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A Fireside Chat with Bjarne Graven Larsen

Friday, November 13, 2026

8:30 – 10:00 AM

Some careers follow a straight line. Bjarne Graven Larsen’s crosses an ocean.

Over 30 years, Bjarne has sat in almost every seat at the institutional table. He started at a central bank. He went on to lead investments at ATP, Denmark’s largest pension fund, and then at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in Canada. In between, he helped turn a bank around in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Each role taught him something different about how capital, risk and governance actually behave under pressure.

Those lessons led him to found Qblue Balanced, an asset manager built on the Total Portfolio Approach. The idea is simple to say and hard to do. Think of a portfolio as a watch. Most investors buy it already assembled, with the labels on the case. Qblue takes it apart, looks at every gear, and keeps only the risks that are worth being paid for. Then it rebuilds the watch around what the client is actually trying to achieve. The result is not a product off the shelf. It is a solution built from the parts each institution needs.

Join us for a candid, intimate conversation between Bjarne Graven Larsen, CEO & Founder, Qblue Balanced and Rebekah Pang, CAIA Singapore Chapter Co-head about the decisions, the turning points and the hard lessons of a career spent inside some of the world’s most demanding investment institutions. Bring your questions. Bjarne will answer them with the frankness that only three decades of experience allows.

Breakfast will be served and places are limited to keep the conversation personal.