Asian Investment Conference: first UBS-hosted edition kicks off in Hong Kong with ‘global investor mindset’ on agenda
- Former US secretary of state John Kerry and Thailand’s prime minister Srettha Thavisin are among the speakers and 3,000 attendees
- UBS continues the flagship conference started 27 years ago by Credit Suisse, following the merger of the rival banks in June 2023
Former US secretary of state John Kerry and Thailand’s prime minister Srettha Thavisin are among the speakers and 3,000 attendees expected in Hong Kong this week for the Asian Investment Conference (AIC) presented by UBS.
The Swiss investment bank kicked off “the biggest global investor conference in Hong Kong” on Monday, Niall MacLeod, the curator of the week-long AIC, said in an interview. The event includes a two-day conference to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Four Seasons Hotel.
“It has been such an important part of the global investor mindset, to come to this conference to learn about the region,” said MacLeod, head of product management at UBS. “We’re very proud of it being in Hong Kong. We’re very proud of the tradition of it.”
The event targets the bank’s institutional clients, hosting more than 3,000 registered attendees, including representatives from more than 300 companies from 15 markets in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. The agenda, with 100 speakers and 50 panel discussions, will shed light on the “top-down” and “bottom-up” topics on investors’ minds, according to MacLeod.
These include macro and big-picture topics such as interest rates, climate, and geopolitics, as well as micro content like generative artificial intelligence, neuroscience developments on the mind and longevity, the future of cities and succession.
“All these things coming together are essentially the way that institutional investors think,” MacLeod said.
