Notes from the IPARM conference in Hong Kong, part 1

Greetings from Hong Kong! I will be attending the Third Annual Investment Performance Analysis and Risk Management Asia 2010 (IPARM) conference at the Kowloon Shangri-La later this week. The past two events have had an excellent range of speakers and I am looking forward to sharing some of the more interesting talks with you from the 21 speakers from all over the world who will be headlining the event.

In particular, I am looking forward to hearing from:

• Trevor Persaud, the Head of Investment Risk Oversight and Performance at Prudential Asset Management in Singapore (and Chair of the conference) who will discuss redefining the traditional role of risk managers.
• Dr. Lincoln Rathnam, CFA, Gloal Head of Investment Management at EM Capital Management who will be giving a talk on stress testing.
• Jean-Marc Sabatier, Head of Risk Management Asia for Credit Agricole Asset Management who will be speaking on data management best practices.
• Daniel Wallick, Principal in the Investment Strategy Group at Vanguard who will be examining some of the key challenges of risk adjusted performance measurement in the current market.

Watch this blog later in the coming week as I post on some of the interesting topics covered at the IPARM two day conference.