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Having previously worked at a leading provider of wealth management services as a Senior Fund Manager and Head of Fixed Income Research, Matt is now responsible for the day-to-day management of one of the UK’s largest online investment platforms.

With experience managing a discretionary fixed income fund and managing multi-asset funds across a four-person team, Matt is a CFA chartholder with a first class Masters degree in Mathematics from the University of York.

Matt is currently Fund Manager at AJ Bell Funds.

Collaborating with a number of clients in the portfolio solutions space, Allan spearheaded BlackRock’s iShares investment research initiative in Europe.

Before joining iShares in 2008, Allan spent three years within the Active Fixed Income business at Barclay’s Global Investors focusing on a range of trading strategies in the rates and credit arena.

In his rookie years in the early 1990s, he learnt the craft of stochastic calculus as a derivatives specialist at Banque Paribas, before being recruited to head up JP Morgan’s Equity Derivatives Models team.

Allan is currently Founding Partner of the FinTech startup Algo-Chain and Twenty20 Investments.

Rick spent most of his career in senior leadership roles with The CME Group (“CME”), a leading provider of benchmark futures and options products and an innovator in futures trading.

At CME, Rick held the post of Managing Director, Products and Services. In this role he led global sales, product development, and strategic global growth initiatives. He played an integral part in the transition of CME’s ownership stake in Dow Jones Indexes to the S&P Dow Jones Indices joint venture.

He also held senior positions in CME’s index products division.

Rick is currently CEO at the Index Industry Association.

Helen has worked in financial markets for over 17 years. She founded her own macroeconomic consulting firm, BlondeMoney, in 2017. Her team provides expert analysis on financial markets and politics.

Previously, she was Head of Currency Alpha for State Street Global Advisors. She started her career in Foreign Exchange at Merrill Lynch. Helen has also worked as an adviser to former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne during the financial crisis.

She is a keen mentor, helping Chinese entrepreneurs as part of Goldman Sachs 10000 Women initiative.

Helen is currently CEO at BlondeMoney.

Alan co-founded SCM Direct, the actively managed pure ETF investment manager, in June 2009.

In 2012 Alan co-launched the True and Fair Campaign, calling for an end to rip offs and dubious practices in the UK investment and pension industry.

Prior to SCM, Alan was co-founder and CIO of New Star Asset Management from 2001-2007; and prior to New Star, he headed the High-Performance Team at Jupiter.

He is a qualified accountant; as well as an alumnus of the London Business School.

Allan is currently Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer at SCM Direct.

USD6.35 trillion. That's the total recorded value of assets in the global ETF and ETP industry from early 2020, according to ETFGI. In Europe alone, ETFs are now worth over USD1 trillion.

This phenomenal growth is driven by the liquidity, transparency and low cost of the ETF, whose underlying investments can range from core vanilla indices to thematic indices in the ESG or robotics sector, or even the medical marijuana industry. Investment managers of all types can gain exposure to a basket of shares in a theme of their choice, through the purchase of the appropriate ETF.

We’ve designed this one-day event to connect investors, fund managers and issuers interested in answering the question: what can ETFs add to existing portfolios?

Launched in 2000, ETF Express is a daily, live, digital service, bringing news, features, interviews and analysis in real time on the vibrant ETF industry. This is our inaugural European event, and we're expecting a massive showing of top GPs and LPs from across the globe.

Over 50% of our sponsorship slots are filled, and we'll be letting you know who else has come on board soon. There are still opportunities available. If you'd like to receive more information about sponsorship, please email us using the link below.

Like many others in the field of financial services, we at Global Fund Media are fans of math. We also happen to be fans of science fiction.

Being the first to be awarded with the title of Science Fiction Writers Grand Master in 1974, Robert A Heinlein has contributed much to the genre, and to the world.

One of our favourite contributions is his word, 'grok'. A small, unassuming word — which many assume to be a spelling error — is, in our opinion, one of the most beautiful any writer has given us.

Having served all major asset classes with news, events, and special reports for over 15 years, we at GFM believe we 'grok' investment.

We'd like to help you do the same.

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