OzU I-RML and HSBC Organized Istanbul Pension Funds Conference 2013

Istanbul Risk Management Laboratory and HSBC Global Asset Management organized Istanbul Pension Funds Conference on July 8, 2013. The conference was held at Swissotel The Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey.

Istanbul Risk Management Laboratory, established by Özyeğin University and supported within the scope of Knowledge Based Financial Support Program of the Istanbul Development Agency (ISTKA), aims to build the necessary infrastructure for high potential financial products and services that will transform Istanbul into an international financial center.

The key speakers at the conference were top managers of Vakıf Emeklilik, HSBC, Central Bank of Turkey, AIM Investment Center and Istanbul Risk Management Laboratory, and professors of the University of Texas at Dallas, Purdue University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Özyeğin University.

Istanbul Pension Funds Conference aimed to investigate:
·      Pension Systems and Regulations: Developed versus Emerging Markets.
·      Pension Reforms: The reasons for the recent reforms in Emerging Markets.
·      Pension Fund Investment Strategies: How risks should be managed.
·      Competition between Pension Fund Companies: Good competition vs. bad competition.
·      Investment decisions of pension plan participants: Consequences of investor behavioral biases.
·      Responsible investment Strategies for Pension Funds: Governance of Pension Funds.