About the event

The Nordic Fund Selection Forum is one of the longest running events dedicated to fund selectors and institutional investors in the Nordic region. The event offers ample opportunities for delegates to meet and exchange ideas with selector peers. The event is also an effective platform to gain insight from leading fund managers across a range of asset classes. 

The event is strictly for invited fund selectors and institutional investors. If you would like to register please send an email to Niklas Tell, niklas.tell@tellmediagroup.se or Jennie Nyström, jennie.nystrom@tellmediagroup.se. 

We hope to meet you in Copenhagen!

Program 

08.30 – 09.00 Registration: Coffee & networking

09.00 - 09.10 Introduction: Niklas Tell, Chief Content Officer at Tell Media Group 

09.15 – 09.45 Intro keynote speaker: "Decision Attribution; what we've learnt from analysing winners" Dr Kate Land, Lead Data Scientist at Inalytics

09.45 – 11.50 Roundtable presentations (networking & coffee 10.45-11.15)

  • Brown Advisory: "A New Fixed Income Regime – An Old Normal?" Ryan Myerberg, Global Sustainable Fixed Income Portfolio Manager
  • iM Global Partner: "Why own managed futures?" Andrew Beer, Managing Member
  • Janus Henderson Investors: "From insight to impact: ESG investing in EM Sovereign Debt", Sorin Pirău, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Emerging Market Debt Hard Currency
  • Jupiter Asset Management: "A new approach to equity investing: systematic, dynamic, diversified" Amadeo Alentorn, Head of Systematic Equities
  • Alphinity: "Alphinity Global Equity – Investing in Earnings Leadership", Jonas Palmqvist, Portfolio Manager 

11.50-12.20 Fireside chat: Fund manager selection and due diligence, with Chloé de Calatchi, Head of Selection (Manager & Operational Due Diligence) at ABN AMRO Investment Solutions

12.20 - 13.20 Networking lunch


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Speakers

Niklas Tell
Founder & Chief Content Officer at Tell Media Group

Niklas Tell is a founding partner and chief content officer at Tell Media Group, a Swedish based research and publishing company focused on the asset management industry. He is the driving force behind the company’s research, editorial and advisory efforts. Niklas Tell has covered and commented on the Nordic and inter national fund industry since 1998. Prior to establishing Tell Media Group and launching the first local b2b magazine for the Nordic asset management industry in 2006, he helped establish Morningstar in Europe and was its first european director of fund analysis. Niklas Tell has a degree in economics and business administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and is a member of the Swedish Society of Financial Analysts. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and he is often invited to address senior management teams on different topics and trends affecting the asset management industry.

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Dr Kate Land
Lead Data Scientist at Inalytics

Dr Kate Land is the Lead Data Scientist at Inalytics, a market leader in the behavioural analysis of investment managers and their decisions. She joined Inalytics in 2021, and has over twenty years’ experience in quantitative research and data science, from academia and industry. She has a PhD in Astrophysics from Imperial College, an undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge, and prior roles include Research Director at Winton Capital and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. Her investment management experience spans computer-driven quant trading to traditional fundamental investing, with specific research interests in behavioural finance, quantitative risk models, and algorithmic portfolio optimisation. More generally, she is enthusiastic about helping people use data and technology to make better decisions. She is a member of the Royal Statistical Society conference board.

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Andrew Beer
Managing Member at iM Global Partner

Andrew Beer has more than 25 years of experience in the hedge fund industry. Over the last decade he has focused on identifying strategies to outperform leading hedge fund portfolios with low fees, daily liquidity and fewer downside risks.

Andrew is a Managing Member of DBi, a pioneering hedge fund replication firm, and co-manager of the firm's strategies.

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Sorin Pirău
CFA, Portfolio Manager, Emerging Market Debt Hard Currency at Janus Henderson Investors

Sorin Pirău is a Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Market Debt Hard Currency (EMD HC) Team at Janus Henderson Investors.

Sorin received a BSc degree in economic informatics from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies and an MSc in economics from the University of Copenhagen. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, the CESGA certification and the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing. He is a member of the Principles for Responsible Investment’s Sovereign Debt Advisory Committee and has 12 years of financial industry experience.

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Amadeo Alentorn
Head of Systematic Equities at Jupiter Asset Management

Amadeo is an Investment Manager and Head of the Systematic Equities team. Before joining Jupiter in July 2020, Amadeo worked at Merian Global Investors and at Old Mutual as a portfolio manager and Head of Research. Amadeo joined the systematic equities team in 2005. Prior to this, he worked for the Financial Stability Group at the Bank of England, developing simulation models for systemic and liquidity risk for the Financial Stability Group. Before this, he was a software developer for CAD systems and robotic applications. He began his investment career in 2004. Amadeo has a BEng in Robotics from the University of Plymouth, an MSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in Computational Finance from the University of Essex. He is a CFA® charterholder.

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Ryan Myerberg
Portfolio Manager, Global Sustainable Total Return Bond Strategy at Brown Advisory

Ryan Myerberg is a partner, portfolio manager of the Global Sustainable Total Return Bond Strategy and co-head of the global taxable fixed income team. Prior to joining Brown Advisory in March 2021, Ryan was the Head and CIO of Absolute Return Fixed Income at Amundi Asset Management, leading a team of investors across four global investment hubs. He spent the previous 9 years at Janus Henderson Investors where he was responsible for launching Janus’ global fixed income platform in London in 2010, and serving as a portfolio manager across a number of global macro and global credit strategies. Prior to his move to London in 2008 with Blue Mountain Capital Management, Ryan spent 6 years in New York, working at both Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers. Ryan received his Bachelor of Arts degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia in 2002.

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Jonas Palmqvist
Portfolio Manager at Alphinity Investment Management

Jonas’s focus is on Healthcare, Utilities and Materials sectors as well as portfolio construction oversight.

Jonas joined Alphinity in 2015. Prior to joining Alphinity, Jonas was a Senior Portfolio Manager / Analyst at AMP Capital in Sydney, Australia, He was responsible for managing the Core Equity portfolios in the Australian Fundamental Equities team from 2011-2015, as well as covering the Australian bank sector as an equity analyst. Prior to that, Jonas worked from 2003-2010 at Swedbank Robur Asset Management in Stockholm, Sweden, managing international as well as domestic equity portfolios, and covering US and European stocks across the consumer and industrials sectors. Previously, Jonas worked at Merrill Lynch in London, UK as an equity analyst covering European media stocks. He started his career with Swedbank Markets in Sweden in 1996 as an equity analyst, covering sectors ranging from banks, industrials, property, and media.

He holds a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law.

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Chloé De Calatchi
Head of Selection (Manager & Operational Due Diligence) at ABN AMRO Investment Solutions

Chloé De Calatchi is Head of Selection (Manager & Operational Due Diligence) at ABN AMRO Investment Solutions. She started her career in 2004 as a Legal advisor within ABN AMRO Advisors. She then joined the Bank and Finance department at Clifford Chance. She also worked as Legal Counsel at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch. In 2006, Chloé joined La Française AM as a due diligence analyst for the alternative funds but was also legal counsel on the Luxembourg range products. In March 2016, Chloé joined ABN AMRO Investment Solutions as a Senior operational due diligence analyst. She holds a Master’s Degree in Financial Law from University Paris XI in Partnership with ESCP-EAP. She also holds a IMDD certificate on Private Equity Operational due diligence (Professional Level) and the CFA ESG.

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