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9:30
10:15
Welcome & introduction on the opportunities of the Ticino financial center
FRANCO CITTERIO (Ticino for Finance)
10:15
11:00
Risk Factor Allocation: A New Investment Paradigm?
THOMAS MERZ (Head UBS ETF Europe)
11:00
11:45
Rethinking Fixed Income
AHMED TALHAOUI (Head of the EMEA Fixed Income Strategy - Blackrock)
11:45
13:00
“Economic, Fiscal and Financial governance of the Euro Area. What went wrong? What did we do to fix it? What should we do in the medium long term ?” JEAN-CLAUDE TRICHET (former BCE President)
LUNCH BREAK
ETPD
Stream
by SIX
14:00
16:00
Welcome speechALAIN PICARD (Head Product Management - SIX Swiss Exchange) ANDRÉ BUCK (Head Sales - SIX Structured Products)
Sponsored Funds
OLIVER HEUSSER (Head Funds Secondary Trading – Bank Julius Baer & Co)
Pension solutions
(Leonteq Securities)
Panel: Challenges, innovations & trends associated with passive investment products
Moderator: MARTIN RAAB (Managing Editor - Derivative Partners)
-CLAUDIO TOPATIGH (Head Sales Structured Products-Notenstein Privatbank) - REDA ZEBDI (iShares)
- BENOIT GARCIA (Head of Sales ETF & Indexing, Switzerland – Amundi) -ERIC BLATTMANN (Head of Public Distribution Fin. Products -Bank Vontobel)
Where are the world economy and financial markets going?
DOMINICK SALVATORE (Professor of Economics - Fordham University in NY)
Conference Room A (Auditorium)
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16:00
16:45
Asset Backed Securities
ROBERT WAKIYAMA (Fund Manager - Credit Suisse)
16:45
17:15
Opportunities in the Hybrid Bond space
JOËL SUTER (Chief Investment Officer - Crossinvest AG)
SERGIO ATTILI (Investment Advisor - Independent Capital Advisor)
17:15
18:15
PANEL: Risk Parity and Beyond: how to best capture return premiums in a risk-balanced diversified portfolio?
-PETER SCHLAGBAUER (Fund Manager Multi Asset Solutions - Raiffeisen CM) -PAOLO CAVATORE (Fund Manager - Banca Zarattini & Co.)
-AURÈLE STORNO (Head of the Asset Allocation Team – Lombard Odier) -URS SCHUBIGER (CIO - 1741 Asset Management)
Moderator: ANDREAS STEINER (Andreas Steiner Consulting GmbH)
18:15
19:30
LFF Cocktail
Conference Room A (Auditorium)
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9:30
10:10
Luxembourg Funds, Services and Solutions: Opportunities for Italy and Ticino
Moderator: WALTER SNYDER (Ticino Representative for Finimmo Luxembourg &FLAG)
10:10
10:45
Panel on Malta
-Deloitte Malta
- Valletta Fund Services
10:45
11:15
(Title to be disclosed) (Amicorp)11:15
12:00
Representation of Foreign Collective Investment Schemes in Switzerland
WALTER KELLER (Head of Foreign Fund Representation - BNP Paribas)
LUNCH BREAK
14:00
16:15
SFAMA Session
Swiss Asset Management Initiative – Where we are, where we go
MARKUS FUCHS (Managing Director – SFAMA)
Federal Financial Services Act (FFSA) + Financial Institutions Act (FinIA) – Wrapping the asset management
DIANA IMBACH HAUMÜLLER (Senior Legal Counsel – SFAMA)
SFAMA Directive on Transparency + SFAMA Directive on Distribution - Impact on representatives and distributors
THOMAS ZIMMERLI (Senior Legal Counsel – SFAMA)
16:15
16:55
Casa4Funds third party management company: your gateway to Luxembourg
MARGHERITA BALERNA BOMMARTINI (Swiss Branch Manager – Casa4Funds)
16:55
17:35
Dubai a true financial centre Cyprus for International Business
SAVVAS SHIATIS (CEO - Oneworld Ltd, Cyprus)
COSTAS IOANNOU (CEO - Oneworld MidEast Ltd, Dubai)
17:35
18:15
18:15
19:30
LFF Cocktail
Conference Room B
9:40
10:20
10:20
11:00
European Economy between deflation risk and stimulus hope: what strategy for European Equity Market?
ALESSANDRO GUZZINI (CEO - Finlabo)
11:10
11:45
Outlook 2015 on the main currencies
PETER ROSENSTREICH (Market Strategy – Swissquote)
11:45
13:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:00
14:35
L'approccio sistematico EBPA® (Evidence Based Portfolio): casualità no grazie!
Riccardo Ambrosetti (CEO & Founder - Ambrosetti AM)
14:35
15:10
Target Strategy: a practical application to ETFs and ETCs
DANIELE BERNARDI (Chairman - Diaman Sicav)
15:10
15:45
(Title to be disclosed) (1741 Asset Management)15:45
16:20
FIDAworkstation: strumenti di gestione portafoglio e controllo del rischio
LUCA LODI (Head of Research - FIDA Finanza Dati Analisi)
16:20
17:00
Megatrend Forex Robot
PIETRO PACIELLO (Founder - Uptrend Advisory) Sponsored by ActivTrades
17:00
18:00
Bitcoin e blockchain-technologies: una nuova economia?
GIACOMO ZUCCO (Bitcoin consultant)
18:15
19:30
LFF Cocktail
Conference Room C
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9:30
10:15
Emerging Markets Debt
EDWIN GUTIERREZ (Senior Investment Manager - Aberdeen AM)
10:15
11:00
Active asset allocation – why now?
GREGOR HIRT (Chief Investment Officer Europe & Switzerland, Global Investment Solutions - UBS Global Asset Mgmt)
11:00
11:45
Credit Suisse Market Outlook
ANJA HOCHBERG (CIO Switzerland & Europe - Credit Suisse)
11:45
13:00
The Euro and the future equilibrium with the other currency systems PANEL
-JEAN-CLAUDE TRICHET
- EDWIN GUTIERREZ (Senior Investment Manager - Aberdeen AM) - BRUNO ROVELLI (Head of Investments Advisory in Milan - BlackRock) - ANJA HOCHBERG (CIO Switzerland & Europe - Credit Suisse)
- GREGOR HIRT (CIO - UBS Global Asset Mgmt) Moderator: DOMINICK SALVATORE
LUNCH BREAK
14:00
14:45
Not All Emerging Emerging Markets are Created Equal!
MARK MONSON (Senior Fund Manager Emerging Markets - Raiffeisen Capital Mgmt)
14:45
15:30
Rates & FX: Double Digit Returns In A Low Yield Environment
ADRIAN OWENS (Investment Director -GAM)
15:30
16:15
The best of both worlds - seeking superior opportunities in High Grade and High Yield Credit: The crossover segment BBB-BB (5B)
KEVIN CORRIGAN (Head of Credit Mgmt - Lombard Odier Investment Managers)
16:15
17:15
Panel mercato del trading online in CH
Introduction: MARIO VALENTINO GUFFANTI (SAMT) Moderator: ALBERTO VIVANTI (SAMT)
PATRICK FUCHS (CornerTrader)
CARLO ALBERTO DE CASA (Senior Analyst - ActivTrades)
FOUAD BAJJALI (CEO - IG Bank)
Conference Room A (Auditorium)
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9:30
10:10
Mitigating risk and downside protection
JEROME NUNAN (Investment Director Multi-Asset and Equities - Aviva Investors)
10:10
10:50
Be ready to face any interest rate environment
ALAN CAUBERGHS (Investment Director Fixed Income – Schroders)
11:10
11:40
JB Absolute Return Europe Equity: un vero e proprio fondo “equity market neutral”
DÉSIRÉE MÜLLER (Portfolio Manager - Swiss & Global Asset Management )
11:40
12:20
Italia a passo di lumaca – per quanto ancora la ripresa rimarrà un miraggio?
LUCA MEZZOMO (head of macroeconomic & fixed income research - Intesa Sanpaolo)
12:20
13:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:00
14:45
A positive yield potential for all market environments
BLAISE RODUIT (Senior Portfolio Manager - Swisscanto)
14:45
15:30
L’uso di Fondi UCITS Alternativi nella Gestione del Portafoglio
FEDERICO FOGLIETTA (Vice President - Morgan Stanley)
15:30
16:15
Panel on absolute return strategies
- ENRICO CAMERA (Senior Fund Manager - GAM) - WILL NEF (Fund Manager – UBP)
- DANILO CALVI (Founding Partner - Portfolio Lab Investments)
Moderator: GIANLUCA BALDINI (Coordinamento redazione - Bluerating)
9:45
10:30
Dukascopy Bank SA - Swiss FX Marketplace
JACQUES SALE (Head of Sales for the Italian Market – Dukascopy) CLAUDIO GATTA (Business Development Manager – Dukascopy)
VLAD YERMAKOFF (Insitutional & Business Development Manager – Dukascopy)
10:30
11:15
Asset allocation conditional to business cycle and macro uncertainty
MAURIZIO LUISI (Bloomberg)
11:15
12:00
L’utilizzo delle opzioni nelle gestioni patrimoniali: copertura dei rischi o altre opportunità?
STEFANO ZANCHETTA (CEO – Cube Finance)
12:00
13:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:00
14:40
Investire nella Rivoluzione Energetica Americana
SIMONA GAMBARINI (Research Analyst - ETF Securities)
14:45
15:30
Ottimizzazione di portafoglio antifragile, a prova di "cigni neri"
RICCARDO DONATI (Founder - Redexe Risk & Finance) Sponsored by ActivTrades
