Speakers at Seminar 'How to position your portfolio for 2025 in an era of geopolitical uncertainty'

Bob Homan is sinds 2008 Hoofd van het Investment Office van ING en daarmee eindverantwoordelijk voor het beleggingsbeleid van ING voor haar Nederlandse klanten. Hij startte zijn carrière bij de Postbank en werkte voor zijn overstap naar ING bij diverse vermogensbeheerders. In de media is hij het gezicht van ING wanneer het om beleggen gaat. Homan studeerde Economie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Erik L. Knutzen, CFA, CAIA, Managing Director, is Co-Head of the Neuberger Berman Quantitative and Multi-Asset investment team and Multi-Asset Chief Investment Officer. He joined the firm in 2014 and is responsible for leading the management of multi-asset portfolios, driving the asset allocation process on a firm-wide level, as well as engaging with clients on strategic partnerships and multi-asset and quantitative solutions. Previously, he was Chief Investment Officer at NEPC, LLC. In addition, he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Investing, and on the Investment Committee of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Knutzen holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Williams College.

Jeremy J.W. Cunningham is an Investment Director at Capital Group. He has 37 years of industry experience and has been with Capital Group for eight years. Prior to joining Capital, Cunningham worked as head of EMEA fixed income business development at Alliance Bernstein. Before that he was Head of Product Management at Schroders. Earlier in his career he was a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Invesco, J.P. Morgan Fleming and Merrill Lynch. Cunningham holds the CFA designation.

Karin Kaiser joined Schroders Greencoat (then Greencoat Capital) in 2014 and has since made more than €1.5bn of equity investments into the renewables sector. She was the original member of Schroders Greencoat’s UK Solar team which she has successfully co-led to be one of the top two owners of solar assets in the UK. Kaiser is now based in Germany and is leading Schroders Greencoat’s European private markets team. She is responsible for managing the firm’s European investment strategies across institutional funds, mandates, and wealth products. She joined from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she was part of the M&A and Corporate Finance Team, structuring equity and debt financing solutions for European clients.

Ralph Wessels is Head of Investment Strategy at ABN AMRO where he has worked since 2011. As a strategist, he is jointly responsible for the investment policy which he communicates to clients. He can regularly be read, heard and seen in the media, including RTL Z, the FD and BNR Nieuwsradio. Since 2017, he has also been keeping up with developments in the crypto world. Wessels started his investment career at Robeco and is a business economist graduate of Erasmus University Rotterdam.