• Australia as a financial centre: Implementing the Johnson Report
  
  This session will provide an update on the status of the Johnson Report and the implementation strategy to ensure the report delivers on its promise.

       Speaker
       - Geoff Weir, Director, Financial Centre Task Force
       
       Chair
       John Moutsopoulos, Lead Partner, Financial Services, Clayton 
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• Global trends and opportunities for Australian life insurers
  
  This session will provide an insight into the current landscape in life insurance across key international makrets with a particular focus on the Asian region.
  
  Speakers
  - Marc Lieberman, CEO, Metlife's Australian Business
  - Chris Wei, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Bancassurance & Direct Marketing, AIA Group 
  
  Chair
  Tim Browne, General Manager, Retail Advice, CommInsure

   

   

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• The future of the advice industry: Competition, compensation and consolidation
  
  What are the defining characteristics of a successful financial advisory network going forward? How might the cost base and, therefore, fee structure(s) for advice evolve? Will the advice industry consolidate further in coming years, and what will be the driving forces?
  
  Speakers
  - Neil Younger, Head of Dealer Groups, BT Financial Group
  - Phil Butterworth, CEO, DKN Financial Group Ltd
  
  Chair
  Peter Maher, Group Head, Banking & Financial Services Group, Macquarie Bank

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• Cooper Review – A new Dawn?

  The Super System Review is set to provide its final report to the Government by 30 June 2010.  This session will discuss and debate the key recommendations, the Government’s response and the expected impact on the industry and fund members.

  Speakers 
  - Jeremy Cooper, Former Chair, Super System Review 
  - David Bryant, Group Executive - Investments & CIO, Australian Unity Ltd
  - Michael Chaaya, Partner, Financial Services, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
  
  Chair
  Harry Stout, CEO, ING Australia  

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• Pushing the limits: Financial crisis and investment strategies

  Has the financial crisis changed attitudes towards diversification? Has liquidity become a major factor in asset allocation and in new product design? Are asset owners or investment managers driving change? How will the products of tomorrow differ to products of today – if at all?

  Speakers
  - Brett Jollie, Head of Australia, Aberdeen Asset Management Australia Ltd
  - Tony Cole, Global Chief Strategist, Mercer Investment Consulting

  Chair
  Greg Cooper, CEO, Schroder Investment Management Australia Ltd

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• Advice in a fiduciary world - what will change?  

  From changes to training and education and remuneration, to demonstrating independence and providing quality advice – what will advice look like in a fiduciary world? This session will also consider how other international jurisdictions are tackling the same challenges.

  Speakers
  - Paul Barrett, General Manager, Advice Business, Colonial First State
  - Mark Rantall, CEO, Financial Planning Association (FPA)
  
  Chair
  Steve Helmich, Director, Financial Planning, Advice & Services, AMP Financial Services

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• Streamlining Superannuation to maximise benefits

  Superannuation efficiency has been a hot topic with the release of SuperStream by the Super System Review Panel in March. In conjunction with Ernst & Young, IFSA has undertaken major research which takes key efficiency initiatives outlined in SuperStream and quantifies their benefits to consumers and the industry.  The research also provides a roadmap to take these critical operational reforms forward for the benefit of all superannuation fund members.  This session will provide an in-depth overview of the findings as well as the next steps to ensure this opportunity for reform is not lost.

  Speakers
  - Chris Hamilton, Chief Executive, Australian Payments Clearing Association Ltd
  - Josef Pilger, Executive Director, Ernst & Young
  - Mel Evans, Head of Superannuation & Retail Investments, BT Financial Group
  
  Chair
  Nigel McCammon, General Manager Client Services, Colonial First State

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• Global Financial Regulation: Back to the Future?
  
  This session will explore the regulatory changes that have taken since the onset of the global financial crisis. The US, UK and EU have all proposed significant reforms to their financial sectors, ranging from restrictions on securitisation, bank rescue levies and bonus taxes. These and other reforms are likely to either indirectly or directly affect the Australian industry. The session will also explore the impetus for globally consistent regulation post the crisis.

  Speakers
  - Sandra Birkensleigh, Global Leader – Compliance & Regulation Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers
  - Jim Boynton, Partner, Mallesons Stephens Jaques
  
  Chair
  Martin Codina, Director of Policy, Financial Services Council
   

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• Advancing Australia’s Capital Markets

  The financial crisis has seen a number of changes and proposed changes, to the Australian Capital markets. This session will provide an overview into some of these changes including ASX developments, what the entrance of Chi-X means, the growth of ETFs and regulatory changes to short selling and its impacts on product offerings.

  Speakers
  - Mark O’Brien, CIO, AMP Capital Investors Limited
  - Anne Anderson, UBS Global Asset Management
  
  Chair
  Ian Ward-Ambler, MD, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

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• The growth of group insurance in Australia: challenges and opportunities

  This session will consider a range of issues arising, including the evolving role of the superannuation trustee as distribution of insurance through superannuation continues to grow.

  Speakers
  - Michael Dwyer, CEO, First State Super New South Wales
  - Andrew Hagger, Executive General Manager, MLC Insurance
  
  Chair
  Pauline Blight-Johnston, MD, RGA Reinsurance Company of Australia, Chairman RGA Japan

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• Securities Lending – Now that the dust has settled down
  
  A review of the current Australian Securities lending sector. What is the global view, what is the regulators view, what is the market view, what has changed - and is it appropriate for superannuation fund? This session will discuss the changes the securities lending sector has undergone in the past two years, some of the key discussion points for practitioners and the opportunities ahead.
  
  Speakers
  - Natalie Floate, Head of Treasury & Liquidity Mgmt, BNP Paribas
  - Peter Martin, Vice President and Head of Securities Finance Australia, State Street
  - Dereke Seeto, Director and Head of Prime Services, Credit Suisse
  
  Chair
  Bryan Gray, Managing Director, J.P. Morgan

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• Integrating ESG into the investment process

  What is ESG and what place does it have in the investment process? What information is sourced and considered, what value does it add? Are Responsible Entity/Trustees demanding ESG be incorporated in their investment strategies? Should they?

  Speakers
  - Robert Fowler, Executive Manager, Investments & Governance, HESTA Super Fund
  - Andrew Gray, Executive Director Head of ESG Research, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
  
  Chair
  Cecilia Storniolo, Senior Policy Manager, Financial Services Council

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• Elevating advice to a profession – Quality Outcomes

  The Ripoll Review recommended the industry establish a professional standards board to embed the industry’s new fiduciary duties and elevate financial advice to a profession. This session will explore the role of a standard’s board, what gaps it will fill, and address the question of how it could restore confidence in advice and therefore add value to end clients. The session will consider comparable international examples and draw observations from other professions.

  Speakers
  - Andrew Gale, MD/CEO, Count Financial Ltd
  - Michael McGarvie, CEO, Legal Services Board of Victora 
  - Jade Harkness, Counsel - Advice & Private Banking, BT Financial Group
  
  Chair
  Steve Tucker, CEO, MLC

Room Number 212
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• Exploring the Henry Review’s impact on Australia’s Retirement Incomes

  The Henry Review is expected to make a number of recommendations that will impact on the accumulation and draw down phases of superannuation.  In this session, the main recommendations of the Henry Review that relate to superannuation, along with the Government’s response, will be discussed.
  
  Speakers
  - Andrew Robertson, Divisional Director, Macquarie
  - Richard Howes, Chief Executive - Life, Challenger Financial Services Group
  
  Chair
  David Knox, Senior Partner, Mercer 

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• Global developments in health – what next for life insurance?

  This session will survey a range of issues, from the mapping of the human genome to wellness partnerships, and examines the emerging challenges and opportunities for the life insurance industry and consumers.
  
  Speakers
  - Paul Gaudin, Founder & Director, Road to Health
  - Professor Richard Head, Director, Preventative Health National Research Flagship, CSIRO
  
  Chair
  Damien Green, CEO, AIA Australia Limited

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• Winning in Asia – challenges for the next decade

  This session will provide insights from current and former Australian financial services business leaders in Asia who will discuss business and cultural dynamics, what it takes to succeed and the lessons they learned along the way. The session will also provide an overview of the opportunities they see for the Australian financial services industry. 

  Speakers
  - Lindsay Mann, CEO of First State Investments Singapore
  - Scott McLaren, Head of Asia Pacific, RBC Dexia Investor Services
  - Anthony Fasso, Chief Executive, Intertnational, AMP Capital Investors 
  
  Chair
  Peter Promnitz, Region Head, Asia Pacific, Mercer

   

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