Luca Paolini joined Pictet Asset Management (Pictet AM) in 2012 as Chief Strategist. Luca has over 20 years’ experience as an investment strategist and is part of Pictet Asset Management’s Strategic Unit which is the investment group responsible for providing asset allocation guidance across stocks, bonds, commodities and alternatives. Luca communicates Pictet AM’s investments views in the flagship monthly market outlook report, Barometer, and the publication presenting Pictet AM’s five-year projections, Secular Outlook. Luca holds a master’s degree in international economics and management from SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan, and a Laurea Magistrale in Political Sciences from the University of Bologna.

Ryan left the hedge fund equity research world to become a startup consultant since then he has helped clients raise more than $1.2 million in early stage capital. He loves the flexibility provided by consulting and the opportunities to help numerous promising young businesses. Ryan primarily reports to CFOs and startup founders as a consultant, having worked with executive management for large enterprises earlier in his career.
 

Edwin Guttierez is Head of Emerging Market Sovereign Debt at Aberdeen Asset Management. He has previously worked at Deutsche AM and Invesco.

Hamish Chamberlayne joined Henderson in 2011. Prior to this he worked as an investment analyst on Gartmore’s Global Equities team from 2007. Hamish is a qualified chartered accountant and has also worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, as an audit senior, and Burlington Consultants, where he performed commercial due diligence on businesses identified as acquisition targets by private equity houses. Hamish graduated from New College, Oxford University, in 2002 with a Masters degree in Chemistry. He is a CFA charterholder.
 

Hamish Chamberlayne joined Henderson in 2011. Prior to this he worked as an investment analyst on Gartmore’s Global Equities team from 2007. Hamish is a qualified chartered accountant and has also worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, as an audit senior, and Burlington Consultants, where he performed commercial due diligence on businesses identified as acquisition targets by private equity houses. Hamish graduated from New College, Oxford University, in 2002 with a Masters degree in Chemistry. He is a CFA charterholder.

Iain Cunningham is a Portfolio Manager in the multi-asset team at Investec Asset Management. He joins to the firm from Schroder Investment Management where he spent nine years in investment management roles within the multi-manager and multi-asset investment teams – he co-managed the Schroder ISF Global Multi-Asset Income Fund and was co-manager of the Global Multi-Asset Allocation Fund.

Nermin Hajdarbegovic is a former Journalist for CoinDesk and has been a Technical Editor for Toptal for nearly 2 years.

Nermin Hajdarbegovic is Technical Editor at Toptal.