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Darren specialises in UK and European regulation of buy side and sell side clients, including hedge fund managers, private equity houses, investment banks and broker dealers. He is widely acknowledged as a leading regulatory advisor in the hedge fund sector.

Anthony Lawler is Co-Head of GAM Systematic. Prior to joining GAM in November 2011, he spent eight years with Man Group based in London and Chicago, latterly as head of portfolio management, leading a global team covering all of Man Investments’ multi-manager mandates. Prior to this, Anthony Lawler was head of hedge fund research at Man Glenwood, the US alternative investment firm. Before that, he was an equity research analyst at Prudential Securities. Prior to this, he was a manager at venture capital firm, Castling Group. He began his career as an M&A analyst at Merrill Lynch in San Francisco. Anthony Lawler holds an MBA in Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a BS (highest Honours) in Finance from the University of Illinois.

Mike has been involved in active institutional portfolio management since the early 1990s, managing global multi-asset portfolios. He spent the last 10 years as a Managing Director at GIC Private Ltd (formerly known as Government of Singapore Investment Corporation), one of the largest Sovereign Wealth Funds. He held a variety of positions which included Head of Fixed Income (Europe), Head of Macro Research and Strategy, and Global Head of Credit. Prior to GIC, Mike was a Senior International Portfolio Manager at T. Rowe Price and Swissca Group, both based in London. Delivering above-benchmark performance over a 20 year period, his funds have been Micropal award recipients. Mike earned an MA (Hons) in Modern History from New College, Oxford University and an LRSM from the Royal Schools of Music in Music Performance. He is also a CFA charter holder and an STA diploma holder.

Prior to joining SSGA, Helen was a Partner at a global macro fund, ABD Investment Management LLP. Before that, Helen worked for thirteen years in foreign exchange at a number of investment banks, including Societe Generale and Merrill Lynch. She also spent time working in politics, as an advisor to George Osborne in the Office of the Shadow Chancellor, and as a Research Fellow at the think tank Policy Exchange. She has authored a number of policy papers and contributed research to a book on the financial crisis entitled “Masters of Nothing”. Helen is a CFA Charterholder and is the Chair of CFA UK’s Continuing Education Committee