On 23 October 2026, the IVAS-IVSC Business Valuation Conference returns to Marina BaySands under the theme "Navigating New Realities in Corporate Markets". smartZebra will be there.
Since 2017 thishas been the flagship valuation event in the Asia Pacific region, drawing morethan 1,000 local and regional attendees. The 2026 edition marks a first: IVASand the IVSC are partnering with CFA Society Singapore, putting businessvaluation professionals and investment managers in the same room.
That combination is what makes this conference unusual. The same asset gets lookedat from two directions, by the people who have to defend a number and thepeople who have to act on one.
Why we are attending
The programmereads like a list of the hardest valuation problems currently on anyone's desk:intangible value that never appears on a balance sheet, AI claims that marketsreward before a dollar of value is earned, pre-revenue companies with noearnings history, private credit under liquidity pressure, and frontier marketswhere the data is inconsistent and the liquidity is thin.
Every one ofthose problems eventually comes down to the same question. What discount ratecan you defend, and where did its components come from?
That is whatsmartZebra delivers. Risk-free rates, beta factors, market and country riskpremia, credit spreads and multiples from a single database, at your valuationdate, with the raw data and calculation path attached to the result.
Asia makes thisharder than most markets, which is exactly why we want to be in the room.
What we are bringing to the conversation
Come and findus in Singapore if you want to discuss:
- Country risk premia – for more than 100countries, built for exactly the emerging and frontier market work theafternoon sessions cover
- Cost of capital in volatile markets – all sixWACC parameters individually adjustable and documented
- Credit spreads and cost of debt – by rating andterm, from 1 to 30 years, including synthetic ratings where no external ratingexists, useful for private credit mandates
- Peer group selection – AI-assisted screeningacross a database of listed and private companies, when regional comparablesare scarce
- Beta factors – flexible reference indices andreturn intervals, which matters when the local index is thin or dominated by ahandful of names
- Multiples for early-stage and intangible-heavybusinesses – trailing and forward-looking peer multiples plus sectorbenchmarks
- Traceability – what a reproducible valuationfile looks like when auditors, regulators and investors are all applying morescrutiny
Where the programme is heading
Three sessionsstand out from where we sit.
The panel onintangible value examines the Intangible Disclosure Framework as a way tobridge intrinsic and reported value, and asks why intangible-intensive businesses are so often mispriced. The two AI sessions move from assessing AIclaims in the companies being analysed to using AI in the analytical workitself, with an honest look at where automation stops and professionaljudgement has to take over. And the cross-jurisdictional panel under the IVSC'sAsia Committee looks at how IVS adoption meets local market realities acrossSoutheast Asia.
The threadconnecting them is the one we care about most: as scrutiny rises, thederivation behind a number matters as much as the number.
Everything you need to know
Let's connect in Singapore
If you areattending in person or joining virtually, get in touch beforehand. Whether youare pricing private credit, building a discount rate for a frontier market mandate, or working out how to evidence an intangible valuation, we would beglad to go through the data side of it with you.
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