Sprekers bij Seminar 'Balansmanagement en Vermogensbeheer voor Verzekeraars'

Gerard Moerman, PhD, is Head of Fixed Income, LDI and Investment Solutions. His team is responsible for managing core fixed income strategies and advising and implementing matching solutions. Prior to his current role, he headed the fiduciary services & investment solutions team focusing on balance sheet related topics. From 2016 to 2018, Moerman was Head of Investment Solutions at La Banque Postale AM, a partner of Aegon AM. He joined the firm in 2005 as a portfolio manager focusing on tactical asset allocation and commodities strategies. In 2011, he was appointed Head of Rates and Money Markets. Moerman holds a Master’s degree in econometrics and a PhD in finance, both from Erasmus University Rotterdam. During his PhD he also worked for the European Central Bank in 2003.

Jack Julicher is Chief Executive Officer of a.s.r. vermogensbeheer and Chief Investment Officer of a.s.r. Nederland. Julicher has more than 30 years of experience in the financial sector. Before joining a.s.r. vermogensbeheer in 2003, he worked at the Ministry of Finance, the Nationale Investeringsbank and Stad Rotterdam Verzekeringen/ASR Bank. Julicher studied macroeconomics and finance at Tilburg University and the IMF Institute.

Natalie Howard is Head of Real Estate Debt bij Schroders Investment Management. Ze is werkzaam geweest in verschillende segmenten van de kapitaalstructuur van diverse vastgoedcategorieën, zowel aan de verkoopzijde als aan de aankoopzijde. Voordat Howard bij Schroders in dienst trad, bekleedde zij leidinggevende posities bij DRC Capital, AgFe, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Charterhouse Bank en Paribas.

Omar Benchekroune is an Executive Director in the European Insurance Strategy team of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM). He specialises in insurance portfolio construction, asset-liability management and risk management. Prior to joining GSAM in 2018, he led the insurance investment strategy practice in Continental Europe at BlackRock and prior to that he was an insurance and pension structurer at Nomura and RBS . He started his career in the Group Risk Management function at AXA. Benchekroune graduated with a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology of Compiegne.

Qian Zhang joined Pictet Asset Management in 2019. She is a Senior Client Portfolio Manager for the Fixed Income Emerging Market Corporate and Greater China Debt team. Before joining Pictet, she was a Client Portfolio Manager in J.P. Morgan Asset Management Global Fixed Income team and Emerging Markets Debt team, based in both London and Hong Kong. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Zhang worked for Merrill Lynch. Zhang obtained a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from Peking University, Beijing, China and an M.Sc. in Mathematical Risk Management from Georgia State University, U.S. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder.