8:00 AM REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST

9:00 AM Chief Investment Officer Discussion

Chief Investment Officers face unique challenges as they run sophisticated investment teams across asset classes and maintain a responsibility to a broad base of constituents. How are leading CIOs in British institutions managing risk, providing returns, and maintaining focus and knowledge across a rapidly changing investment management landscape?

Moderator

Marc Rister, Director, Coutts

Panelists

Pete Drewienkiewicz, Chief Investment Officer, Redington

Jenny Segal, Trust Chief Investment Officer, Nesta

Luke Webster, Chief Investment Officer, Greater London Authority

9:45 AM Real Estate Debt & Financing the Green Transition

Claus Skrumsager, Head of Secured Private Credit, Morgan Stanley Investment Management

10:15 AM Value Creation in Private Markets

Managers and investors provide their best ideas and cases for creating value in dynamic, changing, and complicated private markets, including credit, buyouts, and ventures.

Moderator

Anish Butani, Managing Director - Private Markets, Bfinance

Panelists

Raymond Wright, Private Markets Portfolio Manager, London CIV

Joanne Job, Head of Investment Consulting, Apex Investment Advisory

Becky LeAnstey, Investment Manager, Environment Agency Pension Fund

11:00 AM NETWORKING BREAK & MORNING COFFEE

11:30 AM Asset Class Roundtables

Asset Management Partners lead three sessions on asset-class specifics within the alternative investment world.

• Roundtable 1:

Exploring the role of nuclear power in the global energy transition: Is your portfolio positioned to capitalise on this emerging megatrend?

— With Mike Scott, Managing Partner, Pelican Energy Partners

• Roundtable 2:

A discussion of how renewable energy investments generate returns independent of traditional assets, with a focus on maximising returns amid growing clean energy demand.

— With Baiju Devani, Investment Director and Emma Silcocks, Head of ESG, Bluefield

• Roundtable 3:

Evolution and opportunity in UK Real estate - How has investment in UK real estate evolved over recent years and where can the best risk adjusted returns be found in the current market.

— With Sophie Simmonds, Managing Director UK Custom Accounts and Daniel Mahoney, Head of Research and Strategy - Europe, LaSalle

12:30 PM NETWORKING LUNCH & PRE-SCHEDULED MEETINGS

1:40 PM Transforming Student Housing: The Next Frontier in Institutional Real Estate

Paul Discalicau, Capital Manager, GSA

2:00 PM LP & GP Alignment - Beyond Manager Selection

Beyond traditional methods of manager selection and performance tracking, how can LPs and GPs work together to create value for constituents, manage expectations, and collaborate from the research stage to exit? Are GP stakes a viable new method of aligning more closely?

Moderator

Reena Malharkar, Fund Manager - Research & Selection, Phoenix Group

Panelists

Mark Parry, Head of Manager Research, Barnett Waddingham

Misodzi Mukungurutse, Senior Investment Manager, British Business Bank

Hannah Wallis, Co-Head of Multi-Alternative Strategy, EMEA, BlackRock

2:45 PM NETWORKING BREAK & AFTERNOON COFFEE

3:15 PM Incorporating Climate Risk into Alternative Portfolios

From sourcing and screening to monitoring, how should institutional investors best incorporate monitoring climate risk into their portfolios? What are the regulatory concerns for both managers and allocators? How are some funds taking a necessarily robust and forward-looking approach to mitigate climate risk?

Moderator

Sally Bridgeland, Chair, Brunel Pension Partnership Limited

Panelists

Corrado Pistarino, Chief Investment Officer, Foresters Friendly Society

Cara Williams, Global Head of ESG, Climate & Sustainability, Mercer

Bob Tyley, Head of Credit Risk, Hymans Robertson

Jane Anderson, ESG Investment, Homes England

4:00 PM COCKTAIL NETWORKING @ GINGER LILY BAR