PARTICIPANTS Nicolas Forest
Global head of fixed income Candriam
Christoforos Bikos Senior vice president, manager research Redington
Christoforos Bikos is responsible for manager research and selection in liquid and semi- liquid fixed income strategies. Before joining Redington in 2015, he spent three years in manager research at Towers Watson and was previously a researcher at the Aristotle Univer- sity of Thessaloniki in Greece. He has served in the Hellenic Air Force and has studied in Macedonia and London.
Nicolas Forest became Candriam’s global head of fixed income in 2013, joining the firm’s executive committee three years later. He is responsible for the fixed income strat- egy and global bond funds as well as co-man- aging the total return funds. Forest started his career as assistant structured products manager at CDC-Ixis in 2003, before joining Candriam in 2004 as a money market fund manager. In 2008, he was appointed head of the rates strategy.
Rhys Petheram Fund manager, head of environmental solutions Jupiter Asset Management
Rhys Petheram joined Jupiter in 2006 hav- ing worked as an analyst at Towers Perrin Australia. Prior to that he was a utility-focused credit analyst at Moody’s Investor Services.
Mark Thompson Chair of trustees,
investment committee member Several pension funds
Henrietta Gourlay Investment manager,
financial investments portfolio Grosvenor Family Office
Lewis Emmons
Principal, fixed income manager research Mercer Investments
Lewis Emmons is a principal in Mercer’s fixed income research team. He researches public market bond strategies and is a member of the benchmark agnostic and liability-driven investment research committees. Emmons joined Mercer in 2008 from Moody’s Investors Service where he was a financials credit analyst. Before joining Moody’s, he was an emerging market sovereign analyst at Informa Global Markets specialising in Latin America and Central Europe. He began his career in the structured capital markets team at Barclays Capital.
Henrietta Gourlay has been an investment manager at Grosvenor Family Office since 2018. Her previous roles have included run- ning the high-yield sales desk at Mizuho and spending a decade investing in high-yield bonds in Europe and Asia. She started her career at Mercury Asset Management in 1999.
Mark Thompson has been investing on behalf of pension schemes for more than 35 years and currently works for the retirement funds sponsored by UBS, M&G and Lloyds. For almost a quarter of a century, Thompson held several senior investment roles at Prudential, which included being a trustee of its pension scheme. He then spent eight years as chief investment officer of HSBC’s UK pension scheme.
Katie Yu ESG credit analyst Phoenix Group
Daniel Loughney
Senior portfolio manager Border to Coast Pension Partnership
Daniel Loughney is a global multi-sector fixed income portfolio manager currently specialis- ing in developed and emerging market bonds. He has more than 25 years’ experience of asset management, during which time he was head of institutional sovereign fixed income at Legal & General, head of emerging market debt at West LB and senior vice president, head of EMEA rates and currency at Alliance- Bernstein.
Katie Yu is the main gatekeeper for fixed income in Phoenix’s ESG investments. She joined the insurer in late 2021 after spend- ing four years as a corporate credit portfolio manager at DWS, where she was responsible for non-discretionary client portfolios with a focus on investment-grade corporate credit and global convertible bonds. Yu has also been an equity research analyst at Standard Chartered.
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