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The speakers will address the macro environment – myth and reality – and how it impacts the markets.    Brad Gibson will talk about the fixed income markets and  John Lin will talk about equities.  They will highlight the challenges and opportunities to investing in the region.  The presentation will also address who is invested there now and include a strategy for new investors to begin allocating to these markets, which are now too big and too important to ignore. 

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Speakers:

Brad Gibson

Co-Head—Asia Pacific Fixed Income

Brad Gibson is a Senior Vice President and Co-Head of Asia Pacific Fixed Income at AB, focusing on regional Asian fixed-income portfolios. He is a member of the Global Fixed Income and Emerging Market Debt teams. Prior to joining AB in 2012, Gibson was the head of Rates Strategies at ING Investment Management Australia, where he was responsible for the management of a range of domestic, international, diversified, nominal and inflation-linked bond portfolios. Prior to that, he spent three years at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia as head of Global Markets Singapore and head of Financial Institutions Domestic Sales, New South Wales. Gibson started his investment career with AMP, working in portfolio management and the trading of Australian fixed-interest, interest-rate, currency and inflation-linked bond and derivatives instruments. He was previously a member of both the interest-rate options and bond committees of the Australian Financial Markets Association, and has lectured on fixed-income portfolio management for the Securities Institute of Australia (now FINSIA). Location: Hong Kong.

John LinPortfolio

Manager—China Equities

John Lin has been a Portfolio Manager of China Equities since 2013, responsible for managing the China A Shares Value Portfolios and the China Opportunity Fund. He also serves as a Senior Research Analyst, responsible for covering financials, real estate and conglomerate companies in Hong Kong and China. In 2008, Lin relocated to Hong Kong, where his research coverage included Asian financials, real estate and telecommunications services companies. He joined the firm in New York in 2006 as a research associate, covering consumer services companies for US Small & Mid-Cap Value Equities. Previously, Lin was a technology, media and telecom investment banker at Citigroup. He holds a BS (magna cum laude) in environmental engineering from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned the distinction Graduation with Honors.  Location:  Hong Kong. 

Date: October 2nd, 2019 

Busines dress (suit and tie) is mandatory.