We look forward to seeing you for the 30th edition of the conference, taking place from 21 – 22 November 2024.
The Investment Management Forum is EFAMA’s flagship event, bringing together industry leaders, investors and policymakers to discuss topics of common interest and importance.
Thank you to everyone that attended the 29th edition which took take place at the Chancellerie Auditorium of BNP Paribas Fortis in Brussels from 23 – 24 November 2023 and featured an exciting programme of keynote speeches, an exclusive CEO panel and panel sessions.
Alternative investments and their role in achieving the Commission’s objectives for the Capital Markets Union
Below you can find the IMF 2023 video and picture highlights.
You can view more post-event material including moderator interviews and speech transcripts by clicking the button below
Below you can find the IMF 2023 video and picture highlights
You can view more post-event material including speech transcripts and moderator interviews by clicking the button below
Since October 2022, Jean-Paul Servais is the chairman of the board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). IOSCO is the membership organization composed of the world’s financial securities and markets regulators involved in the supervision of 95 % of the financial sector at international level. He is also the Chairman of the IOSCO European Regional Committee and he served three successive terms as Vice-Chair of the IOSCO board between 2016 and 2022 until he was elected as IOSCO board chair.
Between 2017 and 2023, Mr. Servais chaired the IFRS Foundation Monitoring Board, which consists of global financial regulators and whose main objective is to provide oversight to the IFRS Foundation. In parallel, he was the co-chair of the Monitoring Group (2021-2023), a group of international financial institutions and regulatory bodies committed to advancing the public interest in areas related to international audit standard setting and audit quality. Within IOSCO, Jean-Paul also led the SPAC network, which successfully delivered a final report in May 2023.
Besides his international responsibilities, Mr Servais is the Chairman of the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA). In this capacity, he is a board member of other international supervisory bodies for the financial sector such as the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), and the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). Besides, he sits on a number of supervisory colleges that coordinate the (cross-border) supervision of financial institutions and infrastructures.
Through these experiences Jean-Paul has accrued a unique blend of supervisory expertise and regulatory acumen as it relates to international financial services. Jean-Paul is known for his commitment towards investor protection. To this end, he has successfully led initiatives to promote the importance of financial education. Beyond his thorough understanding on the functioning of traditional financial services and markets, Jean-Paul is an engaged and influential figure on sustainable finance and digital regulatory agendas.
Jean-Paul teaches at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, University of Brussels), where he is part-time professor in International Business Law and in the specialised Master in Tax Law.
He is author or co-author of more than 400 contributions, mostly engaging on European and international systems of financial supervision and regulation issues.
Verena Ross is the Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). She took up the role on 1 November 2021 and is responsible for representing the Authority as well as preparing the work of and chairing its Board of Supervisors and Management Board.
Between 2011 and 2021 Verena Ross served as ESMA’s first Executive Director, when she was responsible for building up the organisation and overseeing its day to day running.
Prior to this, Verena held a number of senior posts in the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) and was a member of the FSA’s Executive Committee. Verena joined the FSA in 1998 to run the Executive Chairman’s office during the regulator’s start-up phase and was briefly a seconded advisor to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission in 2000. She held various positions in the FSA’s Markets Division and was Director of Strategy & Risk Division before becoming Director of the International Division.
Verena is a German national. Following studies in Sinology and Economics in Hamburg, Taipei and London (SOAS) she began her career at the Bank of England in 1994, where she worked as an economist and banking supervisor.
Marcel Haag studied law at the universities of Freiburg, Bonn, Strasbourg and at the EUI in Florence and qualified as a judge in Düsseldorf. After a short stint in business, he joined the European Commission and worked in different Commission services. Until the summer of 2020 Mr Haag served as a Director for policy coordination in the Secretariat-General of the Commission. He is currently Director for Horizontal policies at the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union.
John Schindler joined the FSB as the Secretary General in
February 2023. Prior to that, Mr Schindler spent more than
20 years at the Federal Reserve Board (FRB), most recently
as a Senior Associate Director in the FRB’s Division of
Financial Stability. In that role, he helped set strategic
direction for the division as part of the senior leadership team
and served as the first chair of the FRB’s Financial Stability
Climate Committee. During the Global Financial Crisis, he
was seconded to the US Treasury Department as Chief
International Economist, and from 2015-2016, he was
seconded to the FSB Secretariat. Mr Schindler also taught
classes at Johns Hopkins University for more than 15 years
and published research on a variety of topics in both
economic and finance journals. He holds a PhD in
economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a
bachelors degree in economics and mathematics from
Washington and Lee University. He is married and has five
children.
Karin van Baardwijk (1977) is Chief Executive Officer of Robeco and chair of the
Executive Committee. Prior to being appointed in January 2022, Karin was Robeco’s Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO. She has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2012 and became a member of Robeco’s Executive Committee in 2015.
Since 2022 she is part of the board of the Dutch Fund and Asset Management Association (DUFAS).
Karin has a long and proven track record with Robeco. She joined the company in
2006 and held various senior management positions in Information Services, including Chief Information Officer, and in Risk Management, as Head of Operational Risk Management.
Karin started her professional career in 2002 in the internal auditing department at Sara Lee and transferred to financial services two years later when she joined Atos Consulting. She holds a double Master’s degree in Business Economics and
Corporate Law from the University of Utrecht.
Juan is Chief Executive Officer at CaixaBank Asset Management, since 2016; Chairman of the Board of Directors at CaixaBank Asset Management Luxembourg, CaixaBank Global Sicav, and CaixaBank Wealth Sicav, as well as a member of the Board of Directors at BPI Gestão de Ativos. In addition, he has been Chairman at SpainNAB, since 2019, association that leads impact investment in Spain, as well as a Trustee of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG).
He holds a degree in Business Studies from the EU Business School and an Executive MBA from Universidad de Alcalá.
Juan has 26 years of experience in the financial markets. His leadership of Asset Management, Private Banking and Personal Banking in several leading financial institutions in Spain should be highlighted of all achievements.
Juan has been part of the CaixaBank Group since 2015, following the merger by absorption of Banca Cívica Gestión de Activos, where he was Chairman and Managing Director. He was recently named Best Spanish Asset Manager Executive at the 2023 FundsPeople Awards.
Hamish Forsyth is president – Europe and Asia at Capital Group Companies Global, part of Capital Group. He has 30 years of investment industry experience, all with Capital Group. Earlier in his career, Hamish was part of the team that launched Capital’s mutual fund distribution activities outside the U.S. and he is currently chair of Capital Group’s Luxembourg management company. He holds a master’s degree with first-class honours in philosophy, politics and economics from Trinity College, University of Oxford. Hamish is based in London.
Johan Lema (1971) studied at the University of Gent and obtained a Master in Law degree, specializing in finance and tax law. Johan has many years of professional experience in strategy, merger & acquisitions, sales, banking, asset management, private equity and the financial sector.
He started his professional career with the former Kredietbank in 1996, later to become KBC Group. During his stay at KBC, he was a business development manager at KBC Asset Management and senior investment manager at KBC Private Equity.
In 2004, he moved to the Group Strategy and Expansion department and became head of Group Corporate Development in 2006, responsible for managing KBC Group’s expansion in Central Europe. In 2008 he was appointed to the position of General Manager Group Strategy and Corporate Development. In 2010 he was appointed CEO of KBC Asset Management Group international. In 2012 he became member of the management committee of Business Unit Belgium responsible for customer support retail, private banking and business clients.
As of September 1, 2017 he returned as CEO of KBC Asset Management Group international. Johan holds various mandates in investment management subsidiaries of the KBC Group and was president of BEAMA from 2020 to 2023 (including FEBELFIN membership).
Philippe Setbon began his career in 1990 as a financial analyst at Barclays
Bank in Paris. Between 1993 and 2003, Philippe was with Groupe
AZUR-GMF, first as a portfolio manager for European stocks, then as Head of
Asset Management.
He then moved to Rothschild & Cie Gestion as Head of Equity Portfolio
Management before joining Generali Group in 2004 where he held a
succession of senior roles including CEO of Generali Investments France,
CEO of Generali Investments Europe Sgr and CIO of Generali Group.
He then joined Groupama in 2013 as CEO of Groupama Asset Management.
He became CEO of Ostrum Asset Management (previously Natixis AM) in
2019.
Philippe serves as president of the French Asset Management Association
(AFG) since June 2022.
Philippe holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Paris-Dauphine, a specialized degree of higher studies (DESS) in Finance from Paris-Dauphine
and graduated from the French Financial Analysts Association (Société
Française des Analystes Financiers).
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This year’s Investment Management Forum will be a unique opportunity to discuss the state of the European investment management industry, changing customer expectations, retail participation in capital markets, the growth of sustainable finance and how to successfully navigate a challenging macroeconomic and geopolitical outlook and turbulent markets. Four CEOs will share their own experience and views on these events, and more.
Find out what prominent EU policymakers and industry leaders have to say about the next Commission’s priorities for financial services and asset management. Are we making effective progress towards a Capital Markets Union? Is the EU on track with its ambitious sustainable and digital finance agendas? What should the next targets be and what role can asset managers play?
Leading asset managers will discuss the coming changes to the US settlement cycle and what this means beyond the US market. What does a move to T+1 mean for players along the settlement chain? What is the rationale for shortening the settlement cycle, and how prepared is Europe for trading in a US T+1 environment? These are just some of the topics to be covered in this session, along with the burning question: should the EU also be considering a move to T1?
In the aftermath of Covid-19, financial stability remains a heavily debated topic in European and global policymaking circles. The recent FSB and IOSCO consultations on liquidity management in open-ended funds seek to update their previous recommendations in light of the “lessons learnt” from March 2020 and more recent market corrections. There is no better moment to speak to the Secretary General of the FSB on the motivations behind the FSB’s most recent work and where its ultimate policy objectives may lie.
Sustainable finance regulations are only a few years old and have been a significant learning exercise so far. It has become increasingly clear that improvements can still be made, with the disclosure framework for ESG investing currently under review. In this session, industry experts, leading policymakers and sustainability stakeholders will discuss the challenges and successes to date, as well as what the future should look like.
Many years of discussion have culminated in the European Commission releasing their long-awaited Retail Investment Strategy. The goal is to increase European retail participation in capital markets, which would benefit the EU’s population of savers as well as further the Capital Markets Union project. This session gathers together influential policymakers, asset managers and industry experts to debate the pros and cons of the various proposals. What is “value for money” through an EU citizen’s lens? What does it mean to ban execution-only commissions? Is the package in line with the EU’s digital and sustainable finance vision?
This year’s Investment Management Forum will be a unique opportunity to discuss the state of the European investment management industry, changing customer expectations, retail participation in capital markets, the growth of sustainable finance and how to successfully navigate a challenging macroeconomic and geopolitical outlook and turbulent markets. Four CEOs will share their own experience and views on these events, and more.
Find out what prominent EU policymakers and industry leaders have to say about the next Commission’s priorities for financial services and asset management. Are we making effective progress towards a Capital Markets Union? Is the EU on track with its ambitious sustainable and digital finance agendas? What should the next targets be and what role can asset managers play?
Leading asset managers will discuss the coming changes to the US settlement cycle and what this means beyond the US market. What does a move to T+1 mean for players along the settlement chain? What is the rationale for shortening the settlement cycle, and how prepared is Europe for trading in a US T+1 environment? These are just some of the topics to be covered in this session, along with the burning question: should the EU also be considering a move to T1?
In the aftermath of Covid-19, financial stability remains a heavily debated topic in European and global policymaking circles. The recent FSB and IOSCO consultations on liquidity management in open-ended funds seek to update their previous recommendations in light of the “lessons learnt” from March 2020 and more recent market corrections. There is no better moment to speak to the Secretary General of the FSB on the motivations behind the FSB’s most recent work and where its ultimate policy objectives may lie.
Sustainable finance regulations are only a few years old and have been a significant learning exercise so far. It has become increasingly clear that improvements can still be made, with the disclosure framework for ESG investing currently under review. In this session, industry experts, leading policymakers and sustainability stakeholders will discuss the challenges and successes to date, as well as what the future should look like.
Many years of discussion have culminated in the European Commission releasing their long-awaited Retail Investment Strategy. The goal is to increase European retail participation in capital markets, which would benefit the EU’s population of savers as well as further the Capital Markets Union project. This session gathers together influential policymakers, asset managers and industry experts to debate the pros and cons of the various proposals. What is “value for money” through an EU citizen’s lens? What does it mean to ban execution-only commissions? Is the package in line with the EU’s digital and sustainable finance vision?
Sponsors of the Investment Management Forum 2023 include:
Sponsored by
BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM’) is the investment arm of BNP Paribas, a leading banking group in Europe with international reach. BNPP AM aims to generate long-term sustainable returns for its clients, based on a sustainability-driven approach. BNPP AM’s investment capabilities are focused around five key strategies: High Conviction Strategies, Private Assets, Multi-Assets and Systematic & Quantitative Investments (SQI), Emerging markets and Liquidity Solutions, with investment processes incorporating quantitative and fundamental analysis.
Sustainability is core to BNPP AM’s strategy and investment philosophy. Among the leaders in thematic investment in Europe1, BNPP AM intends to contribute to the energy transition, environmental sustainability and the promotion of equality and inclusive growth globally. BNPP AM currently manages EUR 524 billion of assets (EUR 638 billion of assets under management and advisory) and benefits from the expertise of more than 500 investment professionals and around 400 client servicing specialists, serving individual, corporate and institutional clients in 69 countries.
Source: BNPP AM, as at 30 September 2023
1 Source: 2nd in Europe for active sustainable thematic strategies, according to an analysis made by BNP Paribas Asset Management based on Morningstar data as at 31/12/2022.
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Approximately 7 minute walk to the event venue
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Approximately 11 minute walk to the event venue
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Approximately 5 minute walk to the event venue
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Approximately 7 minute walk to the event venue
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Approximately 16 minute walk to the event venue
Note: Accommodation has not been booked for you. Hotels are subject to availability and best available rate at the time of booking.
Address: Rue Marche aux Herbes, Rue du Marché Aux Herbes 110, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
Approximately 5 minute walk from the event venue
Address: Grasmarkt, Rue du Marché Aux Herbes 100, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
Approximately 5 minute walk to the event venue
Address: Stormstraat 15, 1000 Brussel, Belgium
Approximately 4 minutes walk from the event venue
Address: Rue du Marché Aux Herbes, Brussels, Belgium
Approximately 7 minute walk to the event venue
Address: Rue de l’Amigo 1-3, 1000 Brussels
Approximately 11 minute walk to the event venue
Address: Carrefour de l’Europe 3, 1000 Brussels
Approximately 5 minute walk to the event venue
Address: Rue du Marché aux Herbes, 1000 Brussels
Approximately 7 minute walk to the event venue
Address: Boulevard de Waterloo 38, 1000 Brussels
Approximately 16 minute walk to the event venue
If you have any questions or you are interested in finding out more about the sponsorship opportunities available, please contact Miriam Brunson, EFAMA at info@efama.org
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