Description
European financial markets face an uncertain future. More interest rate rises are expected in the UK where inflationary pressures have been building, while concern is mounting over the prospect of a ‘hard’ Brexit. And although Eurozone interest rates are not predicted to rise this year as inflation remains low, the European Central Bank has cut asset purchases with a view to ending quantitative easing later this year.
Against this macroeconomic backdrop, insurers must reassess their investment strategies to suit the evolving environment. But faced also with renewed market volatility, how can insurers adjust their asset allocations? As insurers are moving into alternative investments, what are the strategically most important asset classes across Europe?
With the implementation of IFRS 17 and the upcoming review of Solvency II, are insurers responding appropriately to these regulatory developments? What are the lessons learnt so far from implementing Solvency II and which parameters need addressing?
Responsible investing is on the rise. How can the integration of environmental, social and governance considerations become standard criteria for investment decisions?
Financial Times Live and MandateWire present the Managing Assets for Insurers half day conference set in Munich as the second part of the series. Against an uncertain global economic outlook the agenda shall explore insurers investment insights on managing uncertainty, adapting to regulations and discuss ESG factors while delivering returns through asset diversification.
Speakers
- Oliver Ralph
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Oliver Ralph is the Insurance Correspondent at the Financial Times. Prior to this Mr Ralph was Deputy Head of Lex since 2014, specialising in banking, finance and consumer. He has also been a Lex writer and, prior to this, the FT UK Companies Editor. He joined the Financial Times in 2009, having worked at Investors Chronicle from 2000 to 2009 and Euromoney from 1998 to 2000. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1996.
- Henry Smith
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Henry Smith’s career at the Financial Times Group began in 1997 as a reporter on Offshore Financial Review. From 1999, he was features editor and subsequently editor of FT Mandate, a global institutional investment publication. In 2011, he was instrumental in the launch of the Analysis section of MandateWire, a digital institutional investment intelligence service for asset managers around the world.
- Ina Lockhart
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Ina Lockhart has been working as a freelance business journalist since October 2011, and is a regular contributor to the Financial Times’ asset management publication dpn. For the FT, Ms Lockhart regularly moderates expert roundtables on various asset management topics. She has also written for personal finance pages of major German daily newspapers such as Frankfurter Rundschau and Berliner Zeitung, as well as online news sites ZDF and heute.de. In 2014 Ms Lockhart joined the editors’ team of FAZ.NET, the online news site of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and recently moderated at the annual M&A conference and the annual art conference for the F.A.Z. conference unit.
Prior to freelancing Ms Lockhart was the Markets Editor for the Financial Times Deutschland, and co-Head of its Frankfurt Bureau. In this role she regularly hosted conference panels focusing on banking as well as insolvency and restructuring. She joined the founding team of FTD in 1999 as a financial markets reporter. After starting her career in 1995, Ms Lockhart spent two years with Dow Jones Newswires in Frankfurt where she reported on the German automotive industry and the equity market. Ms Lockhart holds a degree in Applied Languages and Business Studies.
- Michael Menhart
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Dr. Michael Menhart is Munich Re Group’s Chief Economist and Head of the Economics, Sustainability & Public Affairs Central Division, and he reports to the CEO. In this role, he is responsible for Economic and Insurance Market Research at Munich Re. He also leads the Corporate Responsibility team and the Group’s Government Relations activities.
Before joining Munich Re in 2005, Dr. Menhart worked as a business consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he advised global companies operating in the financial and insurance sectors on strategic projects.
Dr. Menhart graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of Augsburg, where he also obtained his doctorate from the Faculty of Business and Economics with a dissertation on innovation dynamics in the German insurance market. He obtained his M.A. in Economics at Wayne State University in Detroit, USA.
- Jackie Hunt
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Jackie Hunt is a member of the Board of Management of Allianz SE, responsible for PIMCO, Allianz Global Investors, Allianz Capital Partners and Allianz Life US. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies. She is particularly passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion initiatives and recently joined the Women in Africa Club.
Prior to joining Allianz she was an Executive Director of Prudential plc and the Chief Executive of Prudential UK, Europe and Africa. She joined Prudential from Standard Life plc where she was an Executive Director and Group Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this, she held a number of senior management positions in companies including Norwich Union Insurance, Aviva, Hibernian Group, RSA Insurance and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Jackie acted as a Commissioner for the Dormant Assets Commission. She was Deputy Chair of the Financial Conduct Authority Practitioner Panel, a Non-executive director of The CityUK, a member of the Association of British Insurers Board and the Senior Independent Director of National Express Group plc.
She holds a Bachelor of Accounting, a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Witwatersrand and is a Chartered Accountant. Originally from South Africa, Jackie has lived and worked on four continents.
- Dimitris Zafeiris
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Dimitris Zafeiris is Head of the Risks and Financial Stability Department and is responsible for EIOPA's activities in the areas of financial stability, crisis management and studies and statistics. Before joining EIOPA, Mr Zafeiris ran the risk management unit in a commercial bank where he was responsible for the management of projects such as the implementation of Basel II and external asset quality reviews. Prior to this, he held roles as investment director, portfolio manager and analyst in a number of firms in the asset management industry. He holds a Master of Science in Finance and a Bachelor of Science in Economics.
- José Luis Jiménez Guajardo-Fajardo
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José Luis Jiménez is Chief Investment Officer of MAPFRE since September 2015 where he is in charge of the Investment Unit. Before joining MAPFRE he was CEO of March A.M, the boutique asset manager of Banca March in Spain. Prior to joining March A.M. he was Head of Asset Allocation at Skandia Investment Group - Skandia’s global investment arm - based in the United Kingdom. Before that he was Chief Investment Officer at SkandiaLink in the European and Latin America Division- first in Madrid and then in Paris. He began his professional career as an economist in the Research Department of Caja Madrid before joining Skandia Vida as Chief Economist.
Mr Jimenéz is Founder and Chairman of the Group of Boutique Asset Managers (GBAM): an international network of specialized asset managers with more than 17 members Worldwide.
He has combined his professional work with lecturing in Macroeconomics at the IE Business School. He is an Economics graduate from the Universidad Complutense. He has a diploma from the London School of Economics and attended the Global Senior Management Programme (GSMP) at the IE Business School and Chicago Graduate School of Business. Finally, he attended also the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme at Oxford Said Business School.
Schedule Overview
| Date | Number of Sessions | First Session Starts | Last Session Ends |
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| Tuesday 13th 2018 | 11 | 08:30 AM | 01:00 PM |
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| Ticket | Price |
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| Early Bird Tickets - Ends 1 June | €699+VAT |
| Standard Summit Ticket | €899+VAT |