Join us for an insightful afternoon of discussions on the challenges and opportunities shaping today’s investment landscape. Institutional investors, asset managers, and industry experts will explore portfolio resilience, market trends, and best practices in private markets.
Agenda:
12:15: Registration & Lunch
13:30: Welcome Remarks
Risk mitigation
Diversification
Different roles for different strategies
The impact of geopolitics and underlying macro trends on portfolio positioning and construction


Best practices
SBAI – New Standards
How can effective communications and appropriate disclosures mitigate investor concerns


15:20: Coffee Break
Large loss management at Swiss Re
What are the challenges?
What can we learn from large losses?
Case study

16:30: Concluding Remarks & Refreshments
More speakers and agenda details to be announced.

Head of Multi-Strategy Equities, Solutions, Man Group
Edward (‘Ed’) Cole is Head of Multi-Strategy Equities within Solutions at Man Group, where he is responsible for equity content in multi-strategy funds and institutional solutions. He is a member of the Solutions’ Investment Committee in this capacity.
He was formerly Managing Director of Discretionary Investments, where he oversaw the multi-manager equity hedge fund platform. He was also a member of the Discretionary Management Committee. Ed previously focused on emerging markets, as an equity strategist at JPMorgan, and latterly as a portfolio manager overseeing long only, long-short and multi-asset strategies.
Ed has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Bristol, and a master’s in Development Economics from the London School of Economics.

Business Development, Switzerland, Swiss Re
Karin is part of Swiss Re Insurance Linked Solutions' ("Swiss Re ILS") Business Development team. She has more than 20 years of experience in alternative investments working for SwissRe, Blackrock and most recently Quantica Capital, where she built up the business development unit.
Karin holds a BBA in Banking and Finance from the University of Applied Sciences in Zurich and is a CFA charterholder.

Head of Private Markets Advisory, UBP
Nicolas Roth joined UBP in 2023 as Head of Private Markets Advisory and has some 22 years of experience in alternative and private asset investments. He previously spent 14 years at REYL Intesa San Paolo where he was Head of Private Assets, managing funds invested in non-performing loans and real estate assets in southern Europe, as well as advising clients on private markets with an emphasis on credit strategies.
Prior to this, he was Head of Alternative Investments, in charge of a number of funds of hedge funds, managed accounts and other related alternative strategies mostly focusing on credit-related strategies. He started his career in 2002 at American Express as a hedge fund analyst covering structured credit strategies and volatility arbitrage.
Nicolas holds an MSc in Quantitative Economics and a DEA in Econometrics from the University of Geneva.

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.

Head Large Loss Management, COO P&C Reinsurance, Swiss Re
Martin is Swiss Re's Head of Large Loss Management, responsible for the quantification of the company's largest loss events. He joined Swiss Re in 2010 through its graduate program and has since held various leadership roles, mainly at the intersection of Claims and Analytics.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences in St. Gallen and is recognized as a Chartered Insurer by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) in London.
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