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


Presentations - Friday, 28 September 2007

IV: Demographic Change: The Call for New Regulation and Supervision

  • Keynote by André Laboul, Head Financial Affairs Division, OECD & Secretary General, International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS)
    (Presentation PDF)
  • Panellists:
    Herbert Lüthy, Board of Directors, AXA Winterthur
    Geoffrey Wood, Professor of Economics, Cass Business School
    Moderator: Markus Koch, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
V: Key Issues: Parallel Working Groups

  • Country-Specific Age-Health Patterns: Options for Achieving Sustainable Prosperity
    Introduction: Hans H.P. Groth, Director Health Care Policy & Market Access, Pfizer AG (Presentation PDF)
    Challenger: Jean-Michel Chatagny, Managing Director, Client Markets Asia, Swiss Re
    Moderator: Thomas Scheiwiller, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
    (Working Group Conclusions)
  • Demographic Change and Frameworks Impacting Intergenerational Solidarity in Pension Schemes
    Introduction: Axel Hesse, Consultant, SD-M Sustainable Development Management (Presentation PDF)
    Moderator / Challenger: Klaus Woltron, Managing Partner, MINAS Gruppe
    (Working Group Conclusions)
  • Pension Market Trends and Regulation in Eastern Europe and Asia
    Introduction: Alexander Börsch, Senior Pensions Analyst, Allianz Global Investors AG (Presentation PDF)
    Moderator / Challenger: Alexander Barkawi, Managing Director, SAM Indexes
    (Working Group Conclusions)
  • The Impact of Inheritances on Financial Markets
    Introduction: Reto Fehr, Managing Director, Private & Business Banking Switzerland, Credit Suisse (Presentation PDF)
    Moderator / Challenger: Thomas Streiff, COO, The Sustainability Forum Zürich
    (Working Group Conclusions)
VI: Synthesis

  • The Reform Package at a Glance: Where to Go from Here
    Ernst A. Brugger, CEO, The Sustainability Forum Zürich (Presentation PDF)
  • "Seniorization": Money Sink or Buried Treasure
    Keynote by Frank Schirrmacher, Chief Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung & Author of "The Mehuselah Plot"
    Debate with Katja Gentinetta, Deputy Director, Avenir Suisse

TSF offers an excel­lent platform to focus on and further deve­lop issues relating to sustain­a­bility and the financial market.

Reto Ringger
CEO, SAM Sustainable Asset Management

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