10th Asian Investment Summit: Day Two

Event Highlights

The Editors

Jun 16, 2015

AsianInvestor hosted the 10th Asian Investment Summit on May 20-21 at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Hong Kong.

Ellecia Saffron, Gulf Sovereign Company

Trevor Persaud, Stradegi

Paul Colwell, Towers Watson

Pisit Leeahtam, Thailand Association of Provident Funds

Richard Newell, AsianInvestor

Peter Ryan-Kane, Towers Watson

Questions from the audience

Guests mingle during a coffee break

Joep Huntjens, NN Investment Partners

Paul Schulte, Schulte-Research

Michelle Lam, Lombard Street Research

Veronique Lafon-Vinais, HKUST

William Overholt, Fung Global Institute

Alicia Garcia-Herrero, formerly of BBVA

Connie Bolland, Economic Research Analysis

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Korea Post names two new CIOs; M&G Real Estate replaces Asia CEO and CIO; Cbus names a people and culture executive; KKR MD Terence Lee quits; MetLife hires HK-based institutional and insurance head; HSBC makes trio of CIO appointments; CBRE account director transfers from HK; SC Lowy adds trader in London; and more.

Moves

4 days ago

Joe Marsh

The data and analytics specialist is joining asset management consultancy Shoreline to expand the team in Singapore advising on investment operating models.

Partner Content

Feb 15, 2021

BNY Mellon

BNY Mellon’s new report looks at key drivers shaping the investment industry that buy-side leaders should not miss.

Moves

3 days ago

Staff Writers

Pimco names new Apac head; Hines expanding Japan and Korea teams; T. Rowe Price appoints wholesale and family office head; Odey's Brook AM lures another Newton exec for new EM fund; Complyport HK sees ownership change, renamed S2 Compliance; Rob Lance joins portfolio software startup to run Asia sales; Tokyo Stock Exchange names president.

Partner Content

Feb 17, 2021

World Gold Council

Investors in Asia Pacific will likely see the low interest rate environment as an opportunity to add risk assets in the hope that the economic recovery is on the immediate horizon, but the case for owning gold in portfolios remains strong, according to Jaspar Crawley, Head of Distribution, APAC, at The World Gold Council.

Alternatives

Feb 10, 2021

Natalie Koh

Asset owners and managers are being drawn to private credit investments in China and India, but also other areas. However, Asia presents unique risk challenges too.

Asset Owners

Feb 17, 2021

Jolie Ho

The Construction Worker Mutual Aid Association and DGB Life are among the Korean asset owners that intend to further increase their alternative investments.

Awards

Feb 22, 2021

The Editors

AsianInvestor is requesting submissions for its latest Asset Service and Asset Management awards, which will incorporate a panel of industry judges. Read on to learn more.

Partner Content

Feb 23, 2021

FactSet

In today’s fast-paced trading environment, there is growing demand for unique data streams to help guide investment decisions. In a recent webinar, AsianInvestor spoke to experts in the field of alternative data to gain a more in-depth understanding of the latest available options, from geotagging to sentiment analysis through natural language processing, and other unique sources of alpha.

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20 hours ago

Columbia Threadneedle Investments

In a recent webinar, we asked insurance industry experts how their investment teams can best plan to meet their return targets when facing a mixture of market volatility, low returns, a tenuous economic recovery and geopolitical uncertainty.

Asset Owners

2 days ago

Richard Newell

Some of the country's family offices are aiming to build larger positions in unlisted investments in order to take advantage of its maturing alternative asset sector.

Moves

3 days ago

Staff Writers

Pimco names new Apac head; Hines expanding Japan and Korea teams; T. Rowe Price appoints wholesale and family office head; Odey's Brook AM lures another Newton exec for new EM fund; Complyport HK sees ownership change, renamed S2 Compliance; Rob Lance joins portfolio software startup to run Asia sales; Tokyo Stock Exchange names president.

Fund Managers

3 days ago

Joe Marsh

With asset managers' profit margins increasingly under pressure as fees fall and costs and client expectations rise, more industry consolidation is surely coming. But how quickly?

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