Speakers
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Jeff Boswell Jeff is responsible for managing and leading the Developed Market Credit platform at Ninety One. His responsibilities include acting as a portfolio manager across a range of Ninety One credit funds, including our Multi-Asset Credit funds. Prior to joining the firm Jeff worked at Intermediate Capital Group PLC as Head of Portfolio Management within its Credit Fund Management division. He was also a member of the investment committee across both liquid and illiquid Credit Fund Management strategies. Prior to this he was at Investec Bank Limited as Head of Acquisition Finance, where he established the Acquisition Finance platform and led the development of their CLO business. Previously he has also held structured and leveraged finance roles at NIB Capital (London) and BOE Merchant Bank (South Africa). Jeff holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with Honours (cum laude) from University of South Africa. He is also a Chartered Accountant (SA) and a CFA Charterholder. -
Garland Hansmann Garland is a Portfolio Manager responsible for our MultiAsset Credit, High Yield and Investment Grade Credit funds at Ninety One. Prior to joining the firm he was Head of High Yield at Intermediate Capital Group, where he was also a member of the investment committee for the firm’s senior secured loans, high yield bond and direct lending funds. Before that Garland worked at Credit Suisse Asset Management where he was Head of European Credit Research for both European High Yield and Investment Grade, as well as lead Portfolio Manager for European High Yield and Co-manager for Global High Yield strategies. Prior to this Garland established the Investment Grade Corporate Bond Strategy for Delbruck Asset Management in Frankfurt, and was also a fixed income Portfolio Manager within Dresdner Bank’s institutional asset management division. Garland holds a Finance and Capital Markets degree (Diplombetriebswirt) from the Hochschule für Bankwirtschaft University in Frankfurt, and is also a CFA Charterholder.
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Nick Cooney Nick is an Investment Consultant at LCP with international experience helping some of the world’s largest institutional investors meet their objectives. In addition to advising on strategic asset allocation and risk management solutions, his core focus is on high quality investment and manager research across a range of global fixed income opportunities. -
Alessandra Cardoso Alessandra is the Chief Investment and Risk Officer of the Nestlé UK Pension Trust where she is responsible for the development and implementation of the Fund's defined benefit integrated risk management framework and all aspects of the defined contribution investment strategy including the associated governance.
Prior to joining the Nestlé UK Pensions Team, Alessandra was the Head of Investments for the Nestlé pension fund in Brazil, responsible for the investment strategy, chairing the meetings and managing the decision-making process within the Investment Committee and Pensions Board. Alessandra worked for seven years as a Senior Investment Consultant in Towers Watson where she became the Head of the Investment Consultancy in Brazil. She holds a BSc in Physics from São Paulo University (USP) with a postgraduation course in Automation and Control in Electrical Engineering at USP and an MBA in Strategic Management and Business Economics from Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV).
