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Asian Fund Passporting Schemes Breakfast
Date:
Venue:

18 January 2016 (Monday)
Grand Hyatt Hong Kong (Pool House, 11/F)

07:15-07:45

Reception, Breakfast and Networking

07:45-08:35

Scheme Updates
ASEAN Collective Investment Scheme (CIS) Framework
Paul Yuen, Executive Director, Market Conduct Department, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Mainland-Hong Kong Mutual Recognition of Funds (MRF)Julia Leung, Executive Director, Investment Products Division, Securities and Futures Commission
Asia Region Funds Passport (ARFP)
Janaline Oh, Deputy Consul-General, Australian Consulate-General, Hong KongHon Cheung, Head of Official Institutions Group, APAC, State Street Global Advisors, representing
Asia Pacific Financial ForumModerator: Eugenie Shen, Managing Director, Head of Asset Management, ASIFMA
08:35-08:45

Q&A

Speakers’ Biographies
Paul Yuen
Executive Director, Market Conduct Department, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Mr Paul Yuen heads the Market Conduct Department, which is part of the Capital Markets Group. The Market
Conduct Department has supervisory responsibility for capital markets through the administration of theSecurities and Futures Act, the Business Trusts Act and the Singapore Code on Take-overs and Mergers. Itregulates (i) the offering of securities, business trusts, Real Estate Investment Trusts and collective investment
schemes; (ii) the conduct of takeover and merger transactions; and (iii) the Singapore Exchange Ltd as a listedentity. It also enforces the civil penalty regime for market misconduct offences.
Prior to his appointment, Mr Yuen headed the Primary Markets Conduct Division within the Capital Markets
Group. Mr Yuen graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree from the National University of Singapore
and was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1999.

Julia Leung
Executive Director, Investment Products Division, Securities and Futures Commission
Ms Leung is a member of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). She is also an Executive Director withresponsibility for the Investment Products Division, which is responsible for regulating the Hong Kong retailinvestment products market.
Prior to joining the SFC, Ms Leung was the Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury from August
2008 to December 2013. Before that, she worked with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) for 14 years,
spending the last eight years as the Executive Director responsible for financial cooperation with Mainland andother international regulators. She represented the HKMA at the Bank for International Settlement’sCommittee on the Global Financial Systems.
In over 20 years of public service, Ms Leung has extensive experience in financial market development,surveillance and international cooperation. She coordinated an initiative among Asian central banks that led to
the launch of the Asian Bond Fund, helped introduce the renminbi business in Hong Kong, and facilitated theissuance of yuan-denominated sovereign bonds by the Chinese Ministry of Finance as well as the issuance ofother investment products in the offshore renminbi market.
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Ms Leung graduated with first-class honours at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and earned a master’s
degree in journalism from Columbia University in the City of New York. She was affiliated to Chatham House,
Harvard University’s Asia Center and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum during 2014, when
she conducted research and authored a book on how Asia surmounted various financial crises.

Janaline OhDeputy Consul-General, Australian Consulate-General, Hong KongJanaline Oh assumed her post as Deputy Consul-General for Australia in Hong Kong in January 2014. She is acareer foreign service officer with previous postings to Papua New Guinea, the European Union (Brussels) andmainland China.
Ms Oh’s last appointment in Canberra was as Director of G20 projects in the Department of Foreign Affairs andTrade.
Ms Oh holds a Master of Arts in Modern and Medieval Slavonic Languages from the University of Cambridge,
and a Master of Public and International Law from the University of Melbourne.

Hon Cheung
Head of Official Institutions Group, APAC, State Street Global Advisors, representing Asia PacificFinancial Forum
Hon Cheung is a Senior Managing Director for State Street Global Advisors and is the Head of the OfficialInstitutions Group in Asia Pacific with responsibility for developing relationships with central banks, sovereign
wealth funds and other government institutions in the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Cheung joined State Street
Global Advisors in 1996 and has served senior roles in the London, Hong Kong and Singapore offices.
He works closely with stock exchanges, regulators, government bodies and other institutions in Asia to advise
on investment matters, particularly in relation to reserve management, bond market development andexchange traded funds. During his career in Asia, he has been involved in many of the milestone projects in theregion such as the Tracker Fund of Hong Kong; most recently, he led the team that designed and manages theABF Pan Asia Bond Index Fund which was successfully launched by Asia’s central banks. He also co-heads theARFP working group for the Asia Pacific Financial Forum.
Mr. Cheung holds a degree in Mathematics from Imperial College London and the Diploma in Mathematical
Statistics from Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England andWales. He is on the board of directors of the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association and is on
the Advisory Board of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum.

Eugenie ShenManaging Director, Head of Asset Management, ASIFMA
Eugenie is Managing Director and Head of Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA)’s
Asset Management Group which advocates the views and interests of Asia asset managers at local, regional andglobal levels. Eugenie is a U.S. trained lawyer with more than 30 years of private practice and in-house legal
experience across a wide range of institutions, industries and jurisdictions spanning Asia, the United States,Europe and Latin America. As a former managing director and chief legal officer of PineBridge Investments (theformer AIG Investments) in Asia ex-Japan and general counsel of Morningside Technologies, Eugenie has awealth of experience in retail and private fund formations, distributions, investments, and investment
advisory/management issues. Her other former positions include being head of the Hong Kong Stock
Exchange’s China Listing Unit, vice president and senior associate counsel at Chase Manhattan Bank’s head
office in New York and associate at Shearman & Sterling. Eugenie is a member of the New York Bar and has aBachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law
Center.

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