Speakers at Seminar 'How to position your portfolio for 2024 and beyond'

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.

Duanice Verberkmoes has been Portfolio Manager Private Equity at Blue Sky Group since September 2023. Prior to that, she held the same position at MN since 2021. She joined MN in 2017 as a SimCorp Dimension Specialist. She earned an Msc in Financial Management from VU University Amsterdam.

James Ashley is Head of International Macro/Market Strategy in the Strategic Advisory Solutions team of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. He is responsible for providing international capital markets research, macro strategy and implementation ideas to CIOs, fund selection teams and investment committees across retail and institutional investors in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Lalantika Medema is an Executive Vice President and Alternative Credit Strategist in the Newport Beach office of Pimco, responsible for credit alternatives and mortgage- and real-estate-related strategies. Previously, she worked in the portfolio management group and focused on mortgage-backed securities and residential whole loans. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2006, she worked at Deutsche Bank’s Trust & Securities Services Division, specializing in collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). She has 20 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. She also received an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Niels Las is an Associate Director in the Credit and Insurance Linked Investments team at PGGM. The team focuses on both credit risk sharing investments, where it takes first-loss positions in synthetic securitisations of bank loans, and on investments through which it participates in natural catastrophe risk. Previously, Las was involved in setting up the impact-focused allocation within PGGM’s Private Equity team. He holds a Master’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from Radboud University Nijmegen and is a CFA charterholder.

Richard Damming heads Schroders Capital Private Equity Investment activities in Europe across direct/co-investments, primaries and secondaries. He is also on the advisory board of several leading European fund managers. Before joining Schroders in 2011, Richard worked at Capvent AG, a Zurich based private equity fund of funds firm. From 2006 to 2009, he was an Associate in the Corporate Finance team of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Zurich. He was also a controller and corporate M&A Analyst for ABB Ltd. from 2004 to 2005. Damming holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Corporate Finance from Bocconi University Milan, Italy.

Roy Kroon joined PGB Pension Services in 2015 as Manager of the internal Fixed Income & Treasury team. Since 2023 he is responsible for the internally and externally managed credit- and Alternative Fixed Income portfolios. Prior to 2015, he was a Portfolio Manager Credits at MN and Credit Analyst with ABN Amro Asset Management. Kroon holds a master degree in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.

Thomas Heidstra is Director Investment at the Univest Company, Unilever's in-house central investment services company. Heidstra has 20 years of industry experience and started this career at ABN AMRO where he was a junior equity analyst in the Emerging Markets Telecoms team. In 2001, he joined the Pan European Small and Mid Cap team of JPMorgan Cazenove. From 2004-2006 he worked at Rabo Securities as Senior Account manager responsible for UK accounts. In 2006 Heidstra joined Theta Capital. Following the take-over of Theta Capital by Rothschild in 2012, he joined Univest Company in 2012 to restructure the hedge fund investments of various large Unilever pension plants and manage the transition from a pure fund of funds model towards a fully direct investment program. Right now, Heidstra is responsible for the investment team of Univest.