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Event Details
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Venue: New York MSCI Headquarter
7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street, 49th Floor, New York, NY 10007
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Forum Agenda
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6:00– 6:15 Registrations
6:15 – 6:30 Dinner and Social
6:30 – 6:45 Opening Remarks by TCFA
6:45 – 7:00 Talk by Wind
7:00 – 7:20 Investment Strategy in China
Matthew Tu, Investment Director of Fosun Insurance Group
7:20 – 7:40 China National Team’s Investment Performance
Tri Vi Dang Lecturer in Financial Economics at Columbia University
7:40 – 8:00 Quantitative Strategy Possibilities in China
He Ren Portfolio Manager at BlackRock
8:00 – 9:00 Networking
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Featured Speakers
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Matthew Tu is an Investment Director of Fosun Insurance Group, focusing on researching and managing the equity portfolio of Fosun’s various insurance platforms. Fosun Insurance Group is a subsidiary of Fosun International and also a world-class company with insurance-oriented integrated financial capability. Starting from 2007, Fosun’s investment in global insurance business has reached out to different parts of the world involving a variety of insurance business.
Matthew Tu has been with the firm for more than 3 years and focusing on exploring public equity market dislocation across sectors and regions to identify unique value investment opportunities. He also helped construct and manage a few insurance portfolios with total AuM of $30bn. Matthew Tu not only has a deep understanding of Greater China’s equity market but also has rich public equity investment experience in other emerging and developed markets.
Matthew holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from The East China University of Science and Technology and MSc in Finance from Bentley University. Matthew Tu is also a CFA charter holder.
Tri Vi Dang is a lecturer in Financial Economics at Columbia University. Prior to joining the Department of Economics at Columbia in 2010 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University and an Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim. His research spans the fields of financial contracting, financial intermediation, financial innovation and financial crises. His recent research focuses on financial liberalization in China, especially Chinese shadow banking and stock market reform.
Dang has written extensively about these topics using both theoretical and empirical methodologies and in collaboration with high profile co-authors including a Nobel Prize winner in Economics. His papers are widely cited and published in top academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Economic Theory and Journal of Financial Intermediation.
Dang received a doctorate degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim in 2005 and graduated in Business Economics from Goethe University of Frankfurt. Before starting his academic career Dang worked in the Primary Market Group at Deutsche Boerse and Investment Banking Division of Deutsche Bank.
He Ren, Portfolio Manager / Researcher, is a member of BlackRock's Factor Based Strategies Group. His main responsibility is to model-manage the team’s flagship hedge funds and develop quantitative strategies across all major asset classes spanning FICC, equity index and single name stocks. In addition, He leads the team’s China-oriented research and product development.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 2015, Mr. Ren worked in the fixed income research group at CITIC Securities in China. He earned BSc degrees in computer science and economics from Peking University and a master in financial engineering from University of California at Berkeley.