Christophe Pella

Barings UK focuses on building long-term, trusted partnerships with their clients and utilizes an active management approach, built upon fundamental analysis, to help meet their long-term investment goals. The firm leverages its depth and breadth of expertise across the global fixed income, alternative investment and equity markets. Their expansive asset market coverage, includes global fixed income presence and high active equity expertise in international and emerging markets, contributes to the firm’s strength in multi-asset investing. This encompasses solutions such as income, target return and absolute return.

AXAIM-CH is an active, risk-aware, long-term manager who seeks to exploit short-term valuation changes and to fine-tune the weighting of their positions in the various markets, sectors and securities. The firm believes that they can meet clients' requirements and financial security needs only by working within a defined investment framework with appropriate exposure and risk control. As the subsidiary of an insurance company, risk management is their core business. In managing portfolios, they define the level of risk in advance.

LGIM is a risk-averse, long-term manager which leverages the research capabilities of the L&G group and follows both active and passive investment approaches to manage a range of investment products including equity index and global fixed-income strategies. They refer to their passive strategies as 'intelligent indexing’. The firm invests globally across major asset classes and actively exercises voting rights. They manage a range of specialist hedge funds invested in UK small-caps, Japanese equity and global high-yield credit.

SSGAL is an active, quantitative manager which performs in-house research and has a focus on indexing. They utilize several methods of investment analysis across a wide array of investment strategies when formulating investment advice or managing assets. The firm does not rely on one type of investment analysis over another and does not recommend one security. SSGAL seeks to utilize the most prudent methods of investment analysis based upon certain characteristics of the investment strategy and the current market conditions, as applicable.

Mashreq-IM is an active manager which performs fundamental research to provide managed account services implementing customized investment strategies and manages mutual funds that has exposure to the Qatar, UAE, GCC, Middle East and North African markets.

Provides investment and fund management services

Functions as a College/University

Provides investment advice