ALTSSG
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The ALTSSG 2025 was developed as a local, investor-centric and education-focused one-day forum, co-hosted by the CAIA Association and CFA Society Singapore. With their guidance and oversight, this one-day event features leading practitioners from the fields of venture capital, cannabis, cryptocurrency, AI, private equity, private debt, hedge funds, real asset investing and other sectors of the alternative investment market.
ALTSSG was developed for:
· Institutional Investors
· Family Offices
· Asset Managers
· Investment Consultants
· Portfolio Managers
· Research Analysts
ALTSSG provides your company with an opportunity to market your brand and services to a highly engaged group of institutional investors, allocators, family offices and financial advisors who are evaluating and investing in alternative investments.
OUR SPEAKERS
Speakers
Gareth Nicholson
Nomura International Wealth management
Chief Investment Officer and Head of Discretionary Portfolio Management
Gareth joined Nomura in 2021 as Chief Investment Officer and Head of Discretionary Portfolio Management for International Wealth Management. Gareth works closely with Nomura’s Global Markets and Investment Banking businesses to expand the firm’s product offerings and spearhead a streamlined, solutions-driven coverage effort for high-net-worth clients, external asset managers and family offices. With a strong institutional investment background, he creates and manages DPM strategies for fixed income, equity and multi-asset portfolios, while providing risk management support. Gareth has over 16 years of experience in financial markets. Prior to Nomura, he was Head of Fixed Income DPM at Bank of Singapore, where he was also a member of its investment committee. Before that, he was with Aberdeen Standard Investments for almost 10 years as a fixed income trader and an Asian credit portfolio manager. Gareth holds a BSc in Financial Mathematics from the University of Johannesburg. He was born and raised in East London, South Africa.
Kevin Gin
Alpha Capital (Single-Family Office)
Founder and Managing Director
Kevin Gin is the Founder and Managing Director of Alpha Capital Family Office. He focuses on valuation anomalies and believes in detailed research and analysis, working with a group of like-minded professionals within his investment ecosystem that lead to investment decisions. Kevin brings with him more than 30 years of investment experience and was the Head of Greater China Property Research with Yuanta Securities (Hong Kong). Prior to Yuanta, Kevin was the SVP with Pacific Star Financial (a subsidiary of Pacific Star Group). Kevin was also the Chief Operating Officer of CITIC Securities (formerly known as CITIC Frontier China Research), Managing Director of Matrix Venture Capital, Director of Matrix Venture Catalyst, Director of Kleinwort Benson Securities Asia, Head of Regional Property and Singapore Country research.
Noli De Pala
Trilake Partners
Chief Investment Officer
Arnulfo “Noli” de Pala, Executive Director, joined TriLake Partners as Chief Investment Officer in 2016. Noli has worked in the financial services industry across four continents for over 30 years. After working with AXA as a financial consultant in Los Angeles, he joined UnionBank of the Philippines in 1996 where he served as the bank’s Trust Officer and later, the Head of Market Risk Management. In 2002 he moved to HSBC where he handled marketing, product development and training for the wealth management business. He was then assigned to HSBC’s offshore headquarters in Jersey in the British Channel Islands to train the financial advisers of HSBC’s offshore offices around the world from 2005 to 2008. Noli returned to Manila to head HSBC’s trust department before joining EastWest Bank where he was the Trust Officer and Chief Investment Officer. Noli graduated cum laude from the University of the Philippines School of Economics and has taught Advanced Investment Management in the master’s program in Finance of the College of Business Administration. He earned his CFA® charter in 2001 and is a founding member and former President of the CFA Society of the Philippines. He remains an active volunteer with the CFA Program and has served CFA Institute in various working committees for the last fifteen years. He speaks fluent English and Filipino and is a frequent guest on financial programmes on radio and television.
Rebekah Woo
Farro Capital (Multi-Family Office)
Managing Director, Private Markets and Funds
Originally from Singapore with a business family, Rebekah has more than 20 years of global multi-asset investing in funds, co-investments and directs across government, institutions such as J.P. Morgan, CDPQ, Fosun and multibillion-dollar family offices in the US and Asia. Rebekah is currently Managing Director, Private Markets and Funds with Farro Capital, a multibillion-dollar multi-family office with a presence in Singapore, Dubai, and India. With degrees from LSE, Yale, CFA, CAIA, Rebekah is a recognised adjunct trainer at Business Families Institute (BFI), Wealth Management Institute (WMI) as well as Board Director / Committee member at leading organisations and companies, such as BANSEA, Singapore Institute of Directors (SID).
Stefanie Holtze-Jen
Deutsche Private Bank
Chief Investment Officer
Stefanie Holtze-Jen is the Asia Pacific Chief Investment Officer for the Private Bank. Before her appointment in 2021, Holtze-Jen was Global Chief Currency Strategist, Portfolio Manager, at Deutsche Bank’s asset management arm DWS, where she coordinated a team covering currency macro, positioning and technical analysis, which guided the portfolio managers’ foreign-exchange strategy. Based in Singapore, she is responsible for the development of the Asia insights and contribution to the house view of Deutsche Bank Private Bank. Prior to DWS, Holtze-Jen held different leadership roles at Commerzbank AG and Royal Bank of Canada in Hong Kong, Singapore, and London. Holtze-Jen is a member of the Singapore Foreign Exchange Committee of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Zhe Wei Por
Income Insurance Limited
External Funds Management
Zhe Wei leads private markets investments across Private Credit, Private Equity and Real Estate at Income Insurance Limited (“Income”). Prior to joining Income, Zhe Wei was a Vice President in GIC’s Asia Private Equity Funds & Co-Investments team in Singapore, after having started his Investment Banking career at Credit Suisse in Australia and Hong Kong. Zhe Wei holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne.
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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.
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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