pause - INSME

Has Asia’s Time Come to Shine & to be Positioned
as a Global Leader?
28 & 29 April 2009 • Hotel Istana Kuala Lumpur
Keynote Address
YAB Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Abdul Razak
Deputy Prime Minister, Malaysia
INVITED ROLE-PLAYERS
Anand Balasubrahmanyan
Carlyle,Singapore
Simon Murray, CBE
GEMS
Tan Teng Boo
Capital Dynamics Sdn Bhd
Joseph Tan
Credit-Suisse Singapore
Tony Diep
Indochina Capital
Corporation
William Pesek Jr.
Bloomberg News
Jointly Organised with:
John Assaraf
Co-author - The Secret
Badlisyah Abdul Ghani
CIMB Islamic Bank
Berhad
Hugh Young
Aberdeen Asset
Management Asia Limited
(Singapore)
28 & 29 April 2009,
Hotel Istana Kuala Lumpur
If 2008 is a year that saw world financial markets being roiled and shaken by a crisis of unprecedented magnitude, it’s the real
economy that will take centre stage in 2009. From the financial markets, it has now gone on to hurt economic growth. The crisis has
already cost the world millions of jobs; it has devastated industry juggernauts; and it has brought the world’s largest economy to it’s
knees. The financial crisis will likely push the world’s developed countries into their worst recession since the early 1980’s. The so
called BRICs-Brazil, Russia, India and China – were suppose to save us but from recent developments Asia’s shiniest growth starts
may be among those paying the biggest price.
USD6,500,000,000,000 (RM22.8 trillion). That is the figure analysts believe to be the losses in global stock markets in October 2008.
Call it The melt down, The Crash, The Black October all over the world major bourses reeled from shock and disbelief. The IMF has
warned that 2009 will be a recession year, which means growth of 1% or below. Yet, why were the tell-tale signs of this catastrophe
not addressed? On the local front, already there are signs of mounting consumer debts and pretty soon the credit crunch could
hit us. Who will be responsible for the financial turmoil and where do we go from here?
As the economic turbulence from the US has spread to Europe and the rest of the world, the one thing we in Malaysia must
not delude ourselves about is that we will not be too affected by the global financial crisis.
Current developments in the United States (US) economy and the question whether Asia’s economic growth can
continue in a period when the US economy enters into a prolonged stagnation and the rest of the world feels the
effects of the subprime mortgage crisis is a pivatol question that needs to be addressed immediately. The full
impact of this global shock on the region must be assessed so that authorities can formulate appropriate
national and regional policy responses and find ways to enhance the effectiveness of existing regional
cooperation mechanisms to make Asian economies resilient to global shocks.
This 2-day premier conference will discuss the current macroeconomic conditions and policy
options in Asia under the influences of global supply and demand turbulences. This event will
provide you the proven-tools and information to assist and support you and Your business
organisations to enhance and source alternative ways to improve your business growth in
order to be able to sustain and strengthen your position locally and internationally. Where
there are challenges, we also see some opportunities. All the more, on this event,
businesses will be given the proven-solutions on creating value for your customers to
maintain your competitive edge and strengthen your position in the industry during
this climate of global change.
Target Audience
• CEO’s • Managing Director • CFO • Financial Controllers
• Senior Management • Heads of Business Units
• Investment Bankers • Investment Advisers • Accountants
• Company Directors • Management Consultants
• Financial Analyst • Head of Strategic Planning
Target Industries
• Financial Industry • Bankers • Entrepreneurs
• Small Medium Enterprises (SME)
• Insurance • Business Owners • Real Estate
• Corporates Across Board of Industries
• Public Listed Companies
• Mesdaq and Academics
Target Countries
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Malaysia
Singapore
Vietnam
Indonesia
Brunei
Thailand
“Whether the
pressure (from
the crisis) can
be turned into a
driving force and the
challenges turned into
opportunities.....is a test of
our ability to control a complex
situation.....and a test of our
governing ability”
Hu Jin Tao
China President
Why You Should Attend:
1. To Assist and support business organisations to find
alternative ways to enhance and improve their business
growth in order to be able to sustain and strengthen their
position locally and internationally.
2. This conference will be a platform for YOU to ascertain
opportunities in a crisis like this, managing uncertainties in an
economic downturn.
3. John Assaraf, the trainer on the 29th of April 2009, is a leading
Business Guru, where he is :
a) a New York Times bestselling author, speaker and
entrepreneur and the co author of the phenomenal book “The
Secret” and “The Answer”
b) his expertise is in helping Fortune 500 companies, SME’,
entrepreneurs, business owners and individuals achieve success
has landed him on Larry King Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and
on ABC, CBS and NBC programs worldwide to speak to his success.
c) John Assaraf has built 4 multibillion-dollar companies from start-up
(incl. real estates and IT companies)
4. There are 7 top financial speakers from Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia
and Vietnam who will be presenting on the 28th of April 2009, on this premier
event, who will be able give a fresh outlook on the current economic downturn
and from their experience and expertise in their respective sectors be able to
enlightened YOU and direct us to the best business and economic strategies to
support the growth of our organisations
5. How will a US slowdown or recession affect your organisation and industry,
and the Malaysian economy in general? What can businesses do in the event of a
slowdown? Will there be a further divide from the have’s and have nots which is a
major social crisis in Asia?
ProgrammeOUTLINE
Day 1, TUESday, APRIL 28TH 2009
8.30am
Registration
8.45am
Keynote Address
YAB Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Abdul Razak
Deputy Prime Minister, Malaysia
9.00am-9.40am
Presentation
Hugh Young
MD - Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Limited (Singapore)
How great is the influence of the subprime crisis affecting Asia investment market and where is this
directing the future of Asia? Where will Asia be heading in the power of economy and politics?
Hugh Young is managing director of Singapore-based Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Limited (‘Aberdeen
Asia’), which he set up in 1992 as the Group’s Asia-Pacific headquarters. He is also a member of the
executive committee responsible for day-to-day running of its parent company, Aberdeen Asset Management
PLC. Aberdeen Asia looks after all the Group’s regional funds, with the exception of domestic Australian
assets which are managed from Sydney, over which Hugh is also in overall charge. In addition there is a
sales office in Hong Kong. In January 2002, Hugh became head of emerging markets, having responsibility
for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Latin America, in addition to Asia. He is also chief investment
officer of the company’s joint venture in Thailand, Aberdeen Asset Management Company Limited.
Hugh has over 20 years’ experience in fund management and has managed the Group’s Asian assets
since 1985, including award-winning mutual funds and closed-end funds. He holds a number of outside
directorships and is a regular financial commentator in the media. Before joining Aberdeen his career
included posts at Fidelity International and MGM Assurance. He graduated with a BA (Honours) degree in
politics from Exeter University in the United Kingdom.
9.40am-10.20am
Presentation
Tony Diep
Director, Indochina Capital Corporation
Chief Investment Officer, Indochina Land
Can we explain and foresee the tide of power from an investment perspective
TONY DIEP is a Director of Indochina Capital Corporation and serves as the Chief Investment Officer
for Indochina Land for the North and Central regions. At Indochina Land, Tony is part of a team managing
two dedicated real estate funds totaling approximately $310 million. The Funds allow Indochina Land to
develop more than $1 billion of real estate across the full gamut of property types from residential, retail &
commercial, resorts & hotels to industrial properties.
Prior to joining Indochina Capital Corporation in January 2007, Tony was a Vice President at JPMorgan in
New York for 8 years where he worked on the trading floor as a senior marketer structuring and marketing
fixed income derivatives to US corporate clients. Tony has also worked in the Equities division of Goldman
Sachs.
Tony has a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Arts from the
College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has an M.B.A. from the Tuck
School at Dartmouth College.
10.20am -10.50am
Tea & coffee break / networking
ProgrammeOUTLINE
Day 1, TUESday, APRIL 28TH 2009
10.50am-11.30am
Presentation
Simon Murray, CBE
Chairman, GEMS
Alternative sources of investment outside Asia with different levels of transparency, different
standards for Asian firms, minority investment strategy, role of government and regulation, and
exit through developing capital market.
Mr. Murray is the founder of SMCand also the Executive Chairman, as well as the Chairman of GEMS
and Simon Murray & Associates.With over 35 years of experience in Asia, Mr. Murray not only witnessed,
but participated in, what was generally considered to be a golden age of Asian business. He began his
business career at Jardine Matheson.
In 1980, Mr. Murray formed his own project advisory company called Davenham Investments, mainly
involved in engineering projects in the region. He sold the company to the K.S. Li Group and became
the Group Managing Director of Hutchison Whampoa where he remained for 10 years. During this time
he pioneered the Group’s entry into the mobile telecommunication business and negotiated the rights
to develop Orange. He also developed the Group’s energy business through the acquisition of Hongkong
Electric and Husky Oil Company of Canada. The Group expanded its container operations during this
period and now controls 15% of the world’s container port operations.
After leaving Hutchison Whampoa, Mr. Murray co-founded Distacom, a mobile telecommunication operation
in India, Japan and Hong Kong. He joined Deutsche Bank Group as the Executive Chairman Asia Pacific
in 1993, supervising the Group’s operations in the region comprising 60 businesses in 17 countries. He
left Deutsche Bank in 1997 and subsequently founded Simon Murray & Company and GEMS.
Mr. Murray is an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of France and a Commander of the British
Empire (CBE).
11.30pm - 12.10pm
Presentation
Mr Joseph Tan
Asian Chief Economist, Credit-Suisse Singapore
Is Asia headed for an Asian style financial crisis?
• How vulnerable is Asia to this global financial crisis?
• Is Asia headed for a financial crisis similar to the one a decade ago?
• Which Asian countries are better insulated in this crisis and will emerge first?
Joseph is Credit Suisse’s Asian Chief Economist for the Private Bank and heads up the Asian Economics,
Foreign Exchange and Commodities Research team based in Singapore. Prior to joining Credit Suisse,
Joseph was with a major European bank and was responsible for global markets research on Asian foreign
exchange and interest rates. Before that Joseph was with a major British bank in the area of economics
research on Southeast Asian economies. A CFA charter holder, Joseph speaks frequently at regional
forums and roundtables organised by government bodies and think-tanks. Joseph is also Treasurer of the
Singapore Institute of International Affairs; the oldest think-tank in Singapore which actively leads in the
discussion of regional and international issues.
ProgrammeOUTLINE
Day 1, TUESday, APRIL 28TH 2009
12.10pm-12.50pm
Presentation
Anand Balasubrahmanyan
Director, Carlyle, Singapore
How to Deal with Challenges of Making Investment Across Asia
Anand Balasubrahmanyan is a Director focused on Asia buyout opportunities in the Southeast Asia
markets comprising Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. He is based
in Singapore.
Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Balasubrahmanyan spent over ten years as an investment banker, most
recently at Morgan Stanley and prior to that at DLJ. During this period, he worked on a variety of M & A
and capital market transactions in the US, Europe and Asia. He was most recently Executive Director and
Head of Southeast Asia Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley based in Singapore.
Mr. Balasubrahmanyan is a graduate of the Management and Technology program at the University
of Pennsylvania where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. He received a B.S. in economics from the
Wharton School, with concentrations in finance and accounting and a B.A.S. in computer science from the
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
12.50pm-2.00pm LUNCH
2.00pm-2.40pm Presentation
Badlisyah Abdul Ghani
CEO, CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad
Investment Opportunities as Asia Enters the Global Frontier. Has Asia’s Time Come To Shine & To
Be Positioned As A Global Leader?
Badlisyah Abdul Ghani, aged 35 joined CIMB Group, South East Asia’s Most Valued Universal Bank in
2002, and was attached in the Corporate Finance Division, prior to his appointment as the Group Head
of Islamic Banking, a position he holds until now. He is a member of the Group Management Committee
and is responsible for the overall Islamic banking and finance business of CIMB Group. He is also the
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad, the group’s Islamic banking
flagship. He sits on the Board of CIMB Principal Islamic Asset Management Sdn Bhd and CIMB Islamic
Investment House BSC (Bahrain). He chairs the Islamic Capital Market Committee of the Malaysian
Investment Banking Association (MIBA) and sits in various industry committees. Badlisyah is recognised
as a leader in Islamic finance globally. Amongst his notable accomplishments are the introductions of the
world’s first sukuk al ijarah, the world’s first istisna’ sukuk and the world’s first Musyarakah ABS/RMBS.
Euromoney named him one of “Global Top 20 Pioneers in Islamic Finance” and he was recently voted
“Islamic Banker of the Year” at the Islamic Business and Finance Awards, Dubai and by Islamic Finance
News. Under his leadership, CIMB Group has been entrenched as the world’s largest issuer of sukuk,
South East Asia’s top Islamic fund/asset manager and Malaysia’s largest retail Islamic bank by branch
network. He has successfully transformed CIMB Group into an Islamic universal banking powerhouse
providing comprehensive syariah compliant products and services in investment banking, consumer
banking and asset management worldwide in 11 countries under the ‘CIMB Islamic’ brand.
ProgrammeOUTLINE
Day 1, TUESday, APRIL 28TH 2009
2.40pm-3.20pm
Presentation
Tan Teng Boo
Founder & Managing Director (Capital Dynamics Sdn Bhd)
Mitigating the slowing US demand – Investment and strategic approaches by Malaysian Manufacturers,
bankers, services providers, venture capitalists, asset managers, unit Trust, graduates and
job-seekers
Tan Teng Boo, the founder and Managing Director of Malaysia’s first independent investment advisory
firm Capital Dynamics calls himself “the perpetual student of the stock market”. The reason: no matter
how well one might think he has mastered the market, there are always surprises. That may be true,
but Tan who has been involved with the market for the past 28 years has, over the years, created a
reputation for himself as being prudent, yet ironically often able to outperform the Malaysian equity
benchmark of the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI). His weekly stock market report - i-Capital - has
been in circulation since 1989.
Tan is also founder and MD of Capital Dynamics Asset Management, a licensed fund manager. He is an
economics graduate from the University of Sussex.
3.20pm-4.00pm
Tea & Coffee break / Networking
4.00pm-5.15pm
Panel Discussion
PanelistS
Anand Balasubrahmanyan
Director,Carlyle, Singapore
Simon Murray, CBE
Executive Chairman, GEMS
Joseph Tan
Asian Chief Economist, Credit-Suisse Singapore
Tony Diep
Director, Indochina Capital Corporation
Chief Investment Officer, Indochina Land
Moderator
William Pesek Jr.
Asia-Pacific columnist for Bloomberg News
William Pesek Jr. is Asia-Pacific columnist for Bloomberg News, based in Tokyo, providing opinions and
commentary on economics, business, markets and politics throughout the region.
Pesek has worked for Bloomberg in Asia since July 2001, and his columns routinely appear in the
International Herald Tribune, The Australian, The Straits Times, The Japan Times and many other
publications around Asia and the globe. He writes a monthly column for Bloomberg Markets magazine
and is a regular on Bloomberg Television.
Tan Teng Boo
Founder & Managing Director,
Capital Dynamics Sdn Bhd
Badlisyah Abdul Ghani
CEO, CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad
Hugh Young
MD - Aberdeen Asset Management
Asia Limited (Singapore)
He’s worked previously as a columnist for Barron’s, the Dow Jones weekly magazine, in Washington
D.C., writing about global economics, politics and markets. Much of his time was spent following Alan
Greenspan, U.S. Treasury, International Monetary Fund and World Bank officials around the globe. He’s
also worked for Dow Jones in New York, where he wrote the daily credit markets column for The Wall
Street Journal for three years in the mid-1990s, and the American Banker newspaper.
He has a Bachelors degree in business journalism from Bernard M.Baruch College, City University of New
York. Pesek’s work can be read at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/commentary/pesek.html
ProgrammeOUTLINE
Day 2, WEDNESday, APRIL 29TH 2009
Recession Proof Your Business and Your Mind
John Assaraf is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker and entrepreneur. The author of Having It
All, The Answer Grow any business; achieve financial freedom and live and extraordinary life and a coauthor to The Secret, where his expertise in helping organisations and individuals achieve success has
landed him on Larry King Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and on ABC, CBS and NBC programs
worldwide. Over the last twenty years, he has built four multimillion-dollar companies.
“The most
wonderful gift
one human
being can give
to another is,
There’s no doubt you’ll remember John Assaraf’s unforgettable cameo appearance in The Secret which
can be viewed at www.whatisthesecret.tv. John grew up on the streets but despite this managed to rally
his way up to the top and is now an international bestselling author, lecturer, and business advisor who is
dedicated to enhancing business entrepreneurs’ powers to create wealth whilst living an incredible
lifestyle.
in some way,
to make that
person’s
life a
little bit better
John has been researching the power of the human brain, quantum physics and business strategies for
over 25 years - he has become immensely adept at applying these theories to achieving success in
business and in life.
John Assaraf
In his quest to overcome his challenges and fulfill his desire to live a purposeful and meaningful life, he
discovered a unique passion for brain research and quantum physics as it related to achieving success in
business and in life.
In the last 20 years, he has built four multi-million dollar companies including growing RE/MAX of Indiana
to over 1500 sales associates, who collectively generate over $5 billion a year in sales, and are paid over
$120 million in commissions yearly.
With Bamboo, a recent start-up that raised $25 million in financing, John developed the marketing strategy
and sales team that generated over $30 million in revenues within 12 months. Bamboo then merged with
Ipix and went on to become the world’s leading provider of imaging infrastructure for the Internet, including
managing the scaled imaging infrastructure for companies such as eBay.
John is now putting his experience and knowledge to use as the Founder of OneCoach, a company
committed to helping entrepreneurs, SME’s, SMI’s and professionals grow their small business revenues
so they can achieve financial freedom and live extraordinary lives.
His first book, The Street Kid’s Guide to Having it All, made it to The New York Times, CEO Read, and
The Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, as well as attaining number one status at Barnes and Noble.
8.00am
Registration
Tea & Coffee break
9.00am
Programme commences
10.30am-11.00am Tea & coffee break / networking session
12.30pm-2.00pm
Lunch
2.00pm-3.30pm Programme continuation
3.30pm-4.00pm
Tea & coffee break / networking session
4.00pm-5.00pm
Wrap up with John Assaraf
to live.”
‘John Assaraf is one of the most brilliant visionaries of our time. Passionate, thoughtful, inspirational and
intellectually challenging, John mesmerized our audience of 250 CEO’s with his insight and experiences.
In addition to John’s presentation, it was a joy working with him and his team”.
- Alice Elliot, CEO The Elliot Group