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Registration Opens
8:00 AM to 8:40 AM
Networking & Breakfast
8:40 AM to 8:45 AM
Welcome Note
8:45 AM to 9:00 AM
Opening Remarks
Conference Chair
Anthony J. Busacca, Jr.
Managing Director, Alliance Bernstein
9:00 AM to 9:50 AM
Keynote: Investment Management Landscape Global Growth Opportunities - Do
Global Economies Permit Growth?
Inside the Minds of Investors:
Misconceptions and Opportunities
This presentation will uncover surprising misconceptions about wealth: how it defines differences and
commonalities among investors. We'll also uncover the risks and opportunities that loom for the
investment industry and for financial advisors in their client engagements due to the latest industry
evolution.
Over the last 15 years, the investment industry has undergone a profound evolution from transactionbased
relationships to fee-based relationships. Today, it's experiencing an evolution-one that could
have a deeper impact.
This evolution could redefine the industry's sales and service models. The watchword today is
relationships: financial advisors must forge deeper relationships and closer partnerships with clients,
with one thing in mind-an unwavering focus on clients' life-defining goals.
"One-size-fits-all" investor communications will become a thing of the past, and client presentations
will grow increasingly customized-often by wealth segment. To tailor these communications
properly, financial advisors must develop a deeper understanding of what investors need-and how
they think.
Robert A. Weiss
Managing Director, The Advisor Institute, Alliance Bernstein
10:00 AM to 10:40 AM
The World Wealth Report – A Research Perspective: Trends in HNWI geographies and its impact on Wealth Management globally
This session will throw light on the emerging class of HNWI's from the traditional geographies to the emerging economies. It will give a research perspective on the implications of this emerging class of HNWI's on the Wealth Management Industry, as it looks to grow and support a new class of wealth.
Ileana van der Linde
Principal, Wealth Management Practice, Capgemini
10:50 AM to 11:10 AM
Networking Break
11:10 AM to 12:00 PM
Practice Leader's Forum (Panel): Innovation of Service Models implemented by companies to boost revenues, clientele
Discussion on who owns the "client?" The investment management firm, the broker/dealer or the financial advisor? Whose wealth are we attempting to maximize? And if all of these i.e investment management firm, broker/dealer make their money, somewhere the client will get the benefit of their performance.
Rajeev Sharma
VP- Business Development (Financial Solutions), NIIT
Fabio Savoldelli
Chief Investment Officer, Optima Fund Management LLC
Charles Garcia
Director, Blackrock Solutions
Moderator
Anthony J. Busacca, Jr.
Managing Director, Alliance Bernstein
12:10 PM to 1:00 PM
Industry Leader's Forum (panel): Operations and Technology Challenges in
supporting growth of alternative investments and strategies within investment
management industry
Executive viewpoints on "How does the middle office and back office
support the strategies of the portfolio manager and trading desk?" Perspectives
can be shared as to how custodians or central depositories can lead the change
towards standardization of processes.
Chandresh Iyer
Managing Director, Global Transaction Services, Citi
Peter Keaveney
Managing Director , BNY Mellon Asset Servicing
Panel Chair
Adam Broun
Principal, Financial Services practice, Deloitte Consulting LLP
1:00 PM to 1:40 PM
Networking Lunch
1:40 PM to 2:20 PM
Extended Enterprise Model for Fund Managers - Greater Flexibility and Lower Costs
During the last 10 years, most Fund Managers have focused on expansion - both in geographical terms (BRIC countries and other emerging markets) as well as in types of instruments in the portfolio. While this has been a period of significant growth overall, percentage of AuM on spent IT and Middle/Back-office operations has either remained same or has risen. This defies common wisdom of economies of scale. But when the focus is on growth, the organization gears itself to respond to the front office 'swiftly' and at most times as 'whatever cost' The Extended Enterprise Model enables Fund Managers to achieve optimum flexibility and cost efficiency, without compromising on transparency and control which characterize typical outsourcing engagements.
Siddhartha S
Principal-Asset Management & Head of Operations, HCL Poland
2:20 PM to 3:00 PM
Thought Leader's Forum: Enterprise Wealth Management: A
Necessity in Competitive Times
Discussion on What is the added value of the investment manager /
mutual fund manager, and how do they justify their fees, based on their
performance in a negative market? When the market goes down, does the investor
get their money back? Do they deserve to?
Kevin Menezes
Head Of Wealth Management Practice, Wipro
3:00 PM to 3:20 PM
Networking Break
3:20 PM to 4:00 PM
Practice Leader's Forum: Innovation of Product - Strategy for existing and untapped markets
Discussion on What are the 'competitive strategies' in use in investment management and is there a time frame before these strategies are successfully 'cloned'.
David C. Jacobson
Trusts and Estates Consultant, UBS
Serge Troyanovsky
Director - Equities & Derivatives, BNP Paribas
Gordon Latter
Head of Pension and Endowment Strategy, Merrill Lynch Global Securities Research & Economics Group
Moderator
Aron Miodownik
CEO, Cambrian Associates
4:00 PM to 4:40 PM
Thought Leadership: Risk Management in the Age of Structured Products
The overriding message from the recent credit crisis is that no one is immune. The sub-prime mortgage crisis, the drying up of liquidity for a wider range of debt instruments, the collapse of established financial institutions, and the huge losses of other, global financial giants are proof. Why were so many companies so vulnerable? Could this have been prevented? Most importantly, how can financial institutions learn from this going forward?
The outward evidence of events is well known. While many speculate as to how events were allowed to mushroom into a crisis of global impact, recognition is growing within the financial services industry that many factors coalesced into a risk management perfect storm.
This presentation explores what happened and why, using the recent experience with structured credit products as an illustration to provide a perspective on lessons learned and how those lessons can be applied by financial institutions.
Scott Baret
Partner, Regulatory & Capital Markets- New York Deloitte & Touche LLP
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Closing Remarks and Adjournment |
