7th Annual Benelux Institutional Forum

Asset Allocation and Macro-Economic Outlook for the Next 12 Months

In a time of macroeconomic uncertainty, geopolitical conflict, higher interest rates, chronic inflation, and market volatility, hear how strategists and investors are viewing the next 12 months.

ESG in a Time of Crisis: Energy, Geopolitical and Social 

ESG,SRI and impact investing opportunities and challenges continue to evolve on the global investor agenda at a time of great disruption to European energy supply, geopolitical conflict, ESG regulatory development and advances in data and technology. 

Credit and Fixed Income: Reassessing the Asset Class and the Sustainability Drift

The Great Equity Debate: The Institutional View on Stock Markets

Amidst slowing global growth, margin compression, and the challenging backdrop of high inflation and rising interest rates, hear the different strategies investors are using to determine their equity allocations and guide their investments.

Evaluating Real Assets and Real Estate Investments: From Core to Opportunistic to Niche Strategies

The broad spectrum of opportunities across real assets and its sub-asset classes offer a huge variety of risks and yield and return opportunities for institutional investors. Hear how investors are incorporating real assets, real estate, and natural resources into portfolios and making decisions on whether to access them via equity or debt.

Building for growth: Unleashing the Potential of Infrastructure Assets

The modernization of our infrastructure is crucial to cultivate a growing and equitable economy. Institutional investors are tuning into what some believe isa generational opportunity, not only for the potential portfolio benefits such as stable returns, inflation protection, and diversification, but also as a powerful way to invest in the trends that will shape the future of our economy. 

Alternatives & Private Market Investments – Time to Shine

As investors search for additional sources of revenue and methods for portfolio diversification in the volatile and changing environment, alternatives standout as an area of opportunities. The panel brings together leading alternatives investors and allocators to share the role private equity, private debt, venture capital and commodities plays in their portfolios and what they look for in managers to meet their objectives in these asset classes. 

Institutional Leadership Roundtable: Decision-Making in Disruptive Times

Leading institutional investors and asset owners shed light on the most pressing investment and management issues facing their organizations. Under Chatham House Rules, they will vet tactics on global, social, market and environmental disruptions within the current environment. They will discuss topics that are strategically important to boards in today’s climate. They will explore how global, social, market and environmental priorities have shifted and how new tools such as shareholder advocacy, proxy voting and even litigation, can advance missional goals. They will debate reasonable expectations for investment returns this year, and relay how they are streamlining governance practices. This is an opportunity to hear best practices from institutional leadership, develop strategies to maximize opportunities, and explore solutions for challenges to come.