London Cocktail & Conference
Reimagining asset management
7 - 8 May 2019Central Hall Westminster
Chris Cummings, The Investment Association (IA)
Chris Cummings is the Chief Executive of The Investment Association, a post he has held since September 2016. The Investment Association is the trade body that represents UK-based investment managers.
He is a member of HM Treasury’s Asset Management Taskforce, and was a founding member of its Financial Services Trade & Investment Board. He serves on the Chancellor’s Financial Services Industry Advisory Group and Department for International Trade’s Financial Services Trade Advisory Group. He is a Board member on EFAMA, the European trade association for investment management and is a member of the Regulation Committee of IIFA, the international association for investment management. He is also a Trustee of Just Finance Foundation.
He was previously a member of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Regulatory Decisions Committee, a Settlement Decision Maker for the Payment Services Regulator. He served on the Foreign & Commonwealth’s Diplomatic Excellence Panel.
Before joining The Investment Association he was the founding CEO of TheCityUK, held senior posts in banking, insurance and consulting with major global firms. He is a regular columnist, commentator and speaker on issues of international competitiveness and regulation in financial services.
Agenda
| 09.20 - 09.35 | ALFI and IA welcome addresses
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| 10.00 - 10.45 | CEO panel discussion – “Walking the talk”; Moving from “re-imagination” to the “reality” of transforming the asset management industryHow should asset management respond to a world of disruptions by technology and politics? Our panellists have shared a number of talking points in advance of their discussion:
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| 11.20 - 12.05 | 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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| 12.05 - 12.40 | "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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| 14.30 - 15.45 | Target operating model for your management company18/698: what’s all the fuss about? |
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| 14.30 - 15.45 | Private equity: new tax and structuring developmentsin association with Are we moving to a US structuring environment? |
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| 14.30 - 15.45 | Real estate: hot investment areas and set-upsHow to manage regulatory substance |
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| 14. 30 - 15.45 | The Luxembourg sustainable finance toolkitHow to set up a sustainable fund using the Luxembourg toolbox? |
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