Investment strategies, portfolio diversification and risk management techniques for the preservation of national wealth

The National Asset-Liability Mangement report is now available. Read it and find out the key topics discussed by leading central bankers and industry experts.

The fourth annual National Asset-Liability Management Asia conference that took place on 7th - 8th July 2011 was a great success for Central Banking Publications. The conference was held at the Grand Hyatt Singapore wh

ere 17 nationalities were represented by over 110 participants who engaged in a number of discussions on meeting liquidity, optimal reserve levels, predicting and reacting to tail events and China's efforts in liberalising its RMB.

Thanks to all who took part and contributed to the success of the event, and we look forward to seeing you next year!
 
Just a selection of the positive comments we received were:
 
"Thank you for inviting me. Learnt a lot and hope to attend similar conferences in the future. A big thank you also to sponsors and organisers."
 

"100 times better this year in terms of venue, speakers, content and participants, excellent organisation committee and more networking opportunities."
 
"Well organised and professional speakers."

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Please note, this website contains information relating to the 2011 event. Once information is available regarding the 2012 event, it will be posted here so please check this page regularly for updated.

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Areas discussed included:

• Investing reserves in the current low-yield environment and currency system
• Diversifying strategies to reduce risk in a sovereign framework
• Drivers of capital flows into Asia and overheating concerns
• Portfolio construction in reserves to ensure sufficient liquidity
• The changing relationship between central banks and gold
• Consequences of the RMB as a reserve currency on reserve and sovereign wealth management 
• The creation of the CNH market as China's first step to internationalisation
• Expected worst-case scenarios into the asset allocation decision

2011 Speaker highlights:

• Keynote address by Lee Chuan Teck, Assistant Managing Director of Markets & Investment, MONETARY AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE
• Marcel Zimmerman, General Manager SNB StabFund, SWISS NATIONAL BANK
• H.A Karunaratne, Director - International Operations Department, CENTRAL BANK OF SRI LANKA
• Ravi Balakrishnan, Resident Representative, IMF
• Sangjoon Kim, Head of Investment Strategy Team , KOREA INVESTMENT CORPORATION
• Donghyun Park, Principal Economist , Economics and Research Department, ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
• Adriaan Ryder, Managing Director - Strategy, QIC