Event: Fund Management Industry Conference: Product Intervention, Evaluated Prices & the changing face of the Investment Management Industry
Date: Thursday 29 September 2011
Location: The Auditorium, 280 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4RB

09:00

Coffee & Registration

09:30

Chairman's Welcome and Opening Remarks
Alastair Hay, Managing Director, Trustee & Depositary Services,
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc

09:40

Economic round-up

• Outlook for the global economy
• Outlook for global financial markets
• Risks to the outlook

Rupert Watson, Head of Asset Allocation,
Skandia Investment Group

10:10

Product Intervention
Tony Hanlon, Manager, the Asset Management Sector Team,
The Financial Services Authority

10:40

Market trends and best practice in evaluated pricing

• Industry drivers behind evaluations
• Regulation and accounting
• Best practices in evaluation processes (including transparency)
• Impact of current sovereign debt crisis on evaluated prices

Anthony Belcher, Director,
European Fixed Income,
Interactive Data

11:10

Coffee

11:30

The Changing face of the Investment Management Industry
David Brown, Partner,
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

12:00

Regulatory Update
Tim Cornick, Partner, Investment Funds & Financial Services Group,
Macfarlanes LLP

12:30

Chairman's Closing Remarks followed by buffet lunch