Join us in London for our exclusive Annual General Assembly, bringing together our global community.
We will spotlight leading investors from across the world as they explore the evolving global policy landscape and its impact on investment strategies.
Agenda:
11:00: Table Discussions:
Exclusive to Core Supporters & Investors (Contact [email protected] for details on signing up for the table discussions)
Conflicts, disclosures, and transparency
How can effective communications and appropriate disclosures mitigate investor concerns?
What does a comprehensive AI policy look like?
What are the investor concerns with AI usage?
How are consultants positioning ILS with their client portfolios and what is the feedback on these discussions?
Best practice for disclosures and how the SBAI STER and Open Protocol reports can help
What does effective communication look like between LPs and GPS?
What are investors looking for with their key relationships?
What are the origins and types of current cyber threats and how can firms seek to protect themselves?
12:00: Main Registration & Lunch


William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics , Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University

Leading Macroeconomists discuss the underlying themes driving markets and explore what signals to watch and how to respond.

15:10: Coffee Break
How are institutional investors adapting their portfolios for challenging markets? Is TPA allowing them to monetise volatility, and what tenets of asset management are being challenged?


17:10: Concluding Remarks and Refreshments
More agenda details and Speakers to be announced

SBAI Chair; CEO, Martlet Asset Management
Jane is Chief Executive Officer of Martlet Asset Management responsible for firm strategy, organization and performance. Martlet is based in Newport Beach, CA and was founded in July 2018. The firm’s strategies include alternative risk premia and developing liquid strategies with a focus on fixed income.
Prior to this, Ms. Buchan co-founded and led Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO), a Fund of Hedge Funds focused on institutional investors for 18 years. Under her leadership first as CEO of PAAMCO and then co-CEO of PAAMCO Prisma, the firm grew to $32 billion AUM placing it third globally in the league tables by the time of her retirement in July 2018 (HFM InvestHedge Billion Dollar Club).
Jane began her career at J.P. Morgan Investment Management in the Capital Markets Group where she was trained in quantitative fixed income portfolio management. She has been an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She recently served as chairwoman of the board for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Master of Financial Engineering Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Jane holds both a PhD and an MA in Business Economics (Finance) from Harvard University. She earned a BA in Economics from Yale University. Jane has thirty-three years of experience in investment management and portfolio construction with institutional investors.

William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics , Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University
Mark Blyth is the William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and the Director of the Rhodes Centre for International Economics and Finance.
He is the author many award-winning books including, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (New York: Oxford University Press 2015), Angrynomics (New York: Columbia University Press 2020), Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation (Oxford University Press 2022), and Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers, which was a ‘best book of the summer 2025’ from the Financial Times. He writes about the politics of growth, distribution, and decarbonization, and why people continue to believe dubious economic ideas despite buckets of evidence to the contrary.

MD, Head of Portfolio Management Advisory, Man Group
Alex Preston is Managing Director and Head of Advisory at Man Group, responsible for Portfolio Management Advisory and for the firm’s client research collaboration with Oxford University, OMI Advisory. He was previously Head of Content at Millennium. Prior to that, he was a Client Investment Strategist at Man Group, working for the firm from 2013 to 2020.
Alex started his career in 2001, working for a credit hedge fund before moving to The Carlyle Group, where he was Head of Global Trading. He is a prize-winning author and journalist, writing regularly for The Economist, Financial Times, and The Guardian.
Alex graduated from the University of Oxford with an MA in English Literature and holds a PhD from University College, London. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Research and Content Director, SBAI
Brian Digney joined the SBAI in March 2023 in the role of Research and Content Director. He is responsible for content development and co-ordination of the ongoing and future working groups on a wide variety of topics, including valuation of private assets, ESG & carbon footprinting, governance, insurance linked strategies, digital assets, asset management regulation and compliance as well as new topics to be determined in the future.
Prior to joining the SBAI, Brian was the Head of Due Diligence & Governance Oversight at Innocap Global Investment Management (Ireland) Ltd (2018-2023) in Dublin, a subsidiary of Innocap Investment Management Inc., a US$50bn hedge fund platform. He acted as Designated Person for Operational Risk Management, a regulated role by the Central Bank of Ireland. He also sat on Innocap’s Irish Risk Oversight and Valuation Committees. In 2017, Brian joined Albourne Partners in London as a Senior Operational Due Diligence Analyst. From 2015 to 2017 he was employed as an Operational Due Diligence Analyst at Mercer Sentinel in London. From 2010 to 2015 he held various Associate level roles at Decura LLP, Morgan Stanley and Citi.
Brian holds an LLB Hons in Law with Criminology and an M.Sc. in Management and Corporate Governance from University of Ulster. Brian is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.

Former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service , MI6
John Scarlett co-founded SC Strategy and became non-executive Co-Chair in 2024. Sir John had a 38-year career in intelligence, serving as Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 2004 to 2009 before which he was Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
Sir John remains actively engaged with the international community, particularly as Co-Chair of the Global Advisory Council at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC and Vice President of the UK Association of the Legion d’Honneur.

Former Acting Director & Deputy Director , CIA
Michael Morell, the former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is one of our nation’s leading national security professionals, with extensive experience in intelligence and foreign policy. During his 33-year career at CIA, Michael served as Deputy Director for three-and-a half years, a job in which he managed the Agency’s day-to-day operations and analysis, represented the Agency at the White House and Congress, and maintained the Agency’s relationships with intelligence services and foreign leaders around the world. Michael also served twice as Acting Director, leading the CIA when Leon Panetta was confirmed as Secretary of Defense and again after David Petraeus left government. Michael’s senior assignments at CIA also included serving for two years as the Director of Intelligence, the Agency’s top analyst, and for two years as Executive Director, the CIA’s top administrator—managing human resources, the budget, security, and information technology for an agency the size of a Fortune 200 firm.
He received the Presidential Rank Award for exceptional performance – the nation’s highest honor for civilian service. He also received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA’s highest award. Michael is also the recipient of the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, and the Department of Defense Service Medal Michael is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Great War of Our Time: An Insider’s Account of the CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism – From al Qaida to ISIS.”
He serves on the Honorary Board of Directors at the International Spy Museum. Michael served on the Board of the CIA Officers Memorial Fund and on the Board of the National Intelligence University Foundation.
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