8th International Sustainability Leadership Symposium

"Demographic Change and Financial Services:

a Short List of Threats - a Long List of Opportunities?"

Business Leaders, Policy Makers and Researchers in Dialogue


Presentations - Thursday, 27 September 2007

Introduction
  • The Economic Impact of Demographic Change. A State-of-the-Art Research Report.
    Hans-Peter Burkhard, Director, Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CCRS), University of Zürich (Presentation PDF)
I. How Demographic Change Affects the Capital Markets and the Financial Services Industry
  • Demographic Change, Future Labour Markets and Capital Flows: Towards a Life-long Active Society
    Keynote by Atsushi Seike, Professor of Labor Economics, Keio University (Presentation PDF)
  • Capital Markets in Transition – How will Capital Flow and Accumulate in Future?
    Stefan T. Bichsel, Partner of the Group Holding Company, Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie (Presentation PDF)
  • Keynotes B: Financial Service Providers’ Challenge in Dealing with Shifting Demands and Supplies
B1: Hans-Jürgen Wolter, Chief Risk Officer & Chief Actuary, Swiss Life (PDF Presentation)
B2: Reto Ringger, CEO, SAM Group (PDF Presentation)
B3: Weldon Wilson, Member Swiss Re Executive Board & CEO, Swiss Re Life & Health America (PDF Presentation)
II. Key Issues (Working Groups)
III. Synthesis
  • Keynote C - Societies in Transition: Considerations on Different Markets and Regions
    Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute and Senior Adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research (PDF Presentation)

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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