About BlackRock

BlackRock is a leader in investment management, risk management and advisory services for institutional and retail clients worldwide.  At March 31, 2013, BlackRock’s AUM was $3.936 trillion.  BlackRock offers products that span the risk spectrum to meet clients’ needs, including active, enhanced and index strategies across markets and asset classes. Products are offered in a variety of structures including separate accounts, mutual funds, iShares^® (exchange-traded funds), and other pooled investment vehicles. BlackRock also offers risk management, advisory and enterprise investment system services to a broad base of institutional investors through BlackRock Solutions^®.  Headquartered in New York City, as of March 31, 2013, the firm has approximately 10,600 employees in 30 countries and a major presence in key global markets, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East and Africa.  For additional information, please visit the Company's website at www.blackrock.com.

About iShares

iShares is the global product leader in exchange traded funds with over 600 funds globally across equities, fixed income and commodities, which trade on 20 exchanges worldwide. The iShares Funds are bought and sold like common stocks on securities exchanges. The iShares Funds are attractive to many individual and institutional investors and financial intermediaries because of their relative low cost, tax efficiency and trading flexibility. Investors can purchase and sell shares through any brokerage firm, financial advisor, or online broker, and hold the funds in any type of brokerage account. The iShares customer base consists of the institutional segment of pension plans and fund managers, as well as the retail segment of financial advisors and high net worth individuals.

Robeco Group

Robeco is a prominent independent asset manager, founded in 1929 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Robeco offers investment solutions in a broad range of strategies and is a global leader in sustainability investing.  

Robeco managed approximately USD 249.1 billion globally, as of 31 December 2012. We have over 1,500 professionals located in 15 countries, with specialized investment centers, sales & service teams in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia, serving more than one million private investors, institutional clients and distribution partners.

We offer a balanced range of key capabilities both in mainstream and alternative asset classes including equity, fixed income, quant, money market, managed futures and private equity; bespoke investment solutions such as fiduciary management and structured investments.

Robeco in Asia

Robeco is a pioneer in emerging markets investing with 80 years of experience. Since 2008,  Robeco’s regional headquarters have been established in Hong Kong where the Asia Pacific investment and management team are located. Robeco also has offices in Australia, China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

RobecoSAM

Founded as the first asset manager focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing, SAM was acquired by Robeco Group in 2007 and has grown into one of the world's most prominent Sustainability Investment groups.

With approximately 130 specialist staff located in Zurich and Rotterdam, RobecoSAM offers clients a comprehensive range of differentiated and complementary Sustainability Investing solutions including indexes, actively managed diversified and thematic equities, private equity, active ownership and corporate sustainability benchmarking services.

RobecoSAM's long-standing experience in assessing companies and developing and managing successful sustainable investment strategies and Robeco's more than 80-year history of serving institutional investors and private investors with investment solutions across a broad range of asset classes are ideally complementary to each other. Leveraging Robeco's global network of sales, service and investment professionals, our Sustainability Investing products and services are represented in over 20 countries. 

Aberdeen Asset Management is a global investment company whose headquarters is in the UK. Our sole business is the management of third party assets across key asset classes. We manage for institutional and retail investors alike. Current assets under management are US$322.4bn* (as at 31 March 2013).

Founded in 1983, we have expanded both organically and via acquisition, first in the UK, then internationally. An independent company, we value the lack of conflicts which that brings, a simple approach to investment and a commitment to products that investors can understand. Our strengths are teamwork, first-hand research and an emphasis on good fundamentals for security selection.

Today, the Group has 31 offices around the world, with key investment centres in London, Philadelphia, Singapore and Sydney. We are a member of the FT-SE 100. 

BNY Mellon Investment Management is one of the world's leading investment management organizations and one of the top U.S. wealth managers, with $1.4 trillion in assets under management. Our business encompasses BNY Mellon’s affiliated investment management firms, wealth management services and global distribution companies and is focused on building and delivering investment and wealth management strategies and solutions to meet the needs of our clients.

BNY Mellon Investment Management is part of BNY Mellon, a leading financial services company operating in 36 countries and serving more than 100 markets, with $26.2 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration.

BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com, or follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon.

All information as of 31 December 2012. 

About Eastspring Investments:
Eastspring  Investments,  part  of  Prudential  Corporation Asia, is Prudential's asset management business in Asia. It is one of Asia's largest asset managers, with operations in 12 markets (including a US sales office) and just under 2,000 employees in Asia and about US$ 95.4billion (￡62.8 billion) in assets under management (as at 31 March 2013).
About half of total assets are sourced from third party clients including a wide range of retail and institutional investors. Eastspring Investments also manages the assets of life and pension products sold by Prudential Group in the UK, the US and across Asia.

Eastspring Investments operates in Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and Indonesia, and has joint venture operations in India, China and Hong Kong. The business also recently opened its US operations, taking its Asia investment expertise to institutional investors.

For more information on Eastspring Investments, please visit: www.eastspringinvestments.com

Silver Sponsor:

STOXX Ltd. is an established and leading index specialist of European origins and has always been at the forefront of market developments, continuously expanding its portfolio of innovative indices – and now operating on a global level, across all asset classes.

STOXX Limited is committed to delivering its high-quality, reliable and trusted index offerings to its global client base. 

For more information, please visit www.stoxx.com

Amundi ranks second in Europe¹ and ninth worldwide¹ among the players in asset management with $960 billion under management².

Located in some 30 countries across 5 continents, Amundi Group covers the main markets and investment regions in the world.

Amundi has over 30 years’ investment experience in Asia and our Hong Kong office has served investors including institutional investors and fund distributors across a wide range of asset classes from equities, fixed income, alternative investments to volatility.

Amundi has investment offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore, which manage Asian Equities, Fixed Income and Balanced products. Amundi Group also has presence in Seoul (NH-CA), Mumbai (SBI FM), Beijing, Brunei, Sydney, Shanghai (ABC-CA) and Kuala Lumpur; creating synergy within the Asia Pacific region. 

1. Total assets under management – Source IPE “Top 400 asset managers active in the European marketplace” published in June 2012, based on figures as at December 2011.

2. Amundi Group figures as at 31 December 2012.