Event Details - IAPF Annual Investment Conference

When: 08/03/2007 for 8.00am for 8.30am – 1.00pm
Where: Dublin Castle
Cost: IAPF Member - Pension Scheme Representative (Non Practitioner): €225, IAPF Member - Practitioner (Organisations that provide professional services to pension funds): €290, Non Members: €320,

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Introduction

Tomorrow’s World

The IAPF Investment Conference offers a first class panel of speakers that will educate and inform Trustees, Employers, HR and Finance Managers Investment Managers and Consultants alike.

“Tomorrow’s World” will focus on the evolution of the investment world in these uncertain times and will look at Alternative Investment Strategies. As well as an overview, large funds such as ESB, Smurfit and Kerry Group will outline their alternative investment experiences.

This year we are privileged to include both Noreen Harrington from MD Sass who is more publicly recognised as the whistle-blower in the mutual fund scandals in the US and Angela Docherty a senior Investment Strategist with Unilever.

New frontiers in investment management such as East Asian property, 130/30 strategies and Climate Change strategies will also be discussed. The Conference will also address the role of the Consultant with Steve Delo, President of the PMI outlining what a Consultant should do for your scheme.

IAPF would like to acknowledge and thank the Society of Investment Analysts for sourcing and facilitating our final speaker of the morning, Noreen Harrington from MD Sass, U.S.

Agenda

8.25 Chair's Opening Remarks
  Sheila O'Flanagan, Irish Times Columnist 
  Investment Trends
8.30 IAPF Investment Trends Survey - What did you say?
Jennifer Richards, IAPF Investment Committee
8.50 Reconstructing an Irish Pension Fund
Kevin Cruise O'Shea, Group HR Manager, Pension Compensation & Benefits, Musgrave Ltd.
9.10 Q & A
9.20 The Great Pension Debate:
Is Multi-Manager the Answer for a Mid Sized Scheme?
9.25    FOR:          David Hogarty, Head of Consultant Relationships,
9.40                      KBC Asset Management
     AGAINST:  Pramit Ghose, Partner, Bloxhams Stockbrokers
9.55 Discussion & Vote
10.10 Coffee Break
10.30 Unconstrained Investment -
  How To Make Your Bonds & Equities Work Harder
  Hugh Prendergast, Head of Investment Communications, Pioneer Global Investments Ltd
  How Do Others Do It?
10.50 Managing Pension Funds Across Europe
Ciaran Murphy,
Manager- Benefit Financing & International Treasury, Pfizer
11.10 Ministerial Address
  Seamus Brennan T.D.
11.30 Stagecoach Pension Scheme - Working Outside Benchmarks?
  Derek Scott, Chairman of Trustees, Stagecoach Group Pension Scheme
11.50 Q & A
  DC: Driving Choice - Lessons Learned From Abroad
11.55 Eurovision
  Ben Facer, Principal, Mercer HR Consulting
12.15 DC Down Under
  Pat Lardner, Regional Director Australia, BIAM
12.35 Q & A
12.45 Debate Results & Close
12.55 Lunch
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