AsiaConference 2025

Event Details

At the AsiaConference distinguished investment experts will present current topics related to Asian Real Estate investments.

  • 17/18 June 2025 at Hilton City Hotel, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Pre-Event Dinner for investors and premium / main sponsors
  • Participation forms: on site event and online participation
  • Participants: investors, fund/asset manager, project developer
  • Conference language: English
  • Free of charge for institutional investors
  • Important link: Program

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Kick Off Lunch

On Monday 10 June 2024 the first meeting in order to plan the AsiaConference 2025 took place with the conference chairmen and potential cooperation partners. Initial ideas were exchanged and a joint approach to involving additional sponsors and investment experts from the Asian real estate markets was defined.

The event will focus on the exchange of institutional investors and investment managers from Asia in order to present investment opportunities and highlight the strength of portfolio diversification of institutional investment funds in the Asian region to German and international investors.

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The meeting place for Asian Real Estate Issues

AsiaConference

The AsiaConference is the industry event for all topics related to institutional Asian real estate investments. The event team is delighted to start this event for the first time in 2025. Experts and investors will explain to international participants their topics and experiences on individual program items in expert presentations and panel discussions. Personal Face-to-Face Meetings will give the attendees a great chance to connect within this community.

APAC access

Conference Chairmen

The Chairmen of AsiaConference 2025 have played a pivotal role in launching this inaugural, first-of-its-kind event focused on Asian real estate. Through their insights, experience, and extensive networks with global investors and managers, Dr. Karsten Lieser, Junho Lee, and Hubertus Bäumer have been instrumental in bringing this meaningful gathering to life. A special thanks to their respective firms - Mocean Capital, Substnz Capital Partners (formerly eXapital), and Lübke & Kelber - for their support in making this event possible.

AsiaConference 2025

Advisory Board

Hubertus Bäumer
Managing Partner
substnz Capital Partners (fka eXapital) 

Johnny Chio
Director, Real Estate Investments Asia
CPP Investments

Benedikt Gabor
Head of Department
Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung 

Alexander Hoffmann
Senior Investment Leader
Partners Group

Jun Ho Lee
Managing Partner
Mocean Capital Advisors

Doohyeong Lee
Portfolio Manager, National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF)

Wei-Ting Leong
Investment Director, Grosvenor Diversified Property Investments

Dr. Karsten Lieser
Chief Investment Officer
Lübke Kelber

Sven Schaltegger
Senior Portfolio Manager
UBS Asset Management Switzerland

Christian Stark
Head Portfolio Management External AMs, Migros-Pensionskasse

Oliver Strumpf
Founder
FondsForum-Platform

Cooperation partners

Premium Sponsors

Main Sponsors

Content Sponsors

Expert knowledge

Speakers

Ben Aiken

Managing Director | Portfolio Management
J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Hubertus Bäumer

Managing Partner
substnz Capital Partners (fka eXapital)

 

Johnny Chio

Director, Real Estate Investments Asia
CPP Investments

 

David Fassbender

Managing Director, Head of Southeast Asia und Senior Portfolio Manager
PGIM Real Estate

Benedikt Gabor

Head of Department
Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung

Robert Johnson

Managing Director
J.P. Morgan Asset Management Real Assets (Asia)

Bernhard Karas

Managing Director, Private Capital Markets
CapitaLand Investment

Bernhard leads CapitaLand Investment’s capital raising efforts for its private equity real assets platform across Europe and the Middle East. With 24 years in financial services, he has advised top real estate firms on fund formation and raised over US$10 billion. Previously, he held leadership roles at DWS Group, Cushman & Wakefield, and M3 Capital Partners. He began his career at Lehman Brothers.

Milan Khatri

Head of Research
LINK

Mr Khatri has over 20 years' experience analysing macroeconomics and real estate markets, having formulated investment strategies that support asset allocation and secure investor capital across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. He started his career as an economist, focusing on macroeconomic research covering monetary policy, fiscal dynamics and fixed income across Europe. 

Jing Dong (JD) Lai

CEO and CIO APAC
M&G Rel Estate

JD started his career in M&G Real Estate in October 2016 as Head of Acquisitions APAC and Head of Japan prior to taking on his new role in 2021. He is the chair of the APAC Investment Committee. JD has more than 20 years of Asia real estate markets experience, working in a number of the region’s financial hubs including Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Doohyeong Lee

Senior Manager Real Estate Investment Team
NACF

Jun Ho Lee

Managing Partner
Mocean Capital Advisors

Tom Lee

Vice President
KKR

Tom Lee (Sydney) joined KKR in 2021 and is Co-Head of Acquisitions for Asia Real Estate. He serves as a member of the Asia Real Estate Investment Committee. Prior to joining KKR, he was Chief Executive Officer of LOGOS, a pan-Asia logistics real estate platform. He served as CIOand COO at MGPA, based in Singapore, prior to the company’s acquisition by BlackRock, where he led the European real estate equity business from the UK.

Dr. Karsten Lieser

Chief Investment Officer | CIO
Lübke Kelber

Dr. Karsten Lieser, a seasoned investment expert with a doctorate in finance and an engineering degree, has been appointed as the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of the Lübke Kelber Group as of January 2025. In this role, he will focus on expanding the firm’s investment management and capital raising activities. He joins the company from the investment platform substnz Capital Partners and brings a wealth of experience from his previous positions at Lehman Brothers, Lone Star Funds, and PIMCO Real Estate.

Andrew Lim

Group Chief Operating Officer
CapitaLand Investment

Andrew is Group COO at CapitaLand Investment (CLI), overseeing country operations and CLI’s private capital markets team, which manages capital raising and product development. Previously, he was CLI’s Group CFO (2021–2022) and Group CFO of CapitaLand Group (2017–2021), playing a key role in the S$11B Ascendas-Singbridge merger and CapitaLand’s 2021 restructuring.

Samuel McConnell

Portfolio Manager Australia Build-to-Rent
Sentinel

Marcus Merner

Head of Asia
BentallGreenOak

Moritz Mondovits

Principal, Global Client Solutions
KKR

Moritz Mondovits (Frankfurt) joined KKR in 2021 and is part of the Global Client Solutions team. He is responsible for real estate and credit client coverage in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Mondovits was responsible for the structuring and placement of real estate debt and equity products at VICTORIAPARTNERS. Before that, he spent four years at DWS as assistant vice president in institutional investor relations.

John Saunders

Group Chief Investment Officer
LINK

Mr Saunders is responsible for overall investment strategies, portfolio management and the strategic development of Link’s investment business. He joined Link in March 2024. He is also one of the responsible officers of Link for the purposes of the SFO and a director of a number of subsidiaries of Link. Mr Saunders has over 30 years of experience in the property industry with an exceptionally strong investment track record. He was most recently at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, as Head of Asia Pacific Real Estate and Global Head of the Real Estate Client business. 

Sven Schaltegger

Senior Portfolio Manager
UBS Asset Management Switzerland

Marco Simonis

Partner
Clifford Chance

Marco Simonis specialises in tax and legal advice in relation to investment funds and other asset management structures. Marco also advises clients on the structuring, implementation and operation of investment structures, including real estate funds for institutional investors and on fund-linked structured products.

Oliver Strumpf

Initiator of the AsiaConference
FondsForum-Platform

Oliver Strumpf studied business information management and real estate economics at the European Business School. In addition to start-ups, he gained professional experience at international fund and consulting companies. Since 2002, he has initiated various platforms and event formats in the institutional real estate sector. He joined HEICO Group in 2015 and was managing partner of the investment section until May 2021.

Alan Tan

Managing Director & Head of Capital Raising
CapitaLand Investment

Alan leads CapitaLand Investment (CLI)'s global capital raising team and drives new initiatives across the private equity business. Previously, he was Head of Strategic Partnerships at CapitaLand Development and VP for Special Projects at CLI. He has also held roles at Morgan Stanley, CreditEase, and Temasek Holdings.

Shaowei Toh

Head of Research & Strategy Asia Pacific
Savills Investment Management

Shaowei leads and coordinates the research agenda for the Asia Pacific region. He also provides an Asia Pacific perspective into the global investment and growth strategies of Savills IM. Previous roles include working for UBS and CapitaLand. He has master’s degrees in real estate and finance from the National University of Singapore and City University of New York. Shaowei is based in Singapore

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Program

Note: The program is currently being revised

Pre-Event Dinner 16 June 2025

only for Investors and representatives of Premium and Main Sponsors

18:00 - 22:30

Program 17 June 2025

Check-in and Welcome Coffee

08:15 - 09:00

Welcome

09:00 - 09:10

I. APAC POLITICS & ECONOMICS

Global perspective on trends, Asia‘s Real Estate Potential, Which trends influence investment strategies?

09:10 - 10:30

II. Investments in APAC real estate

Global capital flows into APAC, Investor views about existing APAC allocations, Where to invest in Asia?

11:00 - 12:15

Face-to-Face-Meetings (Part 1)

3 Face-to-Face Meetings of 20 minutes each with investors and conference participants

13:20 - 14:20

III. APAC real estate markets

Status Quo of Developed Markets, Growth Potential in Emerging Markets, Differences between markets in Asia / US, Navigating markets and sectors in Asia, Opportunities in living and logistics

14:30 - 17:30

Break-Out Session 1

Beds & Living Sectors

Break-Out Session 2

Industrial & Logistics Sectors

Break-Out Session 3

Alternative Sectors

Reception and AsiaConference Dinner

18:00 - 22:00

Get-together at the bar

22:00 - 00:30

Program 18 June 2025

Check-in and Welcome Coffee

07:45 - 08:15

Face-to-Face-Meetings (Part 2)

08:20 - 09:20

Welcome

09:30 - 09:40

IV. HOW TO INVEST IN APAC

Diversified strategies for uncorrelated markets, What are the best strategies for entering APAC markets?

09:40 - 10:30

Break-Out Session (Part 2)

11:00 - 11:20

Break-Out Session 1

Contrarian investing through unpopular sectors

Break-Out Session 2

Title (in coordination)

Break-Out Session 3

Important Governance and Tax Issues APAC

V. UNLOCKING THE REAL ESTATE POTENTIAL

Is debt a better way to access APAC real estate markets?, Future of real estate investments in Asia

11:45 - 12:45

End of the AsiaConference 2025 and Lunch

12:45 - 14:30

Conference Location

Meeting Point

Hilton Frankfurt City Centre

The Hilton Frankfurt City Centre is located in the heart of Frankfurt and sights, shopping facilities and the banking district are within easy walking distance. 342 rooms shine in new splendor and are reminiscent of New York loft living with their urban design. Guests are invited to sample unique cocktails in the Hudson Yards Bar, Lounge & Dining and relax in the large Health and Fitness Club.

Hochstrasse 4, 60313 Frankfurt | Germany
Phone: +49 69 133800
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Pre-Event Dinner

16 June 2025
Restaurant Schönemann

Conference

17/18 June 2025
Hilton Frankfurt City Centre
Hochstrasse 4, 60313 Frankfurt

Hotel Rooms

Hilton Frankfurt City Centre
Hochstrasse 4, 60313 Frankfurt
Phone: +49 69 133800
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Contact

Event Manager

Nadine Mohr

Strumpf Eventmanagement
Niederseelbacher Straße 24
65527 Niedernhausen | Germany

Phone: +49 6127 999363 23
Email: info(at)AsiaConference.com