Agenda

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Sunday, 18 June

Guest arrival and check in, refreshments

Time

From 11:30 a.m. CET

Welcome to the 29th Reserve Management Seminar followed by drinks & casual dinner

Time

19:30 p.m. CET

Massimiliano Castelli

Head of strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management

Monday, 19 June

Reserve Management: FX Reserve Management Trends

Time

8:30 a.m. CET

Massimiliano Castelli

Head of Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management

Pierre Cardon

Senior Strategist, Asset Management, Bank for International Settlement, Basel

Coffee Break

Time

10:00 a.m. CET

Global Economic and Financial Outlook

Time

10:30 a.m. CET

Jonathan Davies

Senior Portfolio Manager, Investment Solutions, UBS Asset Management, Zurich

Arend Kapteyn (Virtual)

Economist, UBS Investment Bank, London

Massimiliano Castelli

Head of Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management (Moderator)

Group Photo

Time

12:15 p.m. CET

Lunch

Time

12:45 p.m. CET

Keynote speech: The Era of Ignorance

Time

14:30 p.m. CET

Arturo Bris

Professor of Finance & Director, IMD World Competitiveness Center (WCC), Lausanne

Geopolitics as a Driver of Markets

Time

15:15 p.m. CET

Arturo Bris

Professor of Finance& Director, IMD World Competitiveness Center (WCC), Lausanne

Preston Keat

Head of Political & Country Risk, UBS London

Philipp Salman

Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management (Moderator)

Day one conclusion

Time

16:00 p.m. CET

Guided tour of art collection at UBS Conference Center Wolfsberg (optional)

Time

16:45 p.m. CET & 17:15 p.m. CET

Drinks and dinner

Time

19:00 p.m. CET

Tuesday, 20 June

The Outlook for Gold

Time

9:15 a.m. CET

Elena Amoruso

FX & Precious Metals Strategist, UBS Investment Bank, London (Virtual)

Kurtulus Taskale Diamondopoulos

Director, Central Banks and Public Policy, WGCl, London

Philipp Salman

Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management (Moderator)

Coffee Break

Time

10.15 a.m. CET

Keynote speech: The Evolving ESG landscape: Current Trends

Time

10:45 a.m. CET

Karsten Guettler

Head of Sustainable Investment Specialists, UBS AM, Zurich

Keynote speech: Switching from traditional to ESG benchmarks in central banks’ reserves

Time

11:30 a.m. CET

Raivo Vanags

Head of Market Operations, Latvijas Bank

Lunch

Time

12:15 p.m .CET

Should we be worried about liquidity?

Time

14:30 p.m. CET

Simon Penn

Global Markets, Knowledge Network, UBS Investment Bank, London (Virtual)

Paul Guest

Senior Portfolio Manager, Real Estate and Private Markets, UBS AM London (Virtual)

Massimiliano Castelli

Head of Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management (Moderator)

Coffee Break

Time

15:30 p.m. CET

Keynote speech: Scenario Analysis and Capital Markets Expectations

Time

16:00 p.m. CET

Michele Gambera

Co-Head Asset Allocation, UBS Asset Management

Day two conclusion

Time

17:00 p.m. CET

Drinks and Dinner

Time

19:00 p.m. CET

Wednesday, 21 June

Fire Chat: Central banks in a shifting global economic and financial landscape

Time

9:20 a.m. CET

Marc Uzan

Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, Paris

Coffee Break

Time

10:00 a.m. CET

Opening remarks

Time

10:30 a.m. CET

Axel Weber

Former Bundesbank President and ex-Chairman UBS

Central banks at a crossroad

Time

10:50 a.m. CET

Jacob A. Frenkel

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Group of Thirty (G30) and former Governor, Bank of Israel

Axel Weber

Former Bundesbank President and ex-Chairman UBS

Luiz Pereira, Bis

Deputy General Manager of the BIS

Massimiliano Castelli

Head of Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management (Moderator)

Lunch

Time

12:15 p.m. CET

Keynote speech: Central Banks Still Misunderstand the Nature of the Inflation Problem?

14:00 p.m CET

Manoj Pradhan

Founder Talking Heads Macroeconomics, London

Keynote speech: The three waves of inflation

Time

14:45 p.m .CET

Paul Donovan

Global Chief Economist, UBS Wealth Management

Inflation: Temporary or Enduring?

Time

15:15 p.m .CET

Manoj Pradhan

Founder Talking Heads Macroeconomics, London

Paul Donovan

Global Chief Economist, Wealth Management International, London

Massimiliano Castelli

Head of Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management (Moderator)

Day three conclusion

Time

16:00 p.m. CET

Chocolate Workshop (optional)

Time

16:00 p.m. CET

Free afternoon

Drinks and dinner

Time

19:00 p.m. CET

Thursday, 22 June

A new investment paradigm for reserve managers

Time

8:45 a.m. CET

Massimiliano Castelli

Head of Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management

Fixed Income Outlook

Time

9:30 a.m. CET

Uta Fehm

Fixed Income Investment Specialist, UBS AM Zurich

Jonas Klink

Head of Covered Bonds, SSAs and Euro Government Trading, UBS IB, London

Massimiliano Castelli

Head of Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management (moderator)

Coffee break

Time

10:30 a.m. CET

China and Emerging Market Debt

Time

11:00 a.m. CET

Shamaila Khan

Head of Global Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific Fixed Income, UBS AM, New York

Ning Zhang

China Senior Economist, UBS Investment Bank, Hong Kong

Willem van Breugel

Global Head, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management (Moderator)

Lunch

Time

12:00 p.m .CET

Investment strategies for reserve managers

Time

13:30 p.m. CET

Willem Keogh

Head of Research ETF, UBS Asset Management, Zurich

Franz Partsch

Director, Treasury Department, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Dor Lev

Senior economist, Strategic Management Unit, Central Bank of Israel

Radha Shyam Ratho

Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India

Massimiliano Castelli

Head of Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management (Moderator)

Keynote speech: Can Crypto Assets play a role In Foreign Exchange Reserve Portfolios?

Time

14:45 p.m. CET

Daniela Klingebiel

Former Manager, Reserve Asset Management & Partnership (RAMP)

Closing remarks

Time

15:45 p.m. CET

Massimiliano Castelli

Head of Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management

Day four conclusion

Time

16:00 p.m. CET

Departure for external dinner venue

Time

18:00 p.m. CET

Drinks, dinner and conference awards ceremony

Time

19:30 p.m. CET

Friday, 23 June

1st shuttle bus departs to Zurich Airport only

Time

7:00 a.m. CET

 

Departure from Wolfsberg

08.00 am CET

Arrival at Zurich Airport (no traffic included)

End of transfer services

2nd shuttle bus departs to Zurich City and Zurich Airport.

Time

8:00 a.m. CET

 

Departure from Wolfsberg

09.15 am CET

Arrival at Zurich City (drop off for the Zurich City tour)

09.25 am CET

Departure to Airport (for those who will not go on the City tour)

10.10 am CET

Arrival at Zurich Airport (people drop off for their flight)

11.45 am CET

Bus will pick up city tour group and drive to the airport

12.20 am CET

Approximate arrival at Zurich Airport

End of transfer services

City tour

The bus will drive to Zurich for the guided Zurich city tour. Those interested can leave their luggage in the bus for the duration of the tour.

Our first stop is at the UBS Headquarters on Bahnhofstrasse 45, where we will visit the main hall and the Vault (biggest Vault in Switzerland with about 16,000 lockers).

At 10.15 am we will start with the Guided Zurich City tour which takes 1.5 hours by foot. The booked tour is called “Zurich’s old town by foot” and ends at 11:45 am CET.

Transfer to Zurich Airport

Transfer to Zurich Airport

Time

11:45 am CET

 

Bus will pick up City Tour Group and drive to the Airport.

12.20 am CET

Approximately arrival at Zurich Airport

End of transfer services

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