Milken Institute
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- 1h 3m
China's Trade-Off: The Outlook on Investment
Kevin Lu, Wei Sun Christianson, Kenneth Gaw, Richard Hu, Weijian Shan, Jing Ulrich
Leading financial executives from Partners Group, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan convened to analyze the shifting dynamics of Chinese foreign direct investment, noting a 2017 policy reversal that incentivizes capital inflows despite persistent barriers in financial ownership and exit mechanisms. Panelists discussed how structural challenges, including succession issues in the private sector and tightening geopolitical scrutiny on outbound deals, are reshaping investment strategies toward sectors like technology and consumer finance. Strategic forecasts predict China's transformation into the world's largest consumer market by 2040, driven by a growing middle class and a shift in elite talent from engineering to finance.
- 8 min
Gender at Work: Why We’re Still Struggling to Get It Right
Drawing on three decades of experience in financial services, a former private bank CEO outlines the strategic shift from corporate tolerance to genuine inclusion, arguing that true progress requires normalizing women in leadership through structural and cultural change rather than isolated interventions. The presentation highlights persistent gendered double standards in workplace perception and calls for men and boys to lead the normalization of female colleagues and leaders to dismantle historical barriers. Participants engaged in this discourse by identifying specific workplace challenges facing women and aggregating actionable insights to shape future programming.
- 57 min
Advancing the Frontier: Innovations in Health
Jeremy Lim, Goh Boon Cher, Russell Gruen, Kabir Narang, Prashant Tandon
A panel of healthcare leaders, including 1MG founder Prashant Tandon and surgical expert Russell Gruen, addressed Asia's critical access crisis caused by infrastructure deficits and prohibitive drug costs. The group proposed that technological innovation, specifically AI-driven triage and prefabricated medical units, offers a more scalable solution than traditional infrastructure expansion to serve populations lacking insurance. Furthermore, the discussion highlighted how regulatory sandboxes and consumer transparency apps are dismantling pricing barriers while shifting the healthcare model toward preventative care and digital leapfrogging.
- 1h 5m
Cybersecurity: Anticipating the Next Trojan Horse
Yun-Hee Kim, David Koh, Matthew P. Moynahan, Rafal Rohozinski, Silvino Schlickmann Jr.
A panel of cybersecurity experts and officials warned that critical infrastructure faces escalating threats from insider attacks, IoT vulnerabilities, and AI-driven criminal syndicates exacerbated by jurisdictional gaps and a global demographic surge in internet users. Speakers argued that traditional perimeter security and technical patching have failed to address systemic issues, citing breaches like Equifax and highlighting the urgent need for a regulatory shift from compliance to active cyber risk management at the C-suite level. In response, Singapore is advancing an omnibus bill to redefine critical information infrastructure and mandate threat intelligence sharing, aiming to counteract market failures and the commoditization of cybercrime while addressing the fundamental architectural flaws of the modern internet.
- 52 min
Open for Business: Myanmar's Great Comeback
Staci Warden, Azeem Azimuddin, Serge Pun, Sean Turnell
A panel of economists and investors assessed Myanmar's rapid economic stabilization, noting a 6.9% GDP growth rate and the new NLD government's success in halving the budget deficit while lowering inflation. Focusing on a 27-year median age workforce and 90% mobile penetration, the discussion highlighted labor-intensive manufacturing, agriculture, and tourism as primary drivers for the required $10–20 billion in infrastructure investment. State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi's personal oversight of the economy provided a signal of accountability, though panelists cautioned that bureaucratic execution capacity remains a critical challenge alongside necessary regulatory reforms.
- 1h 1m
The Blockchain: It's Not All About the Money
Staci Warden, Leanne Kemp, Greg Li, Sopnendu Mohanty, David Treat, Zia Zaman
At a Milken Institute panel moderated by industry leaders from JPMorgan and Accenture, representatives from the Monetary Authority of Singapore and major corporations outlined how blockchain replaces fragmented databases with shared, immutable ledgers to drive regulatory experimentation and supply chain transparency. The discussion detailed concrete implementations including Singapore's domestic digital currency pilot, Georgia's national land titling migration, and Everledger's diamond provenance tracking, while addressing critical challenges such as data quality, quantum threats, and the necessity of re-architecting legacy systems. Looking forward, experts predict that within a decade, this technology will automate financial reconciliation and digitize identity and health records, fundamentally shifting the economic efficiency of global asset management and clearing settlements.
- 56 min
The Asian Phenotype: An Unmet Medical Need?
Benjamin Seet, John Connolly, Laurent Metz, Arthur Mark Richards, Patrick Tan
Experts highlight that distinct genetic, environmental, and anatomical factors create a unique Asian phenotype, driving divergent disease patterns such as higher cardiovascular risks at lower BMI thresholds and specific cancer profiles like biliary tract malignancies. These biological differences have spurred regulatory shifts in Asia toward homegrown standards for advanced therapies while prompting medical device and pharmaceutical companies to develop localized solutions, including smaller implants and tailored dosing regimens. The ongoing transition to personalized medicine relies on integrating granular real-world data and cultural context to address these population-specific needs effectively.
- 1h 6m
Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative: Financing Asia's Needs
William Lee, Paul Gruenwald, Gerald Keefe, Lincoln Leong, Joachim von Amsberg, Faisal Syed
Addressing the trillions of dollars in infrastructure financing gaps across Asia, this panel discusses the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's strategy to mobilize private capital through innovative project selection and cross-border connectivity. By leveraging value-capture models like MTR's rail-property approach and structured financial products such as maturity transformation, multilateral institutions aim to de-risk long-term investments for global institutional investors. The discussion concludes that shifting from bank-dominated lending to a market-based system requires robust public-private partnerships, regulatory certainty, and the allocation of specific risks to ensure sustainable economic development.
- 58 min
A Window of Opportunity: Unlocking India's Potential
Reuben Abraham, Sharad Bajpai, V. Bunty Bohra, Vikram Limaye, Ashu Suyash, Bunty, James Crabtree
A high-level economic panel analyzed India's recent 5.7% GDP growth and 3.3% inflation while highlighting structural drivers like the JAM Trinity digitization, shifting household savings, and improved banking balance sheets. Despite these optimistic fundamentals, experts warned that stagnant job creation, state-level fiscal deficits, and policy execution gaps pose significant risks to achieving the 8-9% growth targets necessary for a young demographic. The discussion concluded that sustained global engagement depends on resolving legal bottlenecks and aligning federal reforms with the central government's seven-year investment horizon.
- 1h 2m
Asia's Power Plays: The Economics of Geopolitics
Prerna Suri, Karen Brooks, Curtis S. Chin, Evan Medeiros, Michael W. Michalak, Yasuhide Nakayama
Panelists Karen Brooks, Curtis Chin, Evan Medeiros, and Yasuhide Nakayama analyzed the shifting Asia-Pacific security landscape, highlighting China's growing economic coercion and military expansion alongside North Korea's escalating missile threats. While the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership created policy discontinuity under the Trump administration, Japan under Prime Minister Abe successfully led the TPP-11 initiative to maintain high-standard trade rules. Concurrently, Southeast Asian nations like Indonesia and the Philippines are pursuing infrastructure-led growth and diversifying partnerships to mitigate over-reliance on Beijing and navigate rising non-tariff barriers.
- 1h 1m
Playing the Long Game: Investing in Infrastructure
Jonathan Woetzel, Jose Rene D. Almendras, Saadia Khairi, Ben Way, Wencai Zhang
Amidst a projected global infrastructure funding gap of $300 billion to $400 billion annually, international development banks like the ADB and IFC are deploying structural reforms and credit enhancement tools to attract institutional capital into underserved greenfield markets. These institutions utilize mechanisms such as minimum revenue guarantees, local currency bond ratings, and first-loss provisions to mitigate regulatory and currency risks that currently deter private investment in emerging economies. By distinguishing between socially essential but financially unviable projects requiring public support and commercially viable assets suitable for private financing, the sector aims to bridge the disparity between the $1.7 trillion needed in Asia and the current $800 billion level of spending.
- 1h 1m
Global Capital Markets
Michael Milken, Thomas Finke, Joshua Friedman, Sir Michael Hintze, Steven Tananbaum, Mike Milken, Jim Kim, Michael Hintze
Panelists including Michael Hensley, Josh Friedman, and Steve Tannenbaum analyze how China's Belt and Road Initiative and a surge in private equity ownership are fundamentally reshaping global capital markets and driving wealth concentration. The discussion highlights critical risks such as evaporating fixed-income liquidity from passive investing, alongside specific investment opportunities in distressed assets and emerging credit markets across Asia and Africa. Experts conclude that navigating this unstable environment requires a strategy favoring high-yield idiosyncratic plays while anticipating that future wealth generation will stem from infrastructure development in the Global South.
- 46 min
Global Overview: A 20/20 Perspective
Haslinda Amin, Piyush Gupta, Jean Hynes, Joaquim Levy
This analysis contrasts the structural resilience of Asian economies since the 1997 crisis with persistent unregulated credit cycles and the looming threat of shadow banking, while noting that 2008 required unprecedented global coordination through the G20 to stabilize the financial system. The discussion further projects how technological displacement and demographic aging are eroding traditional employment models, necessitating a shift from corporate structures to gig economies alongside urgent reforms in tax and social policy. Ultimately, the presentation warns that future financial stability depends on managing the risks of AI-driven liquidity shocks, climate change, and sovereign currency disruption while directing global savings toward infrastructure investment in emerging markets.
- 1h 0m
Credit Market Outlook
Michael Milken, Ilfryn Carstairs, Pierre de Chillaz, Juan Delgado-Moreira, Lawrence Golub, Robert Petty, Mike Milken
This panel analysis details how global bank retrenchment has created a six-trillion-dollar capital gap filled by non-bank lenders across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, particularly benefiting small and medium enterprises in regions with improved restructuring laws. While U.S. private credit focuses on senior secured floating rate debt to maintain 11–12% returns amid eroding covenants, Asian and European markets present opportunities for value creation through distressed scenarios and significant currency advantages. Industry leaders like Golub Capital and Hamilton Lane highlight a strategic rotation away from junior debt risks toward operational, direct lending structures to capitalize on these structural shifts while managing leverage and currency volatility.
- 52 min
Al Gore: Leading the Charge for Environmental Action
Al Gore, S Iswaran, Michael Klowden
A comprehensive analysis frames the climate crisis as a solvable sustainability revolution driven by AI, IoT expansion, and renewable economics that now outperform fossil fuels. Despite accelerating temperature anomalies, extreme weather events, and ecosystem collapse threatening global stability, the speaker highlights record-breaking decarbonization trends and a $22 trillion financial risk assessment that compels market-led action. Ultimately, the transition is portrayed as inevitable due to technological capability and investment momentum, even as political fluctuations and lagging mitigation efforts continue to exacerbate immediate atmospheric and humanitarian risks.