And this year's congress will be even bigger
Meet our speakers
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Lewis S. Alexander was appointed Chief Economist and head of the Economic and Market Analysis (EMA) group at Citi in April 2005. In this capacity, Lewis leads a team of more than 60 economists, strategists and research assistants in 15 countries. EMA produces daily, weekly, monthly and annual publications that provide original macro economic insights on global market developments as well as regional and country specific forecasts and analyses. Lewis also regularly presents EMA’s analysis to clients, policymakers, and senior leaders of Citi around the world.
Previously, Lewis served as the Global Head for Emerging Markets within EMA from 1999 until 2005. In that role, Lewis directed the work of economics teams covering Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia (excluding Japan). Lewis joined Citi in September 1999 as a Managing Director.
Prior to joining Citi, Lewis had a long career at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he served most recently as Deputy Director of the Division of International Finance. As Deputy Director, Lewis directed the Federal Reserve Board’s analysis of foreign financial markets and international banking, represented the Federal Reserve in key international forums, and worked closely with the U.S. Treasury on a variety of policy issues. Lewis also was an Associate Economist of the Federal Open Market Committee. Earlier, he served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Commerce (1993-96) and was a consultant to the Bank for International Settlements (1988-89).
Lewis received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1987, after obtaining an M.Phil. from Yale in 1985. Previously, he obtained an A.M. (1979) and an A.B. (1978) in Economics from Stanford University.
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Founding Partner, President,
Cygnus Asset Management SGIIC S.A.
At Cygnus José María Amusategui is responsible for the domestic business as well as Cygnus’ institutional relations with Spanish regulatory bodies among other things.
José María worked for 14 years with UBS. Originally an investment banker based in London, he was involved in M&A deals; IPO’s; and equity derivatives structures while part of the Corporate Finance division. After seven years he moved to the Wealth Management Division to create a Corporate Finance capacity and later the Key Clients Group for large private clients in Spain.
José María began his professional career in 1986 working for the consulting division of Arthur Andersen (now Accenture), gaining experience on information systems and strategic management consulting. Later in 1988 he worked for Advent España SA a venture capital firm part of the Advent International network, where he participate in fund raising, deal flow generation, financial analysis and due diligence. José María holds an undergraduate degree in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and an MBA from ESADE.
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Editor,
Financial Times Deutschland GmbH
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Co-Chairman and CIO,
Halcyon Asset Management LLC
Mr. Bader has been portfolio manager for Halcyon’s multi-strategy funds since 1991, after serving as Director of Research at Gruss & Co. He began his career on Wall Street with IFB Managing Partnership in 1985. Mr. Bader has been a frequent speaker at educational forums on investing, including ones sponsored by NMS Management, Institutional Investor, The Borsa Italiana (Italian Stock Exchange), Columbia Business School, and the World Presidents’ Organization. He has been featured in the Barron’s Roundtable, the Financial Times, and MARHedge, among other publications. A recipient of numerous academic prizes, Mr. Bader received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1984.
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Director and Portfolio Manager of the Global Macro Programme,
GLC
Steven Bell is a Director and portfolio manager of GLC’s Global Macro Hedge Fund Programme. GLC is a long-established hedge fund company based in London.
Before joining GLC, he spent 20 years at Deutsche Bank and predecessor companies. For the last five years he was Deutsche Asset Management’s Global Chief Economist, responsible for asset allocation.
Steven has economics degrees from the LSE and Stanford University and was an Economic Adviser at the Treasury. He is one of the City’s best-known economists, appears regularly on TV and radio and has written numerous articles and books on finance and economics.
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Direction de la régulation et des affaires internationales,
Autorité des marchés financiers
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Mr. Michael Brandenberger, Chief Executive Officer,
Complementa Investment Controlling
Michael Brandenberger has held various positions at Complementa since 1995. As President and CEO he is responsible for all of Complementa’s activities in Switzerland, Germany and Liechtenstein and is involved in various client projects, especially in the field of ALM-studies, but also manager selection and consulting. As well, he serves as the chairman of Allocare AG, a producer of asset management software. In addition, Michael is the author of Complementa’s annual survey on the situation of Swiss pension funds and is a member of the advisory board of the annual Swisscanto pension fund survey and is a co-author of the book “Pension Fund Governance – Handbook for the management of pension funds”. He holds a master’s degree in economics with a major in financial market theory from the University of St. Gallen (HSG).
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Executive Director,
Ansher Fund Management Limited
Mr. Buschor has over seven years of banking, finance and legal experience. Prior to joining the Ansher Fund Management team as Executive Business Development Director, Pascal held a senior position with RBR Capital, a leading single hedge fund firm based in Switzerland. His function as Head of Sales and General Counsel allowed him to gain deep knowledge and insight in the industry. Prior to this, he worked for UBS, Switzerland's largest bank, advising in legal matters again on a consolidated basis in London and Zurich.
He began his professional career at Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second largest bank, advising on matters on a group-wide global basis in the Legal & Compliance team.
Pascal graduated with honors and received his Master in Law at the University of Zurich. He is also a proud Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst / CAIA holder. End of 2008, his PhD on Hedge Funds and their structure will be filed. He is fluent in English, German and French.
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Chief Executive Officer,
MAN Group
Peter Clarke was appointed Group Chief Executive of Man Group plc in March 2007.
Peter joined the Man Group in 1993, ahead of the company’s flotation on the London Stock Exchange in 1994. He subsequently rose through the ranks to become Head of Corporate Finance and Corporate Affairs in 1996, was appointed Group Company Secretary in the same year, and joined the Man Group Board in 1997. He became Finance Director in May 2000 and Deputy Group Chief Executive in November 2005.
Prior to joining Man Group, Peter practiced as a solicitor with Slaughter & May in London, before moving into investment banking with Morgan Grenfell and Citicorp, working in mergers and acquisitions.
Peter Clarke studied Law at Queens’ College Cambridge and subsequently qualified as a solicitor in 1985.
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Director, Restructuring & Distressed Group,
Blackstone Group
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Head of Global Tactical Asset Allocation,
APG Investments
Gerlof de Vrij is Head of Global Tactical Asset Allocation at APG Investments. APG’s GTAA Fund aims to generate pure alpha through dynamic and diversified top-down investment strategies across all assets and risk factors. The fund exploits APG's existing expertise in the assessment of market fundamentals, macro-economic insights, quantitative investment technology and the selection and management of external investment managers.
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Member of the Executive Committee,
Hedge Fund Standards Board
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Managing Director,
Scorpio Partnership
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Managing Director,
Ferguson Partners Family Office
Dr. Steen Ehlern, holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration and a PhD from the University of Zurich. Parallel to his studies, he worked in management consulting, M&A, and merchant/investment banking. During his doctorate (magna cum laude) at the Swiss Banking Institute of the University of Zurich, he was employed in private banking and the trust department of a Swiss private bank, followed by positions at international private banks. He is currently working for investors in the Family Office business and advising families, U-HNWIs, family offices and specialist advisors on the set-up of family office solutions, selection of multi-client family offices and various providers, real estate projects, hedge funds, family businesses, co-investments and strategic family matters. Furthermore, he advises in strategic and operational succession-planning and Mergers & Acquisitions of smaller Private Banks and Asset Managers as well as strategic investments and de-investments. Dr. Steen Ehlern is Managing Director of a private multi-client Family Office in London and Zurich and editorial advisor to the Private Wealth Management magazine, author of an international study & research on U-HNWIs and Family Offices (read by top five management consultants, single as well as multi-client family offices, their advisors, banks and law firms), author of various articles & working papers and speaker, panellist, moderator and Chairman at international conferences.
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Chief Executive Officer,
Partner Advisors
Luc D. Estenne is Chief Executive of Partners Advisers S.A., a Geneva based family office which provides global hedge fund investment advisory services to a group of privately held investment companies and selected institutions in Europe. The family group behind Partners Advisers started to invest in hedge funds in 1987. Partners Advisers runs USD 1.5 billion in hedge funds.
From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Estenne was an officer of Bank Brussels Lambert (BBL) in New York and Brussels, trading proprietary capital. Prior to joining BBL, he held different positions in the Global Technology and Operation group of JP Morgan Brussels. Mr Estenne received his MBA (Commercial Engineer Degree) with distinction from the Catholic University of Louvain in 1990.
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Chief Investment Officer,
AP2
Tomas is a strong advocate of fundamental, quantitative, equal, and GDP weighted indexes having carried out extensive research on the subject. His presentation is set to be a rare opportunity to hear first hand from a seasoned practitioner on alternative indexes.
Tomas Franzén currently holds a position as Chief Investment Strategist at the Second Swedish National Pension Fund – AP2, in Gothenburg. AP2 is one of four buffer-funds within the recently reformed Swedish national pay-as-you-go pension system. As Chief Investment Strategist, Tomas is responsible for issues related to Investment Policy and Strategic Asset Allocation. AP2 has USD 30 bn in assets under management invested in a broad-based global portfolio with 60% in equities. The policy benchmark is the result of an annual Asset-Liability-Management study where the design of a PAYG pension system plays a central role. He is also a member of the Executive Committee.
Before joining AP2 at the start-up in 2001, Tomas, between 1998-2001, held a position as Chief Strategist at Swedbank Markets, advising the banks’ Swedish and global clients on equity investments. Prior to that, he was Chief Strategist at Den Norske Bank between 1996-1998. During 1986-1996, he served as a senior economist at Svenska Handelsbanken in Stockholm. In the early 80’s, Tomas held a position as Economist at The Swedish Employers’ Confederation.
Tomas holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He is also a holder of CEFA (Certified EFFAS Financial Analyst).
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Managing Director,
Loeb Family Office
Fred Fruitman is a Managing Director of Loeb Partners Corporation, the investment firm of the Loeb family of New York, which controlled the investment banking firm of Loeb Rhoades until its sale to Shearson Hayden Stone in 1979. Mr Fruitman began his career as a lawyer in Toronto, Canada with the law firm of Davies, Ward & Beck. He has also worked in corporate finance at Merrill Lynch, consulting at Bain & Company and venture capital at 3i and Warburg, Pincus. He has been with Loeb Partners since 1990.
Mr Fruitman was born in Toronto, Canada and received a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, an LLB from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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Mr. Antonio Garcia Pascual, Financial Economist, Monetary and Capital Markets Department,
International Monetary Fund
Antonio Garcia Pascual represents the International Monetary Fund at the stress testing working group of the Research Task Force of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
His role within the IMF is as a financial sector economist in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the IMF. His areas of expertise are macro-econometric modeling and risk measurement and management in financial institutions.
Prior to joining the IMF, Dr. Garcia Pascual was on the faculty of the University of Munich where he taught International Finance and Econometrics. His academic research has been published in journals such as the Journal of International Money and Finance, Review of International Economics, and Oxford Economic Papers.
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Global Investment Strategist,
Julius Baer
Christian launched in May of this year a 'substantial values strategy' that weights the stocks on their book value. This has so far proved successful with further exploration now being made to launch indexes based on fundamental weightings. Christian however doesn't believe that fundamentally weighted indexes will take over the market cap indexing sector due to the fact that long standing highly liquidated indexes such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average will continue to act as some level of benchmark within the majority of investors portfolios, and remain the favoured option for long-term investors. However Christian does believe that for clever passive investors there is little extra gain by investing in the large traditional market cap weighted indexes and instead they should examine opportunities within fundamentally weighted indexes.
After having earned a degree in economics from the University of Berne, Christian Gattiker joined the economic department of Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) as an economic editor in 1995. He then moved to Peter Bütikofer & Cie. as an investor relations consultant for domestic and international stock-listed companies. In 2000 he joined Credit Suisse as an equity analyst, covering industrial sectors on a pan-European basis. In 2002 he was appointed to head the Swiss equity team, assuming responsibility for Swiss and European equity strategy. He received his CFA charter that same year. In 2004 Christian took over the position of Global Equity Strategist at Credit Suisse, in particular covering the U.S. equity market. In August 2006 he joined Julius Baer as Head of Equity & Strategy Research. He earned the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation in 2007.
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Head of Alternative Investments,
Swiss Life Insurance
Pierre Guillemin, as a Managing Director at Swiss Life Asset Management, is responsible for Quantitative Asset Management and Alternative investments. Previously, he was Head of Asset Management at Swiss Life Asset Management (France) where he developped Quantitative techniques for Asset allocation, credit management and directional trading. Pierre Guillemin is graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris and Université des Sciences de Paris (DEA Statistics and Stochastic Processes).
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Chief Economist,
Dresdner Bank
Michael Heise advises the boards of Allianz Group and Dresdner Bank on economic issues. He is responsible for analysis and forecasts of the German and the international economy and the financial markets and oversees country and industry risk analysis.
Heise studied and graduated at Cologne University
and lectured at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt-am-Main. He is honorary professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.
Before joining Allianz Group, Heise was Secretary General of the German Council of Economic Experts, Chief Economist of the DG Bank and Chief Economist and Head of Research at DZ Bank.
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Vice-Chairman,
Swiss National Bank
Philipp Hildebrand was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank in May 2007. Prior to that, he served as Member of the Swiss National Bank’s Governing Board since June 2003.
Mr Hildebrand began his professional career at the World Economic Forum in Geneva. In 1995, he joined Moore Capital Management in London and was made Partner in 1997. He returned to Switzerland in 2000 to become Chief Investment Officer of the Vontobel Group. In 2001, he joined the Executive Committee of Union Bancaire Privée in Geneva where he took on the role as Chief Investment Officer.
Philipp Hildebrand was raised in Switzerland and in the United States. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1988. In 1990, he received a master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. In 1994, he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Oxford with a D.Phil in International Relations. While enrolled at Oxford, he was awarded visiting fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence (1992) and at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University (1993).
Mr Hildebrand has been a Visiting Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies since 2002. Between 2006 and 2007, he served as Chairman of the Deputies of the Group of Ten (G10). He is President of the Foundation Board of the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB) in Geneva. In 2006, he was appointed to the Strategic Committee of the French Debt Management Office (Agence France Trésor). Philipp Hildebrand is a member of the Group of Thirty.
He and his wife Kashya have one daughter.
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Global Head of Consulting,
Mercer Investment Consulting
Divyesh is a Worldwide Partner and the Global Director of Consulting for Mercer's investment consulting business. In this capacity, his role is to ensure that Mercer deliver relevant and appropriate solutions to clients. Divyesh continues to provide investment advice to clients across Europe and the Middle East. He is a member of Mercer’s Global Business Leadership Group.
Divyesh has been with Mercer since 1989. Before assuming his current role, he was a part of Mercer's Risk, Finance and Insurance group.
Divyesh has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Warwick and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in the United Kingdom.
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Global Head of Research & Strategy,
Royal Bank of Scotland
Kit is responsible for non-equity research at RBS, running a team of 130 analysts, economists and strategists globally. His team were ranked top of the Euromoney Fixed Income Research poll and the Credit Magazine Credit research poll for Investment Grade research. Personally, he was ranked number 1 in Credit Strategy by Euromoney and runner-uyp by Institutional investor along with his colleague Bob Janjuah. He has been running Fixed Income research since 2002, having joined Natwest markets in 1995 as head of bond and currency strategy . Prior to that, he worked in Interntaional Economics at SG Warburg and The Mitsui Bank.
Kit was born in Kenya and brought up in Paris before studying economics at University College, London. He lives in London with his wife Cheryl, a journalist. They have two children.
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Principal,
Fundabilis GmbH
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Hedge Fund Manager,
Alpheus Advisors
Nikos is responsible for the hedge fund investments at Alpheus, a European family office with a considerable allocation to alternatives.
Prior to Alpheus, Nikos co-founded and held the position of Managing Director at IKOS SA, an investments and technology firm backed by the IKOS hedge fund firm. Between 2001 and 2004, he was a senior hedge fund analyst at Merrill Lynch and Schroders in London. Prior to that, Nikos was a Hedge Fund Analyst and Financial Engineer with the Man Group in London, developing structured products on hedge fund portfolios. Nikos graduated with an MBA and a first class Mechanical Engineering Master's degree from Imperial College in London.
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Institutional Sales Manager,
Eurex Zurich AG
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Senior European Economist,
Bank of America
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Director, ABS/ILS,
Swiss Re
Jean-Louis Monnier joined Swiss Re in 2002 and is responsible for Insurance Linked Securities origination and syndication in Europe.
Along with placing insurance risk with capital market investors, Jean-Louis is promoting new risk transfer initiatives in the Life and Non-Life sectors in bond or derivatives form. He has also structured ALM hedges for Life insurance companies. Jean-Louis has 14 years experience in marketing structured assets and risk transfer solutions to European financial institutions. Prior to joining Swiss Re, he worked in the derivatives solutions groups of Gen Re Securities, CIBC World Markets and Société Générale. He holds an MBA from ESSEC business school in France.
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Head of Asset Management,
BONUS Pensionskassen
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author ‘The Black Swan’ and Senior Scientific Advisor, Universa Investments,
Universa Investments L.P.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, of Universa, is an essayist, a scholar, and a veteran trader. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University and the author of The Black Swan.
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Head of Asset Allocation,
Barclays Wealth Management
Mads Pedersen is the Head of Asset Allocation at Barclays Wealth, who has approximately £135 billion under management in both discretionary and advisory mandates. Before joining Barclays, Mads worked at Danske Capital, the asset management arm of Danske Bank, where he was head of Asset Allocation and Macro. At Danske Capital, Mads was head of the investment committee. In this position Mads constructed and managed both absolute and relative return portfolios for institutional investors, foundations and private clients, with aggregate assets under management in excess of $50 billion. Prior to joining Danske Capital, Mads worked as Chief Strategist at Alfred Berg in Copenhagen, where he was ranked number 1 in his field. Mads holds a masters degree in Economics from Copenhagen University, and studied at the University of Vienna’s PhD program as part of the EU’s Socrates exchange system.
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Managing Director, Regulation Policy & International Affairs Division,
Autorité des marchés financiers
Since February 2004, Hubert Reynier has been Managing Director in charge of the Division of Regulation Policy and International Affairs at the newly created Autorité des Marchés Financiers (further to the merger of the COB with another market regulatory authority, the Conseil des Marchés Financiers). He also chairs the Standing Committee n° 5 dedicated to Investment Management at the International Organization of Securities Commissions.
He joined the Commission des Opérations de Bourse (COB, French Securities & Exchange Commission) in May 2000, as Special Advisor to the Managing Director. Between 2001 and 2004, he managed the Corporate Finance Department of the Commission.
Prior to that, he entered the Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) in 1992 where he started his investment banking career through various assignments within the international network of the Bank: Senior Vice President, Investment Banking Department, BNP New-York (1993-1994), General Manager of BNP London Branch successively in charge of Capital Markets and Asset Management (1994-1998), CEO of BNP Group for Belgium and the Netherlands (1998-2000).
Hubert Reynier was appointed to the Inspection Générale des Finances at the French Treasury Department after graduating from the ENA (Ecole Nationale d’Administration) in 1988. He has a BA of the Institute for Political Studies of Paris, a BA in Law, and a Post-Graduate Degree in Economics of the Paris University La Sorbonne.
He is married and has five children.
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Chief Executive Officer,
Cardano UK
Kerrin is heads Cardano’s UK team and has overall responsibility for growing the business in the UK.
Kerrin has over 15 years’ experience in institutional investment and has been the lead adviser to trustees of UK and multi-national pension schemes, with assets of over £50bn.
Widely recognised as one of the most innovative advisers in the industry, Kerrin has helped his clients become early adopters of many investment concepts that are today commonplace. These include the use of swaps to manage liability risks, unconstrained equities and alternative assets.
Kerrin is an actuary having qualified in 1995. He graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Economics. He joined Bacon & Woodrow’s investment practice in 1992 and became a partner of the firm in 2000.
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Managing Partner & Co-Founder,
Plenum Family Office
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Founding Partner,
Cygnus Asset Management SGIIC S.A.
At Cygnus Isabel is the Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for the international business among other things. Prior to co-founding Cygnus, Isabel provided consulting and advisory services to individual and institutional clients, and from 1999-2001, she served as Vice President of Khronos LLC, an unregistered investment adviser based in New York.
While there, her main responsibilities included evaluating investment opportunities for the firm's investment vehicles, evaluating appropriate legal structures for the same and negotiating line of credit agreements. Before that, she spent three years in the Strategic Projects division of CARHCO, a Retail Holding Company in Central America, (currently Wal-Mart of Central America). Between 1991-1995 Isabel worked within the Emerging Markets-Fixed Income Division at Banco Santander de Negocios in Madrid, where her responsibilities included sales, trading (primary and secondary markets), and syndication.
Isabel received an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She has been Certified by the International Securities Market Association in Zurich.
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Member of the Executive Committee,
Blackstone Group
John Studzinski is a Senior Managing Director and global head of the Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory group. Mr. Studzinski is based in both New York and London.
Mr. Studzinski’s primary role is to oversee Blackstone’s Corporate Advisory Services business in the US and develop the Corporate Advisory business in Europe and Asia. He is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
Before joining Blackstone in 2006, Mr. Studzinski was a member of the Group Management Board and co-head of investment banking at HSBC based in London from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that he was at Morgan Stanley from 1980 to 2003, where he served as head of the European Investment Banking Division and Deputy Chairman of Morgan Stanley International.
His recent transaction experience includes advising the Board of Reuters on the merger with Thompson, China Development Bank on its investment in Barclays PLC, the Board of Northern Rock on its restructuring, the Board of Suez on the proposed merger with Gaz de France and the Board of Unilever on the Dual Head Structure.
Mr. Studzinski graduated from Bowdoin College in 1978 with a double BA Degree Magna Cum Laude in Biology & Sociology. He received an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1980 in Finance and Marketing. He is Vice-Chair and Director of Human Rights Watch where he serves on the Executive Committee as well as Chairman of the Investment Committee. He also serves as a Trustee of Bowdoin College, the Tate Foundation, The Passage Day Centre for the Homeless, The Royal Parks Foundation and the Nelson Mandela Legacy Trust (UK) and is Chair of the Emmaus Revives Lives campaign. In mid 2007, Mr Studzinski stepped down as a trustee of the Tate and became Chairman of Benjamin Franklin House. In 2001, he established the Genesis Foundation which supports and nurtures emerging composers, directors, writers and actors into sustained careers in the arts.
Mr. Studzinski was made a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory for his humanitarian work for the homeless. He was also made a Knight Commander of Saint Sylvester. He received the Prince of Wales Ambassador’s Award in recognition of his contribution to the homeless. He received the Beacon Prize in 2004 for services to philanthropy and in October 2007 was voted Banker of the Year by the Variety Club UK.
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Managing Director,
Stichting Pensioenfonds Atos Origin
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As Chief Strategist, Jaap is responsible for strategic asset allocation, portfolio construction and the innovation of the investment mix with PGGM Investments.
After graduating in 1987 from Rotterdam Erasmus University, where he studied Finance,
Mr Van Dam joined Algemene Bank Nederland (Later ABN AMRO Bank). In 1990 he moved to Bank Mees & Hope (later MeesPierson) holding various positions including Head of Funds Research.
From 1999 until 2004 he was responsible for Portfolio Construction, Manager Selection and Risk Budgeting with VermogensGroep as Head of Research and CIO. Mr Van Dam started at PGGM Investments in 2005 as Head of Inhouse Equities.
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Professor Richard Werner, Professor of International Banking, University of Southampton, Chief Investment Advisor,
Profit Group
Richard has been voted one of the top economists by leading investor surveys and is known for his asset allocation and currency models that are based on central bank and bank credit creation. He founded UK-based Providence Asset Management Ltd. in 2007, which manages the Profit Global Macro Fund AGmvK and the Spaengler Global Macro Trust. Before founding Providence, Richard was senior managing director and senior portfolio manager at Bear Stearns Asset Management Ltd., where he ran the Global Alpha Fund. He developed a large following with his monthly Global Liquidity Watch reports, produced by his research firm Profit Research Center Ltd., Tokyo. Previously, Richard was chief economist at Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia) Ltd., as well as a member of the asset allocation committee of a US$6.2 billion corporate pension fund in Japan. He has 20 years of experience in the financial sector, at institutions such as the Asian Development Bank, the Ministry of Finance of Japan, the Bank of Japan, the Development Bank of Japan, Deutsche Bank and the Nomura Research Institute. He has taught finance at universities in both Japan and England and is currently Professor of International Banking at the University of Southampton. His book “Princes of the Yen”, on the Japanese central bank became a No. 1 bestseller in Japan. His latest book is “New Paradigm in Macroeconomics”, published by Palgrave Macmillan. In 2003, Richard was selected as “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Principal,
Bluecrest Capital Management
Piers Westerman is Head of Investor Relations and a Principal at BlueCrest Capital Management Limited. He joined BlueCrest in September 2001 from Merrill Lynch, where he was Managing Director for Fixed Income Sales. Prior to that, he worked at JP Morgan and CSFB in Fixed Income Sales to Institutions and Hedge Funds. He spent 14 months on secondment at Man Investments, where he was Global Head of Institutional Sales. He holds a degree in History from York University and a MBA (with distinction) from Manchester Business School.
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Head of Research and Tactical Asset Allocation,
Generali Insurance
Klaus Wiener is Head of Research of Generali Investments, the Group’s asset management unit. He assumed this position in 2003. In addition, he was appointed Managing Director of Generali Investments Germany in January 2008. Since 2007, he has also been a Management Board member of AMB Generali Private Equity.
Klaus Wiener joined the Group in June 1998 as chief economist for the German operation. In this position, he was responsible for economic analysis and financial market forecasts. With the integration of the Generali Asset Management under the roof of Generali Investments S.p.A., Trieste, he became responsible for the Group’s competence center “Research and Tactical Asset Allocation”. He is a member of the Investment Committee of Generali Investments.
Prior to Generali, Klaus Wiener worked as a senior economist in the economics department of Westdeutsche Landesbank, Düsseldorf (1995-1998). During this time, he concentrated on financial market analysis and country risk. He also served as an advisor for West KA, the banks asset management unit. In the “European Economic and Social Committee”, Brussels, he served as an expert on the introduction of the Euro. He started his career in 1993 as a junior economist at Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt, where he focused on the international business cycle and quantitative tools.
Born in 1962 in Nordhorn, Klaus Wiener studied economics at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, and at the University of Georgia, USA, where he received his Ph.D. During his studies he concentrated on international and financial economics as well as econometrics.
Klaus Wiener is married and has two children.
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Investment Manager for Alternative Assets,
Julius Baer Pension Fund
Sassan Zaker started his career at UBS Zurich and London working on Quantitative Trading strategies using the Neural Network technology. He then moved to FX and Fixed Income Derivative Trading developing arbitrage free fixed income option models used for UBS proprietary and electronic trading. Later at UBS equities division he was responsible for advising institutional clients in asset allocation and optimized equities portfolios. He left UBS to manage money for HNW individuals in an investment boutique where he was also responsible for the internal fund of hedge funds. Later he moved to Swisscanto where he was head of alternative investments. In 2003 he joined Julius Baer as head of alternative product management. He is currently head of hedge fund investments at Julius Baer.
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Head of Alternatives,
Berenberg Bank
Julien Zornig is Vice Director within Berenberg Bank and Head of Berenberg’s global Hedge Fund activities. Berenberg’s neutral allocation to Hedge Funds is 30% for almost 15 years now, leading to a specific expertise in both selecting external managers and constructing Hedge Fund portfolios. Mr. Zornig joined Berenberg in 2003, previously he finished his Master programme at the University of St. Gallen.
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Chief Investment Officer, Leveraged Finance, Carlyle Group,
Carlyle Group
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