Schedule of Seminar for insurers 'Investing in Private Markets and the Energy Transition'

By Amba Zeggen, Partner Insurance, Probability & Partners

By Gerard Moerman, PhD, Head of Client Investment Solutions, Aegon Asset Management

Many insurers have set the ambition to support initiatives meet the 1.5°C global warming target in the Paris Agreement. An important next step is how to put their objectives into practice and align their investments towards such goal. Gerard Moerman will discuss Aegon AM’s Net Zero roadmap approach and share some examples and lessons learned.

• Investment policy is a key starting point for insurers setting up a Net Zero roadmap.
• Developing a roadmap provides a robust structure with a clear direction of travel and milestones to develop your RI policy and risk management.
• A roadmap also provides an explicit means of communication for participants and stakeholders around achievements and future goals.

By Gianpaolo Pellegrini, Managing Director, Private Markets, Muzinich & Co

Gianpaolo Pellegrini will address current insurance challenges. He will talk about parallel lending as a defensive way to earn stable and compelling returns.

By Vincent Nobel, Head of Asset-Based Lending, Federated Hermes Limited

Vincent Nobel will discuss why the value proposition of asset based/backed private credit investments such as commercial real estate debt persists in light of current economic and regulatory changes. By focusing on private commercial real estate debt, he will explore the features of this asset class that make it a particularly attractive proposition for insurers’ portfolios in this age.

By Leticia Ferreras Astorqui, Senior Portfolio Manager, Allianz Global Investors

By Harry van den Heuvel, Senior Portfolio Manager Infrastructure, Achmea Investment Management

Investing successfully in the energy transition together! By pooling investment preferences, insurers and other Dutch institutional investors get access to qualified European solar, wind and hydro projects. With a limited risk profile and at an attractive cost structure with no performance fee.

With:

• Jonathan Hunt, Portfolio Manager Clean Energy Infrastructure Debt, AB CarVal (part of AllianceBernstein)
• Marieke van Kamp, Head of Private Markets, NN Group
• Han Rijken, Chief Investment Officer, Board Member, Lifetri Groep
• Roelof Salomons, Co-Head EBC, Athora Netherlands