HONG KONG: Leaders in asset management will gather in Hong Kong on 21 June 2012 for the FT Business of Asset Management Summit to discuss strategic opportunities being generated across mature and fast growing emerging markets in Asia and the challenges that must be overcome for the region’s potential to be realised.

The landmark inaugural Summit – sub-titled “Executing Investor Strategies in a Fast-Changing Marketplace” – will take place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong and feature keynote presentations and high-level panels involving CEOs and CIOs from the world’s top asset management companies and institutional investors, discussing the factors affecting this rapidly evolving sector at a time of momentous change in the global economy.

The one-day summit, organised by the Financial Times, FTfm and Ignites Asia, will be co-chaired by Henny Sender, the FT’s Chief International Finance Correspondent, Pauline Skypala, Editor of FTfm, and Rita Raagas De Ramos, Managing Editor of Ignites Asia. Speakers will include:

  • Gregory Curl, President, Temasek Holdings
  • Mark McCombe, Chairman, Asia Pacific, BlackRock
  • Bill Maldonado, Chief Investment Officer, Asia Pacific, HSBC Global Asset Management
  • Mark Mobius, Executive Chairman, Templeton Emerging Markets Group
  • Wesley Edens, Co-Founder, Principal and Co-Chairman, Fortress Investment Group
  • Peter Alexander, Principal, Z-Ben Advisors
  • Curtis Arledge, CEO, Investment Management, and Vice Chairman, BNY Mellon
  • Oliver Bolitho, Head, Asia, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
  • Paul Chan, Chief Investment Officer, Asia ex-Japan, Invesco
  • Peter Chen, Senior Principal, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
  • Steve Chiu, Managing Director, Bosera Asset Management
  • Mark Delaney, Chief Investment Officer and Deputy CEO, AustralianSuper
  • Nicholas Hadow, Director, Aberdeen Asset Management Asia
  • Kim Hong, Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific, PIMCO
  • Grant Kelley, Co-head of Asia Pacific, Apollo Global Management
  • Alexa Lam, Deputy CEO, Securities and Futures Commission, Hong Kong
  • Graham Mason, CEO, Eastspring Investments
  • Stephen Roberts, Head of Investment Management, Asia Pacific, Mercer
  • Joanne Segars, CEO, National Association of Pension Funds, UK
  • Abhi Shroff, Principal, Greenwich Associates
  • Jing Ulrich, Managing Director and Chairman of Global Markets, China, JP Morgan
  • Philippe Uzan, Chief Investment Officer, Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management

The Summit will explore the impact of regulatory reforms that have followed the financial crisis on investment and the asset management industry. It will also look at the growth strategies of key institutional investors such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, and the new investment opportunities available to them. Major emerging markets such as China, where the asset management industry remains substantially under-developed, will also be discussed.

“This summit comes at a crucial time for the asset management industry, with increased capital flows into Asia’s emerging markets but against a backdrop of global economic and regulatory uncertainty. The summit will provide an opportunity to discuss growth strategies and the way forward for institutional investors and industry players,” said Pauline Skypala.

BlackRock and HSBC Global Asset Management are platinum sponsors of the Summit, Eastspring Investments is a gold sponsor, and Aberdeen Asset Management are sponsoring the closing cocktail party.

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For further information, please contact:

Citigate Dewe Rogerson
Anna Bartram
Senior Consultant
T: +852 3010 0109 or 9262 4267
E: anna.bartram@citigate.com.hk

Jasmine Yap
Co-Managing Director
T: +852 3010 0108 or 9325 3363
E: jasmine.yap@citigate.com.hk

Financial Times
Azmar Sukandar
Head of Communications, Asia Pacific
T: +852 2905 5519
E: azmar.sukandar@ft.com

Emma Gilpin-Jacobs
Director of Communications
T: +44 (0) 20 7873 4447
E: emma.gilpin-jacobs@ft.com

About the Financial Times:

The Financial Times Group, one of the worlds’ leading business information companies, aims to provide a broad range of business information and services to the growing audience of internationally minded business people.

The FT has a combined paid print and digital circulation of over 600,000 (Deloitte assured, 2 January 2012 – 1 April 2012) and a combined print and online average daily readership of 2.2 million people worldwide (PwC assured, November 2011). FT.com has more than 4.5 million registered users and 285,475 paying digital subscribers. The newspaper, printed at 21 print sites across the globe, has a global print circulation of 305,685 (ABC, April 2012).

Financial Times Live has evolved out of FT Global Conferences & Events, which from 1971 organised more than 2,000 high-level events, spanning developed and emerging markets in five continents and a broad series of focus areas including the financial industry and other key sectors such as TMT, energy, pharma/biotechnology, infrastructure/urbanisation, commodities, risk management, innovation and sustainability.

About Ignites Asia:

Ignites Asia, a Financial Times service, is an online source of news, business intelligence and analysis for and about the asset management industry in Asia. Ignites Asia is the sister publication to Ignites in the U.S. and Ignites Europe. Ignites Asia is a must-read for anyone who needs to know the latest developments within the asset management industry in Asia. Coverage in Ignites Asia includes 12 countries in Asia, retail, high-net-worth and institutional markets, asset management sales and marketing, legal and compliance, operations and technology, business and people moves, investment management services, regulatory developments, investment mandates, investment products, industry trends, markets, and more. Ignites Asia is your one-stop shop for news on the Asian asset management industry.

About FTfm

FTfm is the touchstone for the global fund management industry. It provides news, trend analysis, interviews, debate and thought leadership to the world’s top asset managers and institutional investors, as well as prices.
Distributed every Monday throughout Europe and Asia, with a monthly US edition, it is unique in the market place, delivering focused editorial with a huge distribution. FTfm is read by institutional and professional investors, analysts, traders, C-Suite executives, consultants and other corporates and professionals interested in the global asset management industry.

FTfm is also available online at www.ft.com/ftfm. FTfm’s extra online content includes video interviews with industry members; Q&As with key figures; Comment & Opinion, where readers can discuss FT editorial. Readers can also register for the free weekly FTfm email update.

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