Market volatility & liquidity
The current turbulence in global markets presents significant opportunities and challenges for superannuation funds. However, it is important to be able to identify these key opportunities and challenges in times of stress, navigate responses to market turbulence, and effectively plan for and implement strategies to address these complex issues.
Attending this virtual workshop, facilitated by Max Allan, Partner, and Claire Warren, Special Counsel, from King & Wood Mallesons will help you to effectively prepare for and implement strategies to address market events, increased volatility and liquidity crunches in light of the regulatory pressures funds face.
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Key topics to be discussed
- Access to liquidity: strategies, structures and navigating regulatory considerations to ensure access to cash reserves and additional liquidity to respond to increased margin calls, member redemptions, portfolio rebalancing and other liquidity drains
- Default risks: managing counterparty exposures and default risks
- Processes, procedures and systems: considerations surrounding internal processes, procedures and operational systems to quickly respond to rapidly evolving situations
- Trading relationships and managing volatility: considerations and structures to respond to fast moving opportunities including volatility swaps, repo structures, hedging mechanisms and collateral structures; and
- Recovery and exit, and resolution, planning: considering the impact of liquidity issues on recovery and exit plans and considering this for any resolution planning activities to be progressed by APRA.
Who should attend?
- Compliance and risk professionals
- Legal
- Investment, trading and credit teams
- Investment managers
- Anyone with an interest in managing market volatility.
Presenters
Max Allan
Partner, King & Wood Mallesons
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Max is a financial markets specialist. He advises on derivatives across all asset classes, repurchase transactions, securities lending arrangements, other structured financial markets transactions, custody, credit support arrangements, and netting, collateral, clearing, custody, prime brokerage, and trading documentation. He also advises on financial markets and regulatory issues and the use, risks and impact of regulatory, policy, prudential and technological changes and new regulatory frameworks.
Max has a key role in financial markets law reform in Australia, and is key Australian counsel for ISDA and AFMA, and advises other industry associations such as ICMA and ISLA and many participants in financial markets.
Claire Warren
Special Counsel, King & Wood Mallesons
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Claire advises both buy and sell-side entities, including a number of superannuation funds, in relation to their financial market arrangements including novel and complex derivative structures, structured products and structured capital markets transactions across various asset classes including bespoke repackaging structures. Claire also works regularly with clients advising on clearing systems, collateral, netting, securities lending, repos and prime brokerage.
Claire is a qualified Solicitor in England & Wales and New South Wales and brings extensive experience of derivatives markets having advised participants in the global derivatives market both before and through the GFC.
How you’ll learn
One-hour online virtual workshop.
ASFA’s virtual workshops are a live and interactive learning experience. Participants can engage with industry-leading presenters who are experts in their field, together with their peers, just like they would at an ASFA face-to-face workshop. It is a unique opportunity to workshop ideas and concepts in a collaborative online environment facilitated by experts.
Virtual workshops are limited to 30 participants to allow for discussion, and to ensure that participants have ample opportunity to ask presenters questions.
Pricing
Public virtual workshop
| Type | Inc. GST |
|---|---|
| Member | $195 |
| Non-member | $250 |
CPD Points
1 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) point for members of ASFA’s Professional Accreditation Program.
For all enquiries, contact ASFA Learning.
