Join us for a Fireside Chat with Christophe L'Ahelec, Managing Director, Head of Public Markets at University Pension Plan Ontario, facilitated by William Ma, Global CIO, GROW Asset Management.
The Fireside Chat offers the SBAI community a unique opportunity to engage with Christophe on current opportunities and challenges within the industry.
This event is invitation only. Please send any questions to [email protected]
Christophe L'Ahelec is an investment professional with more than twenty years of global experience in France, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Canada.
As Managing Director, Head of Active Public Markets, he is responsible for UPP’s global investment strategy with a particular focus on Active Public Market activities.
Prior to that, Christophe was a Senior Principal in the Capital Markets (CM) department, at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board where he was accountable for the top-down management of the external managers portfolio and was part of the investment committee allocating to hedge fund, private credit and long only equity managers. During his 11 years tenure at OTPP, he originated, conducted due-diligence, and on-boarded systematic alpha managers in the equity and futures space, along with leading the group's work in the alternative risk premia space.
Before coming to Canada, Christophe was a quantitative analyst and assistant portfolio manager at Mignon Genève SA/Alpstar Asset Management, in Switzerland, where he took part in the creation and portfolio management of a European systematic market neutral fund.
Christophe spent the first two years of his career working for BNP Paribas in Hong Kong where he provided real-time quantitative support to the fixed-income trading desk.
Christophe is a graduate engineer in Finance and Applied Mathematics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble, France and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. He has been invited to speak globally on advanced portfolio and risk management topics and is also known for his work as an academic writer. His papers have been published in the Journal of Asset Management and the Journal of Alternative assets.
William Ma is CAIA Global Board of Director, SBAI Asia Pacific Committee Member, Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Finance QDLP advisor, Eurekahedge Asia Hedge Fund Award judge and Overseas Golden Bull Award judge panel advisor.
Previously he was the Chief Investment Officer of Noah Holdings and Gopher Asset Management before founded GROW, and responsible for overseeing all investment management, asset allocation and investment products due diligence of combined USD 80 billion of asset. He launched the first China multi strategy hedge fund and managed different China domestic public market hedge funds including a Greater China multi-managers fund, ranked the best emerging market fund of hedge funds globally (3 years annualized return) by BarclayHedge, and led the team won the prestige Golden Bull Award - Best Domestic Fund of Hedge Funds in China in 2018 as well as won numerous awards from InvestHedge, HFM and AsianInvestor.
Mr. Ma co-founded Penjing Asset Management(PAM) in 2005 prior to joining Noah in 2015, managing USD 2 billion in client assets. Mr. Ma was Asia CIO of Gottex Fund Management (GFM) in 2012 when PAM was acquired by GFM. • Over his 20-year investment experience, Mr. Ma has analyzed over 2500 Asian hedge funds and invested in 250 of them.
Mr. Ma holds a Bachelor of degree of Engineering from the University of Hong Kong, and a holder, and member of the Hong Kong Institute of Financial Analysts. Master degree of Business Administration (Finance and E-Commerce) from University of San Francisco. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst holder, and member of the Hong Kong Institute of Financial Analysts.
