Speakers

Brett Hammond is a Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist for TIAA-CREF Asset Management. His group is responsible for asset allocation modeling and institutional advising, economic and market commentary, and investment product and portfolio research. Within TIAA-CREF, he was previously responsible for performance attribution modeling, played an influential role in the creation of the company’s inflation-linked bond and lifecycle funds, and conducted pension research. Prior to TIAA-CREF, Mr. Hammond held positions at the National Academy of Sciences, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and AB degrees in economics and political science from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

 

 

Rikard Lundgren is CIO and partner of IMQubator Investment Management”, a seeder for new and innovative fund managers. He was formerly the Head Of Investments at Folksam, a Swedish, 20bn EUR, insurance and fund management company. He has been an independent advisor or Non-Executive Director of institutional asset managers, hedge funds and investment banks. He was CEO and CIO Of Inter-IKEA Treasury S.A., head of the Finance division of Inter-IKEA and a board member of Catella Kapitalförvaltning. During his years with Inter-IKEA, the asset management was developed into a absolute return, multi-strategy hedge fund. He has appeared as speaker at AIMA and other conferences and has been published in AIMAs industry publication. He has 14 years of experience from investment bank’s Global Markets with First Chicago, Bankers Trust, Swedbank and Deutsche Bank. He holds a Bachelors degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

 

Malin Björkmo is newly appointed as director of the Swedish Financial Services Authority (FSA), where she is responsible for supervision of insurance companies, pension funds and investment funds. Previously she was a senior advisor is issues related to asset management and governance. She has been working for Swedish government, first with regulation of financial markets and later as responsible for the state-owned companies. She has also experience from asset management and governance in the private sector, for example as the CIO of Skandia Liv, a large Swedish life insurance company. Björkmo is the author of a recent report on the efficiency of the management of the buffer funds of the Swedish national pension system. The report was commissioned by the Expert Group for Studies in Public Economics (ESO), a standing committee under the Swedish Ministry of Finance.

Jan Nijssen is an independent pension specialist with broad international expertise. He held executive positions at Nationale-Nederlanden and ING Group for 25 years. As Global Head Pensions and CEO Insurance Central Europe of ING Group he contributed to finding sustainable solutions for pension systems in mature and developing countries.
Nijssen, who studied econometrics, is currently a partner at Montae, a company that advises companies, insurers, pension funds and trade unions on pensions. He is also a fellow of Netspar, an institution that combines pension public and private sector pension expertise. Furthermore, he is a board member of Expertisecentrum LEEFtijd, an agency that advises on age and life course related topics. Government institutions and corporations regularly call on Nijssen to share his broad international knowledge and experience. In 2009, the Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment asked him to be a member of a commission that was assigned to investigate the risk management and investment management of pension funds in the Netherlands. On behalf of the Dutch Association of Insurers, Nijssen takes part in the Pension Development Network of WorldGranny, an organization that seeks to improve the position of the elderly in developing countries.
Nijssen is an enthusiastic promoter of combining the core competencies of insurers and pension funds in the Netherlands in order to export Dutch pension expertise.

Jan Straatman, Chief Investment Officer, has overall responsibility for the investment strategies managed by ING Investment Management Europe. Straatman has over 25 years of experience in the international asset management industry. Before joining ING Investment Management he was CEO/CIO of Pearl-Axial Investments. Prior to that, he held various positions in the field of asset management and pensions, including those of CIO Capital Markets of ABP Asset Management, Director of Asset Management at Achmea Global Investors, and Senior Vice President of GIM Capital Management in Eindhoven and New York. Straatman obtained an MBA from the University of Hasselt in Belgium and is a member of the AIMA Hedge Fund Industry Investor Steering Committee (ISC).

Theo Kocken is founder and CEO of Cardano. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Business administration, a Master's degree in Econometrics and gained his PhD at the VU University (Amsterdam). Between 1990 and 2000 he expanded his expertise in derivatives and risk management as head of the Market Risk departments at ING and Rabobank International. In 2000 he founded Cardano, a specialist in investment management and risk management, market leader in derivatives overlays, amongst others through the introduction of dynamic derivatives strategies at a large number of pension funds. Cardano, with over 90 employees, has offices in London and Rotterdam. He is (co-)author of numerous books and articles in the area of risk management and pension funds. His book 'Curious Contracts. Pension Fund Redesign for the Future' (2006) addresses the need for redesign of the pension structures due to unbalanced risk sharing as a result of the greying society. 

 

As of January 2010, Niels Kortleve is innovator for PGGM’s institutional clients. He worked for PGGM’s investment and actuarial departments since 1998, lately as manager actuarial projects and special accounts. In that role he was amongst others responsible for research on the sustainability of the pension deal, for the policy on balance sheet management and for solvency for pension funds. In 2006, together with Theo Nyman (Tilburg University) and Eduard Ponds (APG), he published ‘Fair value and pension fund management’ as well as ‘Marktwaardering van pensioenverplichtingen en het beleid van pensioenfondsen’. Over the last couple of years, he has written various papers and articles about the pension deal, balance sheet management and solvency. He is research fellow of Netspar (Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement). Prior to joining PGGM, Niels worked for Rabobank International as senior fixed income analyst. Before that Niels was a senior quant researcher with Robeco Group, where he started his career in 1988.
Niels is chairman of the ALM committee of the VBA (‘Dutch CFA’).
Within the AG (the Dutch Actuarial Association), he is member of the Pension committee, the Solvency II committee and the working group Pension Solvency.
In the area of solvency and supervision, next to his roles in the AG, he participates in the IORP Solvency Working Party from the Groupe Consultatif, is joint chairman of a working group of VB and Opf (platforms for sector and company pension funds in the Netherlands) and is member of the EFRP Working Group Pension & Solvency.
Next to that, he is member of the investment committee of the pension fund of the Dutch protestant church (PKN).

Chairman

Jeroen Tielman is CEO and founder of IMQ Investment Management (the management company of www.IMQubator.com) and is co-founder of the IMQubator emerging manager fund to which APG has committed €250mln in January 2009. In 2008 he also worked on the establishment of an international pension asset collaboration network together with TIAA-CREF. From 2006 to 2008, Tielman worked with Cordares as managing director Commerce, Strategy & Innovation.
Tielman started his career in 1986 with ABN AMRO as an investment analyst and was a institutional sales advisor with ABN AMRO Securities Inc. in New York. After he returned to Amsterdam he joined the newly established global telecom industry team of the Corporate Finance / M&A department of ABN AMRO Hoare Govett. Between 1996 and 2000 he was global head product development of ABN AMRO Asset Management. Tielman resigned with ABN AMRO in 2000 to found FundPartners as an independent product engineering boutique for the financial sector, particularly the pension industry. PGGM was shareholder and launching customer. NIBC joined as shareholder in 2003 and fully acquired FundPartners in 2005.
Tielman completed his study business administration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1986 and is registered investment analyst (RBA). Since 2002 Tielman organizes the annual PensionSummit as independent discussion platform “for and by pension funds”. From 2002 to 2004 Tielman was member of the jury team of the IPE European DB/DC themed awards and in 2007 he participated in two project advisory teams (active asset management and pensions) for Holland Financial Centre. In 2008 Tielman produced and co-hosted the 4th International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference in co-operation with prof. David Blake (Pensions Institute) and Theo Nijman (Netspar) (www.longrisk.com).