Speakers at Seminar 'Investing in China & Emerging Markets'

Seminar 'Investing in China & Emerging Markets'

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM De Burcht, Amsterdam

  1. Ashish Chugh

    Ashish Chugh

    Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Loomis, Sayles & Company (an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers)

    Ashish Chugh is a Vice President of Loomis, Sayles & Company and Portfolio Manager of the long-only and long-short global emerging market equity strategies. He joined Loomis Sayles in May 2018 from Och-Ziff Capital in Hong Kong, where he was a Managing Director and Manager of an emerging markets portfolio for the firm’s multi-strategy hedge fund. Prior to this, Ashish spent a decade at the Wellington Management Company. Previously, he was an Associate at Blue Chip Venture Company. Chugh earned a BASc in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the firm's ESG Advisory Board and serves as a Director on the Advisory Board of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University.
  2. Catherine Yeung

    Catherine Yeung

    Investment Director, Asia Pacific ex-Japan equity, Fidelity International

    Catherine Yeung is an Investment Director for Fidelity International. Based in Hong Kong, she works within the investment team and with Fidelity’s Equity Portfolio Managers. She is responsible for product management and communication of the firm’s Asia Pacific ex-Japan equity investment capabilities across all client channels and geographies. Yeung is a regular market commentator and appears on various international broadcasters such as Bloomberg, CNBC, BBC, Sky News, BNN Canada, Channel News Asia, TV Monde, Deutsche Welle and Sweden’s DiTV.
  3. Catriona Macnair

    Catriona Macnair

    Investment Director, Global Emerging Markets Equities, abrdn

    Catriona Macnair is an Investment Director on the Global Emerging Markets Equity team at abrdn. Catriona joined the company in 2008 and has more than 13 years’ experience investing in Emerging Markets. She is based in London but has completed secondments in both our São Paulo and Singapore offices. Macnair graduated from the University of Bristol with a BSc in Economics and is a CFA Charterholder.
  4. Martijn Rozemuller

    Martijn Rozemuller

    CEO Europa, VanEck

    Martijn Rozemuller is CEO Europa bij VanEck. Hij begon zijn carrière als Optiehandelaar bij Optiver, een Nederlandse firma die actief is op het gebied van high frequency trading. Hier werd hij Partner. Rozemuller richtte in 2009 de eerste Nederlandse ETF-aanbieder Think ETF’s op, een bedrijf dat later door VanEck werd overgenomen.
  5. Ramon Tol

    Ramon Tol

    Fund Manager Equities, Blue Sky Group

    Ramon Tol werkt sinds februari 2000 bij Blue Sky Group, waar hij als Senior Fund Manager Aandelen mede verantwoordelijk is voor manager selectie & monitoring. Hij is betrokken geweest bij het opzetten, implementeren en verder ontwikkelen van het manager selectie- & monitoring- en transitiemanagement-proces binnen BSG. Hij spreekt regelmatig op congressen en publiceert regelmatig in vakbladen. Zo schreef hij over 130-30 strategieën in de Journal Of Portfolio Management, over Low Volatility in de Journal Of Investing en over transitiemanagement in de Journal Of Trading. Hij is co-auteur van een onlangs verschenen artikel in de Financial Analyst Journal over de hiring & firing policy van institutionele beleggers.
  6. Rob van Oostveen

    Rob van Oostveen

    Directeur en CIO, Janivo

    Rob van Oostveen is Managing Director en CIO bij Janivo sinds 2016. Daarvoor was hij werkzaam bij Van Lanschot alwaar hij verschillende functies bekleedde, waaronder die van Managing Director en Hoofd van Corporate Banking, CEO van Van Lanchot België, Hoofd van het Investment Office en Hoofd Private Banking. Eerder was hij werkzaam bij Fortis Investment Management en ABN AMRO Asset Management. Van Oostveen begon zijn carrière bij Procter & Gamble en studeerde Scheikunde aan de Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
  7. Thijs Jochems

    Thijs Jochems

    Adviseur en Private Investor

    Thijs Jochems started at Credit Lyonnais in the field of research and became CIO of CLBN in 1993. In 1996 he became CIO of Achmea AM and in 1999 he joined CSFB as Country Manager of the Benelux. Subsequently he reorganized CSFB European equities in London and CSFB France. In 2009 he left CSFB but stayed on as Senior Advisor to CS Group EMEA. Since 2009 his activities include membership of several Investment Advisory Councils, lecturing in executive programs at Nyenrode and private investments. Jochems holds a Msc in Macroeconomics.
  8. Ties Dams

    Ties Dams

    Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael China Centre, Clingendael Institute, and Research Fellow, Europa Institute, Leiden University

    Ties Dams is an author and geopolitical expert asoociated with the Clingendael Institute and Leiden University. His research focus is on Europe’s great power competition, particularly with China. He is a member of the EEAS’s Expert Roundtable on Foreign Information Manipulation and Influence, the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats’ expert pool. In 2018 he published the first book on the life and rule of president Xi Jinping, in Dutch, titled De Nieuwe Keizer. Since then he has become a much-seen expert on China’s geopolitics for Dutch TV and radio. Dams is educated as a political theorist in Utrecht, Xiamen, Hongkong and London.
  9. Tom Niemans

    Tom Niemans

    Executive Director, External Investing Group (XIG), Goldman Sachs Asset Management

    Tom Niemans is Executive Director External Investing Group bij Goldman Sachs Asset Management (voorheen Altis Investment Management). Hij is verantwoordelijk voor het selecteren en monitoren van externe vermogensbeheerders alsmede het beheren van klantportefeuilles. Voordat hij in 2013 bij Altis in dienst kwam, werkte hij als Performance & Risk Analyst binnen NN Investment Partners. Niemans heeft een Master in International Business van de Universiteit van Maastricht. Hij is een CFA Charterholder
  10. Volkert de Klerk

    Volkert de Klerk

    CIO, Roots Investments

    Volkert de Klerk has been CIO at Roots Investments since 2016. He is also a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Ubbo Emmius Fund. From 2014 to 2016, he was Head of Partnerships at MN. Before that, he worked at SNS Reaal as Director of Investment Funds. From 1998 to 2009, De Klerk worked as Director Multi Management and Director Institutional Clients at ING IM Europe. Previous roles were at Robeco, Robeco Group and Robeco Institutional Asset Management. De Klerk studied Economics at the University of Groningen and received his Masters in Finance and Investments from the University of Exeter.