Details of last year's Awards in Brussels

Brussels, Thursday 17 November 2011
 
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SEMINAR PROGRAMME

11:00 - Registration and Welcome Coffee
11:30 - WELCOME
Liam Kennedy, Editor, IPE

11:45 - KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Göran Persson,
Former Prime Minister & Finance Minister, Sweden

12:45 - CIO PANEL - IS THE WHOLE WORLD TURNING JAPANESE?
Moderator
Martin Steward, Investment Editor, IPE
Panel
John Calamos, CEO and Co-CIO, Calamos
Paul Colonna, President and CIO Fixed Income, GE Asset Management
Rick Lacaille, Executive VP & Global CIO, State Street Global Advisors
Jeff Munroe, CIO, Newton Investment Management

13:30 - Buffet lunch
14.15 - DETERMINING OPTIMUM EQUITY EXPOSURE
A panel discussion
Moderator
Jean-Francois Pincon, Member of the Management Committee, Amundi Asset Management
Speaker
Stéphane Mauppin-Higashino,
Head of Investment Specialists Equity Strategies, Amundi
Panel
Wim Barentsen, Chief Strategist, Syntrus Acmea
Tony Broccardo, CIO, Barclays Pension Fund
Alfredo Granata,
CIO, Inarcassa
Karel Stroobants,
Independent Director, Metal Workers Pension Fund

15:00 - PENSIONS AND THE UNKNOWNS
In a left-tailed world of 'unknown unknowns', how should pension funds re-assess traditional models of risk and return? And how do they identify and manage economic, financial and demographic risk factors?
Andreas Hilka, Managing Director Head of Pensions Europe, Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH

15:15 - A VIEW FROM THE US
Jared Carney,
Chief Strategy Officer, The Milken Institute
15:30 - Coffee Break
16:00 ALL THAT GLITTERED WAS NOT GOLD IN THE SOLUTIONS-DRIVEN WORLD
Moderator
Derick Le Roux, Head of Strategic Advice, ING IM
Speaker
Professor Amin Rajan, CEO, CREATE-Research

16:45 - KEYNOTE
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S AGENDA FOR PENSIONS
Jung-Duk Lichtenberger,
Administrator, European Commission
Followed by a panel discussion between the European Commission and pension fund representatives on the review of the occupational pensions (IORP) Directive and the Commission’s White Paper on pensions.
Discussion led by
Liam Kennedy, Editor, IPE
Panel
Patrick Burke, Chairman, European Federation for Retirement Provision
Francesco Briganti,
Director of the Brussels Office, European Association of Paritarian Institutions
Xander den Uyl, Vice Chairman, ABP

17:30 - CLOSING ADDRESS - NYSE Euronext
17:45 - Close of seminar


Friday November 18th
10:00 - Investor Workshop - Organised by Dexia Asset Management
Lessons from the Past, Solutions for the Future
How to construct & implement the next generation of pension fund
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Followed by a guided tour of the Magritte Museum and cocktails