Shifting market regimes and crowded factor exposures are forcing allocators to rethink where genuine returns actually come from. We’re inviting a select group of senior allocators, fund selectors and investment decision-makers to explore how hedge fund strategies — including multi-strategy platforms, long/short approaches in U.S. high yield and AI-themed equities, and discretionary macro alongside gold and silver, are separating skill-driven returns from market-driven ones, and where the strongest opportunities sit today.
Sessions will dig into strategy allocation, active management, and how return objectives are evolving, alongside correlation benefits, risk-adjusted performance, and the precise role alternatives can play within increasingly complex portfolios.
ALTERNATIVES/ABSOLUTE RETURN MASTERCLASS LUNCH
Professional Investor Forum
1st July 2026 | Hôtel Métropole | Geneva
Shifting market regimes and crowded factor exposures are forcing allocators to rethink where genuine returns actually come from. We’re inviting a select group of senior allocators, fund selectors and investment decision-makers to explore how hedge fund strategies — including multi-strategy platforms, long/short approaches in U.S. high yield and AI-themed equities, and discretionary macro alongside gold and silver, are separating skill-driven returns from market-driven ones, and where the strongest opportunities sit today.
Sessions will dig into strategy allocation, active management, and how return objectives are evolving, alongside correlation benefits, risk-adjusted performance, and the precise role alternatives can play within increasingly complex portfolios.
ALTERNATIVES/ABSOLUTE RETURN OUTLOOK
ANTONIY PETROV
Director, Alternatives, CIO GWM
UBS
Theme:
Beyond Beta: Navigating a More Complex Environment with Hedge Funds
Alternatives/Absolute Return Investment Strategies
ALAN KIRBY
Client Portfolio Manager
Alger
Theme:
Artificial Intelligence: The Most Important Innovation of Our Lifetime?
Alan Kirby is Senior Vice President and Client Portfolio Manager. Alan joined Alger as part of the Alger Associates, Inc. acquisition of Weatherbie Capital, LLC in 2017 and has 42 years of experience. Alan continues to be responsible for marketing the Weatherbie investment strategies and providing client service to investors in those strategies. Prior to Weatherbie Capital, he was a founding partner and COO at LightKeeper Investments LP where his responsibilities included security analysis, risk management, asset raising, client service, and administrative management. Alan also has previous experience at RiverSource Investments, Fidelity Management Trust Company and MetLife/State Street Research. Alan holds an M.S. in investment finance from Boston University. He also earned the Certified Investment Management Analyst® (CIMA®) designation and is a member of the CAIA Association
NED NAYLOR
Investment Manager, Gold & Silver
Jupiter
Theme:
Is it Silver’s Time to Shine Now?
Ned is an Investment Manager in the Gold & Silver team. Before joining Jupiter, Ned worked at Merian Global Investors as a portfolio manager in the Gold & Silver Team. Prior to this, he worked at Quilter Cheviot where he founded a dedicated monetary metals fund in 2009. He began his investment career at Smith & Williamson in 2001. Ned has a BA in Spanish.
CARON BASTIANPILLAI
Senior Portfolio Manager
NS Partners
Theme:
Hedge Funds in a New Market Regime: Capturing Alpha Through Manager Selection and Portfolio Construction
Caron Bastianpillai has over 30 years of experience in hedge fund investing and joined NS Partners in 2008 overseeing hedge fund strategies.
After beginning his career in 1990 as an equity product manager at Thomson Financial Services, he joined Banco Santander Group in 1994, where he was responsible for research, due diligence and portfolio management of hedge fund strategies. In 2001, Caron joined Optimal Investment Services (a wholly owned subsidiary of Banco Santander Group), where he became a Managing Director in 2005, leading a research team in global equity hedge strategies.
Caron holds a BBA from the University of Houston and an MBA from the European University in Geneva.
JASON HOROWITZ
Senior Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager,
Head of U.S. High Yield Bond Investments
CIFC Asset Management
Theme:
Themes, Technicals, Trading and Detection: Unlocking Alpha in U.S. High Yield
Mr. Horowitz brings 31 years of investment experience to CIFC. Previously, he worked at Millennium Management, where he served as Portfolio Manager for a long/short corporate credit strategy with an emphasis on U.S. High Yield. Before that, Mr. Horowitz spent 13 years at Muzinich & Co., most recently as the lead Portfolio Manager overseeing a long/short corporate credit hedge fund recognized for its outperformance by numerous industry awards throughout his tenure. Prior to that, he served as an equity and high yield research analyst at Credit Suisse. Mr. Horowitz earned a B.A. in Sociology from Yeshiva University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Yale School of Management.
EVENT SPONSORS
EVENT LOCATION
Hôtel Métropole
1st July 2026