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  I would sincerely express my appreciation to the Financial Services Commission, Financial Supervisory

Service,Korea Exchange, Korea Securities Depository, Koscom, Korea Financial Investment Association

and Korea Securities Finance Corporation for sponsoring the 12th Seoul International Derivative & Alternative

Investments Conference. The Conference would not be what it is today without enthusiastic concern and

support from these institutes as well as from financial institutes such as banks, security companies or

asset management companies. 

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​  It has already been 10 years since the first conference in 2003 and has established itself as Asia’s

greatest international events in the derivative securities.  We are particularly honored to have officials

from China CITICS Futures and Nauhua Futures of Hong Kong attending the conference this year.

 

 This year’s conference is very meaningful in many ways since the U.S. is phasing out of the quantitative

easing and we are at the turn of economic environment with interest rate hike. The conference has prepared

three sessions with themes in ‘market, risk and opportunity’ accordingly.

 

 First, domestic economy does not see a clear way out. Even though there was a positive reaction to the

aggressive domestic economy stimulus such as promoting service industry by the economic team led by

Gyeong-hwan Choi resulting in the soring stock market, however, there still are prevailing uncertainties.

This conference will mainly deal with domestic and international economic environment changes while will

try to present a direction for the Korea Inc. in a humble measure. Ernest movement of yuan to become an

international currency after the Chinese President Xi Jinping had visited Korea recently and opportunities

Korea is facing due to such change will be examined as well as the impact of the U.S.‘s exit from the

quantitative easing on the domestic economy.

 

 Second, measures to enable the domestic derivatives market that is declining day by day will be addressed. 

There has been divergent opinions about opportunities in the derivative market with enhanced regulations,

however, experts will examine the ways to reclaim the first place in the trading volume in the world that we

once enjoyed.

 

 Last, we have invited former CIO of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Alternative Investments and CIO of the

National Pension to hear about their experience and strategy management in the field of asset allocation.

Alternative investment of the pension fund and hedging strategy are greatest concerns of today while the

importance of the alternative investment is being emphasized.

 

 I hope 'the 12th Seoul International Derivative & Alternative Investments Conference' will be instrumental in

presenting good investment opportunities in the market faced with its turning point.

 

Thank you very much.

 

Seong-Cheol Gweon

CEO,

The Financial News