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| 10.30 am - 11.00 am | Trade the largest stock, futures and options markets with optionsXpress |
Mr David Grant
OptionsXpress
Chief Executive Officer
As Chief Executive Officer of optionsXpress Singapore, David is responsible for overall business development and client services for clients throughout the Southeast Asian region. Options trading gives investors access to a variety of strategies not ordinarily available to retail investors and optionsXpress, being the pioneer of options and futures trading for retail investors, brings all these strategies to the investing public in an easy to use trading platform supported by over 27 powerful trading tools. David has been in financial services for over a decade and, in addition to working in Singapore, has worked in London and Johannesburg. Prior to optionsXpress, David established City Index’s Singapore business, serving initially as Executive Director and later as its Chief Executive Officer. He has also worked for Goldman Sachs, E*TRADE Securities, Credit Suisse First Boston and Swiss Reinsurance. David holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and is an Associate Charter holder of the Securities Institute in the United Kingdom. |
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| 10.30 am - 11.00 am | Actionable Forex Trading Strategies |
Ms Kathy Lien
GFT
GFT Director of Currency Research
After graduating college at 18, Kathy joined J.P. Morgan Chase's interbank FX trading desk. Since then, she has built a reputation as an international currency analyst by creating solid fundamental and technical currency analysis. She is frequently quoted on channels like CNBC Asia and Channel News Asia and has written for publications like The Edge and Bloomberg. She is the author of Day Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies to Profit from Market Moves, and the co-author of Millionaire Traders: How Everyday People Are Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game with Boris Schlossberg. She joined GFT in 2008. |
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| 12.00 pm - 1.00 pm | Real Men Prefer Financially Independent Women |
Ms Norma Sit
The Foundation of the Future
Author, The 'Gorgeous, Sexy & Rich' Series of Books
Norma Sit is a social entrepreneur and activist writer. She was recently the CEO of The Foundation of the Future whose mission is to catalyse the betterment of lives and livelihoods in the ASEAN with a focus on the green economy and issues related to climate change and its impact on developing countries. Her corporate experience includes being the CEO of a high growth IT company in the payments industry with national infrastructure, wearing multiple hats when she served at the Singapore Economic Development Board, and being a co-founding manager of a US$200m private equity fund mooted and sponsored by Temasek Holdings during the Asian financial crisis in 1998. Norma is an active volunteer and a new-age philanthropist, supporting and spearheading work and new directions in sports and the arts in Singapore, and community work for disadvantaged women and youth. She has served on numerous committees in Singapore and is Board Member of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre of Singapore. She is a fellow of the International Women Forum Leadership Foundation (2004). In 2006, Norma was an award winner of the Singapore Women's Weekly Great Women of Our Times (2006) for Media and The Arts and in 2008, Norma was recognised by The International Alliance for Women (TIAW) with the World of Difference 100 Award for her work with less privileged women. She is currently a full-time writer, taking time off to write the Gorgeous Sexy and Rich series of five books that support the development of women in their roles as career persons, community citizens and mothers. She is actively writing 'The New Feminine:Leadership in the Green World Order. A Human Contract for Sustainability, Stewardship and Succession of Planet Earth.' She is also a chic-lit writer with stories on women finding themselves and owning their lives fully. Her books are published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia. Norma graduated from Monash University in 1982 with First Class Honours and awards. She topped her 4th year engineering class. Norma attended the Australian Graduate School of Management (1990-1991) under the Equity and Merit Scholarship Scheme by AIDAB and graduated as co-winner of the Graduate Management Prize for Strategic Management. |
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| 12.40 pm - 1.45 pm | Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) – Riding on its exponential growth in Asia | 2 | |
| Building a multi-asset class portfolio with Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) |
Mr Xianlin Li
Deutsche Bank
db-X Financial Products Team
Xianlin Li is a member of the Deutsche Bank Global Markets structuring team responsible for the distribution of Deutsche Bank ETFs, branded as db x-trackers, in Asia. db x-trackers currently offers 39 ETFs listed on SGX, making it the largest ETF provider in terms of product offerings in Singapore. Worldwide, Deutsche Bank offers more than 140 ETFs on various asset classes which manage over US$50bn in assets. Deutsche Bank is a committed market maker for all db x-trackers ETFs and was named the winner of the "Exchange-traded funds, Asia Pacific" Award at the AsianInvestor 2010 Investment Performance Awards. Xianlin graduated with honors from Harvard University with a degree in Biochemistry and Economics. |
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| ETFs’ role in asset allocation strategy | Mr Chong Jiun Yeh UOB Asset Management Executive Director and Deputy CIO, Fixed Income & Structured Investment | ||
| Outlook for gold; Gold investing via ETFs |
Mr Albert Cheng
Far East, World Gold Council
Managing Director
Albert Cheng joined the World Gold Council, Singapore regional office in March 1993 as a Regional Manager, Planning and Business Development, becoming Managing Director, Far East in 2003 with responsibility for operations in the entire region. He was with Dentsu, Young and Rubicam, Hong Kong in the early 80’s, where he was responsible for the advertising and promotion of a number of popular and durable consumer products. His career in gold marketing began in July, 1985 when he joined the Royal Canadian Mint as a Manager for South East Asia. A graduate of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Mr. Cheng holds a degree in Business Administration with a major in Marketing; he is also member of the CAM in U.K. |
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Mr Tan Chee Yong
State Street Global Advisors Singapore Limited
Sales Manager
Chee Yong is a Sales Manager for Southeast Asia at State Street Global Advisors Singapore. He joined SSgA from the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), where he was an intern for one year. Chee Yong graduated with an MS in Wealth Management from Singapore Management University, and has an honors degree from Nanyang Technological University with a major in electrical and electronic engineering. He has completed the Chartered Financial Analyst program and is awaiting the award of his charter from the CFA Institute. |
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| 1.45 pm - 2.45 pm | Structured Warrants – Can it be profitable for retail investors? | 2 | |
Going beyond calls and puts
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Mr Henry Ng
Macquarie
Associate Director, Warrant Sales & Trading
Henry is Macquarie's senior sales person and market maker on the warrants desk. He delta hedges the risk for the bank in the underlying shares and frequently conduct warrant seminars for both professional traders and retail investors. Henry has been in the Singapore warrants market for more than four years. Prior to joining Macquarie, he was an investment research analyst at Goldman Sachs. |
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Putting theory in practice
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Mr Anson Chow
Deutsche Bank
db-X Financial Products Team
Anson Chow joined Deutsche Bank's db-X Financial Products team in 2007 and is in the team responsible for the exchange listed products business including product development, statistical analysis and investor education and training. Currently Anson works with the financial institutions and the brokers in Hong Kong, mainland China and Singapore on product training. He speaks regularly in public investment seminars in the region and attends media interviews in Hong Kong. Anson holds a degree in Economics from the University of Chicago in the USA. |
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Using warrants successfully
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Ms Shirley Kwok
BNP Paribas
Director, Head of Retail and Listed Product Sales, HK/Singapore
Shirley Kwok joined BNP Paribas, Equities and Derivatives Asia (ex-Japan), Retail Listed Products in October 2005. As an Associate Director, Shirley strives to educate the public on warrants and CBBCs investment knowledge through various channels. She presents herself as a host or speaker at numerous small-scale workshops to large-scale seminars to educate investors on warrants and CBBCs. In 2008, Shirley played a significant role in a program educating investors on the basics and trading strategies of CBBCs. She also plays an active role in educating Singapore investors on warrants by conducting mid-scale seminars and publishing educational articles in Singapore. She was promoted to head up the Retail Listed Sales team in May 2010. Before joining BNP, Shirley worked at Bloomberg LP as a Warrant Data Analyst. She graduated from George Washington University in Washington DC with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Japanese language and literature. |
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| 2.45 pm - 3.10 pm | Extended Settlement (ES) Contracts – Trade blue chips at a fraction of its cost | 2 | |
| Trade Extended Settlement (ES) Contracts in up and down markets | Mr Gary Fu CIMB Securities (Singapore) Assistant Vice President, Product and Financial Service | ||
| 1.15 pm - 1.45 pm | Positioned for Growth |
Mr Andrew Cheng
Kingsmen Creatives Limited
Group General Manager
An Economist by training, Andrew has over 20 years of sales and marketing, communications and management experience in the logistics, hospitality, corporate communications and investor relations industries. At Kingsmen he is responsible for the Group’s corporate affairs and business development. Prior to joining Kingsmen, he was General Manager of Citigate Dewe Rogerson iMAGE. He has extensive experience in corporate and financial communications and corporate branding, honed from years of providing strategic counsel & working closely with senior management across multi-industries to strategise, develop and execute marketing and communication programmes; aimed at maximizing corporate and product branding, and driving business growth. Andrew has a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Tasmania, Australia and currently serves as Hon. Secretary to the Securities Investors Association Singapore (SIAS). |
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| 2.40 pm - 3.45 pm | Final Lap 2010 - Market Outlook & Stock Picks |
Mr Terence Wong
DMG & Partners Research Pte Ltd
Executive Director
Terence manages DMG’s small/mid cap team, and has enjoyed his passion for stock analysis for over 10 years. Before DMG, Terence was CEO and Chief Investment Analyst of SIAS Research. Terence has met management of over 300 listed companies and spoken before more than 20,000 retail investors in over 100 seminars. He believes this is an industry record, but has yet to verify with the Singapore Book of Records. Terence constantly shares his views on the stock market with the media despite looking less svelte on TV than the actors he is said to resemble. Among his favorite haunts are the studios of ChannelNewsAsia and CNBC, and he is well-quoted across both international and local print media. Terence graduated with a Joint Honours in Finance and Economics (by design) and Certificate of Liberal Arts (by chance) from SimonFraserUniversityin Canada. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder. Terence is an avid volunteer, helping out the underprivileged, kids, elderly and new immigrants. He is one of the few Singaporeans known to have completed a 24-hour volunteer marathon. Lately, he has traded in some of his community work for new 'daddy' duties. |
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| 3.00 pm - 4.00 pm | To be updated soon |
Dato’ Seri Stanley Thai
Supermax Corporation Berhad
Executive Chairman, Group Managing Director
Dato’ Seri Stanley Thai is the founder of the Supermax Group. Supermax is today, the world’s second largest latex glove manufacturing company, commanding 12% of the global market share. Thai is a visionary entrepreneur who recognises the importance of brand building and is a strong advocator of “Made in Malaysia” products. He was responsible for the growth of the Supermax Group and led the Company through many achievements. In July 2010, at The Edge Billion Ringgit Club awards, Supermax won the coveted title of ‘Company of the Year’ as well as 2 other corporate awards under the Industrial Products sector, i.e. ‘Highest Returns to Shareholders’ and ‘Highest Growth in Profit Before Tax’. Thai started his glove trading and export business in 1987. The success of his trading business led to his venture into glove manufacturing where he made his first million at the age 29. In 1989, Thai took a bold step forward to launch his first own brand of latex examination gloves, SUPERMAX®, which became the first Malaysian brand to compete in the international markets against more established brand names such as Ansell and Kimberly Clark. Thai’s background in trading allowed him to understand the need to control his own distribution and marketing channels where he subsequently established Supermax USA, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Belgium and Australia as distribution centres. Thai took the company to greater heights when he listed Supermax on the Second Board of the Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad in 2000 and subsequently transferred to the Main Board in 2003. Today, Thai oversees Supermax Group’s 9 wholly owned manufacturing plants based in Malaysia and 6 international distribution centres with a wide global network of 750 distributors. A leading own brand manufacturer exporting to 146 countries, Supermax is the second most popular glove brand in the US dental market. Mapping out his next 10-year plan for Supermax, Thai embarked on a ‘Glove City’ project in early 2010 where the first phase of his strategic modernised glove factories has commenced. In May 2010, Thai received the American Humanitarian Service Award from the state of Illinois, US, in recognition of his humanitarian contributions and commitment to the community. Thai was one of only 14 Asians to receive the award. |
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| 4.15 pm - 4.45 pm | The Economic Outlook-Review of recent macro trends Opportunities and risks |
Mr Song Seng Wun
CIMB Securities Research Pte Ltd
Executive Director, Regional Economist
Song Seng Wun is presently the Chief Executive Officer and Regional Economist in CIMB Securities Research Pte Ltd Born a Malaysian, Seng Wun holds a Master of Arts in Econometrics from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He started his career as an economist in Malayan Banking Bhd. In the early 1990’s, he moved to Singapore and worked as a Regional Economist with various major multi-national financial institutions such as Merrill Lynch (formerly Smith Newcourt); Warburg Dillion Reed (formerly SB Warburg) as well as ABN Amro (formerly ABN Amro Hoare Govette). Seng Wun’s area of focus is in the economies of ASEAN-5. He is an icon in South Asia’s media as he regularly contributes his professional views on the regional financial markets. |
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| 4.40 pm - 5.10 pm | Uncovering the latest developed amazingly successful Forex algorithm Trading Technology |
Mr Alex Koh
International Currency Trading Technology Group
Representative
Graduated from University of South Australia, Bachelor in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering.
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