For this year’s Citywire Florence 2020 edition, although we won’t be gathering in our iconic setting of the four Seasons Hotel in Florence, we are delighted to be able to reunite our friends and your fellow peers of the Italian fund selection industry to bring to life - albeit virtually - this especially-designed virtual edition in this moment in history in which, more than ever, uniting to share thoughts and ideas is furthermore pivotal.
Over the course of this year’s Citywire Florence virtual edition, you shall find us at each virtual fund manager workshop introducing the fantastic line-up of leading fund managers for in-depth workshops drilling down on key asset classes and strategies, sharing thoughts on how to navigate the markets, as well as to take your questions live during the workshops, unpicking the key questions you are wanting to scrutinise with the fund managers and your peers.
Last but not least, as usual, we’ve raised the bar again bringing you two tailor-made conference sessions to leave you with plenty of precious ‘food for thought’ to implement ‘on the job’ - wherever you might be working from.
Our key note session shall come from Lucio Caracciolo, editor-in-chief of the Italian geopolitical review, Limes, who shall shine a light on key aspects in the thick of the international agenda, coloured at this time, most notably by the US elections.
To top this off, we are proud to host the bespoke virtual fund selector panel session in which a line-up of senior figures from the community boasting a mass of experience in fund and manager selection will be drilling down on crucial aspects at this historic time, offering our ‘virtual guests’ plenty of practical and real-life examples and ideas to tackle this unprecedented moment tinged by the Covid 19 fluctuations, impacting the everyday life and your portfolios too.
Until we can finally see you all again in person, we very much look forward to re-connecting with each and every one of you, on-line, for this evermore special virtual edition of Citywire Florence 2020.
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Lucio Caracciolo is rated one of Italy's leading geopolitical analysts. After studying philosophy he joined La Repubblica in 1976, where he was chief of the political section. From 1986 to 1995 he chaired the leftist review MicroMega, and in 1993 founded the geopolitical review Limes, which he still directs. He teaches international relations at San Raffaele university in Milan and at Luiss Guido Carli in Rome and writes regular commentary for La Repubblica and L'Espresso.
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Citywire Florence 2020 Virtual will take place against the backdrop of heightened global tension, marked by a number of conundrums: Brexit; the US presidential elections and its potentially-disputed outcome which could cause a difficult power transition; Russia and China’s geopolitical ambitions and some of the tools and measures to tackle these, such as the Quad: an informal, anti-Chinese Indo-Pacific alliance between the US, Australia, India and Japan – a near Asian NATO of such.
A heavily complicated context, further burdened by the impending exit of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in 2021 and the political consequences for Germany and the EU; furthermore, the worsening friction between France and Turkey and the ongoing tensions in the Middle-East, with the dreaded Iran-US conflict, looming closer than ever.
The list of interlinked geopolitical threats and events continues increasing, shaking global stability and the GPR (Geopolitical Risk Index) continues soaring at high levels. These increasing geopolitical and geo-economic tensions represent in fact the most urgent global risks which need to be tackled, with urgency, which many foresee are bound to further increase in 2021.
Our keynote speaker shall be Lucio Caracciolo, editor-in-chief of the Italian geopolitical review, Limes, as well as one of the world’s leading experts on geopolitics. In a world that is continually confronted with numerous crises in parallel and with geopolitical risks affecting the global financial markets, the latter is what increasingly makes a difference and is possibly the most difficult to predict.
During this exclusive key note session, Mr. Caracciolo will illustrate on the risks tied to the international geopolitical context, examining the various scenarios and, along with some of our guests, will try to interpret their impact on the global markets and on the investment portfolios. Last but not least, Mr. Caracciolo will shine a light on the concept of geopolitical grammar and on how the latter imposes choices that are different to those which appear and are portrayed by the media.
The amount of data that can now be interpreted by analysts and fund managers is growing at an exponential rate and unstructured alternative data sets are becoming more important than ever with big data and artificial intelligence heavily impacting the traditional investment process.
How are fund selectors reacting to this revolution? What’s their feedback on fund managers using Big Data and AI to generate Alpha? And what are the implications and the challenges of selecting fund managers adopting AI and big data?
In this new Selector Hard Talk leading European fund selector guests will drill down into these burning issues and many more, bringing our audience precious food for thought and best practices to implement in this fast-paced environment.
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Luca Anzola
Head of Fund Research and Alternative Investments
Fideuram SGR
Italy
Luca Anzola works in the Multimanager division of Fideuram Investimenti as head of fund research and due diligence. Previously he was head of fund research and due diligence for Aletti Gestielle. He has more than 15 years of experience in the fund selection and analysis both for traditional and alternative funds. He’s also Adjunct Professor in Finance and Risk management for MIP Politecnico of Milano and he holds a PHD at Politecnico of Milano with a thesis and dissertation on Alternative Investment funds. He’s CAIA Charterholder and founder of the Italian CAIA Chapter. He graduated in Business Administration with Finance specialization at Bocconi University of Milan.
Neil Clare
Senior Analyst
FundQuest Adviso
UK
Neil Clare has over 20 years’ experience focusing on investment manager research. He has been with FundQuest and its predecessor Investment Manager Selection (IMS) since 2002 as a senior analyst. He is responsible for the selection of equity funds used by the BNP Paribas Group worldwide in Pan Europe (since 2009) and US equity (since 2015) and advising on several billion of assets. Previously he worked with Standard & Poor’s Fund Research, where he was an associate director and member of the Asia research team. He is an Actuarial Science graduate from City University and has been a CFA charterholder since 2003.
Guido Lombardi
Head of Research | Multi Asset & Solutions
DWS
UK
Guido Lombardi heads the London based fund selection team of the multi-asset Group of DWS with a vast remit across traditional and alternative asset classes and active and passive instruments. He joined DWS (at the time Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management) in 2015, with six years of industry experience. Prior to joining, Guido was a senior investment analyst for liquid alternative strategies and related portfolios construction for institutional clients at Bourne Park Capital, London. Previously, he worked as an investment analyst on hedge funds due diligence at Redi & Partners, London. Guido began his career as a junior trader for government bonds at Unicredit, Milan. Guido holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from University of Florence, an MSc in Finance from University of Florence - Copenhagen Business School and is a CFA Charterholder and Certified EFFAS ESG Analyst.
Fernando Sánchez Santidrián
Head of Alternative Investments
Caixabank Asset Management
Spain
Fernando Sánchez Santidrián has around 20 years´ experience in financial markets. He joined CaixaBank Asset Management SGIIC in 2007 as a credit manager and since 2008 he is Head of Alternative Investments. Previously, he worked 3 years as a credit trader for Banesto and started his career in BBVA where he worked for 4 years as a risk controller. Fernando graduated from the University of Valladolid with a degree in Economics. He holds the certificates of Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) as well as a master in Bank and Finance and an executive master in Quantitative Finances from AF.
Ilaria D’Ascenzio
Head of Fund Research
BNP Paribas Italy
Italy
Ilaria D'Ascenzio is currently head of fund research in the wealth management solution team of BNL BNP Private Banking. She started to work as fund specialist in Nextra IM where she was part of the manager selection unit. She continued to be focused on fund selection also in the private banking division of Banca di Roma, where she was in charge of asset allocation, fund selection and private bankers advisory.
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Davide Scutti
Banca Finnat
Italy
Davide Scutti is a fund analyst at Banca Finnat Euramerica. He is an affiliate member of the Italian Society of Technical Analysis (SIAT) and a member of the Italian Society of Financial Analysts (AIAF). Before this, he was a risk manager at Optima Sim (Bper Group) and a fund manager at Zenit Sgr (PFM Group). He graduated in Finance from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and he has a master's degree in Finance from the University of Milan Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
Steinar Eikeland
CIO
Industrifinans
Norway
Steinar Eikeland is CIO at Industrifinans Kapitalforvaltning, with balanced, discretionary portfolios investing in funds from a diverse set of asset classes. He has prior experience as a quantitative global equity fund manager at ABN AMRO / Alfred Berg Kapitalfovaltning, based on the studies of the late Prof. Robert Haugen, and as CIO of Interkraft Capital Management, for its electricity-related hedge fund. Steinar graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics.
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Mark Heslop
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Marina Poletto
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Rosie French
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