By Jenny Adams, Programme Director, FundForum International
FundForum International delivers another impressive line-up in 2012
Each year, FundForum International is an event where the leaders of asset management and fund distribution gather, and so the critical issues facing the mutual fund industry follow, taking them to task. With clouds of uncertainty around the global economy, matched by the certainty of more rigorous regulation, hear experts tough out the arguments, such as Elizabeth Corley, Global CEO, ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS; Guillaume Prache, MD, EUROINVESTORS; Chairman, Securities & Markets Stakeholder Group, ESMA and Allan Polack, CEO, NORDEA SAVINGS & ASSET MANAGEMENT, as they dissect all the key issues of investment management returns, and ensuring better end client end – client outcomes for long term savings products, mutual funds and UCITS.
Get no-holds-barred views straight from the best investment management and asset allocation experts; key industry figures such as Mussie Kidane, Head Of Fund Selection, PICTET; Jose Antonio Blanco, CIO, UBS GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT; ETF views from Joseph Linhares, Head of EMEA, iShares, BLACKROCK ; Saker Nusseibeh, Board Director & Head of Investment, HERMES FUND MANAGERS LTD or Jan Straatman, CIO, LOMBARD ODIER DARIER HENTSCH & CIE.
In addition, expect to be on the receiving end of vociferous discussion on the knock-on impact affecting the asset management businesses that run them, and inevitable changes required to create and effect winning fund distribution strategies. Don’t miss out hearing from some of the biggest mutual fund names, such as Thomas Rüschen, Member of the Executive Committee, Global Head of Key Account Management, DWS to Henrik du Toit CEO, INVESTEC ASSET MANAGEMENT or Javier Marín Romano, Head of Global Private Banking, Asset Management & Insurance Division, BANCO SANTANDER.
Being the world’s leading investment management event, with 200+ top speakers over 4 days, we can also delve down to the nitty gritty of many funds, products and strategies from both the asset management, and the fund distribution perspective. Expect to see much on emerging markets investments (The Emerging Markets Investment Summit) , UCITS and alternative UCITS, Exchange Traded Funds, new DC funds, D2C online products, top performing Niche Strategy funds, as well as Long-Term Savings products.
What’s more, your fund distribution coverage stretches across both The Distribution Summit on the Monday, and during the main conference, where you will be able to hear direct from the selectors such as Henriette Bergh, Exec. Dir. Fund Selection, MORGAN STANLEY PRIVATE WEALTH MANAGEMENT; Lee Freeman-Shor, PM, Global Best Ideas Multimanager Fund SKANDIA INVESTMENT GROUP, and Caspar Rock, CIO, ARCHITAS, all tackling how they are using new asset allocation techniques to create their fund of funds, multi-manager funds, platforms and HNW and discretionary wealth management solutions.
To find out more about FundForum International, including downloading an agenda, speaker line-up, or to register, click here to visit the FundForum International website.
