Panel discussion and networking event for alumni and friends in Shanghai

Registration from 6.00pm for 6.30pm-8.30pm event
Thursday 22 November 2018

3rd Floor, Amber Room
Intercontinental Shanghai Jing’An
500 Heng Feng Road, Jing'An District, Shanghai 200070 China

3层，Amber Room
上海静安洲际酒店
中国 上海市 静安区恒丰路500号

ANU College of Business and Economics warmly invites you to attend this event for alumni and friends in Shanghai. You will have the opportunity to connect with your local alumni community, and hear from a panel of industry leaders.

Panellists will discuss:

How much is enough? Making financial decisions that create wealth and well-being

In this discussion, Mr Jamie McCarry and Mr Arun Abey will talk about Arun’s latest book, How Much is Enough? The book draws on the latest behavioural research to explore the relationship between money and happiness. It has been published in various countries and languages and described by UCLA’s Professor Shlomo Benartzi as a book “that will change your life balance, not just your bank balance”.

Panellists:

Mr Arun Abey
Chairman, ANU College of Business and Economics Advisory Board
Chairman and Co-founder, Walsh Bay Partners
Director, The Smith Family

Is it possible to be rich and happy? How can we use wealth wisely to produce the great outcomes that we hope for ourselves and our children and avoid the terrible outcomes that we know that the poor use of money can sometimes cause?

These are the questions that have intrigued Arun Abey for over 35 years working as a financial adviser and wealth manager for individuals and institutions. He has also worked in academia, been an entrepreneur and a strategy adviser to some of the world’s largest firms, including being Head of Strategy for the AXA Asia Pacific Group for a decade. He is involved in a number of philanthropic and cultural activities and is the author of various international best sellers.

What connects these diverse activities together is Arun’s passion for ideas that help people thrive: to enjoy happier, more meaningful and financially secure lives. Arun’s latest book, How Much is Enough? draws on the latest behavioural research to explore the relationship between money and happiness. It has been published in various countries and languages and described by UCLA’s Professor Shlomo Benartzi as a book “that will change your life balance, not just your bank balance”.

The Australian National University’s College of Business and Economics inducted Arun into its Hall of Fame in 2013 for meeting its criteria of “Exemplary professional achievement and distinguished contribution to community”. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade recently honoured Arun in a photo exhibition at Parliament House, featuring 12 Australians of Sri Lankan origin to have made a significant contribution to Australia.

Mr Jamie McCarry MA (Hons), ACII
Director, Belbora Trust

Jamie McCarry is one of Asia Pacific’s most experienced finance executives with a track record of building and running multi-billion dollar businesses from India to China (and most places in between) while working with some of the largest and most successful entrepreneurs, private and state owned enterprises across the region.

Originally from Scotland, Jamie studied economics at the University of Glasgow before spending his formative years in the City of London at GRE (latterly AXA) Group HO in a range of finance and strategy roles. For the last 20 years Jamie has lived and worked across Asia and has the unique experience of establishing and managing highly successful JV’s with the leading domestic banks and private enterprises in Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, India and ultimately China where Jamie was responsible for establishing and managing the ICBC-AXA JV which became the leading foreign JV insurer in China.*

Having worked with one of the most significant China SOE’s (ICBC) Jamie further deepened that unique China experience at Fosun, one of China’s largest POE’s, managing investment teams in Shanghai, London and New York. Currently Jamie spends his time between Shanghai and Sydney managing several private equity investments in the food, beverage and finance sectors as well as providing investment advisory services.

Jamie’s belief that sustainable business is built on conscious responsible leadership and committed talent development is reflected in activities like his prior tenure as Chairman of CEIBS Advisory Board, Global sponsorship of the Ambition AXA Cultural Transformation programme and establishment of the Euro China Chair for Leadership and Responsibility at CEIBS amongst many other activities.

* CIRC 2013 TPI MARKET STATISTICS