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ALTSUK is an education-focused alternative investment event designed to bring the investor community together for a full day of dialogue and discussion on the most relevant topics facing investors and managers today.
ALTSUK is developed and led by the CAIA Association, CFA UK, and Markets Group, and is a hot spot for those seeking the very latest in alternative investment news and developments. ALTSUK is specifically designed to provide relevant, education-focused content for individuals who manage, advise, allocate to, or oversee alternative investments. With leading allocating and management firms, the agenda will include topics such as global asset allocation, private markets, real assets, private equity, hedge funds, alternative beta strategies, and more.
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Speakers
Dev Jadeja
Local Pensions Partnership Investments
Deputy Chief Investment Officer
Dev has over 18 years of investment experience. He works closely with the Chief Investment Officer and focuses on investment deployment, oversight and process across all asset classes. He also manages the External Managers team. Prior to joining LPPI in 2020, he was deputy lead for the manager research team at Cardano Risk Management. Earlier in his career, he held research and portfolio management roles at International
Asset Management, Key Asset Management and Old Mutual Asset Managers. Dev holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.
Eamon Ray
Universities Superannuation Scheme
Head of Private Credit & Alternative Income
Eamon Ray is Head of Private Credit & Alternative Income in the Private Markets Group at USS. He oversees the management of a unique £10bn+ portfolio and a 20+ team of
professionals, spanning multiple areas of credit, alternative income and matching investments. The team provides flexible financing across the capital structure and offers bespoke solutions (e.g. super-senior debt through to preferred and common equity). The team invests both directly and through fiduciary managers. Eamon has responsibility for strategy, sourcing, underwriting and asset management. Prior to joining PMG, Eamon worked at GE Capital and Deloitte. Eamon graduated with an honours degree in Economics from the University of Nottingham. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, and is a CFA Charterholder.
Elsa Deseilligny
Cambridge Associates
Associate Investment Director
Elsa joined the firm in 2019 and is based in the London office. She is a member of the EMEA Private Equity and Venture Capital team and is responsible for sourcing, performing due diligence, monitoring, and recommending fund managers in that space. Although Elsa
does not have a set focus area within that, she has spent a lot of time with European growth equity firms, venture capital firms, and sector-focused private equity firms. Prior to joining Cambridge Associates, Elsa supported private equity funds in France and Benelux on investment due diligence, portfolio monitoring, and deal sourcing, as a non-advisory partner. Elsa received her BA (Hons) in Anthropology from the University of Durham. She is a native French speaker.
Emma Bewley
Partners Capital
Partner, Head of Credit
Emma Bewley joined Partners Capital in 2019 and is a Partner and Head of Credit. Previously, Emma was at Connection Capital where she was Head of Fund Investments; a Portfolio Manager at Pamplona Capital Management; and she also spent five years at Morgan Stanley. Emma graduated from Girton College, Cambridge University with a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages.
Joe McDonnell
Border to Coast
Chief Investment Officer
Joe is Chief Investment Officer of Border to Coast - one of the largest LGPS pools in the UK. Previously Joe spent 15 years as Head of Portfolio Solutions EMEA for Neuberger Berman and Morgan Stanley Investment Management. In these role he was a Senior Portfolio Manager for Key Strategic/OCIO mandates, Multi-Asset, Diversified Alternatives funds/mandates and structured solutions. Prior to this Joe spent 10 years in Corporate Pension Plan management as Head of Investments at Shell International and as Head of Fixed Income for IBM Europe Retirement plans. Joe has a MA in Economics & Finance from the University of Sheffield and a BA in Economics & History from University College Dublin. He has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
John Normand
AustralianSuper
Head of Investment Strategy
John Normand is Head of Investment Strategy for AustralianSuper. He focuses on tactical and strategic asset allocation for public and private markets and is based in London. Before joining the Fund, he spent 24 years at J.P. Morgan, where he was Head of Research for Currencies, International Bonds, Commodities, and Cross-Asset Strategy. He
has also worked in global bond strategy at UBS Asset Management and in Latin American economics research at the World Bank. He holds degrees from Georgetown (BA in Economics), Princeton (MPA in Economics & Public Policy) and London School of Economics (MSc in Philosophy & Public Policy) and is CFA charterholder.
Lee Marshall
Pension Protection Fund
Head of Real Estate
Lee Marshall is Head of Real Estate for the Pension Protection Fund, based in London. He joined the PPF in 2020 and is responsible for all aspects of strategy and execution relating the to the PPF’s c.£2bn of global real estate investments. Lee previously spent 13yrs as a fund manager in the indirect real estate teams at Aviva Investors and LaSalle Investment Management, working with a range of pension fund clients in delivering global real estate
investment solutions including launching LaSalle's flagship multi strategy global real estate fund. Prior to this, Lee held research and portfolio analysis roles with IPD (now MSCI) and CBRE Global Investors. Lee holds a BSc in biochemistry from Imperial College London.
Mark Smith
People’s Partnership
Head of Asset Allocation
Mark joined the People’s Partnership as Head of Asset Allocation & Investment Strategy in September 2024. Prior to this, he spent 7 years designing and managing the strategic and
dynamic asset allocation processes for the Tesco Pension Fund across asset classes, currencies and regions, alongside working with the Trustee on implementing new investment
strategies and de-risking mandates. Before joining Tesco, he held various investment strategy roles for the Legal & General Shareholder Fund and the BP Pension Fund. Mark holds a
degree in Economics from the University of Warwick and is a CFA Charterholder.
Mark Wilgar
RiverStone International
Head of Manager Research & Selection
Responsible for leading selection, oversight and due diligence of external asset managers as part of the investment team at Riverstone International, a leading global non-life legacy insurance consolidator. Prior to joining Riverstone in 2022 was Senior Investment Director in the Credit Investment Group at Cambridge Associates in London, focused on researching managers and markets across fixed income, private credit and a range of alternative asset classes on behalf of institutional investors globally. At P-Solve Investments Limited (now part of Schroders Solutions) until 2013 as a member of the investment team overseeing a combined £6 billion fiduciary management portfolio.
Education and Professional Credentials:
• Investment Management Certificate (IMC) – 2012
• BSc Engineering and Business, Warwick Business School, 1st Class (Hons) - 2009
Matthew Towsey
Aon
Partner, Co-Head of Hedge Funds and Liquid Alternatives
Matthew serves as a Partner and is Co-Head of Hedge Funds and Liquid Alternatives at Aon, based in London, bringing almost 20 years of experience to the role. He oversees research and allocations across hedge funds, multi asset and private markets, as well as opportunistic
strategies. His role includes sourcing, evaluating, conducting due diligence, and monitoring hedge funds. Additionally he is involved in creating client hedge fund portfolios, and works closely with the fiduciary business in the management of alternatives portfolios. Matthew joined Aon in 2011, prior to this he worked at Fitzwilliam Asset Management, where he was a member of the Investment Committee running multi-strategy and commodity fund of hedge funds.
Monica Filkova
Aviva
Head of Climate and Nature Investment Strategy
Monica Filkova, CFA is Head of Climate and Nature Investment Strategy, IWR – Investments, Aviva. Monica’s team is responsible for developing approaches to incorporate climate and nature considerations in investment strategy for investments related to IWR’s insurance, wealth and retirement businesses. Her previous roles include Head of Market Intelligence at Climate Bonds Initiative (2017-2020), and Director, Sustainable Finance at Fitch Ratings (2020). Prior to pivoting to sustainable finance, she was in property finance and debt capital markets, including Head of Structuring, Debt Capital Markets at Eurohypo (Commerzbank) as well as roles in CMBS restructuring (Brookland Partners), bank property debt policy and restructuring strategy (Alvarez & Marsal) and distressed debt credit research (Chalkhill Partners), among others. Monica sits on the CFA Institute’s Sustainable Investing Panel. Monica is a CFA charterholder. She earned a Master of Management degree from Cornell University, USA, and a BBA from the American University in Bulgaria.
Robert Holl
Wellcome Trust
Principal
Robert Holl is a Principal in the Investment Division at the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation that supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone, funded from its £38 billion global unconstrained investment portfolio. He is responsible for their Commercial Property investments and has experience across direct and indirect assets across a range of property sectors including strategic land, life sciences, student accommodation, and hotels in private and public markets. Robert joined Wellcome in 2012, he is a CFA charterholder and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte at the start of his career.
Sebastian Mallaby
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Journalist and Author
Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An experienced journalist and public speaker, Mallaby contributes to a variety of publications, including Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times, where he spent two years as a contributing editor. He is the author of five books, most recently The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future.
Mallaby’s interests cover a wide variety of domestic and international issues, including central banks, financial markets, the implications of the rise of newly emerging powers, and the intersection of economics and international relations. His previous book, The Man Who Knew: The Life & Times of Alan Greenspan, winner of the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and the 2017 George S. Eccles Prize in Economic Writing. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, was described by New York Times columnist David Brooks as “superb”; it was the recipient of the 2011 Loeb Prize and a New York Times bestseller. Mallaby’s earlier works are The World’s Banker, a portrait of the World Bank under James Wolfensohn that was named as an “Editor’s Choice” by the New York Times; and After Apartheid, which was named by the New York Times as a “Notable Book.” An essay in the Financial Times said of The World’s Banker, “Mallaby’s book may well be the most hilarious depiction of a big organization and its controversial boss since Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker.”
Before joining CFR, Mallaby served eight years as a columnist and editorial board member at the Washington Post and spent thirteen years with the Economist. While at the Economist, he worked in London, where he wrote about foreign policy and international finance; in Africa, where he covered Nelson Mandela’s release and the collapse of apartheid; and in Japan, where he covered the breakdown of the country’s political and economic consensus. Between 1997 and 1999, Mallaby was the Economist’s Washington bureau chief and wrote the magazine’s weekly Lexington column on American politics and foreign policy. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist: once for editorials on Darfur and once for a series on economic inequality. In 2015, he helped to found a startup, InFacts.org, a web publication making the fact-based case for Britain to remain in the European Union.
Mallaby was educated at Oxford, graduating in 1986 with a first class degree in modern history. After eighteen years in Washington, DC, he moved to London in 2014, where he lives with his wife, Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor in chief of the Economist
Teia Merring
Universities Superannuation Scheme
Senior Investment Director - Private Equity
Teia is a Senior Investment Director in the Private Equity Funds and Co-Investment team at USS Investment Management (~£75bn AUM), the corporate pension plan for universities in the United Kingdom. She is responsible for leading the execution and management of private equity fund and co-investment allocations across all sectors and geographies and sits on various supervisory boards. From June 2020 to June 2025 Teia was a member of the ILPA Board of Directors of which she served the last 2 years as Chair of the Board. Following her role on the board Teia is now a member of the ILPA Policy committee, engaging in policy, regulations and standard setting for the Private Equity Industry. Prior to joining USS in 2011,Teia was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in the Healthcare division. She holds a MSc in Applied Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business School, and her university studies included an MBA term at IIM Ahmedabad, India.
Valerie Sill
DuPont Capital Management
President and Chief Executive Officer
Valerie J. Sill, CFA, CAIA is President and CEO of DuPont Capital Management and serves as its Chief Investment Officer. Ms. Sill is responsible for overseeing the investment of more than $12 billion in assets held by DuPont Company plans. DuPont Capital manages assets across several public and private asset classes using a value-based investment approach. Prior to joining DuPont Capital in April 2004, Ms. Sill was Executive Vice President at The Boston Company. There she chaired the Equity Policy Group and was the Director of Large
Cap Value strategies. Valerie serves as an Independent Trustee to Wilmington Trust’s Fund Board. Ms. Sill is a member of the Board of Trustees of Longwood Gardens and chairs its
Investment Committee.
Veronica Bateman
Aksia
Managing Director - Private Credit
Veronica is a Managing Director on the Investment Research team and has over 20 years of industry experience working with private capital managers. She is actively involved throughout the investment process including sourcing, screening and evaluating private credit primary, secondary, co-investment and SMA investments. Veronica also supports the Portfolio Advisory teams on existing and potential private credit investments in Europe. Prior to joining Aksia in 2022, Veronica provided specialist structuring, debt placement and restructuring advice to private equity funds, portfolio companies and corporate clients across Europe. Veronica joined Aksia from Talbot Leyborne Partners LLP, where she was a Managing Partner.
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Key Discussion Topics
NEXT BEST MOVE IN ALTERNATIVES As the controversy around alternatives carries on, investors voice the opportunity in cash and fixed income investment strategies.
HEDGE FUND INVESTMENT STRATEGIES Creating a dialogue around the opportunities in this volatile market through credit investing, long/short equity, market neutral, global macro, convertible arbitrage and liquid alternatives.
PRIVATE WEALTH & HEDGE FUNDS As hedge funds continue to be important to family offices, wealth managers and private banks, investors will discuss the rise in their allocation.
INSTITUTIONAL PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION Discussing hedge fund manager selection, addressing over-diversification mistakes and understanding both the art and science of developing a successful portfolio for pensions, endowments and foundations.
MACROECONOMICS & GLOBAL TRENDS Comparing and contrasting global macro conditions and investment performance.
GROWING OPPORTUNITIES IN PRIVATE DEBT Asset owners aim to get in on the opportunities in private debt and credit and are increasingly looking at impact investing as an alternative.
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