KUALA LUMPUR: CIMB Private Banking, the country’s first full-service private bank, will unveil investment strategies and opportunities available to local investors to help them face the current tough global economic environment.

In a statement yesterday, CIMB said the strategies would be disclosed at an investment conference here on March 18 exclusively for CIMB Private Banking and CIMB Group customers.

Datuk Seri Nazir Razak, group chief executive of CIMB Group, will deliver the keynote address at the conference with the theme “Navigating the Changing Financial Landscape”.

CIMB said investors would get an insight into the investment opportunities in emerging markets, alternative investments such as hedge funds and capitalising on structured products, properties and REITS to enhance investment returns.

“We planned this conference following requests from investors affected by the recent economic turbulence as their wealth declined following the fall in prices of stocks, commodities or properties which they had invested in during the 2006/2007 boom.

“At present, investors shy away from putting their monies in any form of investment and prefer to hold cash,” CIMB Private Banking co-head Carolyn Leng said.

The conference will feature prominent local and international speakers who are experts in the fields of investment, economic research and fund management. Among them are representatives from Hong Kong’s Allianz Global Investors, Value Partners, and SEI Investments; from Singapore — Man Investments, JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch; and Blue Asset Management from the United Kingdom .