2011 ECMI AC: Unravelling the puzzle - Challenges for global asset allocation

Materials (click below to download) 

• Report of the 2011 ECMI Annual Conference 
• Agenda
• Presentation Anton Brender, Dexia Asset Management
• Presentation Olivier De Bandt, Banque de France
• Presentation Luigi Zingales, Chicago Business School
• Presentation Claudia Kruse, APG
• Presentation Carmine Di Noia, Assonime
• Presentation Ed Fishwick, Blackrock
• Presentation Ian Domowitz, ITG

The 2011 ECMI Annual Conference brought together the best of academia, industry and policy making, to discuss the challenges for global asset allocation in four sessions:  

• Global outlook in asset allocation: Where will systemic risk reside?
• Funding corporate governance: Opportunities and challenges coming from debt markets
• Asset management at a crossroads: Do we need new regulatory and theoretical foundations for a better asset allocation?
• Economic and regulatory challenges for capital markets: The results of liberalisation and future steps

Keynote speakers

• Luigi Zingales, Prf. of Finance and Economics at Chicago Booth School of Business
• Ian Domowitz, Head of Global Research at ITG and former Prf. at Northwestern University
• Ed Fishwick, Managing Director and Co-head of  Risk & Quantitative Analysis, BlackRock

Discussants

• Tatjana Verrier, Head of Unit - Financial Services Antitrust, DG Competition, European Commission
• Claudia Kruse, Head of Governance & Sustainability, APG All Pensions Group
• Olivier de Bandt, Director of Business Conditions and Macroeconomic Forecasting at the Bank of France, professor at Paris X Nanterre
• Daniel Lehmann, Managing Director, Allianz Global Investors
• Tilman Lueder, Head of Unit, Asset Management, European Commission 
• Kay Swinburne, Member of the European Parliament
• Florencio López de Silanes, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
• Fabrice Demarigny, Global Head of Capital Markets, Mazars, and former Secretary General of CESR  
• Peter Randall, CEO, Equiduct
• Robert Parker, Chairman, ICMA Asset Management and Investors Council
• Sergio M. Focardi, Prf. Finance and Economics at EDHEC Business School
• John Berrigan, Director, Financial Stability DG ECFIN, European Commission
• Anton Brender, Chief Economist, Dexia Asset Management
• Jeremy Grant, Editor, FT Trading Room
• Karel Lannoo, General Manager of ECMI and CEO of the Centre for European Policy Studies
• Steven Travers, Head of Regulatory Law and Strategy, London Stock Exchange
• Raj Mehta, Executive Director, Principal Strategic Investments, Goldman Sachs
• Carmine Di Noia, Deputy Director General, Assonime
• Diego Valiante, Research Fellow ECMI-CEPS