Mayssa Al Midani joined Pictet Asset Management in September 2018 as an Investment Manager in the Thematic Equities team. She was previously a Portfolio Manager within the Pictet Investment Office focused on special situations across the capital structure and private equity co-investments in the consumer sector. Before joining PIO, she was an Equity Buy-Side Analyst at Pictet Wealth Management specialising in global consumer equities.
Ingo R. Mainert is Managing Director and CIO Multi Asset Europe at Allianz Global Investors. He is a member of the management board of Allianz Global Investors GmbH. He started his professional career in 1988 at Commerzbank AG, where he took on different roles in asset management and from 2006 he assumed additional responsibility as CIO for the entire portfolio management of cominvest, which became part of Allianz Global Investors KAG when Dresdner Bank was taken over by Commerzbank in 2009.
Franck Dixmier is Global Head of Fixed Income and a member of the Investment Executive Committee at Allianz Global Investors. Since 2012, he has been CIO Fixed Income Europe, and in 2015 also became Global Head of Fixed Income, overseeing all fixed income investments across the firm. Dixmier joined Allianz Group in 1995 as Fixed Income Portfolio Manager.
Jean Lee, BComm, CFA. Jean is an Investment Officer with Colchester Global Investors and has been with the firm since July 2019. Jean manages portfolios, monitors risk on a daily basis and conducts fundamental economic research. Prior to joining Colchester, she was a Portfolio Analyst at Western Asset Management in the investment grade credit team with a focus on portfolio analysis, implementation and trade execution. She began her career in 2005 in risk management at UBS Investment Bank. In 2008, she joined Legal & General Investment Management as a member of the active fixed income team. Jean graduated from University of New South Wales with combined degrees in Commerce and Science. She is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of the UK.
James Dudnick, CFA, is a Portfolio Manager and Director at Allianz Global Investors. He is based in San Diego, where he works on the firm’s Short Duration High Income team.
Photo courtesySteve Freedman is Head of research and sustainability, Thematic Equities at Pictet Asset Management
Stephen Freedman joined Pictet Asset Management in 2019 and is Head of research and sustainability, Thematic Equities.
Before joining Pictet, Stephen was at UBS Wealth Management, where he most recently served as head of Sustainable Investing Solutions for the Americas, based in New York. Prior to that he served in various Investment Strategy roles, including head of Thematic Investing Strategy and head of Tactical Asset Allocation. He started his career with UBS in Zurich in 1998 as an economist and public policy analyst. Since 2018, he has been teaching environmental finance at New York University.
He was also the founding co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Sustainable Finance from 2016 to 2019.
Stephen holds a Doctorate (PhD) and a Masters in economics from the University of St. Gallen. He is a CFA charterholder and earned the FRM designation from the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
Xavier Chollet joined Pictet Asset Management in 2011 as a Senior Investment Manager in the Thematic Equities Team co-managing the Clean Energy Strategy.
Previously, he was a member of Pictet’s Wealth Management division as an analyst covering technology (from 1998) and clean energy (from 2007). He also managed two internal portfolios on solar energy and energy efficiency.
Xavier holds a Master’s in Finance from the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne.
Alexandra Russo, CFA, is a product specialist of the Thematic Equity team at AllianzGI, based in New York. She joined Allianz Global Investors in 2012 and has held various roles in marketing, operations and investments. Currently, Russo also dedicates part of her time to analysis related to sustainable issues relevant to the team’s SDG strategies. She has covered the Global Water fund for five years and has five years of experience in sustainable investing.