Agenda (Day 1)

Kindly sponsored by Butterfield 

Andrew McCallum TEP - Senior Partner, Rawlinson & Hunter (Switzerland) AG; Chairman of the Swiss & Liechtenstein STEP Federation and member of the STEP Alpine conference organising committee; Treasurer and committee member of STEP Geneva and of the Swiss Association of Trust Companies; and member of the STEP worldwide Governance Committee

Mark Walley - Chief Executive Officer, STEP Worldwide

Prof Dr Volker Schulte - Partner, trafacademy

• Ecosystem of the financial industry, its development and the impacts on the trust business

• The behavioural side of investments

• Concerns of private clients and trustees? What services and products do they need in the future?

• The trust business industry from the banks’ perspective

• ESG and impact as an investment decision criteria

• The trade-off between sustainability and financial returns

Marie-Therese Yates, Managing Director, Wealth Advisor Switzerland, JP Morgan Private Bank (Moderator)  

Dr Martin Jetzer - Chief Economist, Bellecapital AG

Annelise Peers - Chief Investment Officer, Investec Bank (Switzerland) AG

Kindly sponsored by CLT International Ltd

Vice Director, Allgemeines Treuunternehmen (ATU); Secretary of the Swiss & Liechtenstein STEP Federation and member of the STEP Alpine conference organising committee; Chairman, Verein STEP; Chairman, Vaduz Centre of Verein STEP

Filippo Turato TEP – Trust and Wealth Planner, Capital Trustees AG; Member of the STEP Alpine conference organising committee, Swiss & Liechtenstein STEP Federation; Chairman of STEP Lugano

Andrew McCallum TEP - Senior Partner, Rawlinson & Hunter (Switzerland) AG; Chairman of the Swiss & Liechtenstein STEP Federation and member of the STEP Alpine conference organising committee; Treasurer and committee member of STEP Geneva and of the Swiss Association of Trust Companies; and member of the STEP worldwide Governance Committee

• What were the operational issues impacted by Covid-19 ?

• What were the private client needs?

• What were the investments sought by private clients?

• What were the risks and how were these risks addressed?

Dr Roderik J P Strobl TEP - Relationship Manager for Key Clients, Leo Trust (Switzerland) Ltd  (Moderator)

James Day – Managing Director, Peritus Investment Consultancy

Dawn Goodman TEP – Partner, Withers LLP

Rayan Houdrouge – Partner, Lenz & Staehelin 

• Structures exempt from the regulations

• Licensing requirements for local and foreign trustees

• Authorization process

• Focus and priority areas for the regulator

• Upcoming changes to the AML framework

Fabianne de Vos Burchart TEP - Attorney at Law, Schellenberg Wittmer (Moderator)

Dorothee Ignatz - Senior Specialist, Portfolio Managers and Trustees, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA

Kenneth Ukoh - Head Portfolio Managers and Trustees, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA

Anton Wyss - CEO, AUDEX Consulting Trust Establishment, Triesen; Vice President, Liechtenstein Institute of Professional Trustees and Fiduciaries, Vaduz

Kindly sponsored by PraxisIFM

• CRS - Is it still common ?
• FATCA update
• Mandatory disclosure rules - DAC6 and its impacts
• BO registers

Filippo Noseda TEP - Partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP and Visiting Professor, King’s College London (Moderator) 

Konrad Hauptli - Of Counsel, Kendris Ltd 

Marnin Michaels TEP - Senior Partner, Baker McKenzie

• Experiences of the past eighteen months:  clients’ needs, apparent and latent
• Centralization of data and state surveillance in a polarized world:  protecting assets
• Choice of fiduciary and the checks and balances in structures
• Building of long-term relationships and confidence

Stephanie Jarrett TEP – Owner, Offices of Stephanie A Jarrett (Moderator) 

Alan Milgate TEP - Partner, Rawlinson & Hunter LLP and Board Member, STEP Worldwide

Jim Parker TEP - Country Head for Switzerland and Managing Director, Butterfield Trust (Switzerland) 

Kindly sponsored by Charles Russell Speechlys

Kindly sponsored by Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd