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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Abbie Llewellyn-Waters Abbie Llewellyn-Waters is the manager of the Jupiter Global Sustainable Equities Fund.
She joined Jupiter in 2006, is a Global Equities Fund Manager in the Environment and Sustainability team, and has been a lead manager of institutional funds since 2012.
In 2017, Abbie was awarded both Fund Manager of the Year and Investment Woman of the Year at Investment Week’s inaugural Women in Investment Awards. Abbie is also a contributing member of several industry initiatives: for example, she is an Ambassador for the Diversity Project and a member of the 30% Club UK Investor Group.
She has a degree in Classics from University College, London.
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Steven Gardner Steven joined Jupiter in 2018 and is responsible for managing Jupiter’s relationships with existing and prospective institutional clients in the UK.
Steven joined Jupiter from Franklin Templeton Investments where he led their institutional business development efforts in the UK and Ireland, managed relationships with institutional clients and was responsible for developing relationships with UK-focused investment consultants. Prior to this, Steven held a senior role in the institutional client service team at Baring Asset Management, a role he assumed after relocating to London from Edinburgh where he was a member of the overseas institutional client team at Baillie Gifford.
Steven began his career on the investment side having spent four years as an Investment Analyst at SL Capital Partners, the private equity division of what was then Standard Life Investments.
Steven holds a first class honours degree in Economics and was the recipient of the Sir Charles Carter Prize for Excellence in the field of the Economics of Industry and Innovation.
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Craig Scordellis Head of Long-Only Multi-Asset Credit
Craig is CQS’ Head of Multi-Asset Credit, responsible for the firm’s long-only multi-asset credit business. Prior to this role he headed global loans and was responsible for managing the firm’s loan mandates, including those in a variety of multi-asset credit funds and collateralised loan obligations (CLOs). Craig chairs the Asset Advisory Committee for the CQS Credit Multi-Asset Fund and is a Partner of CQS (UK) LLP.
Prior to joining CQS in 2008, Craig was a Senior Investment Analyst and Assistant Portfolio Manager at New Amsterdam Capital Management, a credit hedge fund. Before this, he was an Associate at the Royal Bank of Scotland where he structured leverage finance and high yield bond transactions. Prior to RBS, Craig was on the Deutsche Bank Investment Banking graduate programme. Craig holds a BSc (First Class Hons) in Business Administration from the University of Bath.
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Jon Amess Principal, UK, Ireland & Switzerland, CQS
Jon is Principal for UK, Ireland, and Switzerland within the CQS Business Development Group.
Prior to joining CQS in 2013, Jon was an Investor Relations Analyst for the emerging macro strategies at Moore Capital Management Europe. Prior to joining Moore in 2009, he held relationship management positions at Olympia Capital Management, Pioneer Investments, and Gottex Fund Management. He has been working within the institutional investment management industry since 2003.
Jon earned a BA in Law from Oxford Brookes University and holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation.
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Mark Thompson Mark has over 30 years of pensions investment experience. Having worked in a number of senior investment roles for Prudential/M&G for 24 years including being a trustee of the Prudential Staff Pension Scheme, Mark went on to be the CIO of the HSBC UK Pension Scheme (DB and DC) for over eight years. He now has plural investment roles in the pension’s world including working for UBS and Lloyds as well as being a member of the Zurich Independent Governance Committee.
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Simon Lee Simon is Head of M&S Pension Trust and Chief Investment Officer for the M&S Pension Scheme. He leads the executive team that supports the Trustee. The Scheme has 110,000 members, assets of c. £12bn and was closed to future accrual in 2017. Prior to joining M&S in July 2015, he spent over seven years at Lloyds Banking Group as Head of Investments where his role included responsibility for the legacy Lloyds TSB defined benefit schemes and the design and implementation of the Group’s defined contribution scheme. Previously, he was Head of Strategy & Investment for the UK pension schemes of telent (formerly Marconi and GEC).
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a member of the Pre-Emption Group of the Financial Reporting Council and is a graduate of the University of Southampton.
