Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP will give the opening address at the biannual Aberdeen Asset Management UK Investment Conference at Ardoe House Hotel by Aberdeen this Friday (31 August 2012). Darling, author of ‘Back From The Brink: 1000 days at Number 11’, will talk about austerity, the banking crisis and his views on whether the measures currently being implemented are working not only in the UK but further afield.
The event is the third in a series of three international investment conferences Aberdeen has hosted this year with the first two taking place in Singapore (February) and New York (June).
More than 200 international delegates are flying into Aberdeen for the event. They will include investors, company executives and non-executive fund directors from the United States, Canada, Malaysia, Germany and Spain. The conference’s keynote speaker is Professor Stéphane Garelli of the International Institute of Management Development and the University of Lausanne who will examine the global economy, looking in particular at the competitiveness outlook for 2012 and beyond.
Conference Chairman Anthony Hilton, former City Editor of the Evening Standard newspaper, will interview two of Aberdeen’s most respected portfolio managers, Hugh Young and Devan Kaloo during the conference. Investor behaviour and the factors that influence whether investors are ‘risk on’ or ‘risk off’ will be explored in a presentation by Daniel Enskat of US research firm Strategic Insight.
The conference will round off with an Economics Debate which will be chaired by broadcaster Andrew Neil who will be joined by Douglas McWilliams from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR); Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post; Dr Eamonn Butler of The Adam Smith Institute and Bob Janjuah of Nomura International Plc.
Martin Gilbert, chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management, who will welcome delegates to Aberdeen, home of the company’s global headquarters, comments: “It’s been two years since our last Aberdeen-based International Investment Conference and much has happened in global finance since then. I am sure our delegates will find our world class speakers insightful and thought provoking.”
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