2025 Singapore Institutional Investor Roundtable

Alistair Boyd

CEO & CRO, Astignes Capital

Mr. Boyd is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Risk Officer of Astignes Capital. In his role as CEO, Mr. Boyd sets the strategic direction of the Firm and oversees the day today running of the business. In his role as CRO, he is responsible for the Firm’s risk management framework and its implementation. Mr. Boyd worked at Alphadyne Asia for six years, most recently as CRO Asia and before that as a Portfolio Manager.

Prior to joining Alphadyne Asia, Mr. Boyd co-managed all fixed income and commodity risk at Artradis Capital in Singapore. Before returning to Asia to join Atradis Capital in 2009, Mr. Boyd was Head of Local Markets Trading, Structuring and Risk Management for the Americas at RBS and ABN AMRO based in New York. In that capacity, he also served as Chairman on trading, management and ALM committees for the Americas. Prior to that, Mr. Boyd was a Partner at Teleos Capital as the Head of Emerging Markets. Mr. Boyd entered banking in 1995 when he joined Bankers Trust Proprietary Trading based in Singapore for 5 years. Prior to that, he was an Economist at the World Bank in Washington DC and the Treasury Department in Australia.

He holds a Bachelor of Business in Economics from Charles Darwin University and a Masters in Economics from Columbia University. Mr. Boyd serves on Boards related to Astignes Funds and the Advisory Board of StashAway – a Singapore-based fintech company.

Charmaine Chin

Managing Director , Blackstone

Charmaine Chin is a Managing Director in Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing (BXMA) and the Head of Asia Manager Selection. Ms. Chin is based in Singapore and leads BXMA’s investment activities across Asia.

Before joining Blackstone, Ms. Chin worked at Fullerton Fund Management in Singapore where she was involved in managing a global portfolio of hedge funds, private equity and private credit funds. She also led due diligence for co-investments and late-stage growth investments. Prior to Fullerton, Ms. Chin spent 12 years as a Partner and Managing Director at K2 Advisors in New York, part of Franklin Templeton’s Alternatives division. There she oversaw all of K2’s investments in Asia, as well as all investments globally in credit and event-driven strategies. Prior to K2, Ms. Chin worked at Goldman Sachs in the Special Situations Group, focused on opportunistic investing across equities and credit.

Ms. Chin began her career in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs in New York and Hong Kong. Ms. Chin received a BA from Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Fabian Dienemann

Senior VP & Quantitative Research Analyst, PIMCO

Mr. Dienemann is a senior vice president and quantitative research analyst in the client solutions and analytics group in the Singapore office. He previously held account management roles in the Munich and Sydney offices with a focus on customized portfolio analyses and solutions for institutional and wealth management clients.

Prior to joining PIMCO in 2015, Mr. Dienemann was with PwC and Commerzbank in Frankfurt.

He has 13 years of investment experience and holds a Ph.D. in finance from the University of New South Wales, a master's degree in finance from IE Business School, and an undergraduate degree from Cooperative State University Mannheim.

Trevor Persaud

Group Head of Investment Strategy and Solutions, AIA Group Limited

Mr Persaud is Head of Investment Strategy and Solutions for the AIA Group where he is responsible for Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation, Derivative Strategies, Private Market Strategy, New Investment Product Development, Portfolio Construction Oversight and Quantitative Investments.

Prior to joining AIA, Trevor worked with a number of large insurers, asset managers and other asset owners in the region as an independent consultant. He left Standard Chartered Bank at the end of 2017, where he was responsible for their Commercial and Institutional Banking business (Financial Markets, Transaction Banking and Corporate Finance) for Insurers across Asia.

Mr Persaud is a trusted investment advisor to many of the leading Insurers and Asset Owners in the region and has a distinguished 28 year career spanning Banking, Asset Management, Insurance and Consulting globally with the last 14 years in Asia. Prior to Standard Chartered, Mr Persaud held senior investment roles at Stradegi (a specialist investment consultancy), Russell Investments (leading their business in ASEAN, HK and Taiwan, focused on multi asset outcome oriented investments, strategic and tactical asset allocation and investment governance advisory for asset owners and in particular insurance companies), Prudential, Insight and Schroders (where he had been responsible for their Investment Risk and Performance Globally) and MSCI.

Mr Persaud is a Chartered Management Accountant, has been conferred the Distinguished Fellow designation by the Institute of Banking and Finance in Singapore and is a past Chair of the Global Investment Performance Standards Executive committee. He is also an advisor to the Investment Management Association of Singapore and Chair of their Risk and Performance committee and is actively involved in industry efforts to promote and further innovation, best practice and transparency in Investment management.

Nicole Schmidt

Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Bridgewater Associates

Nicole joined Bridgewater in 2009 and is based in Bridgewater’s Singapore office serving as Managing Director and advisor to many of Bridgewater’s strategic relationships in Asia Pacific across a broad range of institutional clients including sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, superannuation, and corporate pension plans.

Over the course of her tenure, she has worked with a range of the firm’s largest global investors in Asia, the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Before transitioning into her current role, Nicole worked as a Director in APAC and prior to that a Marketing Associate, where she focused on business development with the firm’s US Public Pension Plan and Canadian clients.

Thomas Deinet

Executive Director, SBAI

Thomas Deinet was appointed Executive Director of the SBAI (previously known as the HFSB) in 2008. In 2007, Thomas joined the working group to project manage the development of practice standards proposed by 14 leading international alternative investment managers that led to the establishment of the SBAI.

Prior to joining the SBAI, he was a senior manager at Oliver Wyman, where he extensively worked with major financial institutions in Europe covering asset management as well as corporate and investment banking. Thomas also worked as an analyst in energy trading for a major commodities trading firm.

Thomas is a graduate of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, with a major in industrial engineering and holds an MSc from Purdue University, USA. Thomas is a CFA charterholder.