As Head of Infrastructure International at Swiss Life Asset Managers, Chris is responsible for a team of over 40 investment professionals and assets under management of over €10 billion. Prior to joining Swiss Life Asset Managers in 2012, he was a member of the Global Executive Committee of AXA Investment Managers, where he ran the firm’s $6 billion hedge-fund business. Before that, he was Head of Alternative Investments at Winterthur Group and Credit Suisse Financial Services, where he was responsible for a $5 billion private-equity and hedge-fund portfolio. He started his career at UBS as a fixed-income portfolio manager.

Chris is a board member of German TSO Amprion and mobile tower owner and operator Cellnex Switzerland. He holds a master’s degree in physics from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and is a CFA charterholder.

Panel 1: How to Mobilize the Mind Numbing Financial Means That Would be Needed?

Wednesday, January 15th
09:30 – 11:00 | HG F 30 | Audi Max

Moderator: Christoph Manser (Swiss Life Asset Management)

Panelists:
Michael Baldinger (UBS), Kanat Emiroglu (Alvarez and Marsal), Jing Li (KPMG),  Laurence Moore (Credit Agricole CIB)

Abstract:

Achieving net zero is a generational task and will need enormous amounts of capital. The hurdles for projects are high: they need to be attractive to investors and they need to be bankable. How are we doing in mobilizing the money? What needs to improve? Where will government funding be necessary?