Driving against headwind – Investment themes for year of 2008

The  Asian stock market has substantially outperformed the global market in 2007.  While  Asia  is  in  a much better shape fundamentally, it is facing bigger  challenges  and new risks including being contagion effect from the Wall  Street,  a  housing  recession in the US, and higher inflation in the region,  especially  in  China,  and  higher political uncertainties in the region.

Yonghao Pu, Chief Regional Economist and Head of Wealth Management Research Asia-Pacific  UBS, will present the short-term and long-term outlook of the Asian  market,  and Greater China region in particular. He will explain why Asian  economic  growth  can  continue  in  2008 amidst global weakness and rising  regional  inflation  and  will  also discuss the related investment implications.