8:00
Registration & breakfast
8:45
Welcoming remarks
8:55
Opening keynote: Mark Konyn, chief investment officer, AIA
9:15
Panel: Macro, rates & portfolio reality
- Interest-rate uncertainty and long-term return assumptions
- Implications for portfolio construction and capital planning
- Asia vs global divergence: what matters for insurers?
Shiuan Ting van Vuuren, Chief Investment Officer, Sunlife
John Zheng, Chief Investment Officer, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance China
9:50
Presentation by T. Rowe Price
10:10
Coffee break
10:35
Panel: Private markets: from allocation to execution
- Scaling private markets responsibly in insurance portfolios
- Liquidity, valuation and governance challenges
- Origination challenges
Meimei Zheng, Head of Investment Strategy, Transamerica Life Bermuda
Yifu Feng, Chief Investment Officer Asia, Generali
11:10
Presentation by AllianceBernstein
11:30
Coffee break
11:55
Panel: Regulation, capital & balance-sheet efficiency
- Capital treatment
- Capital efficiency and investment structuring
- Asset class deep dive: infrastructure
Richard Chan, CIO, Prudential
Jian Xiong, Asia Insurance Specialist, Amundi
12:30
Panel: Asset-intensive reinsurance: strategic tool or structural shift?
- Why AIR is growing across Asia
- Investment implications for insurers and reinsurers
- Risk transfer, capital relief and governance considerations
Moderator: Greg Solomon, Managing Director, Eigengrey
Catherine Phillips, Senior Director, Credit Risk, Prudential Corporation Asia
Dominic Lim, Head of Savings & Retirement, SEA & Greater China, Pacific Life Re
13:05
Lunch