Irene Chau

Okay. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for taking the time to join us today on our webinar. Today, we are privileged to have Heike, who is based in Sydney, who looks after the wealth management teams research. Today, she'll be walking us through some asset allocation trends. This is with a particular focus on the APAC region and how these forces are reshaping portfolios.

So I'll definitely encourage any of you to ask any questions during this webinar with the Q&A button located at the bottom. Any questions that we might not be able to get to, we will get back to you on those afterwards. So the recording and the slides will be shared afterwards as well. Okay. So without further ado, I'll pass the time on over to Heike. Over to you, Heike.

Heike van den Hoevel

Thank you, Irene. Yes, welcome, everybody. Like Irene said, my name is Heike, I'm part of the wealth management team here in Sydney or part of the banking and payments team. And yes, today's presentation will be on asset allocation trends in the Asia Pacific region.

So the main focus is Asia Pacific, but if there is any data points you are interested in from a specific country or global data point, please feel free to reach out to either myself or to Irene later on.

Okay. Getting started straight away. So today's agenda, I want to talk about the current investment environment. First of all. Then I will be going on to talk about more specific trends and investment preferences. And after that, I will be focusing on the high net worth space and