13:00 – 13:10 |
Welcome Address
Sonia Gogna, Head of Large Client Solutions, Aon
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13:10 – 13:40 |
Adding to your FI portfolio: Factor Based Fixed Income
Factor based investing/smart beta has exploded in use in equity allocations in recent times, but what about factor based investing in fixed income?
This discussion will explore what is meant by Fixed Income factors and the role that they could play in your portfolios.
Patrick Houweling, Executive Director, Researcher and Portfolio Manager Quantitative Credits, Robeco & Paul Whelan, Senior Fixed Income Manager Researcher, Aon
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13:40 – 14:10 |
Securitised Credit and Regulatory Capital
Regulatory changes post the financial crisis have increased pressure on the banking sector to de-lever their balance sheets. Securitised credit such as CLOs, which allow banks to reduce their credit risk and thus frees up capital, have seen a pick-up in issuance as a result. A less well covered area of the securitisation market, bank capital relief, has also emerged as an alternative solution for banks’ to achieve their regulatory capital requirements without having to sell assets. In this session we will explore the attractions of both strategies for institutional investors.
Alison Trusty, Senior Consultant, Aon
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14:40 – 15:10 |
Liquid Alternatives: Making Hedge Funds Work
This session will discuss the innovative and niche approaches being used to invest in hedge funds enabling investors to improve their broader portfolios and generating maximum value for money from their hedge fund investments.
Chris Ullathorne, Senior Consultant, Hedge Fund Research, Aon
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15:10 – 15:40 |
Real Estate recharged
This session will share where Aon’s Real Estate specialists see the strongest value and share their experience and best practice whilst implementing real estate into your asset portfolio
Oliver Hamilton, Principal Consultant, Aon
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16:00 – 16:30 |
The inside track: A client case study
An interview with Skip McMullen, the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Pension Plan, around his views on consolidation, investment strategy, liquidity and how they are using illiquids.
Mike Rogers, Partner, Aon & Skip McMullen, Chair of Bank of America Pension Plan and Trustee of Bank of America Merrill Lynch UK Pension Plan
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16:30 – 17:00 |
Keynote Address: The Biology of Risk Taking
How will Artificial Intelligence affect the human workforce? Can humans compete against highly intelligent algorithms? John Coates is a physiologist and neuroscientist who previously traded derivatives for Goldman Sachs and ran a trading desk for Deutsche Bank in New York. In his keynote speech, John shares insights from his research into how the human body reacts to risk-taking and stress, and challenges our existing assumptions of our future.
John Coates, physiologist and neuroscientist, Dewline Research
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17:00 – 17:05 |
Closing Remarks
Sonia Gogna, Head of Large Client Solutions, Aon
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