Spike has 30+ years investment experience and has been directly responsible for raising assets over USD15bn.
He was one of the founders of the Skandia Investment Group and personally innovated several market-leading fund ranges, including the wildly popular Best Ideas funds.
He was the founding Managing Director of the discretionary and multi-manager businesses at Hargreaves Lansdown, which are now approximately USD10bn and was also Strategic Adviser to both Crispin Odey and to the CEO of AXA, where he contributed to the launch of several market-leading propositions.
Spike has many years of experience as a director on the board of funds and also as a director of investment management businesses, with particular experience of India-focussed funds.
Keynote
Asset Management - Boutique
India
Oliver Bell
T. Rowe Price International Ltd
Oliver Bell is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. and the lead portfolio manager and chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee for the Africa & Middle East Fund and the Frontier Markets Equity Strategy. Prior to joining the firm in 2011, Oliver was head of emerging markets equities research at Pictet Asset Management (the institutional asset management arm of Pictet & Cie, the largest private bank in Switzerland), where his responsibilities included managing several funds, as well as a team of analysts. During his time at Pictet, Oliver was directly responsible for managing investments in the emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa region as part of the global emerging markets and the standalone Middle East and Africa portfolios. He also managed the Global Emerging Markets High Yield Equities Fund. Oliver holds the Investment Management Certificate (IMC) and has a bachelor of science degree from Exeter University.
Keynote
Asset Management - Large
Frontier Markets
Maciej Wojtal
Amtelon Capital
Maciej Wojtal is the founder and chief investment officer at Amtelon Capital. Maciej correctly predicted the best-performing equity market of the recent years and launched a dedicated fund to take advantage of the opportunity.
Prior to Amtelon Capital, he managed an equity long-short / global macro absolute return strategy at Investors TFI that delivered strong risk-adjusted returns over 4 years.
Before accepting the fund manager role, Maciej was a trader at J.P. Morgan Proprietary Positioning Business, an internal hedge fund within the bank (and later at a spin-off where the team moved). His team managed the largest and most profitable equity long-short book at the bank.
Keynote
Asset Management - Boutique
Iran, Emerging Markets
Corporates
Company backgrounds and useful links.
Cohesion Investments Limited
Cohesion Investments is a specialist investment management business based in London dedicated to growth opportunities, with a focus on India through our exclusive relationship with legendary investor Madhu Kela.
Cohesion’s capability is connecting investors with investment opportunities that make money. We identify growth in a world where growth is scarce. This will always be underpinned by exceptional and indisputable growth drivers with predictable outcomes and without compromising wealth preservation.
Cohesion was founded by Spike Hughes and is chaired by James Caan CBE, one of the UK’s most successful and dynamic entrepreneurs, best known for his appearances on the popular BBC TV show Dragons’ Den.
Keynote
Asset Management - Boutique
India
T. Rowe Price International Ltd
Oliver Bell
T. Rowe Price is a global independent investment management firm, managing over £812 billion across a range of strategies in equity, fixed income, multi asset in order to provide investment solutions for clients.
Our investment approach is solidly rooted in teamwork, fundamental research and taking a long-term perspective, which has helped us deliver consistent, repeatable outperformance while at the same time carefully managing risk. We established our London office in 1979 via the joint venture, Rowe Price Fleming International, and in 2000 began operating in the UK and Ireland as T. Rowe Price International.
Today we have over 400 employees based in London and operate in 16 countries worldwide.
Keynote
Asset Management - Large
Frontier Markets
Amtelon Capital
Maciej Wojtal
Amtelon Capital is the only European asset manager offering HNW investors a fully compliant access to the Iranian equity market.
Amtelon’s flagship Iranian equity fund returned 170% in euro last year making it possibly the best-performing equity fund in the world.
The company is recognised as an expert on investments in Iran and has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Real Vision, and other leading financial media.
Amtelon Capital was set up in 2016 in the Netherlands with offices in London and Tehran. The company manages onshore alternative investment funds in cooperation with top service providers such as KPMG, Circle Partners, and Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
