Events

Majestic Conversations with Thomas Peterffy, CEO of IBG

6:00 Cocktails
6:30 Dinner

Majestic Research would like to invite you to meet Thomas Peterffy, Chairman and CEO of Interactive Brokers Group, LLC (IBG).  Mr. Peterffy is one of the foremost market structure experts; he is currently taking his company public in an IPO scheduled for early May 2007.
Among the topics we will explore:
1. Market structure and upcoming changes
2. How IBG is structuring its products and business to address the market structure
3. IBG’s IPO

When: April 30, 2007

Where: New York, NY

Essex House
Hyde Park Room
106 Central Park South
212.247.0300

RSVP:

Erica Jones, 646.442.6992, erica.jones@majesticresearch.com,

Industry Experts Attending:

Thomas Peterffy
Chairman and CEO, Interactive Brokers Group
Interactive Brokers Group, LLC (IBG) was founded by its Chairman and CEO Thomas Peterffy.  Over the last 30 years, IBG has grown internally to become one of the premier securities firms with over $2.8 billion in equity capital.  Interactive Brokers’ headquarters are in Greenwich, CT.  The firm has about 500 employees in its offices there and in Chicago, Switzerland, Canada, Hong Kong, London, and Sydney.  Interactive Brokers conducts its broker/dealer and proprietary trading businesses on over 60 market centers worldwide.  In its broker dealer agency business, IBG provides direct access (“on-line”) trade execution and clearing services to institutional and professional traders for a wide variety of electronically traded products, including options, futures, stocks, forex, and bonds worldwide.  In its proprietary trading business, IBG engages in market making for its own account in about 6,500 different electronically traded products.  IBG is regulated by the SEC, NASD, NYSE, SFA, and other regulatory agencies around the world.  The affiliates of Interactive Brokers Group execute 18.7% of the world’s options (in locations where IBG actively trades) and 21.6% of North American options.  Group affiliates execute approximately 500,000 trades per day.

Majestic Research Representatives:

Doug Atkin
President and CEO, Majestic Research
Previously President and CEO of Instinet Group, Doug spent 17 years helping to shape the industry; he led a consortium of nine global brokerage firms that took a majority stake in the virt-x stock exchange and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Starmine and WR Hambrecht.