Capital Markets Policy Council

Purpose

The purpose of the Capital Markets Policy Council is to advise CFA Institute’s research and advocacy team on current and emerging policy issues in global capital markets. The Council discusses market developments and regulatory approaches from the perspectives of ethical and professional standards, the protection of investors, the integrity of capital markets, and implications for financial stability.

The Council consists of a global membership of preeminent investment practitioners and experts who volunteer their time and expertise. Its global membership enables the Council to compare and contrast market developments and regulatory approaches in regions around the world. The Council strives to achieve balanced representation along multiple dimensions, including (1) geographical balance across the three primary geographical regions (the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe/Middle East/Africa); (2) a balance in professional background and financial industry expertise (in such areas as financial regulation, investment analysis, fund management, wealth management, investment advice, market structure, and fintech) and (3) considerations of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Members

Chair

Executive Director, Strategy & Economy, KPMG Canada

Vice Chair

Conrad Yan is Managing Partner of Albamen Capital Partners. Albamen Capital Partners is an industrial investment firm focusing on renewable energy and digital infrastructure in China. Conrad is a Mainland Opportunities Committee member of Hong Kong's Financial Services Development Council and was the immediate past Secretary of Pacific Pension & Investment Institute (PPI), an educational non-profit based in San Francisco that convenes pension and investment thought leaders for in-depth dialogue and knowledge sharing on the issues facing long-term institutional investors, representing more than $25 trillion in assets.

As a CFA charterholder, Conrad was founding chair of the Global Investment Performance Standard (GIPS) committee in Hong Kong, and he was recognized as an Outstanding Volunteer by CFA Society Hong Kong (formerly HKSFA) in 2005. Conrad was also a participant at the Capital Formation Workshop at the 71st CFA Institute Annual Conference in Hong Kong in 2018.

Independent Consultant

President and Chief Investment Officer – Equities, Edelweiss AMC, India

Trideep holds a degree in MBA (Finance) from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, India and B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India. He has over two decades of experience in Equity investing across both Indian and Global markets, encompassing public and private markets.

During his career, he has spent significant amount of time as Portfolio Manager at State Street Global Advisors and UBS Global Asset Management (London, UK). Prior to joining Edelweiss AMC, he was instrumental in building a market-leading Alternative Equities business at Axis Asset Management Company (a joint-venture with Schroders) in India, as Senior Portfolio Manager – Alternate Equities.

Chief Compliance Officer and General Secretary, Sanso Investment Solutions

General Manager, Securities Commission Malaysia

Chair and Professor, Department of Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate, The University of Memphis

Head of ESG, Japanese Equity Investment, Invesco Asset Management

Head of Product & Business Management - Asia, Pictet Wealth Management

Professor for Finance & Accounting, International School of Management (ISM), Germany, and Managing Partner, Valuesque

Lecturing Fellow, Duke Financial Economics Center and Duke Law, Duke University.

Founder, Scopus Financial Group

Managing Director, Aforti Holding and Lecturer, Kozminski University, Warsaw

Vice President, CFA Society Poland

CEO (Singapore), GMO

Ms. Tan is Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of GMO Singapore Pte. Limited and is responsible for operational, compliance and governance matters for GMO’s Singapore office. She is also involved in business development efforts for GMO’s Global Client Relations team in Asia. Prior to joining GMO in 2004, she worked at Ernst & Young in Singapore, where she was involved in advisory and assurance services for financial institutions in the local market. Ms. Tan currently sits on the Board of CFA Society Singapore, where she is also a member of the Investment Committee. Ms. Tan earned her Bachelor in Accounting from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is a CFA Charterholder and a CFA ESG Investing certificate holder. Ms Tan is also a Chartered Accountant of Singapore.

Senior Director, Legislative Outreach, Americas Capital Markets Policy

Stephen Deane, CFA, is Senior Director, Capital Markets Policy, at CFA Institute. Stephen is also the Executive Liaison to the CFA Institute’s Capital Markets Policy Council, and he previously served as the volunteer Chair of the Markets Advisory Council of the Council of Institutional Investors. His latest research focuses on private markets, and he is the author of Private Markets: Governance Issues Rise to the Fore.

Stephen joined CFA Institute in 2020 after more than nine years at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He worked in the SEC Office of the Investor Advocate since its inception in 2014, where he helped to build out the office and served as principal liaison to the Investor Advisory Committee. He previously worked at MSCI, Institutional Shareholders Service (ISS), and in international development.

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