8th International Sustainability Leadership Symposium

"Demographic Change and Financial Services:

a Short List of Threats - a Long List of Opportunities?"

Business Leaders, Policy Makers and Researchers in Dialogue

27/28 September 2007,

Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue in Rüschlikon/Zürich

Conference Programme

Report Demographic Change

Demographic change presents society, the financial sector and public authorities with an exceptional and long-term challenge. The 1.5-day International Sustainability Leadership Symposium will deal with this challenge from a long-term view, bringing together the various actors relevant to the financial services industry.

Latest publication of our speakers:

Europe's Coming Demographic Challenge. Unlocking the Value of Health.
By Nicholas Eberstadt, Hans Groth

Speakers:

Nicholas Eberstadt, Professor, American Enterprise Institute
André Laboul, Head, Financial Affairs Division, OECD & Secretary General, - International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS)
Patrick M. Liedtke, Secretary General, The Geneva Association
Frank Schirrmacher, Chief Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Atsushi Seike, Professor of Labor Economics, Keio University (Japan)
W. Weldon Wilson, CEO, Swiss Re Life & Health America

and many others, representing:

Allianz Global Investors
Austrian Central Bank (OeNB)
AXA Winterthur
Cass Business School
Credit Suisse
Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch
Pfizer
SAM Group
Swiss Life
Swisscanto
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Watson Wyatt
Zurich Cantonal Bank

Key Questions

In the OECD, how will the demographic transition affect capital markets and the financial services industry?
How will this change affect the management of financial services provided by banks, insurance companies, pension funds and asset management?
In an aging society, what are sustainable business opportunities for institutional investors and financial service companies?
How will demographic change affect the need for regulating and supervising capital markets, financial service providers and pension funds?

Participants

International senior business leaders; pension fund, insurance and bank managers, and other high-level representatives of financial service providers, advisors, analysts, academics, and regulation authorities.