Date & Time

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Venue

Vista 2 & 3, Level 3, Hilton Singapore, 581 Orchard Road

Maximum Qualifying Hours

1.00

Dear SAS members

 

SAS is pleased to invite you to join us for an evening of education and networking as Nick Li from NMG Consulting and James Hughes from Aberdeen Standard Investment share from their wealth of experience on investing and alternative assets.
 

What assets are insurance companies in Asia looking for and what alternatives are there to consider?


Investing has never been more difficult. Traditional sources like cash or bonds offer miserly returns. Easy money has made the search for yield a continuing challenge – and there is no change in sight, making the current investment environment incredibly difficult. On the flip side, the pressure is undoubtedly increasing on insurers to make good on their long-term promise to create value for policyholders.

 

Prompted by record low bond yields, stock market volatility and an equity and bond market that have often moved in tandem, investors have begun searching further afield for investments, beyond traditional assets, that can aid diversification. The benefits of diversification – combining assets that produce returns that aren’t perfectly correlated, to reduce risk and generate higher risk-adjusted returns – have been well documented. Many alternative assets have grown so much in popularity that they are already gaining traction and experiencing a sharp rise in interest from mainstream investors. Even asset classes such as emerging market debt for example, can be good substitutes for equities, generating comparable returns but at a lower volatility.

 

Come and join our distinguish speakers, Nick Li from NMG Consulting and James Hughes from Aberdeen Standard Investment, as they share from their wealth of experience. Nick will provide insights from his recent research conducted with insurers in the region regarding their future intentions on issues such as shifts in product mix, better asset liability matching and challenges posted by changing regulatory requirements. James will build on this to share on Aberdeen’s extensive practical work done with insurance partners in Europe and the region to maximize portfolio returns in line with a taxing RBC II regime, Aberdeen’s view on Alternatives as an asset class and where we see investment opportunities for the industry going forward that insurance firms can tap on.

 

Date:      Wednesday 27 September 2017
Time:      6:30pm to 8.30pm
Venue:   Vista 2 & 3, Level 3, Hilton Singapore, 581 Orchard Road

6:30pm   Registration and Refreshments
7:00pm   Talk commences
8:00pm   Talk ends, refreshments recommence
8:30pm   End

 

About the speakers:

Nick Li is a Principal within the Strategy Consulting Practice of NMG Consulting based in Singapore. Nick works across both developed and developing markets globally specialising in insurance corporate strategy, including market entry, M&A, bancassurance, corporate partnerships and distribution strategy. Prior to joining NMG, Nick worked as an analytics consultant and an actuary with Australia’s leading data science and insurance groups respectively.

James Hughes is the Head of Aberdeen Solutions. James joined Aberdeen in January 2016 from Gottex Asset Management (UK) Limited where he was the CIO of Multi-Asset Solutions and lead manager of the Gottex Multi-Asset Growth Fund.  James was also a member of the Investment and Strategy teams. Prior to joining Gottex, James worked at HSBC for over 8 years where he was the Group CIO, HSBC Insurance and appointed representative on HSBC Global Asset Management’s Board.  As Group CIO, James was responsible for assets totalling more than US$95 billion across 14 countries globally including developed, emerging and frontier markets.

 

Cost:  Free for paid up Members (please login with your Username before signing-up), and full-time students showing student identification.

Non-Members:  S$50.  Payment via cheque / internet banking / cash deposit at any DBS branches is preferred.

Paypal is also available on our online registration form.  During Paypal payment, please wait until the transaction is complete and you are transferred back to the SAS website before closing your browser.

Please pre-register as the seats are limited.

 

Priority will be given to paid up members who have pre-registered and then to others who have pre-registered and finally, if any seats remain, to those who do not pre-register based on their order of arrival.

 

If you would like to attend, please register by singing up through this link  Online Registration    by 24 September 2017.

 

 

Thank you

 

Frederic Boulliung
Forum Coordinator
Singapore Actuarial Society