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Event Agenda

8.30am
Registration
8.55am
Welcome Address
Michael Stanhope
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Hubbis
9.00am
Panel Discussion
Private wealth management - a time of dramatic change
  • What are the main opportunities that will continue to drive growth in wealth management in Malaysia?
  • What are the challenges that will prevent growth in wealth management in Malaysia?
  • Any regulatory hindrances and roadblocks?
  • What trends are we seeing in global and regional wealth management?
  • How can you get the right people and proposition in front of the right clients?
  • Do you have a structured sales process? To what extent does this need to be improved / changed?
  • What can you do to improve the value proposition in wealth management?
  • What changes are we seeing in client expectations and behaviour?
  • Transparency, Margins, Costs and Fees – what’s changing?
Kimmis Pun
Managing Director, Head of Private Banking, Singapore
VP Bank
Robert Foo
Managing Director, Founder
MyFP Services
Sammeer Sharma
Managing Director, Head - Consumer, Private, and Business Banking, Malaysia
Standard Chartered Bank
Ming Hui Yap
Founder & Managing Director
Whitman Independent Advisors
Kenny Suen
Principal Officer, Chief Marketing Officer
Bill Morrisons Wealth Management
Lin Wein Khoo
Head of Private and Priority Banking
Techcombank
9.50am
Presentation
The digital watch or the hand-made Swiss?
Kimmis Pun
Managing Director, Head of Private Banking, Singapore
VP Bank
  • How is private banking developing?
  • How do you add value and differentiate yourself?
  • What are the different business models you can consider?
10.00am
Head - to - Head Q & A
Investment Migration: Trends and Developments for HNWIs
Dominic Volek
Group Head of Private Clients and Member of the Executive Committee
Henley & Partners
  • Why is the Investment Migration industry booming?
  • Why does Henley & Partners attend the Hubbis events?
  • Where do our clients come from?
  • Why do PBs/IAMs etc work with us?
  • How can Henley & Partners help your HNWI clients?
  • What are the pitfalls that HNWIs should be aware concerning investment migration?
10.10am
Presentation
Consistent, holistic and valuable advice – hope or reality?
Michael Gerber
Chief Executive Officer
360F
  • Today, clients and advisors are experimenting to find the right investment and protection products
  • The life of client is unpredictable and hence, followed by a disappointing relationship – sometime for both parties
  • For clients who understand all potential risks and unforeseen events can step into financial happiness
10.20am
Panel Discussion
Technology - the future of private wealth and asset management?
  • Are banks going in the right direction in their digital journey?
  • What digital expectations do clients have?
  • Has the investment in ‘digital’ justified the cost? What has worked elsewhere?
  • How can we improve efficiency?
  • What does the word ‘platform’ mean to you?
  • What’s the role of AI?
John Robson
Chief Commercial Officer
Quantifeed
Andreas Wenger
General Manager, APAC
IMTF
Kelvin Lim
Head of Business Development, Asia
IRESS
Michael Gerber
Chief Executive Officer
360F
Julian Kwan
Co-Founder and CEO
InvestaX
Allen Chote
Head of Strategic Partnerships – South East Asia
FNZ
11.00am
Presentation
Scaling wealth management with digital automation
John Robson
Chief Commercial Officer
Quantifeed
  • Scaling to thousands of customers with rising wealth is exciting and challenging
  • The threat of failing to do so is immense
  • The answer is automation and a local market perspective
11.10am
Refreshment & Networking
11.35am
Presentation
IMTF’s Modular RegTech Platform – Building blocks to achieve regulatory compliance
Andreas Wenger
General Manager, APAC
IMTF
  • Forward-looking technologies to tackle business challenges (Client Onboarding, Name Screening, AML / Fraud)
  • Building on a strong case management foundation to achieve cohesive business operations benefits
  • Enabling and ensuring end-to-end leading client and user experience
11.45am
Presentation
Market dislocations: Challenge or opportunity?
Rossen Djounov
Global Head of Distribution and Client Solutions
GAM Investments
  • Should slower growth, weaker earnings and elevated stock and bond valuations be considered a challenge or an opportunity?
  • The classic ‘balanced’ portfolio is no longer fit for purpose; diversification could be enhanced by including non-directional, alpha-generating and relative value strategies
  • Opportunities within the credit universe, emerging market debt and commodity trade finance can offer new sources of return that are less correlated with traditional assets
11.55am
Presentation
How to use Structured Investment Solutions in a changing market
David Meier
Director, Sales - Structured Solutions
Leonteq
  • A suitable solution for each market conditions
  • Benefit from market volatility
  • A great diversification tool
12.05pm
Presentation
RM Office - 2020 Advantage
Anand Rai
Presales Lead
Intellect Design Arena
  • Possibility to Increase RMs productivity by 20%
  • Possibility to reduce operational cost by 20%
  • Let your system take care of compliance - 3D Compliance
  • Leveraging Digital - Enhanced Outreach and contextualized experience
  • Actionable insights to direct the destiny of the business
12.15pm
Head - to - Head Q & A
The HNW Insurance Market has Changed – Here’s how you win
David Varley
Chief Partnership Officer - Brokerage, International HuBS
Sun Life
  • What’s happening in the HNW Market?
  • How HNW Brokers, Bankers, EAM can adapt to win in the new HNW Insurance Market
  • What are the new Products and Trends in HNW Market
  • Why should Bankers and Financial Advisers be interested in HNW Insurance
12.25pm
Presentation
International Finance Centres: past, present and future
Richard Nunn
Regional Head, East
Jersey Finance
  • How IFCs have evolved and what the future now holds
  • Beneficial ownership: what just happened?
  • The impact and opportunity for Islamic Finance
12.35pm
Panel Discussion
What are the growing opportunities for Islamic wealth management in Malaysia?
  • How is Islamic asset and wealth management developing?
  • Opportunities and Challenges?
  • How is Malaysia competing as the preeminent Sharia-compliant Finance Centre? In comparison to KSA, UAE or Bahrain?
  • Malaysia has spearheaded a number of innovative developments in Islamic finance – including FinTech. How would you like to see the market develop from here?
  • What are the specific wealth structuring requirements within Islamic Finance?
  • What are the top concerns for wealthy family businesses when considering Sharia compliant investments abroad?
  • What are the core criteria you believe are essential for an offshore financial centre to become a leading Islamic Wealth Management Hub?
Suhazi Reza Selamat
Chief Executive Officer
UOB Islamic Asset Management
Richard Nunn
Regional Head, East
Jersey Finance
Elias Moubarak
Partner
Trowers & Hamlins
1.10pm
Lunch & Networking
1.50pm
Workshop
Global Citizens: Trends and Developments in Investment Migration
  • Introduction to the Investment Migration Industry
  • Citizenship-by-Investment: Travel and Settlement Freedom for HNWIs
  • The world’s leading Residence-by-Investment Programs
Dominic Volek
Group Head of Private Clients and Member of the Executive Committee
Henley & Partners
2.30pm
Workshop
Insights from recent deployments of digital wealth automation to FIs in Asia
  • Leading financial institutions across Asia are racing to deploy digital wealth management capabilities
  • Quantifeed has deployed digital wealth platforms enabling STP of unlisted fund portfolios leveraging our quantitative and financial software engineering expertise
  • A sharing session to present the learnings and the technical solutions developed for digital wealth leaders across Asia
John Robson
Chief Commercial Officer
Quantifeed
3.10pm
Refreshment & Networking
3.30pm
Panel Discussion
Investing in more uncertain and challenging markets
  • Challenges and Opportunities for 2H 2019?
  • How is distribution of funds changing? How is digital affecting this?
  • Too many investment products and not enough investment solutions?
  • Managing and understanding risk — how do you estimate risk, and how does it impact your investment process?
  • How do you think Asian equity market performance will be in 2019?
  • What Macro trends will create opportunities and challenges?
  • Is Malaysia warming to index and ETF products?
  • What’s the interest of private clients today in;  ESG, Alternatives, Private equity, Infrastructure and Property
  • Are there any thematic / more secular equity ideas that are poised to do well? Like the environment and climate change?
  • What's the outlook for China in 2019? Good time to invest? What sectors are best?
  • How do you think Asian equity market performance will be in 2019?
  • What’s your view on global equity markets?
  • What are some of the interesting opportunities in Structured Products today?
Shan Saeed
Global Chief Economist
IQI Global
Ranjiv Raman
Head of Private Assets and Equities, Asia
Schroders Wealth Management
Tony Wong
Head of Intermediary Sales
CSOP Asset Management
Joanne Siu
ETF Sales Director
Samsung Asset Management
Rossen Djounov
Global Head of Distribution and Client Solutions
GAM Investments
David Meier
Director, Sales - Structured Solutions
Leonteq
4.30pm
Forum Ends