EuroFinUse – The Federation of Financial Services Users
is hosting an International Conference on
‘The Financial Repression of Savers and Investors’
on 18 October 2013 in Vienna
Programme
09:00 - 09:30 Registration - Welcome Coffee
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