WHAT’S NEW FOR NEW FUNDFORUM INTERNATIONAL 2010
NEW: EXTERNAL OPINION FORMERS & INFLUENCERS ON THE FUTURE OF ASSET MANAGEMENT
It’s no longer just the industry talking to itself. From EU Regulators, Financial Consumer Advocates from across Europe, External Opinion Formers In Future Business Trends; Corporate Social Media Experts & Practitioners, Web 2.0 Emergent Financial Businesses, Consumer Behavioural Experts Across FMCG, Telecoms & Finance, plus comparative business leaders from North America and Asia Pacific. These leading influencers ensure that there is no more industry to industry back patting and that to prosper leaders need to commit to major changes in order to secure a sustainable profitable future.
NEW SPECIAL FOCUS THURSDAY: BUILDING A CUSTOMER-CENTRIC BUSINESS
Ensure Your Business Stays Relevant For The B2B and B2C Buyer Of The Future: with fresh speakers and specialists to New FundForum 2010
With fresh new research from a host of new specialists looking at the transformation of financial services into a truly customer centric industry – both B2B and B2C. Asset Managers can no longer ignore the customer just because they have been dis-intermediated in the past. We look at the new research in to how to plug the trust gap– from the regulatory and product specific perspectives, we look at other new research profiling the role of the consumer in sustainable growth strategies, we examine cutting- edge case studies in Web 2.0 customer facing business transforming customer expectations on transparency and trust – as well as new directions in best practice in customer advocacy and customer education in major institutions.
How can large existing organisations can learn from and adapt to these new unstoppable developments?. With a core expert CEO panel, the practical boardroom implications will be the focus of compelling animated discussion throughout the day, brought to a hands on practical roundtable conclusion with all the experts on tap.
NEW RESEARCH: FRESH PERSPECTIVES FROM INDEPENDENT ANALYSTS
• Dr. Randolph B. Cohen, Assoc.Professor Finance, MIT SLOAN on the New Asset Allocation: New Metrics In Fund Performance
• Suzanne Duncan, Financial Markets Industry Leader, IBM INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS VALUE on Plugging The Asset Management Trust Gap
• Shiv Taneja, MD, International Research, CERULLI ASSOCIATES on Global Forecasts And Trends 2010-2011:
• Hans Jürgen Schmolke, CEO , METRINOMICS on Fund Selector Preferences & Biases Country By Country
• Benjamin Phillips, Partner, Director, Research, CASEY, QUIRK & ASSOCIATES LLC on New Metrics For Sustainable Profitability:
• Lee Bryant, Founder, HEADSHIFT on Web 2.0 Innovation In New Customer -Facing Financial Platforms
• Christophe Langlois, Founder, VISIBLE BANKING on Customer Advocacy
• Roger Peverelli, Founder, VODW On The New B2B and B2C Distribution Model Based on Changing Drivers of Customer Behaviour
• Others to be announced
NEW EXCEPTIONAL KEYNOTES
• Patrick Dixon, Europe’s Leading Trend Futurist, & Chairman, GLOBAL CHANGE on New Consumer Behaviour, New Competitors, New Asset Management Rules: Basing his critique on extensive empirical research across a wide range of sectors from finance to telecoms to retail, he analyses where industries or companies can reduce risk and maximise opportunity. In asset management he has focussed on the future of institutional and retail investment, and related issues such as regulation, charging structures, meeting client expectations, winning trust, avoiding reputational risk, and ethical issues and specific pension fund trends such as the likely impact of future life expectancy forecasts.
• Lawrence McDonald, LEHMAN INSIDER
Former Vice President, Lehmans, Author “A Colossal Failure of Common Sense - the Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers,” is an insider’s unpublished account of Lehman’s astonishing global recklessness and the implications for the future of finance. It is now the #1 bestselling business book in the world, translated into 12 different languages
• Eddy Wymeersch, Chair Independent Committee Of European Securities Regulators, CESR
One of the most influential players in European financial regulation, Eddy is Chairman of the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), Paris; Chairman of the European Regional Committee and Member of the Executive Committee and of the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commission (IOSCO), Madrid. He is also Consultant to EC Commission, World Bank and IFC; member of the corporate governance commission of the Brussels Stock Exchange, chairman of the SLIM working party (Simpler Legislation for the Internal Market) on the 1st and 2nd directive.
NEW THEMES FOR 2010
• Which Investment Approaches Will Investors Be Prepared To Adopt?
• What Are The Business Models For Sustainable Growth?
• How Do We Develop Products That Deliver What They Promise?: Towards A European 415?
• What Is The Best Regulatory Framework To Support Both Customer Needs And Industry’s Ability To Deliver?
• How Do We Create Customer –Centric B2B and B2C Businesses – from the Board Room Out?
• How Do We Plug The Trust Gap
• How Do We Redraw The Distributor / Manufacturer Relationship For A New Era? Fees & Transparency
• Who The Global Leaders Will Be?: The New Global Distribution Dynamics
Plus
• The New Institutional Advisor
• The New Asset Allocation Model
• Risk In The New Era
• AIFM and Alternatives In The Long Only World
• Hedge funds and UCITS 111 Distribution
• UCITs 1V
NEW: EXCLUSIVE CLOSED DOOR SESSIONS
- FOR FUND SELECTORS: Meet The Portfolio Manager In Top Performing Funds Showcases: Tuesday 29th June (pm)
- FOR ASSET MANAGER CEOS: The 1st EFAMA CEO / Regulator Closed Boardroom Session.
For the first time The EFAMA President’s Council and other Invited CEOS
will have the unique opportunity for closed door discussions with
leading regulators on the “Policy and Practice of Delivering A The
Product That The EU Market Needs And A Regulatory Environment To Enable
The Industry To Provide It. “By Invitation Only. Wednesday 30th June
(pm)
NEW DISTRIBUTION SUMMIT 2010 -28TH JUNE
“Redrawing The Distributor / Manufacturer Relationship For A New Era: Compensation, Partnerships, Transparency, Collaboration” Known for its intense discussion and high levels of interaction we present more Fund Selectors from New Institutional Advisors, Private Banks, Multi-managers, Fund of Funds, SubAdvisory Platforms, Wealth Managers and IFAs from across Europe than before for 2010. With a whole new range of speakers drawn from sub-advisory, wholesale, private banks, wealth management and retail intermediaries or end distributors we will be intensely discussing one of the most critical practical issues facing asset management today.
NEW: MOST GEOGRAPHICALLY DIVERSE EVENT TO DATE
With major asset management and distributor players from Northern Europe to the Iberian peninsular, from Central Europe to the UK, plus colleagues from North America, the Middle East and Australasia speaking and networking throughout the event, added to special focus country by country sessions, NEW FUNDFORUM 2010 is the most geographical diverse FundForum International ever.
NEW: STRUCTURED NETWORKING FEATURES
Capitalise On Your High Level Opportunity To Meet And Collaborate With Potential Business Partners With A Greater Range Of Distributors, Intermediaries, External Players And Top Asset Managers Than Ever Before
In addition to OUR FAMOUS COCKTAIL PARTIES we introduce:
• NEW Distributor Manufacturer SpeedNetworking
• NEW Fund Selectors Only Dinner 28th June
• NEW Distribution Summit VIP Drinks Reception
• NEW Meet The Fund Selector, Country By Country Small Group Roundtable Sessions
• PLUS Enhanced MyFundForum E-Networker 2010 For Pre-Booking and Planning Your Meetings In Advance
• AND now Winnow, Tailor And Print Your Own Advance Schedule Ensuring Your Maximise Your Time And Stay Focussed.
For more details see the Networking and Social Events Page
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