Society and industry face significant threats including supply chain interruptions, cyber warfare and economic uncertainty -- each of which has the potential to cause deep and lasting harm. But threats to the global maritime order in the form of shadow fleets, sea-based infrastructure sabotage and shipping attacks are literally under the radar for many, yet potentially as damaging as anything occurring on land. What could this mean for Iceland, and which threats should investors be most aware of? 
Elisabeth Braw – Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council; Author ‘Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World’

Andrew Harvie - Senior Client Portfolio Manager, Global Equities, Columbia Threadneedle

Unlisted companies are staying private longer, creating a new $5 trillion asset class that is redefining private equity investing. 
Join us to explore the transformative world of Growth Equity, which offers new opportunities within the private equity ecosystem. We will contextualise growth equity’s place in the broader private markets landscape, weighing the various trade-offs, before focusing on the exciting potential of the Growth Equity asset class. Lastly, we will discuss the structural changes which drive innovation and why the boom and bust of 2020-2022 has created an attractive setup for the asset class today. 

Rachael Callaghan - Investor Relations Manager, Private Companies,  Baillie Gifford 

John Lamb – Investment Director, Capital Group

Is Iceland’s target rate of 56% of average income, necessitating a 3.5% real rate of return on investment, sustainable?  How does it compare with the rates of other nations and what potential alternatives are there? 

Björn Z. Ásgrímsson - Senior Risk Analyst, Financial Stability, Central Bank of Iceland
Stefan Lundberg - Head of Partner and Individual Life, Folksam
Jessica Mosher – Policy Analyst, Private Pensions, OECD

Amadeo Alentorn – Head of Systematic Equities, Jupiter Asset Management

Lukas Ahnert - Senior Product Specialist,  Xtrackers by DWS

There are many strongly held views on climate investing. And most of them are wrong. This session focuses how many of the myths are badly in need of updating.  It also looks at how some of the most exciting investment opportunities across the board are in the climate growth space today. 

Vikram Raju - Managing Director, Head of Private Equity Climate Investing, Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Pension systems around the world have been funding infrastructure directly, co-investing with other pensions and different types of partners. How do these partnerships work? Could Iceland’s pensions do something similar? What are the key risks of this type of investment? 

Gregg McClymont – Executive Director, Public Affairs Europe, IFM Investors

The Total Portfolio Approach is a holistic way of managing investments, viewing the entire portfolio in a way that integrates risk more effectively. As market volatility increases and long-term pressures continue to build, TPA is becoming more relevant than ever. This session will explore what sets this approach apart and share practical examples from leading institutional investors. 

In times of war and other geopolitical tensions, long-held correlations between equities and fixed income may collapse and allocations may require rebalancing. With a look at market performance in the not-too-distant past, ideas about portfolio adaptability in the wake of global uncertainty will be thoroughly explored. 

Bjarne Graven Larsen – Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Qblue Balanced

The AI revolution is well underway and among many uses, its ability to assist with investment-related functions may have investment committees looking for the best ways to harness its power in the hope of gaining better investment returns. Is the best use of AI to augment existing investment offices, or will it eventually replace the investment office all together?

Join us to explore the latest insights into how investment professionals can strategically augment their decision-making capabilities with AI, enhancing efficiency, analytical depth, and behavioral awareness, without falling into the traps of over-reliance, hype, or black-box opacity.

We’ll address:

• Where AI demonstrably adds value across the investment process
• How to align AI use with fiduciary and governance frameworks Common misuses of AI and how to avoid them
• The evolving balance between human judgment and machine intelligence

Markus Schuller - Founder & Managing Partner, Panthera Solutions; Visiting Professor, EDHEC Business School and IE University