Market Intelligence - Networking - Professional Development

Who should attend?

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    CEOs
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    Directors
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    Investment Managers
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    Property Fund
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    A-REIT Managers
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    Marketing Managers
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    Sales and Distribution Managers
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    Researchers
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    Industry Consultants
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    Property Lawyers
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    Asset Managers
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    Real Estate Professionals
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    Investment Analysts
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    International Experts
Delegates are able to obtain CPD points through various professional and industry bodies by attending the PIR forum.

PROGRAM

Sunday 12 October 2008

Social Program
12:30pm Golf Tournament
6:30pm Welcome Cocktail Party

Monday 13 October 2008

Official Welcome & Opening Address
8:00am Forum Registration
9:00 - 9.10am Welcome address by PIR
Richard Cruickshank, Managing Director, PIR
9:10 - 9.30am Day 1 keynote address by Forum Chairman
Dr Frank Gelber, Chief Economist, Director of Economics and Property, BIS Shrapnel (Australia)
Plenary Sessions - The Pavilion
9:30 - 10:00am Current state of the global property markets – opportunities and risks
Jeff Havsy, Director of Global Strategic Research, PPR (Boston)
10:00 - 10:30am Investor's loss of confidence in A-REITs: can this be restored?
Ivor Ries, Research Director, E. L & C. Baillieu Stockbroking

10:30 - 10:50am Morning Tea
10.50 - 11.20am Global REITs performance outlook
Fraser Hughes, Research Director, EPRA (The Netherlands)
11.20 - 11.50am A-REITs - adapt or perish: the next paradigm
Stephen Hiscock, Chief Investment Officer and Joint Portfolio Manager, SG Hiscock
11.50 - 12:20pm The cost risk and return of sustainability
Roger Walker, Head of Sustainability Consultancy, Napier & Blakeley

12:20 - 12:50pm Property derivatives
George Dranganoudis, Head of Property Derivatives Asia Pacific, ICAP (Singapore)
12:50 - 1:00pm Summary by Forum Chairman
1:00 - 2:00pm Networking Lunch
2:00 - 5:00pm Concurrent Sessions
  Stream 1
Hosted by ADPIA
Mt Coolum Room II		 Stream 2
Hosted by API
Yandina Room		 Stream 3
Hosted by PIR
Yaroomba Room
2:00 - 3:00pm The evolving regulatory space
Andrew Shearer-Smith, Partner, McMahon Clarke Legal
NTA/ NAV back in the front seat – transparency in underlying asset value relative to the value of securitised real estate
Greg Preston, Director, Preston Rowe Paterson
The obstacles and the operation of the global property derivatives business
Nick Nabarro, Senior Manager, Investment Property Databank
Dr Matthew Hardman, Rismark
3:00 - 4:00pm The Greatest Westpoint Success Story? Lessons for the here and now from Westpoint property syndicates
Owen Lennie, Consultant, Garnaut Private Client Advisers
US debt situation and its impact on real estate with the current environment in Australia
Matthew Davis, Co-Head of Property, Keybridge Capital
The investment bank perspective on derivatives: focusing on the benefits of liquidity
Luke Hartigan, Property Analyst, Colonial First State
Bart Thompson, Goldman Sachs JBWere
4:00 - 5:00pm Panel discussion: REIT prices and property values
Moderated by ADPIA
Ken Atchison, Principal, Atchison Consultants
Jonathan Kriska, Property Analyst, Paterson Securities
Dugald Higgins, Associate Director, PIR
Tony Kaye, Seeking Media
Pricing and structuring acquisitions in an uncertain market
Allan Fife, Chief Investment Officer, Fife Capital
International perspectives on emerging market indices
Paul Hoff, Managing Director, FTSE Asia Pacific (Singapore)
5:00 - 7:00pm Free time
7:00 - 7:30pm Pre-dinner drink
7:30 - 10:00pm Property Funds Industry Awards Dinner - The Pavilion
10:00pm - Late After Party - Fraser's Bar

Tuesday 14 October 2008

Plenary Sessions - The Pavilion
8:15am Arrival coffee and tea
8:40 - 8:45am Day 2 opening address by Forum Chairman
8:45 - 9:15am Unlisted wholesale property funds
Rod Leaver, Global Chief Executive Officer, Lend Lease Investment Management
9:15 – 9:45am Asian markets
Peter Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer, Asian Public Real Estate Association (APREA)
9:45 – 10:15am

The state of the retail market

Linden Toll, President, Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA)

10:15 - 10:40am Morning Tea
10:40 - 11:10am The new tax initiatives of the Rudd Government that impact the property funds management industry
Stephen O'Flynn, Tax Director and Chairman, Property Funds Management Group, Moore Stephens International
11:10 – 11:40am Asia Pacific real estate in the post-sub-prime world
David Edwards, Regional Director, LaSalle Investment Management
11:40 – 12:10pm Does residential investment stack up for institutional investment?
Neil Youren
12:10 – 12:45pm Interactive panel – listed property meltdown: who is responsible?
Moderator: Hugh Zochling, Executive Director, Hadley Green Investment Group
Panel members:
  • Matthew Davis, Co-Head of Property, Keybridge Capital
  • Jeff Havsy, Director of Global Strategic Research, PPR
  • Stephen Hiscock, Chief Investment Officer and Joint Portfolio Manager, SG Hiscock
  • Rod Leaver, Global Chief Executive Officer, Lend Lease Investment Management
12:50 – 1:00pm Closing remarks by Forum Chairman
Dr Frank Gelber, Chief Economist, Director of Economics and Property, BIS Shrapnel
1:00 – 2:00pm Networking lunch

 

PIR reserves the right to change the program without notice.
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