Introduction

The topic of the session 1 at this year’s Seoul International A&D Conference is 

“Alternative investment is booming in the era of inflation.”

The global economy faced a severe inflation-induced crisis due to the pandemic-driven 

global supply bottlenecks and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Major countries are working on 

easing inflation by aggressive raising interest rate and fiscal tightening. Addressing inflation 

has become a global issue of interest as the significance of economic recovery is diminished.

For now, inflation is unfamiliar and strange, because it surpassed the structural deflationary pressure 

in 13 years and hit the highest level over the past four decades. It was initially assumed that it would 

last temporarily, but higher price pressure than previously expected is growing.  

Driven by interest rate hike and monetary tightening, the price of assets such as stock, cryptocurrency 

and property plummeted. Thus, investors are unable to find appropriate investment sources.

At this event, Adrian Mucalov, Partner at UK investment firm Actis focused on alternative investment 

and Richard Miller, Founder and Chairman of TCW Private Credit will give lectures on alternative 

investment, which is recognized as significant in times of inflation.

Alongside this, Lim Seong-ju, Vice President at SK ecoplant Value Innovation and Lee Dong-keun 

at Senior Manager of Financial Advisory Services at KPMG will speak about effective investment 

opportunity in times of inflation.

In Session 2, Korean experts across various sectors will discuss the need to open carbon credit 

future market and details about implementation status. 

With ESG (Environment, Society and Governance) becoming more significant worldwide, 

environmental issues are increasingly and rapidly considered more important. As major countries are 

making efforts to achieve carbon neutrality goals earlier, the establishment of carbon credit future market 

is expected to contribute to boosting carbon credit transaction.

Yang Seung-ryong, who is a professor at Korea University specializing in financial derivatives 

and Dr. Ha Ae-jin, an associate research fellow of Securities and Derivatives R&D Center at KRX 

will grace this year’s event as guest speakers. Also, Yoo Seung-jik, a professor at Department of 

Global Cooperation at Sookmyung Women’s University, Jeon Wan, 

Sector Manager at the Climate Economy Division, Ministry of Environment and and Park Chan-soo, 

Director of SK Securities will join discussions.

Overview​

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Title : The 20th Seoul International A&D Conference

Theme : In the Era of Inflation, Alternative Investment is the Trend
 

Date : August 24th (Wed), 2022, 09:00 ~ 13:40

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Venue : Grand Ballroom (B1F), Yeouido Fairmont Ambassador Seoul

Host : The Financial News

Sponsors : Financial Services commission, Financial Supervisory Services, Korea Exchange,

                     Korea Financial Invest Association, Korea Securities Depository,

                     Korea Securities Fianace Corporation

Inquiry : Seoul International A&D Conference Secretariat

                             Tel. 02-6965-0026  /  Mail. cayley@fnmice.com