Digital Assets – Now Too Important to Ignore for Asia’s Wealth Managers? 2021 | Hubbis | 25 February 2021 | Webinar

The archetypal retired private banker in Asia would perhaps be seeing red over any suggestion that one of his or her wealthy private clients should today be investing in cryptocurrencies or other forms of digital assets, for example stable coins. But the digital asset industry is rapidly moving mainstream, with specialist trading, execution and digital asset custody firms rising up and also becoming recognised and regulated by leading authorities in many key jurisdictions, thereby lending the industry an ever more visible air of authority and legitimacy.

In the Hubbis Digital Dialogue, a panel of experts will look beneath the hood of the nascent global digital assets market to look at the evolution and diversification, even proliferation, of the digital assets themselves, at the evolution of regulation in this ‘virtual’ world, and at the development of a more professional market infrastructure and ecosystem.

Our panel of experts will address many questions. How do cryptocurrencies work and what relationship do they have to blockchain or other confirmatory protocols? What are their investment characteristics? What are stable coins? What are initial coin offerings? What other forms of digitised assets are already in existence, and what is likely to emerge in the foreseeable future? Which investors from which regions have been driving the remarkable performance of Bitcoin in recent months, as it has surged to new all-time highs after a year or two in the doldrums? Why are investors flooding into Bitcoin and some other cryptos such as Ethereum? Are cryptos seen as a hedge against economic meltdown and financial chaos in the fiat currency universe, or as a hedge against the spectre of rampant inflation? How are investors buying into digital assets – through specialist intermediaries, through brokers, through exchanges, through funds? How are digital asset brokerages evolving, and are they being properly regulated, are they secure, and are they achieving the growth they expected? How do the institutional-grade offline (‘cold’) and online (‘warm’) custody/storage solutions for digital assets work and who is providing these services and why? Will the mainstream private banks and leading independent wealth management firms increasingly promote digital assets to their private clients? Will more wealthy Asian private clients buy into the digital asset markets, and if so, why and how? What should be a typical portfolio allocation? What next for digitised assets and will they make a major contribution to transactions across many more types of assets, for example, from real estate to collectable art?

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2021 Speakers

Steve Knabl
Chief Operating Officer & Managing Partner, Swiss-Asia Financial Services

James Quinn
Managing Director, Q9 Capital

Henri Arslanian
FinTech & Crypto Leader, Asia, PwC

2021 Partners

• Additiv
• Allfunds
• Alpadis
• Azqore
• Bearing Point
• Comarch
• Crealogix
• Credit Suisse
• Finantix
• GMO
• Henley & Partners
• illio
• J O Hambro Capital Management
• Jersey Finance
• Neo Risk Investment Advisors
• Ping An of China Asset Management (Hong Kong)
• Premia Partners
• Q9 Capital
• QUO
• Refinitiv
• Sun Life Financial
• Swissquote
• The Global CIO Office
• The Sovereign Group
• Trident Trust