopts a bottom-up, stock-picking approach, based on fundamental, proprietary research. This process follows 5 main stages, the first of which is universe screening, using quantitative tools and this is then followed by valuation modelling. Core strategies are built by the portfolio management team, with the aim of adding value through stock selection as opposed to through a top-down, macro approach or through style tilts. The next stage of the process is the construction of a model portfolio, and once this model portfolio has been approved it is applied to client portfolios, having been subjected to risk management.....more

Credit Suisse First Boston
Credit Suisse First Boston ('CSFB') serves institutional, corporate, government and individual clients. Its businesses include securities underwriting, sales and trading, investment banking, private equity, financial advisory services, investment research, venture capital, correspondent brokerage services and asset management. CSFB is a proven leader across the spectrum of investment banking, capital markets and financial services. CSFB's organizational structure focuses on providing the highest quality of client-focused services. The firm's business areas include....more

Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, with offices in 36 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.7 trillion. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. Through Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, the company is one of the world's largest managers of financial assets. Firmwide, assets under management total $524 billion...more

Morgan Stanley
General Information: Market capitalization (as of 22 October 2005): $56.2 Bn     Net revenues 2004: $23.8 Bn    Net income 2004: $4.5 Bn   Assets under Management: $572 Bn    Number of employees (worldwide): over 53,000     Number of offices: over 600     Number of countries where Morgan Stanley is represented: 28      Main Offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Recent Awards include 2004 Investment Bank of the Year (Financial News Awards), 2004 Equity House of the Year (International Financing Review Awards), 2003 Best Investment Bank (Euromoney), 2003 Best Privatisation Adviser of the Year (Acquisitions Monthly), 2002 Best European Investment Bank (Reuters), 2002 Deal of the Year (Investment Dealers’ Digest), 2002 Overall Breakthrough Deal of the Year (Investment Dealers’ Digest), 2002 Media/Entertainment Breakthrough Deal of the Year (Investment Dealers’ Digest)..more

New York Association for International Investment
The New York Association for International Investment (NYAII) is a voluntary association of investment professionals which exists to provide a forum where information of foreign securities and economics can be discussed by members and their guests. Recognized as an independent industry specialty group by the New York Society of Security Analysts and the Financial Analyst Federation, the NYAII is the oldest and largest such forum in the United States. The Association holds regular monthly luncheon meetings as well as well as periodic special meetings, where members and their guests hear a presentation from a guest speaker representing a foreign government, company, bank, investment house, etc. and engage in informal discussion and questions.....more

Business Council for International Understanding
BCIU, a U.S. business association founded in 1955 at White House initiative, is dedicated to promoting dialogue and action between the business and government communities for the purpose of expanding international commerce. The Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) was founded in 1955, at the initiative of President Eisenhower. Initially, BCIU focused on supporting U.S. business interests internationally by convening member company executives with newly confirmed U.S. Ambassadors in order to brief them on the problems facing their operations in the markets to which the ambassadors were accredited.....more

The Athens Exchange

Secretariat General of Information

Federation of Greek Industries
SEV, The Federation of Greek Industries, has consistently fostered business development in Greece for nearly a century. Founded in 1907, as the Federation of Greek Industrialists and Handicrafts, it was renamed in 1946 Federation of Greek Industrialists. Since 1979, it operates under the name Federation of Greek Industries. It is an independent, non-profit association for employer and enterprises organisations sustained by membership fees and sponsorships only from members. SEV is in the forefront of economic and business developments and continuously adapts to rapidly evolving conditions. Today, it is the leading independent employers' union and the independent voice of Greek business....more

American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce
The American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce is one of the largest and most active American chambers in Europe. It was formed in 1932 and has just celebrated its 70th anniversary. The Chamber sponsors some of the leading conferences, exhibitions, fora and investment events in Greece that draw the participation of the Prime Minister, leaders of the opposition, Prime Ministers and Ministers from throughout the region, and major personalities from the world of business, politics, and finance. Virtually all American companies that do business in Greece are members of our Chamber as are most Greek companies that engage in trade with the United States....more

Hellenic American Bankers Association
The Hellenic American Bankers Association, Inc. (H.A.B.A.) is one of the premier Greek-American organizations in the New York metropolitan area. HABA is a not-for-profit organization established in 1982 to promote the professional and educational interest of Greek-Americans in the banking and finance industries. Its current active membership consists of over 200 professionals representing more than 50 institutions across the financial spectrum. Since its inception, HABA has strived to serve the professional and educational interests of Greek-American financial professionals through the sponsoring of lectures, seminars, cocktail receptions with guest speakers and other events. Over the past years, HABA has had many distinguished speakers and lecturers.....more

American Hellenic Institute
The American Hellenic Institute, Inc. (AHI) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit tax-exempt business league. AHI and its affiliate organizations, the American Hellenic Institute Public Affairs Committee (AHIPAC), the American Hellenic Institute Foundation (AHIF), and the AHI Business Network, a division of the AHI, are working together under one roof, to provide a joint program for strengthening United States relations with Greece and Cyprus and within the American Hellenic community. Through our new headquarters building, Hellenic House, AHI and its affiliates pursue activities for the benefit of U.S. relations with Greece and Cyprus and Hellenic culture....more