Vladislav Krivenkov

SIAM is a conservative, risk-averse investor which manages a range of portfolios invested across asset classes, strategies, regions and sectors. They focus on large-caps as well as blue-chips, and specialize in index-oriented management, closely benchmarking the main world indexes without entirely replicating them. The firm's equity investment strategy follows a bottom-up approach based on fundamental research. Once investment opportunities are selected, fund managers take macroeconomic factors into consideration to decide on investments. Their risk management process includes an active currency overlay strategy to stabilize long-term returns.

nordIX is a fixed income specialist and deals exclusively with bonds and derivatives. The firm takes advantage of interest rate and credit derivatives (CDS) - not only for hedging purposes, but also actively to optimize the yield. nordIX also manages mandates with higher expected returns. Particularly in the subordinated bond sector of banks and insurance companies, the team has built up a strong expertise.