2026 Singapore Institutional Investor Workshop

Rohit Arora

Head of Asia FX & Rates Strategy, UBS

Rohit is a senior Emerging Markets FX and rates strategist based in Singapore. He regularly writes on macro themes in Asia-ex-Japan FX and rates markets, and contributes to key macro strategy publications on global EM. He carries more than 10 years of experience in Asia.

Prior to joining UBS in 2016, Rohit worked as a EM Asia fixed income Strategist with Barclays Singapore and Morgan Stanley Hong Kong.

Rohit holds a Bachelors of Technology degree in Engineering Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

Alistair Boyd

CEO & CRO, Astignes Capital

Mr. Boyd is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Risk Officer of Astignes Capital. In his role as CEO, Mr. Boyd sets the strategic direction of the Firm and oversees the day today running of the business. In his role as CRO, he is responsible for the Firm’s risk management framework and its implementation. Mr. Boyd worked at Alphadyne Asia for six years, most recently as CRO Asia and before that as a Portfolio Manager.

Prior to joining Alphadyne Asia, Mr. Boyd co-managed all fixed income and commodity risk at Artradis Capital in Singapore. Before returning to Asia to join Atradis Capital in 2009, Mr. Boyd was Head of Local Markets Trading, Structuring and Risk Management for the Americas at RBS and ABN AMRO based in New York. In that capacity, he also served as Chairman on trading, management and ALM committees for the Americas. Prior to that, Mr. Boyd was a Partner at Teleos Capital as the Head of Emerging Markets. Mr. Boyd entered banking in 1995 when he joined Bankers Trust Proprietary Trading based in Singapore for 5 years. Prior to that, he was an Economist at the World Bank in Washington DC and the Treasury Department in Australia.

He holds a Bachelor of Business in Economics from Charles Darwin University and a Masters in Economics from Columbia University. Mr. Boyd serves on Boards related to Astignes Funds and the Advisory Board of StashAway – a Singapore-based fintech company.

Mr. Boyd serves on Boards related to Astignes Funds and the Advisory Board of StashAway – a Singapore-based fintech company.

Gita Advani

Senior ODD Analyst , Albourne Partners

Gita Advani is an Operational Due Diligence (ODD) Senior Analyst in Albourne Partners Singapore. She conducts ODD reviews on alternative asset managers across APAC. She started her career 12 years ago in audit in the Big 4.

She graduated from the University of Southern California and is a CPA and a CAIA designation holder.

Steve Knabl

Managing Partner, Wealth Management Alliance

With over 27 years in financial services, including 18 years in Singapore and Hong Kong, Steve specializes in trading, alternative funds, and wealth management. Steve currently oversees the development of the regulatory hosting solutions for Family Offices, Wealth Managers, Hedge Funds and Digital Asset funds at WMA. Prior to moving to Asia in 2008, he led the Trading & Treasury department at Swissquote Bank in Geneva for 9 years.

A Swiss citizen, Singapore PR and Hong Kong PR, Steve holds a B.Sc. in Hospitality Management from EHL and studied at the University of Neuchâtel and IMD

Tuck Meng Yee

Partner, JRT Partners

Tuck Meng Yee has over 25 years’ experience in the financial markets in Asia and Australia in derivatives, funds and investment project portfolio management, development, research and marketing with global investment banks (JPMorgan, UBS) and private banks (ABN Amro and Citibank) as well as funds services (Moore Management, Allfunds) and family office (JRT Partners) giving him a keen sense of what investments suit which types of investors, and the support they typically need.

He is currently with JRT Partners, a family office which he set up for a Malaysian family and currently leads for both operations and investments.

Tuck speaks English and Mandarin, and holds degrees in Accounting, Computer Science, and Finance (Masters) from the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales.

JRT Partners is a Singapore based Family Office that invests across real estate, equities, debt and agriculture, directly and through funds including hedge funds, venture capital, and private equity funds. On occasion, the family office works with other family offices in investing, as well as advising them on family office setup, management and administration, as well as investment due diligence process.

Brian Digney

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.