Asian Commodities Investment Summit 2011

Louis Kuijs, chief economist, Asia, MF Global

Kenneth Courtis, co-founder, Themes Investment Management

Delegates

Delegates

Rajnikant Patel, managing director & CEO, Indian Commodity Exchange

Anthony Desir, principal, SAMI Funds

Panel: Commodities' role in a balanced portfolio

Jeremy Friesen, commodities strategist, Societe Generale

Peter Hickson, managing director/strategist, UBS

Q&A from an investor

Owen Hegarty, vice chairman, G-Resources

Paget Dare Bryan, foreign legal consultant, Clifford Chance

Nicolas Robin, co-manager, Threadneedle Enhanced Commodities Fund

John Baker, head of food and agribusiness research and advisory, Asia, Rabobank

Kunal Shah, head of commodity research, Nirmal Bang

Jon Allen, co-head of institutional sales & head of hedge fund sales Asia Pacific, Threadneedle Investments

Networking break

David Quarmby, director, commodity structuring, Standard Chartered Bank

Albert Helmig, president, Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange

Panel: Gold and precious metals

Thomas Bispham, managing director, Asia Pacific, Behre Dolbear Group

Randolph Koppa, president, Trade and Development Bank (Mongolia)

Karfai Leung, chairman, Hong Kong Mining Investment Professionals Association

Candice Beaumont, managing director, L Investments

Panel: Oil and energy commodities

Lawrence Lu, director, corporate ratings Asia-Pacific, Standard & Poor's

Helen Lau, senior analyst (metals and mining), UOB Kay Hian

Delegates

Jame DiBiasio, editor, AsianInvestor

Andrew Ferguson, chief executive officer, APAC Resources

Panel: Base metals

Rupert Walker, senior writer, FinanceAsia

Peter Hickson, managing director/strategist, UBS

Erik Bethel, managing partner, SinoLatin Capital

Tom Findley, CEO, Rio Cristal Resources

John Browning, head of metals Hong Kong, Newedge

Q&A with delegates

Paul Colwell, investment consultant, Towers Watson Investments

Diego Parrilla, founder and CIO, Nareco Advisors

Panel: Institutional routes into commodities

Lara Wozniak, editor, FinanceAsia

Panel: Institutional routes into commodities

Masa Igata, founder and CEO, Frontier Securities