| Thursday, 20 November 2014 | ||||
 9.45 - 10.15 | Registration and coffee | |||
| 10.15 - 10.20 | Welcome Liam Kennedy, Editor, IPE | |||
| 10.20 - 10.30 | Introduction from Austria Christian Böhm, CEO, APK (Austria) | |||
| 10.30 - 11.25 | KEYNOTE John Bruton, Former Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) and Minister of Finance | |||
| SESSION 1: PENSION FUNDS | |||
| 11.25 - 11.55 | Rebooting pension business models Dr Amin Rajan, CEO, CREATE-Research Liam Kennedy, Editor, IPE | |||
| 11.55 - 12.55 | Buy or build? Creating effective pension investment teams Robin Claessens, Managing Director, Redington (UK) Mike Boychuk, CEO, BIMCOR (Bell Pension Fund, Canada) Christian Böhm, CEO, APK (Austria) Stefan Dunatov, CIO, Coal Pension Trustees (UK) Alan Rubenstein, CEO, Pension Protection Fund (UK) Erik Valtonen, former CIO of AP3 (Sweden) | |||
| 12.55 - 13.50 | Lunch | |||
| SESSION 2: MARKETS & MANAGER INSIGHTS | |||
| 13.50 - 14.10 | Euronext Danielle Ballardie, Head of Cash Markets, Euronext | |||
| 14.10 - 14.50 | An interactive discussion on latest trends and drivers in investment and asset allocation Günther Schiendl, CIO, VBV Pensionskasse (Austria) Martin Steward, Investment Editor, IPE Benoît Durteste, Managing Director, Intermediate Capital Group Rick Lacaille, CIO, State Street Global Advisors Endre Pedersen, Senior Managing Director, Fixed Income, Asia, Manulife Asset Management Paul Watters, Senior Director and Head of Corporate Research, Standard & Poor's Corporate Ratings | |||
| 14.50 - 15.00 | IPE Pension Fund Perception Programme: Why it matters and how you can get involved Joep Schouten, Chairman, PFPP Pension Fund Board | |||
| SESSION 3: CARBON AND OTHER SYSTEMIC RISKS | |||
| 15.00 - 15.10 | The UNEP FI Decarbonisation Coalition Magnus Eriksson, CIO and Deputy CEO, AP4 (Sweden) | |||
| 15.10 - 15.55 | Stranded assets and other related climate risks. Are we sleepwalking into the next systemic crisis? Dr Raj Thamotheram, CEO, Preventable Surprises Pascal Blanqué, CIO and Deputy CEO, Amundi Asset Management Howard Covington, Chairman, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Management Committee (UK) Torben Möger Pedersen, CEO, PensionDanmark | |||
| 15.55 - 16.15 | Coffee break | |||
| SESSION 4: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES | |||
| 16.15 - 16.45 | A view from the Middle East Dr Rania Azmi, Strategic Advisor, MENA Sovereign Wealth Fund | |||
| 6.45 - 17.30 | Is activism compatible with the way institutional investors operate? How institutional investors and activist hedge funds are increasingly joining forces to achieve their goals Craig Stevenson, Senior Investment Consultant, Towers Watson Anne Simpson, Director of Corporate Governance, Senior Portfolio Manager Investments, CalPERS Dr Julian Franks, Professor of Finance, London Business School, Centre for Economic Policy Research, European Corporate Governance Institute Jens Tischendorf, Partner and Director, Cevian Capital AG | |||
| 17.30 | Conference ends | |||
| 18.30 - 19.30 | Drinks reception | |||
| 19.30 - 20.30 | Awards presentation part I | |||
| 20.30 - 22.00 | Dinner | |||
| 22.00 - 23.00 | Awards presentation part II | |||
| 23.00 | After-dinner networking party | |||
| Friday, 21 November 2014 | ||||
| Pensions Solutions workshop by Candriam Download the full Candriam Workshop programme here. | |||
