Erik Vynckier

Board Member - Chair Investment Committee
Foresters Friendly Society

Erik Vynckier was co-opted to the Board of Foresters Friendly Society in 2016.

He was previously Chief Investment Officer at Alliance Bernstein responsible for asset management solutions to support the investment, capital management and product development of insurers.

Before, Erik managed with-profits and annuity funds at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, improving risk/return with novel assets and derivatives overlays. Earlier, he managed the Group Risk Hub of Standard Life, hedging equity, interest rate and currency risks of with-profits and variable annuities. Before that, Erik worked at investment banks Credit Suisse First Boston and HSBC, in equity program trading, quantitative development and pension fund and insurance asset-liability management. Prior to his MBA, Erik held R&D, production and strategy positions in the petrochemical industry in France, Belgium, Germany, the US and the UK.

He has also founded and served as board member of www.hpcfinance.eu and www.bigdatafinance.eu, the European initiatives on high performance computing and big data analytics in Finance.

Erik graduated as Chemical Engineer at Universiteit Gent (Belgium) and completed his MBA at London Business School in 2000.

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Day 1- Wednesday 9th November 2016

Thursday, November 10th, 2016

12:00 Oxford Style Debate: True or False- Additional collateral costs will make the OTC derivatives business model significantly less attractive & less well used by the buy side

With rules governing futures transactions being less restrictive than current swap rules, are we likely to see the futurization of swaps?
Does this regulatory arbitrage opportunity threaten the transparent trading of instruments, the free flow of pricing data, and the security of futures clearing houses?
Can policy makers mitigate potential dangers by using other measure such as strengthening oversight of futures clearinghouses and increasing their capital requirements?
Could the increased costs from these new requirements prompt a move towards exchange-traded derivatives?
Prospects of futurization- Are we seeing signs of it being a reality or still just hype?

Day 2- Thursday 10th November 2016

Saturday, December 10th, 2016

11:15 360° Perspective: The hunt for yield in the backdrop of interest rate rises- Which strategies should you implement to give your portfolio the best exposure?

Rising rates in the US and a stronger dollar- How will this impact the yield across your portfolio?
How should you position your portfolio on the yield curve and how can you minimise the impact of negative yields?
How negative can the yields get and how short can the curve get- Where do you go from here?
What strategies can you put in place to generate extra yield without taking on too much risk?
When interest rates finally rise, what impact will this have on the yield curve?