All About Alpha Forum

Thursday, 19 September
8am - 10am
Capella Sydney | The Wyndham Room

Join Investor Strategy News and The Inside Network for a captivating morning with guest speakers Danica Hampton, senior portfolio manager, Adrian Lee & Partners, Bill Dwyer, senior consultant, JANA and Ben Udy, lead economist, Oxford Economics Australia.

What’s on the menu

  • Understand the forces driving currency markets in a changing macroeconomic environment.

  • Analyse currency risk trends in the institutional investment landscape and new strategies to manage them.

  • Explore how active currency management can create portable alpha in different market conditions.

  • Debate the future of institutional currency management and other sources of alpha generation.

Speakers

Danica Hampton
Senior portfolio manager
Adrian Lee & Partners

Danica has over 20 years’ experience in the investment management industry. Having joined Adrian Lee & Partners in 2022 as a senior portfolio manager and head of sales APAC, Danica spends most of her time talking to Australasian investors about how to manage currency risk.

Bill Dwyer
Senior consultant
JANA

Bill is a senior consultant at JANA Investment Advisers, providing advice to institutional clients in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining JANA, Bill was responsible for the management of the investment portfolio of a government superannuation fund. Previously, Bill managed the investments of an industry superannuation fund through the Global Financial Crisis in 2008-09. Bill has a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honours), is a CFA Charterholder and an actuary with leadership, investment and climate change training from Columbia University.

Ben Udy
Lead economist
Oxford Economics Australia

Ben is a lead economist at Oxford Economics Australia whose primary focus is macroeconomic modelling, Ben also leads a team developing a sophisticated global bi-lateral trade analysis platform. Prior to joining Oxford Economics Ben has worked as a macroeconomic consultant in the private sector in Singapore and Australia and for the Treasury in New Zealand.

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