Capital Markets Policy Council

Purpose

The Capital Markets Policy Council (CMPC) works with the Capital Markets Policy Group staff by providing guidance on financial market regulatory and policy issues, all from the perspective of what is best for markets, investors, and clients. The CMPC also assists staff with perspectives on research and advocacy positions developed in response to critical issues in the capital markets, including:

Analysis and practitioner expertise on issues such as regulatory systems
Perspectives on local research topics, including country comparisons of regulation of trading different types of securities and derivative instruments
Comment letters regarding proposed policies to the European Commission, U.S. SEC, and othersThis advisory group works with CFA Institute staff to develop the program for our annual conferences. Drawing on their experience and knowledge of timely educational topics, group members provide guidance on the overall program plan as well as input on specific speakers and topics. Group members may also be involved with coordinating and/or moderating individual sessions at the conference.

Members

Executive Director, Strategy & Economy, KPMG Canada

Conrad Yan is Managing Partner of Albamen Capital Partners. Albamen Capital Partners is an industrial investment firm focusing on renewable energy and digital infrastructure in China. Conrad is a Mainland Opportunities Committee member of Hong Kong's Financial Services Development Council and was the immediate past Secretary of Pacific Pension & Investment Institute (PPI), an educational non-profit based in San Francisco that convenes pension and investment thought leaders for in-depth dialogue and knowledge sharing on the issues facing long-term institutional investors, representing more than $25 trillion in assets.As a CFA charterholder, Conrad was founding chair of the Global Investment Performance Standard (GIPS) committee in Hong Kong, and he was recognized as an Outstanding Volunteer by CFA Society Hong Kong (formerly HKSFA) in 2005. Conrad was also a participant at the Capital Formation Workshop at the 71st CFA Institute Annual Conference in Hong Kong in 2018.

Trideep holds a degree in MBA (Finance) from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, India and B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India. He has over two decades of experience in Equity investing across both Indian and Global markets, encompassing public and private markets.During his career, he has spent significant amount of time as Portfolio Manager at State Street Global Advisors and UBS Global Asset Management (London, UK). Prior to joining Edelweiss AMC, he was instrumental in building a market-leading Alternative Equities business at Axis Asset Management Company (a joint-venture with Schroders) in India, as Senior Portfolio Manager – Alternate Equities.

Vice President, CFA Society Poland

Ms. Tan is Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of GMO Singapore Pte. Limited and is responsible for operational, compliance and governance matters for GMO’s Singapore office. She is also involved in business development efforts for GMO’s Global Client Relations team in Asia. Prior to joining GMO in 2004, she worked at Ernst & Young in Singapore, where she was involved in advisory and assurance services for financial institutions in the local market. Ms. Tan currently sits on the Board of CFA Society Singapore, where she is also a member of the Investment Committee. Ms. Tan earned her Bachelor in Accounting from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is a CFA Charterholder and a CFA ESG Investing certificate holder. Ms Tan is also a Chartered Accountant of Singapore.

Stephen Deane, CFA, is Senior Director, Legislative Outreach and Capital Markets Policy for the Americas, at CFA Institute. Stephen also serves as Chair of the Markets Advisory Council of the Council of Institutional Investors. He joined CFA Institute in 2020 after more than nine years at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He worked in the SEC Office of the Investor Advocate since its inception in 2014, where he helped to build out the office and served as principal liaison to the Investor Advisory Committee. He previously worked at MSCI, Institutional Shareholders Service (ISS), and in international development.

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