FUTURE
CONFERENCES
Purpose
This conference is aimed at pension funds and a range of other institutional investors and their advisors. It seeks to examine a selection of investment and asset allocation strategies and other topical issues within the alternatives and real assets space.
Programme
Full details to be announced
This will be a full day conference with approximate timings of:
09.30
Registration
10.00
Conference start
12.30
Lunch
15.30
End of conference followed by drinks reception
Speakers and Topics to date:
Head of Alternatives Investment Research
XPS Pensions
Opportunities/trends in private markets
Chief Executive Officer
New Forests Asset Management Pty Limited
Allocating to Natural Capital – Climate and Biodiversity Trends and Portfolio Considerations
The presentation will focus on:
• Adding climate and biodiversity considerations to the traditional characteristics of investing in forestry & agriculture.
• Changing portfolio considerations for investors to consider risk, return, climate and biodiversity.
o How have our investors allocated previously and how do we expect them to allocate in the next 5 years?
o For institutional investors, assessing land and nature involves seeing how nature and climate will impact portfolio allocation:
How to choose investments that at a minimum do not increase nature loss and beyond that restore it?
Also, what metrics can be used to measure biodiversity risks? (New Forests is an early adopter of the TNFD framework).
Director of Investment Consulting
Cartwright
Integrating bitcoin into institutional asset portfolios to improve outcomes
For many years, bitcoin has been treated as a speculative asset unsuitable for institutional investors. However, we are at an inflection point. The strength of the bitcoin network, the rise of geopolitical risks, the threat of inflation and counterparty failures, the recognition that bitcoin is categorically different to other digital assets, the realisation that bitcoin is the most ESG-friendly asset available, and the greater institutional appetite for assets that offer true diversification, has led to significant developments to allow institutions to invest in bitcoin securely and safely. Price volatility will remain for the foreseeable future, but the chances are high that bitcoin will become a major strategic reserve asset in decades to come for governments, pension trusts, charities, and companies. Institutional investors with long time horizons should be curious about the impact of a small allocation.
Director Private Markets
bfinance
Properties of Performance: What Has Set Real Estate Fund ‘Winners’ Apart?
With an eye on recent difficulties in real estate portfolios, Ishan focuses on the factors separating high-performing real estate managers from their weaker counterparts. He covers managers across Europe Asia and the US, and important topics such as the emergence of ‘next generation’ real estate and concludes by questions investors should be considering now and for the immediate future.
Panellists to include:
Pravi Prakash
Investment Manager, Private Markets
Railpen
Moderators to date:
Cost
The conference is by invitation only for pension funds and other institutional investors and we welcome new attendees from these investors. Therefore if you are not already receiving an invitation please contact us. A limited number of Complimentary invitations are available to genuine pension fund representatives (executives and trustees) and other approved institutional investors. However, to ensure we have room for as many funds as possible, we have to limit free places to 3 attendees per approved organisation thereafter a reduced rate fee is payable per delegate. Furthermore, SPS always reserves the right of admission (free or paid) and our decision is final.
Venue
Farmers and Fletchers in the City
3 Cloth St,
London
EC1A 7LD
Tel: 020 7600 2064
Farmers and Fletchers is 1 minute from Barbican tube station, 5 minutes from St.Paul’s tube station
and very convenient for the new Farringdon Crossrail link.
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