More than 180 Taiwanese state and corporate pension funds, insurance companies and other leading Taiwanese institutions and distributors attended this year's event.

Attendance at this conference is by invitation and complimentary for Taiwanese pension plans, regulators, investment arms of insurance companies, and distributors (invited service providers and investment officers from asset managers may attend at a rate of US$2500). The event will be simultaneously translated.

More than 180 Taiwanese state and corporate pension funds, insurance companies and other leading Taiwanese institutions and distributors attend this year's event.

     

 

2011 keynote speaker:

• Chang Che-Shen, Minister, Ministry of Civil Service, Examination Yuan, R.O.C. & Chairman, Management Board of the Public Service Pension Fund

 

2011 speaking faculty:

• Steve Tsai, senior vice president & head of corporate trust, Chinatrust Commercial Bank

• Professor Chiu Shean-Bii, president, Pension Fund Association, R.O.C.

• Leon Huang, senior executive vice president & head of fixed income, Sinopac Securities

• Leo Seewald, chairman, Manulife Asset Management (Taiwan) Company & Deputy General Manager, Manulife (International), Taiwan

• Dr. Li Jianyong, chief executive officer, GF Securities

• David Walter, head of research, PAAMCO

• Melissa Kang, chief executive officer - Asia, Pomona Capital

• Jame DiBiasio, editor, AsianInvestor

• Aaron Chan, executive director & head of Taiwan, Asia Pacific Land Group

• Anthony Chan, director, BlackRock

• Andrew Cheng, head of securities lending client sales management, Asia (ex-Japan), J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services

• Janet Li, director of investment services (Taiwan) and senior investment consultant (Hong Kong) Towers Watson

• Michelle Ng, consultant, Mercer Investment Consulting

• Xi Ouyang, vice president, GF Securities

• Sam Lee, head of global markets investment division, POLARIS International Securities Investment Trust

The agenda explored key topics and the most pressing questions for 2011 including:
• The annual update on Taiwanese pension fund offshore investment mandates & allocation strategies
• What are on investors’ minds for the coming five years and their appetite for risk?
• Macro-economic outlook on the US, Europe and Asia, and what it means to institutional investors
• The rise of ETFs - cost efficient alpha?
• US growth & equity outlook: investing in a post-recession world?
• Fixed income outlook: how will 2011 fare for rates and rate products?
• Finding the balance between preserving capital and investing for returns in an era of low interest rates
• Emerging markets vs. developed markets: where do the investment opportunities truly lie?
• Chinese capital market investment opportunities in the context of China's economic restructuring
• Implications of RMB liberalisation and how to enter & survive the Chinese investment market
• Corporate governance in Asian hedge funds
• Privately speaking: opportunities in private equity, private placements and the secondary market
• Alternative investment market opportunities, performance and due diligence

More than 180 institutional investors, asset managers and service providers attended  the 2011  forum, including decision makers from:

Attendance policy: By invitation only. This conference is open to invited guests and our supporting sponsors only.

If you would like to be considered for an invitation, please provide your name, job title and a short description of your organisation to: Iris Mui, Event Manager, iris.mui@asianinvestor.net , +852 31751912

For sponsorship pricing and asset managers interested in speaking, please contact:
Stuart Wadsworth, Head of Conference Sales, stuart.wadsworth@asianinvestor.net, +65 6579 0533

For other information including institutional investors wishing to speak, please contact:
Michelle Tan, Conference Director, michelle.tan@asianinvestor.net, +6013 398 4799

 

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