Registration and breakfast


Introduction by the Minister of Finance


Welcome and Introduction

  • Denise Voss

    Denise Voss Chairman Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI)


Chairperson’s introduction


Industry (R)evolution

This session will consist of a presentation of the Industry Revolution Report, Part II, done by Citi Business Advisory Services: “How Today’s Innovation Efforts Could Lead to a Re-architecting of the Investment Management Industry”, followed by a panel discussion of hot and innovative topics in the industry.

Moderator

  • Jervis Smith

    Jervis Smith Managing Director Citibank Europe plc, Luxembourg Branch

Panellists

  • Martin Fahr

    Martin Fahr Manging Director (representing DoubleLine Capital in Europe) New End Associates Ltd.

  • Shen Hua

    Shen Hua CEO BOCHK Asset Management Limited


Coffee break


Keynote speech

The challenge of pensions: demographics in a global context


The role of asset managers in pension provisions

AMs operating in Europe have recently seen a welcome addition to their toolkit in the form of the PEPP proposal. This panel will look at this large-scale, portable and cost-efficient product, designed to encourage long-term investment in a sustainable manner in the real economy while enabling AMs to tailor products to suit their business models.

Moderator

Panellists


The fate of securitisation

Investment funds are feeling the impact of new rules such as ATAD and the EU Securitisation Regulation 2017/2402. You may be asking yourself whether you can still use securitisation as an intermediary company and/or feeder structure for your funds – and if not, if there is an easy way out. Our experts will be looking at these questions as well as into the future – is a revised securitisation law in the making?


Lunch in the exhibition area


Out of the Box: Generation Z

What is it with these young people?” – There is much talk about what sets the Generation Z apart, from Millennials and other older generations. Their reputation for a sense of entitlement and being difficult to manage precedes them. Our out-of-the-box session will explore whether there is any truth in that.


The fight for talent

The recipe for attracting tomorrow’s leaders is on every employer’s wishlist. The HR experts on this panel will tell you what makes global nomads stay – in a job, in a place (like Luxembourg), and loyal to their employer.


The impact of technology on talents and skills

Are robots really coming for our jobs? What have machines still got to learn, and what can we learn from machines?


Coffee break


Brexit: impact on people and org charts

In the light of the most recent CSSF substance rules, organisations have to make the right moves – quite literally – as 29 March approaches. Whether it is building your org chart in line with these substance requirements, making sure you have the right people in the right location, or other elements in the Brexit conundrum – this debate promises to be an interesting one.

  • Micaela Forelli

    Micaela Forelli Distribution Director, Senior Manager M&G International Investments S.A.

  • Gerald Rehn

    Gerald Rehn Head of International Product & Strategy BNY Mellon Investment Management


Tick tock goes the Brexit clock

Brexit from a political perspective


Cocktail kindly sponsored by KPMG