Demographic Change and Financial Services

8th International Sustainability Leadership Symposium 2007

Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, Switzerland

   Conference Programme
   Report Demographic Change

Demographic change presents society, the financial sector and public authorities with an exceptional and long-term challenge. The 1.5-day International Sustainability Leadership Symposium will deal with this challenge from a long-term view, bringing together the various actors relevant to the financial services industry.

Latest publication of our speakers:

Europe's Coming Demographic Challenge. Unlocking the Value of Health.
By Nicholas Eberstadt, Hans Groth
Speakers:
  • Nicholas Eberstadt, Professor, American Enterprise Institute
  • André Laboul, Head, Financial Affairs Division, OECD & Secretary General, - International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS)
  • Patrick M. Liedtke, Secretary General, The Geneva Association
  • Frank Schirrmacher, Chief Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  • Atsushi Seike, Professor of Labor Economics, Keio University (Japan)
  • W. Weldon Wilson, CEO, Swiss Re Life & Health America
and many others, representing:
  • Allianz Global Investors
  • Austrian Central Bank (OeNB)
  • AXA Winterthur
  • Cass Business School
  • Credit Suisse
  • Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch
  • Pfizer
  • SAM Group
  • Swiss Life
  • Swisscanto
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Watson Wyatt
  • Zurich Cantonal Bank
Key Questions
  • In the OECD, how will the demographic transition affect capital markets and the financial services industry?
  • How will this change affect the management of financial services provided by banks, insurance companies, pension funds and asset management?
  • In an aging society, what are sustainable business opportunities for institutional investors and financial service companies?
  • How will demographic change affect the need for regulating and supervising capital markets, financial service providers and pension funds?

Participants

International senior business leaders; pension fund, insurance and bank managers, and other high-level representatives of financial service providers, advisors, analysts, academics, and regulation authorities.

TSF has continuously built up its role as an important think-tank, which contributes to the development of sustainable business models for financial services. We will further strengthen our network and expand our activities in order to rebuild trust in the financial service sector.

Zeno Staub, Vontobel &
President, The Sustainability Forum Zürich

 

 

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