ETF& Indexing Investment Summit

Alexa Lam, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the SFC

Ms Alexa Lam is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the SFC and Executive Director of its Policy, China and Investment Products Division. Her major role covers the development of overall policy for the SFC as a whole, with a particular emphasis on the market development in mainland China and Hong Kong, as well as the regulation of the retail investment products market in Hong Kong. As part of her role Ms. Lam has actively developed Hong Kong as an international asset management centre, including the launching of retail hedge funds, development of Hong Kong as the second largest exchange-traded funds (ETFs) trading market in Asia, as well as the implementation of cross-listings of ETFs in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Stuart Leckie, Chairman of Stirling Finance

Stuart Leckie, O.B.E., is the Chairman of Stirling Finance, a Hong Kong-based pensions and investments advisory. Mr. Leckie is the co-author of "Pension Funds in China", a book that provides a comprehensive and critical look at China's pension reform journey from 1949 to 2004, and also authored "Investment Funds in China". He advised the Hong Kong Government on the establishment of the Mandatory Provident Fund, serves on various committees in Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission and was a Director of Exchange Fund Investment Limited which launched the very successful Tracker Fund. He currently advises on investments and pensions in Hong Kong and mainland China; he has advised the Chinese Government on pensions reform. Previously, Mr. Leckie has served as Chairman of Watson Wyatt in Asia - Pacific and as Chairman of Fidelity Investments, Asia-Pacific. Mr. Leckie was the President of the Actuarial Society of Hong Kong (1981 and 1999) and has served as the Chairman of the International Actuarial Association's China Committee.

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The one-day, content filled programme brings together senior figures from Asia and beyond to discuss the booming sector of ETFs and index tracking investments. With an educational focus for the buy-side, we will hear from the complete spectrum of players in the market including regulators, investors, issuers, indexes, exchanges and advisors.

Other speakers confirmed include:

• Alexa Lam, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Policy, China and Investment Products, Securities and Futures Commission (Hong Kong)
• Stuart Leckie, Government Investment Adviser and Chairman, Stirling Finance
• Douglas Eu, CEO, Allianz Global Investors Asia Pacific
• Leon Goldfeld, CIO, HSBC Global Asset Management (Hong Kong)
• Hywel George, Partner, Integral Asset Management (UK)
• Kevin Hardy, MD and Head of Global Investments, Asia Pacific, The Northern Trust Company
• Anson Su, President & Co-Founder, Shanghai Huarong Asset Management
• Gary Sum, Chairman & CEO, Swiss Capital Asia
• Leonardo Drago, Chief Investment Officer, AL Wealth Management
• Debbie Fuhr, MD, Global Head of ETF Research and Implementation Strategy, BlackRock
• Joseph Ho, MD, Head of ETFs, Lyxor
• Dan Draper, MD, Head of ETFs, Credit Suisse
• Ivan Woo, Trader, Algorithmic Trading Group, IMC Financial Markets
• Andrew Freyre-Sanders, Head of Client Electronic Execution, RBS
• Chris Choi, Senior Dealer, Prudential Asset Management
• Toshiaki Kamiya, Head of Product Development, Tokyo Stock Exchange
• Eric Yip, Head of Cash Markets, HKEx
• Joseph Cavatoni, Managing Director, iShares Capital Markets, Asia-Pacific, BlackRock