London Cocktail & Conference
Reimagining asset management
7 - 8 May 2019Central Hall Westminster
Dan Cobley, Blenheim Chalcot
Dan is an entrepreneur and investor in innovative tech startup businesses, focusing on financial services. He leads the FinTech portfolio for Blenheim Chalcot, a long-established London venture builder. Through this role he has co-founded a number of fast-growth fintech companies including; Salary Finance, Koodoo Mortgages, OpenWrks and ClearScore, and he is on the boards of Liberis, Modulr and Tully.
Until late 2014, Dan spent over 8 years at Google, as Managing Director UK & Ireland and as VP Marketing EMEA. Prior to Google Dan held senior marketing roles with Capital One, Ask Jeeves and Pepsi/Walkers.
Dan has been a speaker at the TED Conference, has appeared as a technology expert on BBC’s Tomorrow’s World, helped Alan Sugar choose his 2014 Apprentice, and is a trustee of the Technology Trust.
Agenda
| 10.00 - 10.45 | CEO panel discussion – “Walking the talk”; Moving from “re-imagination” to the “reality” of transforming the asset management industryConverting the theory to practice; how should the asset management be responding to this technology and political driven disruptive world, where value for money is being questioned as never before, where customers willingness to buy products through digital channels is increasing, where investors are increasingly focused on the non-financial returns, where the asset management industry`s stewardship over investment decisions is continually being challenged and all of this being rounded-off by significant pressure on fee and margin levels. |
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| 11.10 - 11.55 | Luxembourg: anticipating change, shaping our future and aiming for tomorrowLuxembourg has a proud history of anticipating the evolving needs of the asset management industry it services. Entering with optimism a new era of “re-imagining” asset management and innovation benefiting investors, can it continue that tradition, and can we define what that future might look like? How is Luxembourg evolving as it welcomes new ideas and entrants, anticipates the future and re-imagines its role as the world’s second largest fund domicile? |
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| 11.55 - 12.30 | "Disruption scenarios" ... "structural shifts" ... "shaping our future" ... How does this impact the regulator?As the industry experiences disruption and transformation, how are regulators evolving? Are they experiencing the same disruption? What industry landscape are they planning and preparing for over the next five years? |
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| 12.30 - 12.55 | Transformation and disruption: what can the asset management industry learn from the transformation seen elsewhere?The digital reinvention of the industry is inevitable. But where will disruption come from? What role might GAFA play? And how can incumbents put the customer and technology at the heart of their offer to survive the shift?
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| 14.00 - 15.15 | Target operating model for your management company18/698: what’s all the fuss about? |
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| 14.00 - 15.15 | Private equity: new tax and structuring developmentsin association with Are we moving to a US structuring environment? |
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| 14.00 - 15.15 | Real estate: hot investment areas and set-upsHow to manage regulatory substance |
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| 14. 00 - 15.15 | The Luxembourg sustainable finance toolkitHow to set up a sustainable fund using the Luxembourg toolbox? |
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