The Impact Seminar Series – BENELUX is tailored to institutional investors and asset owners based in Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. It consists of a one-day programme with keynote speeches, InvestorConnect sessions, investor panel discussions, fireside chats and a workshop to close the day touching upon the challenges and opportunities within the impact investing universe.
Institutional investors and impact fund managers will be able to exchange best practices, learn from each other’s experiences, and share ideas on creating innovative and scalable solutions to generate impact in private and public markets. During the InvestorConnect sessions, investors can explore a select group of impact strategies in public equity, public debt, private equity, private debt and real assets.
Impact Investing Event for Institutional Investors
WHO WILL ATTEND
This event is catered for C-Suite, Board Members, Portfolio Managers and ESG/Impact Investing officers of:
● Public and Corporate Pension Funds and their Fiduciary Managers,
● Insurance Companies,
● Sovereign Wealth Funds,
● Family Offices,
● Foundations and Endowments,
● Wealth Managers/Private Banks,
● Development Finance Institutions,
● Faith-based Organisations.
● Public and Corporate Pension Funds and their Fiduciary Managers,
● Insurance Companies,
● Sovereign Wealth Funds,
● Family Offices,
● Foundations and Endowments,
● Wealth Managers/Private Banks,
● Development Finance Institutions,
● Faith-based Organisations.
FEATURED SPEAKERS 2023
Andrea Palmer
Chair, Climate Risk Working Group,PGGM
Angeles Toledo Rodriguez
Lead Sustainability Advisor,Blue Sky Group
Bas van Beijeren
Investment Director,Carbon Equity
Carol Tarr
IMM Lead,Phenix Capital Group
Cedric Scholl
Fiduciary Manager Responsible Investment,APG Asset Management
Chantal Hermans
COO,Phenix Capital Group
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Estelle Beretta
Head of Responsible Investments Private Markets & Digital,APG Asset Management
Evgenia Molotova
Senior Investment Manager,Pictet Asset Management
Jasper van der Meulen
Portfolio Manager Private Markets,Aegon Asset Management
Kristina Stonjeková
ESG Advisor,Shell Asset Management Company
Maarten Frouws
Portfolio Manager Real Estate,Fidelity International
Martijn Huijnen
Senior Policy Advisor,Sociaal-Economische Raad
Martine Rommen
Investment Strategist,MN
Samantha Lamb
Head of Fixed Income,GIB Asset Management
Shahzad Memon
Responsible Investment and Governance (ESG & Impact) - Private Markets,APG Asset Management
Simona Kramer
Portfolio Manager Socially Responsible Investing,Pensioenfonds Rail & Openbaar Vervoer
Wim Goossens
Supervisor Specialist,De Nederlandsche Bank
Carol Tarr
IMM Lead,
Phenix Capital Group
Before joining Phenix Capital Group as Impact Measurement and Management Lead, Carol was a Portfolio Manager for a VC fund and a lecturer in Research Methodology and Sociology for Nyenrode Business University. She has a Master’s degree from Harvard University in Religious Studies where she specialized in World Religions with a focus on Ethics. She is from Chicago, USA and lives in Amsterdam.
Cedric Scholl
Fiduciary Manager Responsible Investment,
APG Asset Management
Cedric Scholl is Fiduciary Manager Responsible Investment at APG Asset Management. In this role, he advises pension fund clients, including ABP and bpfBOUW, on RI-topics, with a focus on private markets and impact investing. Prior to joining APG, Cedric held a position at PGGM Investments as Advisor Responsible Investment. Cedric holds a MSc in Public Administration from Utrecht University.
Chantal Hermans
COO,
Phenix Capital Group
Chantal Hermans is the head of events & publications at Phenix Capital Group, leading the events & marcomm team. Chantal started her career at Management Events, working with C-level executives across industries. In 2014 she moved to London and started working for financial publisher Euromoney Institutional Investors as an investor relations manager. Here she was responsible for building relationships with the key financial players in the Benelux, UK and Eastern Europe. Next to her IR role, she was also responsible for building the European network for the II conferences. In 2018, Chantal joined EQDerivatives as Executive Director of machineByte. A platform focused on delivering education around machine learning and AI in the investment industry. Her passion for sustainability and building a better world brought her to Phenix Capital Group, where she can fully focus on delivering education on impact investing and helping the industry move forward.
Estelle Beretta
Head of Responsible Investments Private Markets & Digital,
APG Asset Management
Estelle Beretta manages the Global Responsible Investment Private Markets and Digital team at APG Asset Management. Her main responsibilities are: RI in private investments, portfolio-wide RI approach for Nature & Climate, as well as the digitalization strategy for the RI department. Before joining APG in 2021, she worked for 15 years in the asset management industry at ING Investment Management and NN Investment Partners, where she held several key positions in Product Management & Development, Global Distribution, Client Servicing and Risk Management. Estelle holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of St Thomas, Minnesota, and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie.
Evgenia Molotova
Senior Investment Manager,
Pictet Asset Management
Evgenia Molotova joined Pictet Asset Management in December 2017 and is a Senior Investment Manager, Co-Lead on the Positive Change strategy. Prior to joining Pictet, Evgenia worked at Verno Capital as Portfolio Manager in charge of long only and long/short portfolios. Evgenia started her career at Sun Chemical Russia before joining UBS GAM in 2007 as a Pan European Materials analyst. She then moved to UBS, where she worked as Pan European Chemical analyst before working for Citi and Berenberg, where she held the position of Senior Analyst, covering Global chemicals. Evgenia holds a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics and mathematics from the Moscow State University and an MBA in finance from the London Business School.
Jasper van der Meulen
Portfolio Manager Private Markets,
Aegon Asset Management
Jasper van der Meulen joined Aegon Asset Management in 2016 as an Analyst. Since 2020, Jasper works as a Portfolio Manager Private Markets in which he focuses on monitoring and selection of private equity managers for institutional investors such as pension funds. He has specialized in the selection of private equity impact funds. Jasper obtained a Master’s degree in Finance (cum laude) from the University of Groningen and a Master’s degree in Behavioral Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Jasper is a CFA charterholder.
Kristina Stonjeková
ESG Advisor,
Shell Asset Management Company
Kristina drives ESG integration efforts within SAMCo across both liquid and illiquid asset classes. She has set up data frameworks and reporting solutions related to TCFD, SFDR and the EU Taxonomy, and contributed to the development and implementation of a wide array of policies and processes, including a dedicated climate policy. Prior to joining SAMCo, she spent several years at MN, a Dutch pension fund asset manager, working on engagement, the EU Sustainable Finance Agenda and impact investing. As part of this role, she spearheaded the establishment of the Platform Living Wage Financials (PLWF), a collaborative investor engagement initiative which received the PRI award for ‘Active Ownership Project of the Year’.
Maarten Frouws
Portfolio Manager Real Estate,
Fidelity International
Maarten is the Lead Portfolio Manager for a Pan-European segregated mandate and Co-Portfolio Manager for the Fidelity Real Estate Climate Impact strategy. Maarten is responsible for the investments and divestments of all real estate in the Netherlands across Fidelity’s real estate portfolios. He is the Lead-Portfolio Manager for a pan-European segregated mandate for a Middle Eastern client, which comprises commercial assets in Germany, Luxembourg and The Netherlands. He also acts as the Co-PM for Fidelity’s European Climate Impact strategy.
As senior member of the investment team he is directly involved in business development and the capital raising initiatives for international clients. Maarten supports internal ESG initiatives across portfolios. In addition, he works on the client-acquisition of segregated mandates / club-deals and other strategic initiatives.
Over the course of his career, he has transacted on commercial real estate deals worth over €1.7bn. Previously, he was responsible for all European commercial real estate transactions at Bouwfonds Investment Management (Rabobank). Maarten holds a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Studies from the University of Groningen.
As senior member of the investment team he is directly involved in business development and the capital raising initiatives for international clients. Maarten supports internal ESG initiatives across portfolios. In addition, he works on the client-acquisition of segregated mandates / club-deals and other strategic initiatives.
Over the course of his career, he has transacted on commercial real estate deals worth over €1.7bn. Previously, he was responsible for all European commercial real estate transactions at Bouwfonds Investment Management (Rabobank). Maarten holds a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Studies from the University of Groningen.
Martijn Huijnen
Senior Policy Advisor,
Sociaal-Economische Raad
Martijn coordinates the Transition Commission Pensions to help Pension funds make transition to the new system. Earlier, he coordinated the IRBC (IMVB) agreement for the Pension Funds Over ninety percent (AuM base) of the Dutch pension funds participated herein, together with NGOs, the Federation of the Dutch pension funds, labor unions and the Dutch government.
Martijn was a fund manager and the product developer of ASN Impact Investors and the ESG officer of several pension funds such as Rail & OV. He holds master degrees in economics and ethics.
Martijn was a fund manager and the product developer of ASN Impact Investors and the ESG officer of several pension funds such as Rail & OV. He holds master degrees in economics and ethics.
Martine Rommen
Investment Strategist,
MN
Martine has more than 17 years of experience in investments and financial markets and works at MN, the fiduciary advisor for the pensions funds PMT and PME, since 2013. She been involved in climate related projects since 2017. At that time, MN’s clients published their first TCFD reports. She worked together with PMT and PME to develop a coherent climate strategy, bringing together the different instruments and actions that are taken to contribute to the energy transition and limit global warming. She advised MN’s clients on the topic of carbon reduction targets, which led to the implementation of sector specific reduction targets. She supported MN’s clients in discussions about the phasing out of fossil fuel investments. Besides this, she was involved in several projects in which further steps were taken to integrate ESG aspects in investment strategies.
Samantha Lamb
Head of Fixed Income,
GIB Asset Management
Samantha is the Head of Fixed Income at GIB Asset Management and has overall responsibility for GIB's Fixed Income capabilities. Samantha joined from abrdn, where she was Head of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), Fixed Income. Part of a team responsible for £180bn of AUM, Samantha led the integration of ESG considerations into investment decisions and drove ESG innovation through, for example, launching one of the first SRI Corporate Bond funds. Samantha previously held the position of Investment Director, Fixed Income at Standard Life Aberdeen and over her more than 17 years of experience, has had roles at Aegon Asset Management, JP Morgan and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. Samantha holds a BA in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Leeds and is a CFA Charterholder
Wim Goossens
Supervisor Specialist,
De Nederlandsche Bank
Wim Goossens is a supervisor specialist at De Nederlandsche Bank, more specifically in pension fund supervision at the expert centre financial risks pension funds. One of his main subjects is ESG risk management, where he specializes in the quantitative side of things.
Wim holds a master's degree in Econometrics and Operations Research from the University of Groningen. During his studies, Wim already came in contact with the field of ESG investing, as he wrote his master's thesis about benchmarks for equity investments that incorporated ESG exclusions.
Wim holds a master's degree in Econometrics and Operations Research from the University of Groningen. During his studies, Wim already came in contact with the field of ESG investing, as he wrote his master's thesis about benchmarks for equity investments that incorporated ESG exclusions.
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“It was a unique opportunity to deep dive into the impact investing trends and challenges as well as connect with experts, asset managers and owners that are shaping the impact landscape.”
Haltra Group
“Very Professional and informative. Help build up a more positive view of the world by meeting people that act.”
Candriam investors group
“The InvestorConnect series are an effective way to learn about various impact strategies and tune in to impact industry peers.”
Portfolio Manager Private Markets, Aegon Asset Management
“As befits true impact investors, the attendees are very engaged in the discussion of the topics. Their participation is an added value that makes this seminar stand out.”
Dr. Jac Kragt, Assistant Professor, Tilburg School of Economics and Management
“The Phenix conferences are a great opportunity to learn about a diverse set of impact strategies, across impact themes and asset classes. It allows you to quickly get a sense of what is possible in the realm of impact investing, and connects you to some of the best impact funds. It's also a great place to meet like-minded LPs and learn about how they are working to improve their impact strategies further!”
Liza Rubinstein Malamud, Head of Impact & Co-founder, Carbon Equity
“It was an eye opening and insightful conference, very well curated and for a must visit for the new actors in the ecosystem but also the seasoned professionals that wish to learn best practices and close deals with peers.”
We Share Forward Foundation
“Inspiring event, with concrete investable solutions in impact investing field amongst all asset classes and great, relevant network.”
Sweco Capital Consultants
“One of the biggest and well-organized events on impact investing.”
Altis Investment Management
“I was able to meet niche managers and products that were not on my radar.”
Director, Family Office, Netherlands
“For an introduction in Impact Investing and for broadening your network the conference is worth visiting.”
Anthos Fund & Asset Management
“Great event with plenty of opportunity to network and connect with interested institutional investors.”
Triodos Investment Management
"I think the InvestorConnect sessions were very useful, because it was very fast and very easygoing. Good to just have a quick chat and receive other peoples contact details, to be able to contact them in the future. Also funny structure with having multiple investors at the table, where it was also good to speak to other LPs."
Laura Alberga-Berendsen, Associate Director, Rabo Investments
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