Three Fund Managers talk about their funds to diversify portfolios

This Wednesday 27th of October RankiaPro Europe hosted its seventh Conference Call of 2021. It was quite interesting to hear about the strategies and insights of our three panelists.

We had presenting their funds Robin Dunmall, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Alken Asset Management, who presented the Alken Fund Sustainable Income Opportunities. Jorry Noeddekae, Fund Manager at Polar Capital who presented the Polar Capital Emerging Market Stars Fund and Stuart Forbes, co-founder at Rize ETF who presentated the Rize Sustainable Future of Food UCITS ETF.

The three professionals have presented their funds to fund selectors and advisors. During the conference call they also talked about the rising prices of commodities and how it is affecting the markets and the economy, and about the current state of inflation and their thoughts on its transitionary state.

Robin Dunmall joined Alken Asset Management in 2018 as a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager. He was previously an Executive Director and Portfolio Manager within the Multi Asset Solutions group at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, focusing primarily on convertible bonds and income-oriented strategies.Robin holds and economics degree from the University of Cambridge. He has 12 years of investment experience.

Jorry joined Polar Capital in June 2018 to launch the Polar Capital Emerging Market Stars Fund in July 2018. Prior to joining Polar Capital, Jorry worked at various firms including Nordea Investment Management, Danske Capital, F&C Investment Management, New Star Asset Management and BankInvest Asset Management.

Stuart is a co-founder and product lead at Rize ETF. He is highly experienced in the full life-cycle development and management of ETF platforms. Stuart is a qualified solicitor and was previously Head of ETF Product Development at Legal & General Investment Management, and prior to that, at ETF Securities, where he was responsible for ETF development / structuring, platform management and legal.