MSCI Singapore Investment & Risk Summit 2026Bridging Worlds: Opportunity, Risk and the New Portfolio
- September 2, 2026
- 9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. SGT (Registration starts from 9:00 a.m.)
- The Westin Singapore, Ballroom 1, Level 3, 12 Marina View, Asia Square Tower 2, Singapore, 018961
Global capital is becoming more selective. Alongside shifting trade dynamics and diverging growth trajectories, AI is accelerating change across industries, influencing business models, capital flow and competitive advance. For institutional investors across the region, understanding where these structural shifts are creating opportunities and where new risks are accumulating has never required greater precision.
The MSCI Singapore Investment & Risk Summit brings together senior investment and risk leaders across Southeast Asia to discuss how institutions are recalibrating portfolios, rethinking risk frameworks and deploying new technology in response to this changing landscape.
This flagship event is part of a global summit series across U.S., London, Hong Kong, Australia and Japan, examining how leading institutions are building more resilient, integrated and future-ready portfolios. Attendance is by invitation only.
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Agenda
9:00 am ・ Registration
9:30 am ・ Welcome remarks
Jean-Pierre Picarel, Head of Client Coverage, Southeast Asia, MSCI
9:35 am ・ Keynote: State of the Market: Capital Flows, Emerging Exposures and Portfolio Implications
The localization of supply chains, the divergence of emerging market risk profiles, and the accelerating shift of capital into private assets are reshaping how risk concentrates across institutional portfolios. This presentation examines where capital is being redirected, where new concentrations are forming, and what a total-portfolio view reveals about allocation decisions made in different market environments.
Oleg Ruban, Head of APAC Research & Development, MSCI
9:55 am ・ Presentation: Singapore's Next Chapter: Innovation, Infrastructure and the Future of Capital Markets
Janice Kan, Managing Director and Head of Derivatives, SGX Group
10:05 am ・ Panel: The Structural Trends Reordering Institutional Portfolios
Emerging risks, shifting themes and new sources of opportunity are putting portfolios under greater pressure to deliver resilience as well as return. In this panel, investment and risk leaders come together to discuss how they are interpreting this environment and, more importantly, how they are acting on it.
Moderator: Rohit Jaggi, Head of Analytics and Private Capital Solutions Coverage, South Asia, MSCI
Panellists:
Daniel Lau, Managing Director and Head of Enterprise Risk & Performance (ERP), GIC
Jean Chia, Global Chief Investment Officer, Global Head, Investment & Wealth Solutions, Bank of Singapore
Vis Nayar, Chief Investment Officer, Eastspring Investments
10:50 am ・ Networking break
11:00 am ・Presentation: A Framework for Moving from AI Advancement to Adoption
AI is changing how risk is measured, communicated and acted on across institutions, compressing analysis that once took weeks into minutes and making insights more accessible to investment teams. This session will explore what it takes to adopt AI in risk and portfolio management, what foundations need to be in place and key considerations to ensure AI-powered capabilities enhance rather than dilute the judgment of investment and risk leaders.
Andrew DeMond, Managing Director & Head of Analytics Platform and Governance Research, MSCI
11:15 am ・Panel: Scaling AI Intelligence Across Investment and Risk
The question for most institutions is no longer whether to adopt AI, but how to do it at scale without sacrificing the governance, data infrastructure and talent base required to make it work. This panel brings together investment, risk, and technology leaders to discuss which applications are delivering measurable value, how institutions are managing the transition and where the line sits between augmentation and automation.
Moderator: Vivek Agarwalla, Head of Analytics Consultant, South Asia, MSCI
Panellists:
Chao Jen Chen, Managing Director and Head of Augmented Intelligence, Fullerton Fund Management
Hemang Mandalia, Senior Vice President and Quant Equities Portfolio Manager, AlphaGrep
Joo Won Lee, Co-founder & CTO, Arrowpoint Investment Partners
Andrew DeMond, Managing Director & Head of Analytics Platform and Governance Research, MSCI
12:00 pm ・Presentation: Factor-Aware Construction of AI Exposures
AI is rapidly becoming a core investment theme, but AI exposure isn't monolithic. It spans hardware, infrastructure, and application layers with very different risk profiles and geographic footprints. Translating a single AI signal into portfolio exposures can introduce hidden sectors, factors and crowding risks that distort the intended allocation. This session walks through the use cases built on MSCI datasets and explores how factor models and optimization tools can strip out that noise, hedging away crowding and sector distortion while preserving the pure AI view investors want.
Steven Ng, Executive Director, Analytics Technical Sales Specialist, MSCI
12:15 pm ・ Closing Remarks
Jean-Pierre Picarel, Head of Southeast Asia, MSCI
12:20 pm ・Networking lunch
2:00 pm ・Event concludes