Citywire: The Selection Show

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We go on-the-ground to hear first-hand what top selectors and managers are focusing on.

  1. 19/11/2025

    'We're the inverse of ChatGPT': How and why BlackRock is using AI

    It would be an understatement to say AI is a hot topic right now. And with the advent of hugely popular large language models in recent years, such as ChatGPT, the big question is just how AI is influencing the behaviour of asset managers. In an exclusive video interview, Adam Riley, head of international wealth at BlackRock Systematic, discusses how, why and where the world’s largest asset manager is deploying the ground-breaking technology, particularly generative AI.

    21 min

  2. 29/07/2024

    ‘We’ve had our GFC moment’: What lies next for REITs

    Rogier Quirijns of Cohen & Steers spoke about the challenges the property sector has faced and whether it can bounce back. Rising interest rates and the pandemic acting as a catalyst for how we live and work has changed the face of the real estate sector.   One portfolio manager keeping an eye on all such matters is Citywire A-rated Rogier Quirijns, head of European real estate at Cohen & Steers.   Quirijns, who has been consistently Citywire-rated since 2016, dropped into our studios to outline his views on the current state of the market.

    19 min

  3. 17/07/2024

    Stacy Havener, Havener Capital, Raising assets against the odds

    Stacy Havener has raised $8bn for boutiques ‘that shouldn’t win’. Describing herself as blue-collar, ‘who got the wrong degree from the wrong school’, she sets out her stall as a much-needed misfit in the asset management industry. Her degree was English literature. And indeed, Havener is a storyteller, having communicated advice already through Citywire Selector’s Sales Craft column on topics such as ‘Ditch the Pitch’ and ‘You’re not the hero of the story’.  Now, in conversation with Selector editor, Will Robins, Havener turns fund sales traditions on their heads: Most salespeople’s KPIs are wrong; clients buy people not products and proving true differentiation cannot reply on numbers alone.

    22 min

  4. 16/07/2024

    David Hunt, CEO, PGIM: Who will win in asset management

    At 12 years in charge of global asset manager PGIM, David Hunt is one of the longest-serving CEOs in the business, anywhere. This tenure might have missed the financial crisis, but it has taken in a global pandemic, a European war, spiralling inflation and fast-rising rates. There is also the never-ending challenge of generating after-cost returns for investors, getting rewarded for taking risks and generating active alpha. Hunt’s visit to the UK co-includes with Citywire’s 25th anniversary, so Selector editor Will Robins begins by asking for his reflections on that period and who the winners and losers in asset management might be in the future. The wide-ranging conversation also features his lessons on leadership and culture, letting fund managers get things wrong, adding more private markets, tackling energy transition and the global economic and geopolitical outlook and how groups like his will respond strategically.

    35 min

  5. 01/07/2024

    ‘Europe is the Nexus’ David Zahn on the future of green bonds

    Citywire sits down with David Zahn, head of sustainable fixed income at Franklin Templeton, to discuss opportunities in the green bond market.

    13 min

  6. 27/06/2024

    Juan Delgado-Moreira, co-CEO, Hamilton Lane: Liquidity, wealth sales and tokenisation

    Juan Delgado-Moreira was named co-CEO of private markets manager Hamilton Lane last year, alongside Erik Hirsch. Based in Hong Kong, Delgado’s particular focus is on expanding Hamilton Lane’s presence and distribution footprint around the world. Joining Citywire Selector editor Will Robins in Citywire’s London studio, Delgado tackles questions about targeting the wealth management market, balancing clients’ desire for liquidity with returns (and reality) and the firm’s foray into tokenisation. The alts chief also details the business’s development in Asia and how it has onboarded salespeople from asset managers to help it grow into the wealth segment.

    41 min

  7. 20/06/2024

    Winkelmann exclusive: Why his team really joined AllianceBernstein

    Few fund manager changes have created as big of a stir in recent year as the news that five of Allianz Global Investors’ 12-strong equity growth team were jumping ship in October of last year. The quintet – Thorsten Winkelmann, Marcus Morris-Eyton, Robert Hoffman, Nicolas Goncalves and Darina Valkova – resurfaced at AllianceBernstein in January 2024.   But what spurred the move in the first place? Why did the five fund managers choose a Nashville-headquartered investment house as their new home and what will success at the new shop look like? Chris Sloley was joined by Marcus Morris-Eyton in London, while Thorsten Winkelmann connected remotely from Frankfurt to answer these questions and more.

    16 min

  8. 23/05/2024

    ‘No longer unipolar’: Investing in emerging market debt in a fast changing world

    Cathy Hepworth of PGIM Fixed Income discusses how the ‘great power competition’ between the US and its rivals is reshaping investment in the developing world. With the face of global geopolitics rapidly changing, keeping abreast of developments in the huge universe of emerging market debt is no mean feat. Cathy Hepworth, who manages a host of local and hard currency EMD funds for PGIM Fixed Income, dropped in to speak to Citywire Selector news editor Ian Heath about the key trends to watch for at this time. Topics discussed included what role emerging markets will play in a world that is rewiring itself, whether disinflation is happening as quickly as expected and where investment opportunities lie in the year ahead.

    18 min
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