IFR Asian Development Bank Roundtable 2017

IFR’s annual ADB roundtable, held as part of the Asian Development Bank’s annual meetings hosted this year by Yokohama, took place at a significant moment. This year marked not just the 20th anniversary of the Asian financial crisis but more importantly perhaps the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Asian Development Bank.

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IFR Asian Development Bank Roundtable 2017: Participants

Søren Elbech Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Søren Elbech has been treasurer of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank since December 2016, based in Beijing. Before that, he served as treasurer of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC between December 2007 and April 2014 and of Eksportfinans between 2002 and 2007. Earlier, Elbech worked at Nordic Investment Bank and at Danske Bank. Andreas Dombret Deutsche Bundesbank Andreas Dombret has been a member of the executive board of the Bundesbank since May 2010, with...

IFR Asian Development Bank Roundtable 2017: Part 1

Welcome to this IFR seminar, entitled “Mobilising Asian Investors for Sustainable Development”. One of the central themes of the 2017 ADB meetings in Yokohama is infrastructure. In this session, I wanted to go beyond restating the vast sums of money needed and discuss if and to what extent the infrastructure funding gap can be closed by capital markets, which is a key assumption among policymakers. We will also talk about the emergence of green finance in Asia and address topics relevant to Asian capital markets. I’d like to kick off with...

IFR Asian Development Bank Roundtable 2017: Part 2

Keith Mullin, KM Capital Markets: Banks are comfortable taking construction risk; they’ve been doing it for a long time. Will asset managers ever get over the notion of construction risk? Kunihiro Asai, Nikko Asset Management: Infrastructure is among the most attractive asset classes for Japanese investors. Japan has lost any semblance of yield even in the 10-year JGB [which was quoted at a yield of 0.021% on the day of the seminar, having been negative between February and November 2016]. We don’t have a base asset class for long-term...

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