11th Asian Investment Summit

Jun 10, 2016

AsianInvestor welcomed 350 delegates to its 11th Asian Investment Summit on May 25-26 at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Hong Kong.

Carl Tannenbaum, Northern Trust

Jang Dong Hung, Public Officials Benefit Association

Lee Dong-ik, adviser to Temasek

Hao Shao, Ayaltis

Lee Insup, AsianInvestor

Jayne Bok, Willis Towers Watson

Mark Valadao, State Street Global Advisors

Keith Patton, BMO Global Asset Management

Kang Sungseog, Korean Teachers' Credit Union

Geoffrey Lunt, HSBC Global Asset Management

Joep Huntjens, NN Investment Partners

Adam Wolfe, Macro Research Board

Alastair Hills, AsianInvestor

Louis Kuijs, Oxford Economics

Lewis Grant, Hermes Investment Management

Jessica Matthews, Cambridge Associates

Jessica Robinson, UNPRI

Marcel Jeucken, PGGM

Phillip Colmar, Macro Research Board

Andy Xie, independent economist

Hideo Konda, DIC Pension Fund

Peter Douglas, CAIA

Scott Steele, Pimco

Frederic Thomas, Asian Development Bank

Henry Chin, CBRE

Cui Shaomin, National Institute for Social Security

Peter Ryan-Kane, Willis Towers Watson

Nick Pollard, CFA Institute

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