the sixth annual world pensions & investments forum · the 6th annual world pensions investment...

The Sixth Annual World Pensions & Investments Forum

23 & 24 February 2017 | Greenwich, London

with the support of:

Join a host of pension and sovereign funds, central banks and government agencies from

across Europe, Asia and the Americas to discuss the latest advances in asset allocation

& risk management strategies, equity, real assets including ESG and climate change mitigation, infrastructure investments and longevity risk transfer and reinsurance

INVITATION

The LT Assets of Pension, Sovereign and Insurance Investors in a Time of Economic Realignment and Regulatory Change

World Pensions CouncilThe International Association ofPension & Social Security Funds

The 6th Annual World Pensions Investment Forum23 & 24 Feb. 2017 | London

The Forum will bring together pension and insurance executives and board members including trade union representatives and employee-nominated pension trustees; SWF administrators and national and suprana-tional policy makers from across G7 and EMDE nations

Senior supranational and Ivy League thought leaders in attendance will include representatives of ADB, AfDB, EDB, EIB, EU, OECD, the World Bank, Columbia University and the Sorbonne Law School

Cocktail Dinner at the Queen’s House/ Thursday evening hosted by BNP Paribas Securities Services

Post-conference leisure activities on Day 2/Friday afternoon & early evening will include:Wine and whisky-tasting on the old Cutty Sark clipper and visits of the Royal Museum of Greenwich, the Royal Naval College and the London Observatory.

The forum is open to policy makers and representatives of public and private pension funds, sovereign wealth institutions, multilateral development banks and insurance companies (excluding third-party commercial asset management subsidiaries)

Continuing Professional Development: the forum qualifies for 12 CPD hours, which you can use towards your PMI CPD requirement in the UK and other jurisdictions when applicable: a WPC/WPiF Certificate of Attendance will also be awarded to all attendees

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VENUE: The Devonport Mansion, an Edwardian Manor in the Heart of the Royal Borough of Greenwich cf. detailed map pg. 6THURSDAY 23rd Feb. : All Day including Cocktail Dinner FRIDAY 24th Feb. : Morning Only – Pension Policy and Risk Management Workshops

Thursday 23rd February: Day 1

h 8.30 Registration/Pastries & Coffee served in the Westminster Rooms Foyer

h 9.00 Keynote Address by Joaquim V. Levy, Chief Financial Officer & Managing Director, World Bank Group

h 9.25 Long Term Investment & Risk Management in a Low Yield Context w/ Chris Rule, Chief Investment Officer, Local Pensions Partnership (LPP) w/ James Duberly, Director of Pensions Investments, BBC Pension Trust w/ Étienne Lessard, Head of Pension Investment, Bank of Canada Pension Trust w/ Olivier Rousseau, Member of the Executive Board, France’s Pension Reserve Fund (FRR) w/ Marco Vetrone, Director, International, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP IB) Moderated by David Weeks, Co-Chair, AMNT, Director, Lovell Pension, Forum Rapporteur, WPiF

h 10.30 Keynote Address by Bertrand de Mazières, Director General of Finance, European Investment Bank (EIB)

h 10.50 Coffee & refreshments served in the Westminster Foyer

h 11.05 The Governance & Capital Stewardship Roundtable Chaired by Chris Hogg, Chief Executive, Royal Mail Pensions Trustees (RMPT) w/ Peter Curtis, Head of Investment Operations, AustralianSuper (AS) w/ Gert Dijkstra, Member of the Board & Chief Strategy, Algemene Pensioen Groep N.V. (APG)

w/ Iain Richards, Head of Responsible Investment, Columbia Threadneedle Investments w/ Bill Trythall, Director & Member of the Board, Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)

h 12.15 – 13.15 Seated Lunch served on site, in the Devonport House Banquet Hall

h 13.20 Introductory Remarks by Florence Fontan, BNP Paribas Securities Services

h 13.35 Sustainability After the Paris COP21 Agreement w/ Ph. Desfossés,CEO, France’s Public Service Supplementary Pension (ERAFP)

w/ Florence Fontan, Head of Strategic Change & Member of the Executive Committee, BNP Paribas Securities Services w/ Catherine Howarth, Chief Executive, ShareAction w/ Mark Thompson, Chief Investment Officer, HSBC Pension Scheme (HSBC PT)

w/ Janice Turner, Chair, Assn. of Member Nominated Trustees (AMNT) & Trustee, BECTU Staff Retirement

h 14.40 Responsible Investment and Risk Management: Lessons from the Securities Lending Frontline by Roelof van der Struik, Treasury, PGGM, Board Member, International Sec. Lending Association (ISLA)

h 14.50 Concluding Remarks on Responsible Asset Ownership & Governance by Iain Richards, Head of Responsible Investment (EMEA), Columbia Threadneedle Investments


h 15.20 Understanding the Australian ‘Pension Miracle’: Policy Innovation and Asset Accumulation by Rt.Hon. Nick Sherry, fmr. Minister Corporate Law & Superannuation, Australia, APAC Chair, FNZ

h 15.35 Pension, MDB and SWF Investment in Infrastructure Assets: ‘Shifting the Trillions’? w/ Joaquim V. Levy, CFO & Managing Director, World Bank Group w/ Bertrand de Mazières, Director General of Finance, European Investment Bank (EIB) w/ Dmitry Pankin, Chairman of the Management Board, Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) w/ Federico Merola, CEO, ARPINGE, Italy’s National Pension Infrastructure Investment Ptf. w/ Stephan Rupert, Dir., Infrastructure, Can. Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) w/ Mike Weston, Chief Executive, Britain’s Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) Moderated by Georg Inderst, Chair, Inderst Advisory, Author of “Pension Fund Investment in Infrastructure”

... cont’d Thursday 23rd February: Day 1

h 16.45 Infrastructure Financing as Impact Investment: Status Quo and Current Developments by Andreas Kettenhuber, Director Infrastructure & Public Finance, Kommunalkredit Austria

h 17.00 Exercising Oversight: Understanding the Growing Role of Member-Nominated Trustees Presentation by Richard Edes, Head of Risk & Research, The Pensions Regulator (TPR)

h 17.20 EMDE Investments Can Address Climate Change, Build Resilience & Generate Solid Returns by James Close, Climate Group Director, World Bank Group

h 17.30 A Look at Recent ESG-Financial Innovations…Notably Listing Impact-Business SMEs in London by Colin Melvin, Chair, Social Change Exchange, fmr. Director, Principles for Responsible Investment

h 17.40 Reinventing (Cross-Border) Individual and Workplace Pensions for the Modern, Mobile Worker by Francesco Briganti, OP Stakeholder Grp., European Insurance & Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)

h 17.50 2017−2018 Country Risk Outlook: LT Investment in a ‘Self-Seeking’ Supply Side Context Short presentations by North American and European experts and Q&As w/ the audience

h 18.10 Summation & Close of Day 1

h 18.20 Cocktail Dinner at the Queen’s House hosted by BNP Paribas Securities Services Friday 24th February: Day 2

h 9.00 Learnings from a Supranational Pension w/ Beneficiaries Residing in 190+ Countries Speech by Sergio Arvizu Treviño, CEO, United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF)

h 9.20 Longevity Risk and How to Manage it in Pension Plans +Q&A w/ other experts & the audience by Prof. David Blake, Cass Business School, City, University of London , Director, Pensions Institute

h 9.40 A New Kind of Index for a Changed World: ‘Smart Sustainability’ by David Harris, Group Head of Sustainable Business, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

h 9.55 Modern Pension Design & Pension Reform: The Way Forward in the Americas, Europe and Asia Co-chaired by Hank H. Kim, Executive Director, US Natl Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS), Board Member, Fairfax County Uniform Retirement System and Kevin LeGrand, President, Pensions Management Institute (PMI) w/ Rt.Hon. Nick Sherry, fmr. Minister Corporate Law & Superannuation, Australia, APAC Chair, FNZ w/ Colin Wilson, Deputy Government Actuary (Strategy and Risk Management), Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) & President, UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries w/ Erik Goris, Managing Director, Strategic Development, Holland’s PGGM Pension


h 11.10 Using Public Plans Data to Understand the US State and Local Pension Landscape by Joshua M. Franzel, President and CEO, U.S. Center for State & Local Government Excellence − SLGE

h 11.25 Unleashing the Transformational Power of Responsible Investment by Catherine Howarth, Chief Executive, ShareAction

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... cont’d Friday 24th February: Day 2

h 11.40 Presentation of the Upcoming Book ‘Finance, Society and Sustainability’ by Nick Silver, Visiting Fellow, Sustainability Institute, Anglia University and Director, Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI)

h 11.50 Sustainability and Governance: Rising Tides, Winds of Change… Time to Chart a New Course by Alison L. Dempsey, Canadian Business Conduct Scholar, Author of ‘Evolution in Corporate Governance’

h 12.00 Strengthening Pension Security & Expanding Coverage: EU – China Cooperation by Koen Vleminckx, Director, Belgian Fed. Ministry of Soc. Security – FOD Sociale Zekerheid

h 12.12 Meaningful Impact Investing in an EMDE Context: ‘Access to Finance’ and ‘Access to Life’ Lauren Burnhill, BM, Investment Committee, Calvert Foundation, Founder & MD, One Planet Ventures

h 12.22 ‘Outsourcing’ Asset Management or Running the Money Internally? An Empirical Look at the US Experience by Michael Urban, Presenting the Findings of His PhD Dissertation Re US Public Pension Assets, Oxford University

h 12.30 Closing Remarks & Outline of the 7th World Pensions Forum on LT Investment (February 2018)

h 12.45 Light Buffet Campagnard & Sandwiches


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Venues and practical information

The conference will be held at De Vere Devonport House, King William Walk, in London’s Royal Borough of Greenwich

• 5 min. walk from the Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich station / DLR Line• 10 min. walk from the Greenwich station / National Rail & DLR

Cutty Sark DLR train station

De Vere Devonport House

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