Year 2008 - Insurance Industry after current finanical tsunami

38 2008 YEARBOOK 二 〇 〇 八 年 年 刊 c) Trade Issue In the wake of Lehman Brother Mini-bond incident, your Chamber had written to the Insurance Commissioner expressing its concern on selling practice of banks on insurance products. The letter was sent to all members. d) Membership As at today, your Chamber had 160 members including 57 full members. There were 14 new members recruited in the year ( 3 – FM, 3-CA, 1-IM & 7-IA). On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Chamber, I would like to take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to the following persons: 1) Hon. Mr. Bernard Chan Honorary Adviser 2) Mr. Yip Shing Hing Honorary Legal Adviser 3) Mr.Wong Chun Pong Honorary Auditor 4) Members of the Appeal Committee – Mr. Fernando Hui, Mr. Simon Ip, Mr. OF Leung & Mr. Alex C BWong 5) Members of the Board of Counselors – Mr. Roger Tsang (Chair) Ms Susanna Chan, Mr. John Lee, Mr. Ricky Chu, Mr. Jonas Man, Mr. Kamson Lam, Ms. Rita Lam, Mr. Davey Lee, Mr. Anthony Lau & Mr. Simon So 6) Members of the Trade Counseling Commission – Mr. Ricky Chu (Chair), Mr. John Ma, Mr.William Ng, Mr. Raymond Yam, Mr. Simon So, Mr. John Lee, Mr. Li Ka On, Mr. Albert Chan & Mr. Francis Chan 7) Sponsors to our activities – Mr. Pi Yu Ching (Golf Tournament), Zurich Insurance (Soccer Team & HK-SZ Soccer Tournament), Sponsors to our monthly Last Friday Fellowship Drinks 8) Writers and advertisers of 2007 Year Book 9) Mr. Gregory Fong, Founding President 10) My marvelous members of the 2008 Executive Committee – Roger Tsang, Johnson Lee, Harry Chan, Patrick Ho, Karen Ho, Harley Kwan, Steve Cheng, Jaclyn Chu, Ivan Chiu, Teem Lam, Angela Lee, Geoffrey Lung, Michael So, Vincent Wong, GeorgeWu, Frankie Yiu, Kent Yu and our Part time administrator. To me, I enjoy and learn so much from working with them.Without their generous and enthusiastic support, I cannot imagine to be able to execute my role as the President. 11) Last but not least, members’ support as stakeholders I look forward to receiving your continuous support to the upcoming Executive Committee of 2009. Joseph C.L. Sit President 2008 President Report 16th Annual General Meeting 2008