| 8.00 |
Coffee and registration |
| 9.00 |
WELCOME ADDRESS: Richard Jory, Editor, STRUCTURED PRODUCTS MAGAZINE |
| 9.10 |
OPENING REMARKS: Kola Luu, Executive Director, Financial Markets Strategy, MONETARY AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE |
| 9.20 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Future structured products market supervisory directions in Korea and their impact to Asia
- Overview of current structured products market and its supervisory framework in Korea
- Analyzing the future of Korea’s structured products market and regulatory development
- Understanding the opportunities opened up in Korea
Sang-Kyu Lim, Head of Derivatives Supervision, FINANCIAL SUPERVISORY SERVICE, KOREA |
| 10.00 |
ROUNDTABLE: Trends and outlook for Asia’s structured products market in 2008
- What drives the growth of structured products in Asia? How sustainable is this trend?
- How close are structured products to becoming ‘mainstream’? What will it take for this to happen?
- How is the composition of structured products within a clients’ portfolio changing?
- What are the cutting-edge structured investment strategies for 2008?
- Is there a shift of demand away from principal protection to conditional protection?
- Does demand for short maturities affect innovation in product development? If yes, how?
- A need for transparency: the rise of exchange-traded products
- The thirst for equities: when is it going to end? What innovative bear products are there in the event of a market downturn?
Moderator: Christopher Jeffery, Editor, ASIA RISK MAGAZINE
Henry Pang, Managing Director, Head of Equities and Derivatives , BNP PARIBAS
Rishabh Saksena, Managing Director & Co-head, Structured & Alternative Solutions, Asia, MERRILL LYNCH PRIVATE BANK
Malcolm Thomas, Director of Structured Products, Global Equities and Derivatives Solution, SOCIETE GENERALE CIB |
| 10.50 |
Networking coffee break and exhibition viewing |
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STREAM 1
UNDERSTANDING THE RAPIDLY GROWING STRUCTURED PRODUCTS MARKETS |
STREAM 2
IDENTIFYING LATEST TRENDS IN STRUCTURED PRODUCTS |
| 11.20 |
Structured products in Asia’s developed markets
- Market evolvement: Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan
- Stimulating the growth of liquidity through secondary markets
- How robust are product delivery platforms in developed markets? What can be done better?
Todd James, Senior Director & Head of Structured Products, HSBC PRIVATE BANK |
In search of transparency: innovations in investable indexes
- Drivers behind growth of index development in Asia
- Key areas of innovation:
- thematic
- dynamic
- alpha
- asset class expansion
- Gaining access to private equity via indexes
- Using indexes as product underlyings
Robin Lo, Senior Director, Index Services Asia, STANDARD & POOR’S |
| 12.00 |
ROUNDTABLE: Gaining access to emerging Asian economies via structured
products
- Regional overviews: Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and India
- Most popular wrappers
- What impact would policy liberalization have on:
- diversifying product ranges?
- volume growth?
Moderator: Christopher Jeffery, Editor, ASIA RISK MAGAZINE
Leslie Phang, Head of Investments, Asia, COMMONWEALTH PRIVATE BANK
Wyson Lim, Head of Wealth Management, OCBC BANK MALAYSIA
Rajesh Iyer, Senior Vice President & Head of Structured Products Group, KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK INDIA |
Accessing investment opportunities linked to renewable energy and the environment through structured products (SRIs)
- Drivers and forecasts of SRI growth in Asia
- Target market: have we seen sufficient sophistication in investors to accept SRIs?
- Examining varieties in SRI products and potential themes for future products: climate-change; water; alternative energy
Simon Conroy, Associate Director, Global Investments, MACQUARIE BANK |
| 12.40 |
Networking lunch break and exhibition viewing |
| 13.55 |
EXECUTIVE ADDRESS: Innovation in structured products
- What drives innovation in structured products:
- competitive pressures
- increasing sophistication of investors
- demand for portfolio diversification
- Where is the market heading next?
- Accessing new underlyings through structured products
- Getting the pricing right
- Innovative structures proven to be successful
Henry Pang, Managing Director & Head of Equities and Derivatives, BNP PARIBAS |
| 14.35 |
Hybrid products: From investors’ perspective
- Hybrid Products: examining the true needs in investors
- Who are hybrid products best fit for?
- Rationale behind selecting underlyings for structured products to generate desired pay-offs
- Analyzing retail investors’ acceptance of complex hybrid structures
Wyson Lim, Head of Wealth Management, OCBC BANK MALAYSIA |
Creating value through hedge-fund linked structured products
- History and latest advancements in hedge funds structured products
- Techniques in predicting performance of hedge funds-linked products
- Use of structured products to gain leverage and capital protection
Eugene Liu, Chief Investment Strategist, ABSOLUTE ALPHA
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| 15.15 |
Networking lunch break and exhibition viewing |
| 15.45 |
ROUNDTABLE: Commodity-linked products
- What are the drivers behind commodity price fluctuations
- How do Backwardation and Contango affect the structured investments market?
- Commodity indices as underlyings
- Assessing features of various commodities:
Moderator: Richard Jory, Editor, STRUCTURED PRODUCTS MAGAZINE
Chu Kok Wei, Executive Vice President, Head of Structured Products & Derivatives, CIMB GROUP
Peter McGuire, Managing Director, COMMODITY WARRANTS AUSTRALIA
Rajesh Iyer, Senior Vice President & Head of Structured Products Group, KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK INDIA
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| 16.25 |
CHAMPAGNE ROUNDTABLE: Private banking and structured products: winning strategies for Asia’s new wealth
- Tax advantages in Singapore - the fastest growing offshore private-banking center in the world
- Understanding future investors’ appetite for derivatives-based investments
- What is lacking in the current array of products?
- Effectively communicating structured products to HNW clients - challenges of a complex market and increased competition
- What are the hottest products currently in the market?
Moderator: Christopher Jeffery, Editor, ASIA RISK MAGAZINE
Leslie Phang, Head of Investments, COMMONWEALTH PRIVATE BANK
Calvin Lim, Chief Executive Officer, HERITAGE WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Ashish Kehair, Head - Products, Private Banking Group, ICICI BANK |
| 17.15 |
Editor's closing remarks |
| 17.30 |
Cocktail reception and Structured Products Asia Awards 2007 |
