“Finance in Sports”
Who is financing? Who is risking? Who is profiting?

The budget for the Olympic Games of London 2012 is set at 9.35 billion pound. The NFL realized a revenue of 6.5 billion dollar in 2006. The construction costs of the new Wembley stadium amounted to 778 million pound. The total value of Manchester United Football Club is estimated to be 1.33 billion euro, making it the richest sporting club in the world.

This makes it obvious that there is a huge amount of money circulating in the sporting world today. Often it is expressed that sport is emotion, but it would be better to say that sport is business. Big business. How exactly do the financial mechanisms work that operate behind the sporting world? Who finances? Who runs the risk? And who makes profit? These and other questions will be answered at the RISK Conference 2009. The following issues will be discussed among others:

The link between sports and finance is not always obvious, because it is an underexposed topic by the media. The Risk Congres 2009 has the intention to enlarge the knowledge of the visitors about Sports on the one hand and Finance on the other hand. This will be accomplished with the use of the following subthema's (see right side). For more information op about the subthema's, we would like to refero you to the framwork on the right.