Agenda

11:15am Registration & Coffee
11:45am Welcome from Ken Rayner, CEO
12:00pm 3 x 15 mins presentations:
  1. Richard Woolnough, Fund Manager - M&G Investments
  2. Andrzej Pioch, Fund Manager - Legal & General Investment Management
  3. Thomas Hanson, Head of Europe High Yield - Aegon Asset Management
12:45pm Panel debate 1 - Equities: Is the risk worth the reward for equity investors?
  • Luke Barrs, Head of the Fundamental Equity Client Portfolio Management - Goldman Sachs Asset Management
  • John Bailer, Deputy Head of Equity Income, Portfolio Manager - BNY Mellon Investment Management 
  • Blake Crawford, Portfolio Manager - J.P.Morgan Asset Management
  • Ben Russon, Co-Head, UK Equities - Franklin Templeton
1:15pm Lunch
2:10pm 3 x 15 mins presentations:
  1. Ariel Bezalel, Fund Manager - Jupiter Asset Management
  2. Andrew Paisley, Head of Smaller Companies - abrdn
  3. Robert Lancastle, Senior Fund Manager - J O Hambro Capital Management 
2:55pm Panel debate 2 - Fixed Income: 2023 was meant to be the year of the bond - do we need to reset our expectations for the year ahead?
  • Nicolas Trindade, Senior Portfolio Manager - AXA Investment Managers 
  • Kris Atkinson, Portfolio Manager - Fidelity 
  • Lewis Aubrey-Johnson, Head of Fixed Income Products - Invesco 
  • Nicholas Ware, Portfolio Manager Strat Bond - Janus Henderson Investors
3:25pm Break
3:45pm 3 x 15 mins presentations:
  1. Mike Fox, Head of UK Sustainable Investments - Royal London Asset Management
  2. Nick Shenton, Fund Manager, UK Income - Artemis
  3. Julian Cook, Portfolio Specialist - T.Rowe Price
4:30pm Panel debate 3 - Multi-Asset: Asset class correlation – how do we diversify effectively looking forward? 
  • Sunil Krishnan, Head of Multi-Asset Funds - Aviva Investors
  • Keith Balmer, Portfolio Manager - Columbia Threadneedle Investments
  • Philip Scott, Investment Specialist Manager - Baillie Gifford
  • Jason Borbora-sheen, Portfolio Manager - Ninety One
5:00pm - 5:10pm Closing comments from Ken Rayner, CEO
6:45pm Pre-dinner drinks
7:15pm Overview from Geoff Mills, Director
7:30pm Dinner & R Awards with guest speaker Alistair Campbell
11pm Close
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