·               Reviewing the development of china's funds industry: the achievements and challenges to date

·               Examining ways to develop china's fund industry in line with international standards

·               Sharing strategic insights from Wall Street to the Great Wall:  China's fund industry in the global capital markets

• Identifying the forces and trends behind China’s dynamic growth and analysing if this level of growth sustainable?
• Assessing if the revaluation of the renminbi is critical for China’s bubbling economy?
• Examining who is making money in China’s asset management industry and why?
• Exploring investment opportunities in overseas markets and assessing avenues to contain the risks

• Assessing the current state of development and reform of managing insurance assets in China
• Examining the challenges and opportunities that China Life Insurance is faced with in establishing an asset management business
• The evolving role of China Life Insurance in developing China’s capital markets and the fund industry

• Examining the role custodians play in China's marketplace
• Meeting the Chinese clients’ needs – what do they want and how do we satisfy them?
• Enhancing customer focused strategies in China: custody relationship management and client servicing

·               Examining the rapid increase of AUM, product diversification and abundant returns generated by investment funds

·               Assessing new asset management companies that have aggressively entered the Chinese fund market

·               Observing how the fund industry has gained investors’ confidence and support

·               Pinpointing future growth opportunities, predicting growth in AUM and fund product innovation and forecasting future business scope, sales channels and services

·               Analysing the impact of the new entrants in the funds industry - ‘big four’ banks establishing their own asset management capabilities and teaming up with foreign partners

·               Examining how and why insurers are managing money in-house instead of through third party fund managers and what are the implications?

·               Weaning Chinese investors off the IPO addiction

·               Developing innovative investment products with new themes and features for Chinese investors

• Assessing how to build a strong funds management business which operates to international standards
• Keys to searching for and retaining highly professional money managers
• Understanding how to run strigent operational and risk control systems and why to do so
• Educating profit-hungry investors to think in long-term capital gains

·         Identifying the challenges a foreign fund faces when designing and launching a China focused fund from abroad

·         Examining the recent de-regulation in the Chinese markets

·         Meeting the international clients’ risk and return requirements – what are they looking for and why?

·         Analysing future prospects and opportunities

• Understanding what are the challenges facing QFII in China’s marketplace?
• Why are China A-shares so attractive and what can be done to reduce their volatility?
• Pinpointing the obstacles and rewards in launching a China A-shares equity fund

Through a rotating cocktail table format you will get the opportunity to meet all your fellow attendees face-to-face in just 20 minutes. Bring plenty of business cards along for a fast and furious interactive session.

• Examining the efficiency of investing through guaranteed structures
• Are dynamic allocation structures still in vogue? Looking at leverage, principal protection flexibility and competitive costs
• Is shortening the maturities the new challenge? Comparing option based structures vs. target redemption structures
• What’s next? Identifying the next generation of products

·         Discovering what’s driving the booming property market in China

·         Examining the latest trends and developments in REITs around the region and the implications for China

·         Assessing investors’ appetite for China REIT versus direct property investment

• Identifying how important product innovation is in the fund management world?
• Assessing how product differentiation can successfully be achieved?
• Examining the key factors in building a successful brand that is more than just a visual identification system

• Examining the challenges and opportunities in managing the assets of enterprise annuity plans
• (EAPs)
• Understanding the rules governing access for companies to China's EAPs
• Assessing what role will China’s EAPs play in the pension provision of the population?

• Where is the greatest profit potential and how can local and foreign insurers capitalise on these opportunities?
• Have insurers been withdrawing positions in mutual funds and reinvesting it in bourses directly? Or have insurers' exposure to mutual funds increase?
• What is the role of insurers in the pension business?
• Examining how insurers can satisfy their clients’ growing demand for new products?
• Identifying strategies to improve risk management practices in China’s insurance industry

• risk management tools
• portfolio management systems
• corporate governance
• compliance culture
• supervisory structure

• Analysing the opportunities and challenges of regional and international exchanges trying to attract Chinese issuers
• Assessing the difference in investors interest between the US, UK and Asian markets
• What are the implications of adhering to Sarbanes Oxley Act, with its wide ranging impact on corporate governance, financial disclosure and public accounting

• Defining criteria for investments in private equity buyout, hedge, and venture capital
• Sharing insights on fund raising activities in China - Is there enough money to go around?
• Can private equity get too big in China?
• Discussing the emergence of Chinese institutional investors in private equity

• Exploring the current distribution challenges in China funds industry and how can these be overcome?
• Is it possible to effectively use distributors and 3^rd party marketers to promote funds in China?
• Determining the future prospects of fund distribution in China – QDII customers, enterprise annuities; allowing offshore funds to distribute in China
• Diversifying distribution channels: build scale, expand scope and add geographic location
• Building towards greater open architecture in China – will this become a reality?

• Examining what actually defines a QDII program and whether or not it has already begun?
• Estimating when the formal QDII program will likely be introduced?
• Assessing what opportunities exist for the inclusion of retail participation?
• How can international fund managers best leverage their expertise?

• Studying foreign investment options in preparation for the final clearance to invest in overseas capital markets
• Analysing the criteria in selecting asset management firms to help manage offshore assets
• Global case study

·               Understanding why “The greatest risk of doing business in China is ignoring the risks…”

·               Identifying and understanding the key risks affecting the domestic funds management industry

·               Ensuring that key risks are appropriately measured and managed within internal and external managers

·               Implementing effective risk management process and controls

•  Where is the greatest profit potential and why?
•  Analysing how to reap the returns while managing the volatility of the domestic capital market
• Incorporating internal risk management control processes and systems in investment portfolios