Sustainable Investment during Geopolitical Turmoil
We are today, more than ever, in an unstable geopolitical world where real-time, reliable, quality data is essential to reaching the Paris agreement objectives to curve climate change. This year SIPUG Day will explore this theme through the prism of Financial institutions, governing bodies, scholars and data providers, and start-up tech companies. The challenge is great: How is the industry facing it? What are the setbacks and opportunities?
Sipug Day is the perfect event to meet and network with peers from the financial sector solutions and data providers, start-ups in new technologies and data sets . Organised by market data professionals for finance professionals and ideally situated in central Europe, Zurich.
SIPUGdinner at the Factoryloft Cigarettenfabrik (Sihlquai 268, 8005 Zürich)
Enjoyable networking while enjoying healthy local food, in a cool location with smooth music!
18:00 Registration
19:00 Welcome words
19:00 – 19:30 Keynote: Martina Mcpherson – SIX
19:30 Finger Food, Drinks, Cocktails and Dessert
22:30 End of SIPUGdinner
SIPUGday at Zürich Marriott Hotel (Neumühlequai 42, 8006 Zürich)
Inspiring presentations and insights into financial data, solutions and their application in the financial industry.
7:45 Registration
8:30 Welcome words
8:35 AWP Prize presentations
8:45 – 16:30 Keynotes and Breakouts
16:35 AWP Prize draw
17:00 End of SIPUGday
Matthias Narr is Head Engagement International at Ethos in Geneva, Switzerland. He is responsible for the management of the EEP International dialogue programme and Ethos’ international engagement activities. Matthias Narr joined Ethos as a Senior Engagement Specialist in March 2017. He is member of the PRI’s Stewardship Advisory Committee.
Matthias Narr studied Political Science, Economic History and International Law at the University of Zurich and the University of Paris X and holds a master’s degree.
Before joining Ethos, Matthias Narr worked as an Engagement Specialist in Robeco’s Active Ownership department in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Previously, Matthias Narr had been a manager in SAM’s Sustainability Services team in Zurich, Switzerland.
Tamara Hardegger is the Managing Director of the Swiss Association for Responsible Investments (SVVK-ASIR), a coalition of the largest Swiss public institutional investors.
She is responsible for the Association’s development and activities, which centre around investor engagement on ESG issues on behalf of its eleven members.
Tamara has over 12 years of experience in Sustainable Finance working with the entire financial sector value chain.
As a product manager with Thomson Reuters in London (now LSE Group) she led the integration of ESG ratings into the firm’s financial information platforms gaining a deep understanding of their nature and inherent challenges.
Later she moved to Frankfurt and helped investor clients in Switzerland and Germany craft their Sustainable Investment strategy at Sustainalytics, a globally leading ESG research provider.
Tamara holds a Master of Arts from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She now lives and works in Zurich.
Dr Foort Hamelink joined Lombard Odier in 1999 where he co-set up the Quant franchise, managing equity and fixed income portfolios in a fully systematic way. Closely working with the then SRI team, one of the first Quant-SRI funds was launched in 2004. Ten years later he joined the Fiduciary Management team in the Netherlands, focusing on the assets and liabilities of pension funds and insurance companies, advising these asset owners on the integration of sustainability.
In 2018 Foort joined Lombard Odier Investment Management’s SIRSS team, contributing to the development of the various sustainability-related models and helping with the implementation of these models as bespoke solutions for clients.
He is also a part-time Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where he teaches Finance and Real Estate with a specific focus on sustainable finance.
Foort earned a PhD in finance from the University of Geneva in 1997, holds a master’s degree in economics and finance and a bachelor’s degree in econometrics
With broad understanding of all aspects of sustainability in asset management and exceptional cognitive, communication and management ability, I help investors elevate the sustainability of their investments, while generating an added value that is conducive to improved performance, better marketability and regulatory compliance, as well as outright positive impact on society and the environment.
Background in Maths (Trinity College) and Financial Engineering (UC Berkeley), CFA, having ranked top 2% worldwide in the GMAT.
Ian Stannard joined the ICE Sustainable Finance team following the acquisition of the climate transition risk specialist, Urgentem, where he was the Head of Marketing & Engagement. Ian has extensive experience developing and producing thought leadership, macro research and data products for global financial market participants. Ian has a passion for generating actionable ideas and working closely with asset owners/managers, central banks and multinational corporates around the world.
Ian developed his analytical and data skills at top tier investment banks and institutions, including Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, Chase Manhattan Bank and MNI Market News. Ian is a regular media commentator on developments in the financial markets.
Olivier Wibo, CFA, is a Sustainable Finance Solutions Product Manager at Bloomberg, responsible for the development and bringing to market the Bloomberg ESG Scores as well as supporting Sustainable Finance products and tools with a current focus on temperature portfolio alignment.
He has worked at Bloomberg since 1998 in a variety holding a number of positions there over the years across including (Workflow spec) leading a team of specialists that successfully launched the Bloomberg Portfolio Analytics and Risk & Bloomberg indices across EMEA and APAC.
Olivier is a CFA charterholder, and holds a BS in Business Administration and Management, Finance from Louvain (Belgium). He is married with two children.
Mr. Pascal Schmidt is a Principal ESG Specialist at FactSet with a focus on the flagship ESG dataset from Truvalue Labs. In his current position, Mr. Schmidt works as a subject matter expert on all ESG questions internally and is responsible for selling and supporting FactSet´s ESG solutions for clients across continental Europe.
His expertise spans across datasets generated through AI/NLP technology as well as those catering to regulatory frameworks + the more than 40 third-party ESG datasets integrated into the FactSet ecosystem.
Mr. Schmidt received degrees in Economics from the University of Mannheim and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and is a holder of the certificate in ESG Investing by CFA Institute.
Johannes Nützel is a business economist and has been with RSU since its founding in 2003. As head of the IT & Finance department, he is responsible for developing and producing RSU’s IT systems and is also in charge of commercial matters and new sub-brand markets.
Thomas Reichsthaler is a graduate economist with a doctorate in econometrics and an excellent listener. After working for several years with a leading real estate consultancy, he joined RSU back in 2004 as a methodology expert. He has been successfully leading our new client operations as head of our marketing & sales department since 2012.
Rinesh Patel is the Global Head of Financial Service at Snowflake where he is responsible for developing the financial service value proposition and supporting our customers’ transition to cloud. Rinesh has been in the financial services industry for over 20 years in a variety of banking, consulting and business leadership roles with his most recent experience as Global Head of Cloud Proposition at Refinitiv (a London Stock Exchange Company) where he established and led a commercially-minded platform team to develop a modern cloud data platform to deliver new data solutions. Rinesh also held a series of commercial leadership roles including leading the Enterprise Data business where he oversaw performance of a portfolio of solutions comprising market data feeds, analytics solutions and managed services. A thought leader in financial services, Rinesh is an active participant in a variety of industry sponsored initiatives and is a contributor to various publications. Rinesh is based in London where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
