Speakers
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Christoffer Dahlberg | Symbiotics Christoffer has worked in the fund industry in Luxembourg and Zurich since 1997. At Banque Générale du Luxembourg he led the project of registering the first fund of hedge funds in Luxembourg, and then took over the European distribution of structured hedge fund products for UK-based GNI Fund Management. In 2003 Christoffer moved to Zurich as co-founder of an independent hedge fund distribution company, promoting single funds and funds of funds to institutional investors in Switzerland and Scandinavia. In that role he also initiated and led the development of one of Europe’s first commercial microfinance funds. Other positions have included Head of Nordic institutional investors at the Swiss private bank Union Bancaire Privée, and Head of European Sales at the Finnish CTA firm Estlander & Partners.
Swedish by birth, Christoffer holds a Master’s in Financial Economics and International Business from the Stockholm School of Economics and is fluent in five languages. He is married with two children and lives outside Zurich.
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Matthew McAdden | Atelier Matthew has twenty years' of experience working in the property development, investment management and funding sectors. He is the co.founder of three companies with a focus on purpose built student accommodation.
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Tom Anderson | Atelier Tom Anderson has over twenty years' experience across investment banking, fund management and strategy consulting.
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Eric Anderson | Milltrust Eric Anderson, Managing Partner & Head of Investment Solutions, heads asset allocation and portfolio management for the Milltrust public equities business and is responsible for running Milltrust's Investment Solutions business and co-running the award-winning Multi-Manager Managed Accounts platform. Mr Anderson, a trained economist from the University of California, Berkeley, brings over 15 years of international investment industry experience in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has spent nearly a decade focused exclusively on the Emerging Markets, where he has extensive experience setting strategic fund allocations for institutional investors, researching local investment managers, providing investment research and full due diligence capabilities and structuring and seeding a number of fund strategies in these regions.
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Gerardine Davies | Perenna Gerardine has over 25 years' experience in investment management for large pension funds, institutional investors and retail investors in real estate open-ended funds. Gerardine provides strategic investment advice with particular emphasis on the UK market completing in excess of£10 billion of investment transactions for various funds in the direct and indirect real estate markets. As part of the BNP Paribas real estate Board and CEO for UK REIM, Gerardine was responsible for the investment management business for bank clients. Gerardine established the real estate fund management business in the UK for AEGON (KamesCapital) having joined from Morley Fund Management (Aviva Investors) where she headed the open ended retail funds business. As a member of the property executive, she spearheaded the campaign for the “man in the street” investor to access commercial real estate funds. Assets grew from £380 million to c£5 billion. Whilst at Hermes, Gerardine was the Senior Investment Manager and member of the Investment Committee acting for the Post Office and British Telecom Pension Schemes (with approximately £3 billion under management). At Hermes, she dealt with the acquisition of listed property company MEPC plc in a£4 billion real estate private equity deal in conjunction with GE Capital. Gerardine has established well-known investment funds in unit trusts and limited partnerships. Gerardine is a Chartered Surveyor, a member of the Investment Property Forum and the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors. She holds a postgraduate diploma in Property Investment, is a holder of the IMC and former external examiner for the MSc in Property Investment for Reading University.
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Hamish Peacocke | Perenna Hamish has 15 years' experience in the financial markets having worked in prominent roles in leading banks and law firms. Since Perenna was founded, he has worked on a number of advisory mandates including the sale of a UK residential mortgage loan portfolio to an Australian financial services group, the structuring of a non-conforming RMBS transaction, and the sale of a residential mortgage loan platform. Prior to Perenna, he worked in the debt capital markets group at Credit Suisse in London where he was responsible for the origination and structuring of debt products, particularly RMBS and covered bonds, across Europe. Hamish previously worked in the securitisation and covered bond structuring group of BNP Paribas in London where he was responsible for the structuring of RMBS and covered bond programmes for banking clients located primarily in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. The group won the Covered Bond Structuring House of the Year award on several occasions during that time. Prior to joining BNP Paribas, he worked for international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in both the London and Paris offices specialising in asset-backed funding including RMBS and residential mortgage covered bonds. After graduating, Hamish worked in the banking and finance group of Russell McVeagh, one of New Zealand's top tier law firms, acting for banks and corporates in relation to their global debt capital markets programmes as well as in relation to bilateral and syndicated bank lending and the conduit funding of a range of asset portfolios. Hamish holds degrees in law and economics from Canterbury University in New Zealand. He is a New Zealand and Irish national.
