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Sofia Arroz Oliveira, CFA, is an Investment Professional at Constanter, a private, independent charitable foundation within the Brenninkmeijer family’s philanthropic network. At Constanter Investment Office, she co-manages the Diversifiers portfolio and contributes to the Macro Overlay program. Before joining Constanter in 2022, Sofia worked at UBS Chief Investment Office, where she was part of the Strategic Asset Allocation team, focusing on long-term portfolio construction and Capital Market Assumptions. Earlier in her career, she worked as a junior trader at a proprietary trading shop in Lisbon while completing her Master’s degree. Sofia holds a BA in Management and an MSc in Finance from NOVA School of Business and Economics in Lisbon.

Aline is the Managing Partner of the Frontier Commodities, a long-short absolute return cross-commodity investment vehicle. She has conceptualized and developed Frontier’s unique “quantamental” trading style and volatility management systems. She has 18 years of experience in cross-assets investments, including derivatives trading, structured products, interest rates modeling, fundamental research, AI-Big Data analytics, private equity, ESG and risk management. Prior to developing Frontier, Aline worked at the IFC- World Bank, ABN AMRO and Louis Dreyfus.

Lukas is heading the Asset Management at Pension Fund Manor. This includes managing internal mandates as well as implementing and monitoring externally managed investments - in both traditional and alternative assets (primarily HFs, PE, and infrastructure). As part of implementing the hedge fund allocation, he also acts as portfolio manager for the single-investors fund.
Prior to this, Lukas already worked for several years as an Asset Manager at Pension Fund Manor and previously spent 10 years at a Swiss Cantonal Bank.

Lukas is a is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), holds a Higher Federal Diploma as financial analyst and portfolio manager (AZEK/CIIA) as well as a diploma in Banking & Finance (HF Banking & Finance) and financial market operations (FMT, AZEK).

Andrea Hankova is Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Kedge Capital (Hedge Funds) Group, where she is responsible for investment research and analysis across both managers and strategies. She joined Kedge Capital in 2007, following the completion of the Graduate Programme at Man Investments/RMF. During her doctoral studies, she worked as a research analyst under Prof. Dr. Beat Bernet at the Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance in St. Gallen. Andrea holds a Doctorate in Economics and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of St. Gallen. She was awarded the CAIA designation in November 2010.

Sébastien has over 20 years of experience in Hedge Funds. He is a member of the Julius Baer Outsourced CIO office team in Zurich, as the senior portfolio manager supervising all hedge fund discretionary investment activity at Julius Baer.
Prior to joining Julius Baer in 2017 Sebastien was an institutional banker at Standard Chartered Bank in charge of the sale side coverage of
Hedge Fund managers in Hong Kong.
He started his Hedge Fund career at Man Investments in 2000, as a Hedge Fund analyst and portfolio manager for 10 years, in London and
Hong Kong.
He holds a master's degree in Finance from the University of Caen and a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Manchester Metropolitan University

As a research manager, Ehab conducts original research on factor investing, risk management, manager evaluation, analytical systems, and portfolio construction for in the Multi-Manager Solutions team. Team members serve as portfolio managers for multi-manager, factor-based, and hedge fund strategies. He also analyzes key investment trends across Wellington’s alternatives strategies.

Prior to joining Wellington, Ehab was a member of the leadership team of the manager selection unit at JP Morgan Asset & Wealth Management where over time, his responsibilities ranged from having primary research coverage for various alternatives strategy groups that trade public markets to leading manager research teams and a quantitative research unit (2014 – 2021). Previously, he worked as a senior analyst (2010 – 2014) at a hedge fund managed account platform/FoHFs, Innocap, and as a research analyst (2007 – 2010) in an investment consulting firm, Pavilion, where he spent most of his time on investment due diligence and working with institutional investors on identifying and assessing external investment managers for inclusion in multi-manager portfolios.

Ehab received his MBA from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada (2007). Additionally, he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, is a certified Financial Risk Manager and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designee.

Charlotte Kay is an Investor Relations Manager at Millennium, based in London. Charlotte is responsible for managing client relationships with investors across Europe for both Millennium Partners and WorldQuant Millennium Advisors. Prior to joining Millennium, Charlotte spent 8 years in Prime Brokerage with Bank of America both in London and New York.

Thomas is European head of the Portfolio Solutions Group, where he focuses on conducting investment research and using AQR’s capabilities to enhance client portfolios. He contributes to white papers and engages clients on topics such as strategic asset allocation and capturing alternative sources of return. He is author and co-author of many published articles, including “Market Timing: Sin a Little” (JoIM), “Value and Interest Rates” (JoPM) and “Honey, the Fed Shrunk the Equity Premium” (JoPM). Prior to AQR, he was a senior quantitative analyst and portfolio manager at Brevan Howard Asset Management, specializing in quantitative macro strategies and portfolio construction. Thomas earned an M.Phys. in physics with first class honors from the University of Oxford.

As an account manager, Luca supports the relationship management and business development efforts for Wellington Management’s clients and prospects in Switzerland’s wealth management channel. His responsibilities include assisting clients with long-term investment strategy and resolving day-to-day client issues, as well as regularly participating in meetings with clients to discuss new investment- and business-related issues. He is located in our Zurich office.

Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2017, Luca worked at UBS Asset Management in Zurich (2012 – 2016), where most recently he was an authorized officer in the Product Management Team of UBS’s Infrastructure & Private Equity Department, supporting both the investment and sales teams. Before that, he completed an apprenticeship at Citibank (Switzerland) AG.

Luca holds a BSc in business administration with a major in banking and finance from Zurich University of Applied Sciences (2016). Additionally, he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation. Additionally, he holds the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing as well as the GARP Sustainability and Climate Risk Certificate. Luca serves as a volunteer for the CFA Society Switzerland in its Careers Committee, as well as a volunteer for the Switzerland chapter of the CAIA Association. He is fluent in German, English, and Ita

Gabriele works as an Investment Manager at AQUIS Capital, covering hedge fund solutions and managing two global multi-strategy fund of hedge funds portfolios, being a member of the investment committee. He joined AQUIS Capital in May 2021 as an Investment Analyst focusing on hedge fund research. Prior to this experience, he worked as an ESG Project Analyst at Vontobel Asset Management, after starting his career in the Global Asset and Wealth Management Research Department at PwC Luxembourg. Gabriele holds a Master of Science in Finance from HEC Lausanne, a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Trieste and is a CAIA Charterholder.