Programme 2010

Risk&Return Russia 2010


8.00 Registration and Coffee


8.50 Chairman’s opening remarks
Nat Knight, Publishing Director, Risk Magazine


9.00 Snap-shot presentations: Market perspective on financial and economic situation in Russia

  • Challenges and prospects of asset management market in economic downturn
  • The role of Board of Directors and Corporate Governance in controlling risk management systems
  • Stabilization plans and anti-crisis measures for the financial market. The volumes and structure of the fund market
  • IFC demand for hedging instruments to cover currency risk

Dmitry Aleksandrov, President, NATIONAL LEAGUE OF ASSET MANAGERS
Gulnara Yunusova, Treasury Department - Derivative Products and Asset Liability Management, IFC
Anatoly Gavrilenko, Chairman of the Board, ALOR INVEST


10.00 Regulatory improvements and measures taken to ensure a functional financial market in Russia

  • Taxation, close-out netting legislation, clearing, hedging transactions – impact on the derivatives market
  • Further development of the derivatives market: what direction the regulator will take?
  • Legal limitations on foreign securities sales and possible regulatory improvements to the law on qualified investor

Representative, FEDERAL FINANCIAL MARKETS SERVICE


10.30 NPF Round Table: Risk management and investment strategies for pension funds

  • Pension system modernization and risks associated with it
  • Generating reasonable returns while securing the pension reserves
  • Specific features of investment strategies in Russian non-state pension funds during the recession
  • Choice of asset management company
  • Guaranteed return – pro and cons. New products for NPF
  • Changing of risk attitude due to new realities in fund market

Konstantin Ugrumov, Chairman, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PENSION FUNDS
Zaur Ganiev, President, NPF ELEKTROENERGETIKI
Sergey Erlik, President, NPF LUKOIL GARANT

Aleksander Pugach, General Director, URALSIB ASSET MANAGEMENT


11.20 Morning break and an opportunity to network

STREAM ONE:
Financial Risk Management – lessons to be learned

STREAM TWO:
Investment market development and potential of derivatives instruments

11.40 Chairman’s
opening remarks

11.40 Chairman’s
opening remarks

11.50 “Risk and the City”: Lessons drawn from financial crisis on risk management

  • Rethinking financial crisis experience from risk manager's perspective
  • How international banks and regulators change risk assessment approach
  • Who is guilty: why credit risk models failed
  • What's next: new philosophy and new architecture of risk management

Evgueni Ivantsov, Head of Global Analytics, HSBC GROUPRISK

11.50 SP Round Table: Specific features in using structured products in the Russian market

  • Selling foreign securities to Russian investors
  • Legal hurdles in structuring notes in Russia
  • How to buy structured notes of foreign banks?
  • Changing appetite of Russian investors to risk issues
  • Importance of risk profile of SP emitters
  • Structuring notes in global banks considering the specifics of the Russian market
  • Transparency
  • Investor education

Aleksey Moshkovich, Chairman, RUSSIAN INVESTMENT CLUB
Christoph Portmann, Partner & Member of the Executive Board, LAKESHORE INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT INC
Pavel Berezhnoy, Director, Strategist, Private Banking
TROIKA DIALOG GROUP
Olga Shishlyannikova, Expert, FEDERAL FINANCIAL MARKETS SERVICE

12.30 Enterprise risk management in the next 2-3 years

  • Compliance is not risk management
  • Liquidity and operational risk
  • Cross-factor risk simulation
  • Understanding complexity

Speaker to be confirmed.
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12.30 Structured products in private wealth management

  • Risks and chances with structure products
  • Different investment solutions with structure products
  • Portfolio structures with derivative instruments

Christoph Portmann, Partner & Member of the Executive Board, LAKESHORE INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT INC

13.00 Lunch

14.00 CRO Round Table: Professional engagement and interaction between risk management, business and regulations for the most effective managing risk systems

  • Risk management approach to the most effective regulatory strategy for reducing risk in small/medium/large business
  • Increasing attention to rating systems and ways to assess creditworthiness of financial institutions (internal and external systems)
  • Main risk factors that caused a number of defaults in the Russian financial institutions during the credit crunch

Mikhail Pomazanov, Deputy Head of Credit Risk Management Department, BANK ZENIT
Marina Atavadzhieva, Head of Risk management department, ATON MANAGEMENT
Varvara Ponomareva, Head of risk management, URALSIB ASSET MANAGEMENT
Oleg Novolodsky, Head Of Risk, MDM BANK
Philip Halperin, CRO, ALFA BANK

15.00 New technological solutions for complex risk management systems

  • Analyzing and understanding large quantities of complex risk data
  • Sophisticated risk and economic capital management techniques
  • Tools to manage increasing amount of credit risk

Representative from NUMERIX

15.00 Russian option market: challenges and future prospects

  • Specific nature of option trading
  • Growth and development
  • Investor profile
  • How and where аre options used?

Speaker to be confirmed.
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15.30 Basel II - are Russian banks ready to apply the world high standards?
• Major challenges on the way to implementation
• How to measure operational risk?
• How should Basel be adopted and tested before the implementation?
• Capital reserves – what changes lie ahead?
Speaker to be confirmed.
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15.30 The global growth of exchange traded funds (ETFs)

  • Description of ETFs
  • How ETFs are used
  • Growth of emerging market ETFs
  • Russian investors and ETFs

Reid Steadman, Global Head of ETF Licensing, S&P INDEX SERVICES

16.00 Afternoon break and an opportunity to network


16.20 Risks in managing insurance reserves in the current economic situation

  • Experience of investment strategy correction in times of economic downturn
  • Risks associated with investing in derivatives market
  • New products for insurance companies

Ulyana Sedneva, Head of Risk Management and Compliance, ALLIANZ-ROSNO AМ

16.20 Outlook of an AM company on managing institutional investors funds – risk/return/security

Speaker to be confirmed.
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16.50 Asset Managers Round Table: Outlook of the future prospects for Russian investment market and the associated risks

  • Mutual funds - can their products be improved to the benefit of investors? What strategy to use to ensure return OF investment?
  • What issues are faced by the Russian investors when trying to invest outside of Russia? How can it be improved?
  • How international investors might be able to more easily access Russia?
  • The merits of active investing (picking stocks) versus passive investing (investing in indices)

Anatolij Gavrilenko, Chairman of the board, ALOR INVEST
Andrey Zhuykov, General Director, REGION ASSET MANAGEMENT

Farid Yunusov, General Director, INGOSSTRACH INVESTMENTS
Aleksander Pugach, General Director, URALSIB ASSET MANAGEMENT


17.50 Chairman’s closing remarks


18.00 Cocktail reception

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