Because of the increasing complexity of financial markets, the difficulty to out-perform benchmarks and the high cost to manage money in-house, many pension funds and individual investors have opted to manage their financial assets through a delegated portfolio manager for active investing or used passive investing. Then, in most industrialized countries, a substantial part of financial wealth is not managed directly by savers, but through a financial intermediary. The mandate of this financial intermediary could be passive such as replicating a benchmark or active with an expectation of outperforming a benchmark. The mandates cover traditional asset management and alternative asset management as well.

The conference offers participants an opportunity for keeping up to date with the best practices and innovative thinking necessary for successfully using delegated portfolio management.