Autumn Investment Club 2023

Our flagship investment events showcasing a range of Investment Opportunities in an intimate and relaxed environment to enable debate.

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Keynote: James Ginns | Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR)
On the Precipice — building resilience to extreme risk

CLTR is an independent UK-based think tank with a mission to transform global resilience to extreme risks — both in the UK and internationally. Their three core focus areas are extreme AI risk, extreme biological risk, and improving government risk management processes. James is the Head of Risk Management Policy at CLTR. He was previously Chief Risk Officer of Cathay Pacific, and has held a number of other senior leadership positions at the Swire Group. As well as having significant risk management expertise in the private sector, James has extensive experience in the non-profit sector, through a previous advisory role at the Mekong Club, and a previous management role at a UNHCR centre for Vietnamese refugees — both in Hong Kong.

Miguel Luina, Matthew Pellini | Hamilton Lane
Building a diversified Venture Capital portfolio that captures the next generation of opportunities

Hamilton Lane is a leading private markets firm that manages $818B in AUM and supervision, composed of approximately $117.3B in discretionary assets and $700.7B in advisory assets as of June 30, 2023. The firm allocates and advises on over $110bn in Venture and Growth (as of March 31, 2023), helping clients build custom portfolios in these areas. With over 27 years investing in VC and 170 advisory board seats (as of March 31, 2023), Hamilton Lane has access to deal flow and data. Hamilton Lane's Venture Access Fund is an institutional quality portfolio for family offices seeking higher returns in VC.

Spike Hughes | Cohesion Investments
Accessing superior growth through Indian Equities

Cohesion Investments was founded by Spike Hughes and is chaired by former Dragon’s Den entrepreneur James Caan CBE. Cohesion MK Best Ideas represents an exclusive partnership between Cohesion and legendary investor Madhu Kela, an exceptional manager of Indian equities, and one of the most successful and experienced investors in the world over the last 3 decades, with a spectacular record of delivering risk adjusted returns. This represents a very exclusive access to one of the world’s biggest growth opportunities – India – a country undergoing an unprecedented transformation, the likes of which has never been seen before.

Dr. Patrick Pfeffer | Aescuvest
Investing into Scalable Healthcare Technologies made simple

Aescuvest, (Frankfurt/Munich), is a leading, healthcare dedicated FinTech company, with a special focus on financing digital healthcare solutions. Aescuvest’s mission is to facilitate and enable impactful investments into medical breakthrough innovation to disrupt and improve healthcare delivery models, products, and services. Aescuvest enables its investors to build their very individual portfolio of healthcare start-ups - according to their personal investment focus. A cooperation with EIT Health, and a growing network of partnerships across Europe, allow Aescuvest to source and evaluate the most promising healthcare investment opportunities, structure their financing rounds, and enable healthcare technology-driven investors, such as Business Angels, HNWIs, Family Offices, and Corporate Investors, to participate in healthcare investment opportunities by direct investments via SPV structures.

Paul Major | Bellevue Healthcare Trust
Investing into the Transformation of Healthcare

Bellevue Healthcare Trust plc is a high conviction, long-only investment trust invested in listed or quoted global healthcare equities. It is unconstrained and able to invest regardless of market cap, sub sector or region, and the portfolio is concentrated with a maximum of 35 holdings. Bellevue Healthcare Trust is managed by Bellevue Asset Management (UK) Ltd, regulated by the FCA, who have built a successful track record in this sector.