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Regulatory address: |
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Alice Law |
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Ms. Law develops policies for facilitating the orderly growth of the Hong Kong financial market and promotes closer co-operation with the Mainland market. She has been involved in a number of cross-border initiatives in promoting a closer dialogue between the Hong Kong market and the Mainland regulatory authorities, for instance, under the Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and the respective MOUs on financial co-operation with Shanghai and Guangdong. Equally on the policy front, Ms. Law led a number of major regulatory projects, including policy initiatives in developing off-shore RMB investment products, the release of the new Products Handbook in June 2010, which contains a new Code on Unlisted Structured Investment Products, the implementation of the SFC guidelines for IPO sponsors in 2006, the launch of the first REIT in Hong Kong in 2005, and the revision of the Guidelines on Hedge Funds and ETFs in 2002 and 2003. Ms. Law has extensive experience in relation to international regulatory issues and had been on various secondment programmes with leading financial regulators, including China Securities Regulatory Commission, the UK Financial Services Authority and Australian Securities and Investment Commission.
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Other distinguished speakers include: |
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Amit Agarwal
Amit Agawal is Head of Fixed Income Structuring, Asia Pacific, at Barclays Capital, based in Hong Kong. Amit is responsible for the structuring and product development needs of clients throughout the region. Amit comes with close to 15 years of experience in the financial industry in Asia in which he joined Barclays Capital in 2006 from Citigroup. He was then a Director responsible for structuring in Asian local currency and G3 rate products. Prior to that, Amit worked at J.P. Morgan in various roles, including Fixed Income (FI) research, derivatives trading and structuring.
Amit has a BE in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad India. |
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Anthony Chan
Anthony is currently the Head of Private Banking Advisory at the Harris Fraser Group in which he supervises the banking business for UBS, Credit Suisse and Julius Baer Private Bank. He oversees the products and sales skill of structured products, CDA, FX Option, ELN and foreign and local stock trading.
Anthony has over 9 years of experience in which he has spent time with Black Swan Capital Wealth Management, Swiss Privilege, HSBC Private Bank, Barclays Private Bank and Citibank. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, Economics from the University of Toronto.
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Jeslie Chui
Jeslie Chui (Prof J) is the Managing Director of Stand Rich Asset Management (SRAM) Ltd. in which he is responsible for the strategic management of the company. He is also the Host of Now TV Finance Channel and Metro info. In addition to that, he is a columnist with Oriental Daily, I Money and Capital Weekly.
Prof J's past experiences include being a Sales Director at ICBC International, a Senior Treasury Product Manager under the Derivatives Division at the Bank of China (HK) Ltd., an Associate Director for Retail Operations in Sun Hung Kai Financial, the Vice President of Business Development in a subsidiary of Beijing CITIC and Assistant General Manager of Business Development in Sunevision Holding Ltd.
He has published over twenty books in various areas such as e-finance, marketing, management, China financial market & fund management, warrants, sturcutred products, wealth management, hedge funds and equity analysis.
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Eric Greschner Managing Partner, Regatta Research & Money Management, LLC
Eric Greschner, J.D. is a Senior Portfolio Manager and Managing Partner of Regatta Research & Money Management, an SEC-registered investment advisory firm named by Gold line Research and listed in Forbes as among the "Top 10 Leading Wealth Managers in the United States" and named by Bloomberg as one of "America's Top Wealth Management Superstars" four years in a row. Most recently, Eric received the Structured Products Association's 2011 "Leading Edge Advisor Award" for his contributions to the development of the Structured Product industry in the United States.
Eric is a noted portfolio manager, financial educator, and author who is the co-founder of YourFinancialCoaches.com financial education website and author of the upcoming book: "Win in Any Market: How to Build and Keep a Fortune in Up, Sideways, and Down Markets".
His YourFinancialCoaches.com website provides live and online structured product training to financial professionals throughout the world while his book, "Win in Any Market" teaches readers to utilize his techniques and expertise in structured products to potentially generate profits. |
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Richard Harris
Richard Harris is the Chief Executive of Quam Asset Management, an independent boutique fund manager investing in the Future Markets of Asia. He has 25 years in the investment markets and over 32 years of work experience. He is has lived in HK for 40 years, but has had spent many years on assignments in Europe and the US. He has considerable experience in Investment Management business-building in many countries.
He was previously Chief Executive of Port Shelter Investment Management, through which he was consulting to investing institutions, Fund Boards, expert witness panels, family offices and the HK Securities and Futures Commission; as well as assisting the multi-asset manager, Grace Financial, as Founding Managing Partner. Richard has also been attached with Citigroup Private Bank, Newton Investment Management (now BNY Mellon Group), Jardine Fleming's Private Bank and Enskilda Securities.
He began his career in 1978 as a Chartered Engineer in Hong Kong and was awarded the Institution of Civil Engineer's prize for the best young engineer of 1982. Richard Harris holds a First Class Honours degree from the London School of Economics / King's College and a Masters' degree in Engineering Geology from Imperial College, London University. He also holds a MBA from Harvard Business School.
He has extensive media and campaign experience from his time in UK politics (1996-7) and he is a regular Guest Host on CNBC and in industry conferences, as well as writing a column for the China Daily and Quamnet. |
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Daniel P.M. Jim
18-year veteran in the field of absolute return target investing with a focus in the Greater China region, Daniel started off his career with Nomura International in Europe and has extensive working relationships with major European institutions including mutual funds, insurance, proprietary desks and SWFs. He founded Tripod Management in 1999, an investment management and advisory firm based in Hong Kong, a home-grown pioneer in hedge fund research and advisory.
Daniel earned his Bachelor and Master degrees at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and SDA Bocconi in Milan, Italy respectively and is a CFA charterholder. |
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Kevin Liem
Kevin Liem is currently the Chief Investment Officer for TTG (HK) Limited, a prominent wealth manager in Hong Kong. His main responsibilities are to formulate investment strategies and supervise the asset management functions of the business.
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Andrew Malcolm
Andrew is head of Linklaters' capital markets group in Asia and has 25 years' qualified experience. He advises primarily on structured finance and derivatives transactions and structured products, both listed and OTC. Andrew has has been at the forefront in developing the legal framework for the retail bond and structured products market in Hong Kong. |
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Shankar Panchadcharam
Shankar is currently the Head of Investment, Wealth Management UOB Bank. He looks at the Investment Products offerings to the Bank's retail network which includes Unit Trust Funds, Structured Investment and other Investment Solutions. He has had more than ten years experience in the retail investment industry with previous roles in a Unit Trust Management Company and one of the largest Institutional Unit Trust Agents (IUTA) in Malaysia. |
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Devansh Patel
Devansh Patel is a Managing Director in the Global Credit Solutions Group at Barclays Capital. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for the delivery of credit solutions in Asia. Prior to joining Barclays Capital in 2003, Devansh was a Director in the structured credit group at Credit Suisse First Boston. During his six years at CSFB, he was responsible for the origination, structuring and marketing of CDOs backed by a wide variety of asset types including RMBS/ABS, leveraged loans, high yield, investment grade corporates and synthetic derivatives. Prior to CSFB, he was at McKinsey, Deloitte & Touche, and Coopers & Lybrand consulting to various investment banks.
Devansh holds on MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business and a BSc in Finance and Accounting from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Ralph van Put Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ralph is the CEO of True Partner Holding as well as an adjunct professor in finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been active in finance since the late 80's where he started his career as a quantitative analyst at the Pacific Investment Research Institute. Soon after that he founded his own investment fund.
Besides Asset Management he founded a trading software development company in 1995. The firm has been providing technology evolving with the market from floor based solutions to co-located HFT setups. The last 10 years he was the CEO and partner of a proprietary market making trading firm active in the global financial markets. This company was sold in 2009. Besides the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he also lectures on the NTU-SGX in Singapore and the National Taiwan University in Taipei. |
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Eddie Wang
Eddie Wang is the Head of FX Structuring, Asia at Credit Agricole CIB. Based in Hong Kong since joining in 2007, he is responsible for developing foreign exchange hedging and investment solutions for corporate and institutional clients in Asia.
Eddie has 15 years of experience in FX derivatives markets. He started his career as a floor trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He also worked as an options trader at UBS and Lehman in the U.S., and led business development in China. Eddie graduated from Bard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He also attended the graduate school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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Angel Wu ABN AMRO Private Banking
Angel Wu is the regional head of Products and Solutions, Asia at ABN AMRO Private Banking. She is responsible for all products and their policies. She covers Research & Strategy, Private Lending, Investment Products, Product Management, Discretionary Portfolio Management, Wealth Structuring and Estate Planning, and Treasury and Special Products for Asia. |
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Wendy Yuen
Wendy has been working in the banking industry for over 15 years, with more than 10 years under the wealth management and investment industry. She has assumed wide range of duties in the industry ranging from market research, investment advisory for high net worth customers, structuring of derivatives products, funds and asset management and broking business.
At the start of 2011, Wendy assumed new role as Deputy Head of Commercial Banking, overseeing Wealth Management sales, insurance sales of whole corporate segments, control, compliance and sales development functions of Commercial Banking. The role commits the mission of growing the Bank's corporate wealth management income, fostering a robust sales culture, effectively managing Commercial Banking's portfolio and uplifting service level. She has one time served as a part-time member of Central Policy Unit, providing comments for and participating in focus groups to discuss upcoming governmental policies, and became a member of Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre in 2007. She has also been committed to investor education for the community by regularly writing columns for various financial newspapers and magazines, and acting as a guest speaker for financial TV shows, financial forums & public seminars.
She graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with First Class of Honor. She holds the master degree of Cornell University, USA and graduated from Kellogg - HKUST EMBA Program. She is a CFA charterholder and associate of Hong Kong Institute of Bankers. |
