Speakers
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Mary -Therese Barton Head of Emerging Debt
Mary-Therese joined Pictet Asset Management in 2004 and is the Head of Emerging Debt. Before taking up her current position in 2018, she was a Senior Investment Manager in the team. Mary-Therese joined as an Emerging Debt Analyst.
Prior to joining Pictet she worked at Dun & Bradstreet, where she was an economist responsible for analysing European countries.
Mary-Therese graduated with a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford. She also holds an MSc with distinction in Development Finance from the Centre for Financial Management Studies, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), part of the University of London. Mary-Therese is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.
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Kate Rickards Senior Business Development Manager
Kate joined Pictet Asset Management in 2019 as a Senior Business Development Manager. Based in London, Kate focuses on developing our institutional business in the UK.
Kate joined us from Epoch Investment Partners where she sought to develop relationships with the UK's largest corporate and local authority pension schemes. Prior to that Kate held a similar role at SKAGEN Funds and was previously at Barclays and Schroders.
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Tim Bird Senior Business Development Manager
Tim joined Pictet Asset Management in 2017 as a Senior Business Development Manager. Based in London Tim focuses on developing our institutional business in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Tim joined us from Allianz Global Investors where he was, Director, Institutional Business Development working to develop relationships with the UK's largest corporate and local authority pension schemes. Prior to that Tim held similar roles at T Rowe Price and spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management helping to build and develop their UK and Irish Business.
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Robert Simpson Co-head EM Hard Currency Debt, Pictet Asset Management
Robert joined Pictet Asset Management in 2019 and is co-lead of our Hard Currency Emerging Debt strategies and Senior Investment Manager for global emerging market debt portfolios.
Before joining Pictet, Robert spent 13 years at Insight Investment where he was a Portfolio Manager focusing on hard and local currency emerging market debt portfolios.
He holds a BSc in Pharmacology, attained a PG Diploma in Economics in 2004 and later earned an MSc in Finance and Economics in 2005, all from the University of Manchester. Robert is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.
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Ian Burton Head of Consultant Relations & UK Institutional
Ian joined Pictet Asset Management in 2015 as a Senior Business Development Manager. He assumed his current role in November 2017. Before joining Pictet Asset Management, Ian was Head of UK Consultant Relations at AllianceBernstein (AB). He was also responsible for managing relationships with some of AB’s largest UK pension fund clients. Prior to that, Ian was Head of UK Consultant Relations at Pioneer Investments. He has also held the position of Director, Consultant Relations at Insight Investment.
Ian also spent 18 years at Mercer Investment Consulting where he delivered a full range of investment advice to a portfolio of institutional clients as well as contributing to Mercer’s investment manager research.
Ian was formerly on the Board of Association of Investment Management Sales Executive (AIMSE) Europe Ltd. Ian graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering and Design.
