The Chinese Finance Association 26th Annual Conference
Investment and Financial markets in a changed world
Online Conference
November 6th-8th, 2020
Webminar ZOOM link:
Link for the conference webinar (a simple registration is required and you will only be able to join when the webinar starts). Please copy and paste to your browser.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EiOoVBCsTjGWG6LWMfsaVQ
Registration (CLOSED):
We cordially invite you to join the 26th TCFA Annual Conference. This TCFA signature event provides an outstanding platform for industry leaders, academic experts, regulators, and TCFA members to share thoughts on the latest developments in the global economy and financial markets. Our thought leaders will share their insights regarding the changing landscape of investment and global financial markets. Topics include risk and opportunities in a complex geopolitical landscape, finance and investment in a post-election environment, foreign investment in Chinese financial sectors, new opportunities in preventative medicine and public health, new prospects for Fintech, AI and big data, etc.
In light of ongoing public health concerns, the 26th annual conference will take advantage of technological advancements by taking place online over three days, streaming across international platforms, time zones, and national boundaries.
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Prominent Keynote Speakers
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Former Senator and Ambassador Max Baucus
Russell Read, C Change Group, Former CIO for CalPERS, Gulf Investment
Professor Ziwu Chen of University of Hong Kong, Bob Davis and Lingling Wei of the Wall Street Journal
Senior business leader in the U.S.
Chief Economists of major wall street investment banks
Senior Investment and Financial Executive
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Conference Agenda and Speakers
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November 6th, Friday, Evening:
6:30pm – 6:40pm WELCOME ADDRESS
David Zhang, President-Elect, TCFA; Managing Director, MSCI
6:40pm – 7:40pm Session: Investment Opportunities in the U.S. and China
Session Address: Private Debt Investment
Jerry Wang, Haitou Global
Panelists:
Melanie Chen, Xinwen Fan, Bryan Lin, Sue Xu, Seamon Chan, Jerry Wang
Moderated by Jeff Zhang, Partner, Orrick LLP
7:40pm – 9:40pm Financial Careers in the U.S. and China & Recruiting session
Information Sessions from Hiring Firms
Moderated by David Zhong, TCFA
November 7th, Saturday, Morning, Plenum Session
8:30am – 8:40am WELCOME ADDRESS
David Zhang, President-Elect, TCFA; Managing Director, MSCI
8:40am – 9:40am MORNING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: U.S. and World after the Election
Max Baucus, former U.S. Senator, and former Ambassador to China,
Interviewed by Maggie Jiang, TCFA Board, SVP, Bank of China
9:40am – 10:25am SESSION: GLOBAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Moderator: Wenzhe Zhao, Credit Suisse
Panelists: Jonathan Wilmot, Willem Buiter, Brian Smedley
10:30am – 11:15am MORNING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Impact of Sovereign Wealth on PE and ESG
Russell Read, CFA, Ph.D., Group Managing Partner, C Change Group
Interviewed by Joy Zhang, MSCI
11:15am – 12:00pm SESSION: Secondary Market and Opportunities
Panelists: Chiheng Tan, Tong Zhao, Jojo Hu, Robin Hu, Chen Wang
Moderated by Ming Zhong, Lazard
November 8th, Sunday, Morning
8:30am – 8:40am WELCOME ADDRESS
David Zhang, President-Elect, TCFA; Managing Director, MSCI
8:40am – 9:25am Fireside Chat: U.S.-China relations
Zhiwu Chen, Bob Davis
Interviewed by Lingling Wei, Wall Street Journal
Introduced by Dajinag Guo, TCFA
9:25am – 10:00am Keynote Address: Fintech in investment process
Jim Wang, CEO, DataYes
Introduced by Angelene Huang, TCFA, Wisdom Academy
10:00am – 10:45am SESSION: ESG in the Investment Universe
Panelists: Aaron Meder, Loretta Liu, Vera Yang, Lin Peng, Ric Marshall
Moderator: Jason Wei, TCFA
Introduced by Shawn Fan, Legal and General & TCFA
10:45am – 11:30am Keynote Address: Sustainable Yield in Turbulent Times: Chinese Fixed Income Opportunity
Paul Li, E Fund
Introduced by: Henry Mo, TCFA President, AIG
11:35am – 12noon TCFA Election – Li Liu, Morgan Stanley
Conference Adjourn
Sponsorship
TCFA's continued growth and success rely on the consistent support and generous contribution from its sponsors. TCFA’s sponsorship program has four categories: Strategic Sponsor, Diamond Sponsor, Platinum Sponsor, and Gold Sponsor. The sponsors enjoy benefits of marketing and recruiting opportunities with the TCFA and at our annual conferences. Please contact TCFA for details.
Job Fair
There are a number of companies are planning to recruit at the Annual Conference’s online job fair offered by the Annual Conference, including:
· E Fund
· Haitou Global
· Tiger Broker
· MSCI
· UBIQUANT
· Huatai Investment
· DataYes
· Wind
· Wisdom Academy
To job applicants: please send your resume to tcfajobfair@gmail.com. We will keep your information in our database and distribute resumes to relevant recruiting firms.
About TCFA
Twenty-six years ago, TCFA was founded as a non-profit organization comprised of professionals, policymakers, and scholars in finance and related fields who have a strong interest in China’s financial and economic development. Today, headquartered in New York City, TCFA has over 7,000 members globally with chapters in Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Charlotte, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Paris, Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong.
Please visit our website www.tcfaglobal.org for further details including conference agendas, speaker biographies, and job fair information. We want to express our sincere gratitude towards our long-term sponsors, advisers, board, executive team, and volunteers, who have helped to make our events possible. We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
Sincerely,
TCFA Management Team
Disclaimers
All Participants: By participating in The Chinese Finance Association (“TCFA”) 2020 Annual Conference (the "TCFA Conference”) you consent to being filmed, taped, interviewed, photographed, and recorded (the "Recordings”) during and in connection with the Conference by TCFA, its vendors, media partners, affiliates and/or representatives (the "TCFA Parties”). You also agree that the TCFA Parties may use, publish, edit, incorporate and otherwise exploit (and to authorize others to do the same) any Recordings (including your name, voice, image, likeness, personality, situations and Conferences) as they deem fit to use them, including in connection with any promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, exhibition, streaming, webcasting, reproduction or other publication of these materials by and through any and all media regardless of the purpose of such promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, exhibition, streaming, webcasting, reproduction or other publication.
Speakers: Views expressed by speakers are their own. TCFA cannot accept liability for advice given, or views expressed, by any speaker at the conference or in any material provided to attendees. TCFA may use the speaker’s name and presentation materials for promoting attendance at the conference. Presentations and papers including all associated illustrations will not be returned unless specifically requested by the author. The papers must be objective and completely free of advertising and commercialism. TCFA may audio and/or video tape the speaker’s session and the recording may be reproduced as part of the overall conference materials. TCFA may reproduce copies of the speaker’s presentation (e.g. PowerPoint slides or supporting handouts) on paper and/or electronically and these may be distributed as part of the overall hand-out materials during the conference and after the event. Any acknowledgement regarding Copyright or support should be included at the end of the abstract/presentation, as these will be distributed to the conference delegates. Speakers who do not wish to give permission for the above terms and conditions should contact the events team before the commencement of the conference.
Admittance: In its sole discretion and without refund, TCFA reserves the right to refuse admittance to or expel from the conference anyone that it determines is behaving in a manner that could be disruptive to the conference or any other attendee.
Force Majeure: TCFA shall not be held responsible for any delay or failure in performance of its obligations hereunder to the extent such delay or failure is caused by fire, flood, strike, civil, governmental or military authority, acts of God, acts of terrorism, acts of war, epidemics, the availability of the Venue or other similar causes beyond its reasonable control and without the fault or negligence of TCFA or its subcontractors. For one or more of such reasons, TCFA may postpone, reschedule or cancel the event without liability on the part of TCFA. In the event the conference cannot be held or is postponed pursuant to this section, TCFA shall not be liable to attendee for any damages, costs, or losses incurred, such as transportation costs, accommodations costs, or financial losses.
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Prominent Keynote Speakers
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November 6th, Friday, Evening:
6:30pm – 6:40pm WELCOME ADDRESS
David Zhang, President-Elect, TCFA; Managing Director, MSCI
6:40pm – 7:40pm Session: Investment Opportunities in the U.S. and China
Session Address: Private Debt Investment
Jerry Wang, Haitou Global
Panelists:
Melanie Chen, Xinwen Fan, Bryan Lin, Sue Xu, Seamon Chan, Jerry Wang
Moderated by Jeff Zhang, Partner, Orrick LLP
7:40pm – 9:40pm Financial Careers in the U.S. and China & Recruiting session
Information Sessions from Hiring Firms
Moderated by David Zhong, TCFA
November 7th, Saturday, Morning, Plenum Session
8:30am – 8:40am WELCOME ADDRESS
David Zhang, President-Elect, TCFA; Managing Director, MSCI
8:40am – 9:40am MORNING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: U.S. and World after the Election
Max Baucus, former U.S. Senator, and former Ambassador to China,
Interviewed by Maggie Jiang, TCFA Board, SVP, Bank of China
9:40am – 10:25am SESSION: GLOBAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Moderator: Wenzhe Zhao, Credit Suisse
Panelists: Jonathan Wilmot, Willem Buiter, Brian Smedley
10:30am – 11:15am MORNING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Impact of Sovereign Wealth on PE and ESG
Russell Read, CFA, Ph.D., Group Managing Partner, C Change Group
Interviewed by Joy Zhang, MSCI
11:15am – 12:00pm SESSION: Secondary Market and Opportunities
Panelists: Chiheng Tan, Tong Zhao, Jojo Hu, Robin Hu, Chen Wang
Moderated by Ming Zhong, Lazard
November 8th, Sunday, Morning
8:30am – 8:40am WELCOME ADDRESS
David Zhang, President-Elect, TCFA; Managing Director, MSCI
8:40am – 9:25am Fireside Chat: U.S.-China relations
Zhiwu Chen, Bob Davis
Interviewed by Lingling Wei, Wall Street Journal
Introduced by Dajinag Guo, TCFA
9:25am – 10:00am Keynote Address: Fintech in investment process
Jim Wang, CEO, DataYes
Introduced by Angelene Huang, TCFA, Wisdom Academy
10:00am – 10:45am SESSION: ESG in the Investment Universe
Panelists: Aaron Meder, Loretta Liu, Vera Yang, Lin Peng, Ric Marshall
Moderator: Jason Wei, TCFA
Introduced by Shawn Fan, Legal and General & TCFA
10:45am – 11:30am Keynote Address: Sustainable Yield in Turbulent Times: Chinese Fixed Income Opportunity
Paul Li, E Fund
Introduced by: Henry Mo, TCFA President, AIG
11:35am – 12noon TCFA Election – Li Liu, Morgan Stanley
Conference Adjourn
Job Fair
There are a number of companies are planning to recruit at the Annual Conference’s online job fair offered by the Annual Conference, including:
E Fund
Haitou Global
Tiger Broker
MSCI
UBIQUANT
Huatai Investment
DataYes
Wind
Wisdom Academy
To job applicants: please send your resume to tcfajobfair@gmail.com. We will keep your information in our database and distribute resumes to relevant recruiting firms.
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