09:30 - 09:45       Welcome Speech

       Wilhelm Rasinger, President IVA and Jean Berthon, President EuroFinUse

09:45 - 10:05       «The Euro: A Success Story»

       Claus J. Raidl, President, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

10:05 - 10:25       «The Economics of Financial Repression – What Lies Ahead?»

       Edin Mujagic, Monetary Economist, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

10:25 - 10:45       «The impact of Financial Repression on Insurers»

       Peter Hagen, CEO of the Vienna Insurance Group

10:45 - 11:00       «Inevitable financial repression needs countervailing measures»

       David Croughan, EESC Member, Institute of International & European Affairs, Dublin

11:00 - 11:15       Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:45       Panel:

The Impact of financial repression on savers and investors (individual and institutional): negative short term & long term real returns on pension savings; FTT & savings taxation on the rise; persistent weaknesses in investor protection (life insurance, pension products, inducements, etc.)

Moderator: Jan Maarten Slagter, Vice Chair of EuroFinUse

Panellists:

• Olivier Gajda, Co-founder and Chairman of the European Crowdfunding Network
• Benjamin Jošar, Member of the Management Board, Triglav Insurance Group
• Carlos Maravall, Senior Financial Market Analyst, European Commission, DG Internal Market and Services
• Joachim von Cornberg, Head of Corporate Law and Compliance, DZ Bank Group, Union Asset Management Holding AG
• Gabriele Zgubic-Engleder, Head of Department of Consumer Policy, Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour and member of the ESMA Securities & Markets Stakeholder Group

12:45 - 13:55       «A View from the Austrian Financial Supervisor»

      Helmut Ettl, CEO of the Austrian Financial Market Authority

12:55 - 13:00       Conclusions: Guillaume Prache, Managing Director, EuroFinUse

13:00 - 14:00       Buffet Lunch