IBA Annual Conference Sydney 2017

8 Oct - 13 Oct 2017

Room C4.10, Convention Centre, Level 4

Session information

An increasingly integrated financial market in the Asia Pacific region through passporting and cross-border sales of investment funds
Room C4.10, Convention Centre, Level 4

Committee(s)

Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee (Lead)

Description

The Hong Kong-Mainland China Mutual Recognition arrangement and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) passports are three different arrangements aiming to facilitate the cross-border marketing of collective investment schemes in Asia. The three types of passports have both common and distinctive features and are at different stages of implementation. These passports will exist alongside the possibilities for registering undertakings for collective invesment in transferable securities (UCITS) in certain Asian countries that they cover. The panel will analyse the features of these different cross-border marketing facilities, and discuss respective successes and opportunities they may bring about.

Session / Workshop Chair(s)

Jacques Elvinger Elvinger Hoss Prussen société anonyme, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; Co-Chair, Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee

Speakers

Claude Kremer Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Geoff McCarthy Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Azman Othman Luk Allen & Gledhill, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Francois Rayroux Lenz & Staehelin, Geneva, Switzerland; Newsletter Editor, Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee
Michelle Reid Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Yasuzo Takeno MORI HAMADA & MATSUMOTO, Tokyo, Japan
Vivien Teu Dentons, Central, Hong Kong SAR
Esther Yik Colonial First State Global Asset Management, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia