Speakers and topics

Alex joined Allianz Global Investors in 2022. He is part of the thematic equity team, with a focus on SDG-aligned investing and sustainability. He manages the team’s multi-SDG strategy: Allianz Positive Change. Prior to joining, he was a fund manager with Sarasin & Partners managing thematically and sustainability-focused global equity funds. He was also an equity analyst at IFM Investors in Sydney for three years.

Stephanie has over 25 years of investment experience, having held various roles over the years as an equity analyst at Societe Generale, fund manager at F&C and consultant at Ernst& Young. She has been a product specialist since 2008 firstly at Fidelity International and then at Artemis Investment Management prior to joining Allianz GI in October 2023

Joe is the manager of AVI Global Trust and AVI Japan Opportunity Trust and is responsible for all investment decisions across AVI’s strategies. He has more than 24 years’ experience in the finance industry. Before joining AVI in 2002, he worked for six years at a real estate investment organisation in London.

Claire joined Baillie Gifford in 2019 as an investment specialist for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Prior to this, she was a portfolio manager of European small- and mid-caps at SYZ Asset Management and previously spent six years at Franklin Templeton on the European equities team.

Evy is the global head of thematic and sector-based investing and team leader for the natural resources team within the BlackRock's fundamental equity group. He is responsible for the platform of Thematic and Sector products and co-manages the BGF World Gold, BlackRock Gold and General, BGF World Mining, BGF Circular Economy and BGF Brown to Green Materials funds.

Rob's role encompasses business development, product strategy and client communications with responsibility for both active equity and ETF products. He joined BlackRock in 2015 from Legal & General IM where he was product specialist for the fundamental active equity business focusing on Asian and UK equity income strategies.

Diliana has been head of emerging market debt at Candriam since 2015. She started her career at ING IM in the Netherlands as a quantitative fixed income analyst in 2002 and was promoted to an EM debt fund manager in 2006. At ING IM, she co-managed and developed investment processes for HC, LC and blend strategies. Between 2011 and 2015, she worked at F&C Investments as a senior emerging fund manager.

Mark joined Cantab in 2019 and is the fund manager for the VT Cantab Sustainable Global Equity Fund. He has more than 25 years’ experience in equity research and fund management and previously managed Ninety One’s Global Special Situations and American Franchise funds.

Benjamin is a portfolio manager within the European equities team and he has co-managed the Threadneedle European Select strategy since April 2019. Benjamin joined the European equities team in 2015 as an equity analyst, where he was responsible for researching small cap European companies. In this role, he was also deputy portfolio manager of the Threadneedle European Smaller Companies strategy. Before joining the company, Benjamin spent six years with Goldman Sachs, where he worked as an equity research analyst within the European mid cap team covering companies across a range of industry sectors.

Matthew is responsible for the oversight of the VT Gravis UK Listed Property (PAIF) Fund and the VT Gravis Digital Infrastructure Income Fund. He has more than two decades investment management experience and has a specialist focus on real estate securities and digital infrastructure investments. 

Paul is senior fund manager of the JOHCM Continental European Fund. His previous industry experience includes serving as a pan-European fund manager at Sanwa AM and a fund management role at Newton IM. He began his career at Barclays Capital within its capital markets division.

Before joining Jupiter in 2015, Jason worked at Newton, where he headed the Asian equities team and managed a number of funds, including an Asian equity income fund from 2005 until 2015. Prior to this, he was responsible for stock selection and asset allocation in the Asia ex-Japan region for the BP Pension Fund.

Eva joined the Wholesale Fixed Income team in September 2019 as Junior Macro Fund Manager. Her role involves implementing macroeconomic trade ideas in the Global Macro Bond Funds and the Absolute Return Bond Funds. Prior to this role, she joined M&G in 2018 on the Investment Graduate Scheme, rotating across several business areas including Emerging Market Debt, Corporate Credit Research, Real Estate and Long Term Investment Strategy.

Victoria is an investment officer and institutional equity portfolio manager MFS Meridian® Funds – Global Intrinsic Value Fund. In her role, she participates in the research process and strategy discussions, assesses portfolio risk, customizes portfolios to client objectives and guidelines and manages daily cash flows. She is also responsible for communicating investment policy, strategy and positioning. Victoria joined MFS in 2011 in her current role. Before that she spent three years at Fidelity International as a UK institutional client director.

As an investment director within the fixed income platform, Paul works closely with the specialist teams to help ensure the integrity of their investment approaches. He also serves as a thought partner for the distribution partners on their fixed income allocations.