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Noel Fessey, EFA

Noel Fessey is CEO, chairman of the Executive Committee and member of the Board of Directors of EFA. Noel entered financial services in 2000 after a 13-year military career specialising in logistics and IT. He joined Schroder Investment Management in London as the Schroders Group head of IT security, and quickly took on additional responsibilities. From 2003 to 2016 Noel was Managing Director of Schroder Investment Management (Luxembourg) S.A., a regulated fund management company licensed to manage retail and alternative investment funds. For more than 13 years Noel led a team that developed the company into Schroders' largest operations centre outside of London. Noel was appointed Schroders' global head of fund services in 2005 and chief operations officer of Schroders' product division in 2016. Noel was a member of the board of directors of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) from 2005 to 2016. Noel is English, married with two children and lives in Luxembourg.

Agenda

ALFI Plenary session 3 May

08.45-08.50		Chairman of the Conference Noel Fessey CEO EFA

9.25-10.10		Panel discussion - View from the C-Suite The asset management industry is experiencing a set of unprecedented structural shifts. These include; a shift in responsibility for long-term savings from state to employer to employee, the value for money of active management being questioned by stakeholders, significant fee compression, an increasing customer propensity to buy products through digital channels, the use of analytics and artificial intelligence to make better investment decisions and increasing expectation that institutional shareholders should exercise greater stewardship over investment decisions. How should the asset management industry respond? Three senior Asset Management executives together with the Chairperson of ALFI provide insights into the future of the Asset Management industry

10.10-10.40		Part I - Crypto currencies and their relevance to Asset Management

11.30-11.55		Part III - A checkpoint on reality in assessing whether investor protection lines of defence can keep pace and be more effectively enabled through technology Transformational technology; what does it mean for control functions

12.05 - 12.35		The evolving role and profile of the Regulator As Asset Management evolves, embraces new technology and shifts its own paradigms, how is the role of Regulator adapting to these changes? We will hear from experts representing both the CSSF and the FCA, specialising in preparing the regulator for such change and adapting to regulate the Asset Manager of tomorrow