Welcome to Citywire Lisbon Forum 2026
Citywire is back to Lisbon on Tuesday 3 March and will once again bring leading fund selectors together for an intense and rewarding half-day forum designed to keep you engaged in the never-ending search for new investment strategies, bringing you fresh insight into what top fund managers are doing, and provide that vital peer-to-peer interaction that is the source of so many ideas.
We are putting together an agenda to remember, with a range of PMs from leading asset managers. As always, Citywire Lisbon Forum 2026 will also see another edition of our Selector Hard Talk, an interactive session featuring leading fund selection professionals who will share views and real experiences bringing our audience precious food for thought and best practices to implement in this fast-paced environment.
We very much look forward to welcoming you in Lisbon!
The registrations for this event are now closed, if you are interested please get in touch with hgomez@citywire.co.uk and we will get back to you if a place becomes available.
Partners
SELECTOR HARD TALK: The Davos Series
Geopolitics & the Post-War Order: Shifting Sands: Investing in a World Beyond the US-Led Order
"The era of a pleasant fiction has ended, and a brutal reality has begun."…..."If we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu". Mark Carney, Prime Minister Canada.
At Davos 2026, speakers described the world as undergoing a fundamental rupture from the post-war order. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned of a breakdown in the US-centric rules-based system, arguing that middle powers must step up and develop alternative frameworks to preserve stability.
At the same time, markets are beginning to reflect structural shifts:
- Rising US fiscal deficits
- Trade and industrial policy uncertainty
- Central bank diversification into non-dollar reserve assets
- Growing calls for strategic autonomy in Europe and parts of Asia.
Diversification away from US assets is increasingly viewed not as a cyclical rotation, but as a potential structural trend driven by fiscal dynamics, geopolitical realignment, and reserve management decisions.
So in an age that is anything but stable…
- Is the shift from the US-led order a structural repricing risk or just political noise?
- How are managers embedding geopolitics and defence into portfolios, and how do we verify it's not just
marketing?
- Which regions and sectors are winning in your capital reallocation?
- How do you balance growth exposure with the need for defensive resilience?
Luis Barata Corrêa from Novobanco, and Luis Sancho from BBVA will share their views and real experiences bringing our audience precious food for thought and best practices to implement in this fast-paced environment.
Speakers
Luis Barata Corrêa, Novobanco
Luis Barata Corrêa has been a member of Novobanco's financial advisory team since 2016. He has over 37 years of experience in financial markets, mainly in Private Banking, where he has worked at institutions such as Banco Português de Investimento, Banco Privado, Barclays Wealth, UBS, Banco Espírito Santo, and novobanco. Luis has a degree in Economics and a MBA from Universidade do Porto.
Luis Sancho, BBVA
Luis Sancho has 22 years of professional experience. He has been working at BBVA AM since March 2013 as a discretionary management portfolio manager. Previously, he was responsible for the evaluation and impairment of the bank's loan portfolio (2010-2012) and Manager of the portfolio management system in the area of Asset Management of BBVA (2002-2009). Worked at ESAF (Espírito Santo Financial Assets) as controller of the asset management area of discretionary management clients (1999-2001). He started his professional career at BES, where he worked for the Small and Medium-Sized Companies (1998). He holds a degree in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and holds a postgraduate degree in Markets and Financial Assets from ISCTE / INDEG. Holds the CFA Institute Sustainable Investing Certificate.
Workshops
Workshops
An Introduction to Dunas Capital
In our presentation, we review Dunas AM value proposition which is based in cross asset analysis and capital preservation. We review our multi-asset product range, with a special focus in Dunas Valor Prudente FI, our blockbuster fund that has grown from 200mm euros to over 1.5 billion euros in AuMs over the last 5 years, with a proven track record of constant positive returns, little drawdowns and low volatility.
Speakers
Alberto Díez
Fixed Income Portfolio Manager
He began his career in Risk Control at Cajastur Gestión SGIIC. He later joined Aviva’s Spanish division as a Financial Risk Analyst, worked for the parent company in London specializing in credit risk, and participated in the LSE Future Leaders Programme. He subsequently served as Chief Risk Officer at Liberbank Gestión SGIIC, obtained the CFA certification, and has been part of Dunas Capital Asset Management since 2018.
Borja Fernández-Galiano
Head of Sales
With 25 years of experience in the financial sector, always focused on asset management and internationally renowned groups such as Schroders, Pioneer, Grupo Syz, Lazard, and Carmignac, he has held positions of responsibility across various business areas, including financial analysis, portfolio management, and institutional sales, both in Spain and in Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
He currently serves as Head of Sales at Dunas Capital Group, overseeing all the markets in which the firm operates.
OptoFlex and US EquityFlex: Excess Returns via Options
With over a decade of track record and €3 billion AuM, OptoFlex and US EquityFlex are engineered to improve the performance of bond and equity portfolios. These liquid, UCITS-compliant funds focus on systematically capturing risk premiums to act as reliable yield enhancers in your strategic allocation.
In this session, our portfolio managers will show how these rule-based strategies generate consistent additional returns. A key advantage: thanks to an integrated tail hedge, the strategies provide extra stability precisely when markets face extreme stress.
Join us to discover how you can achieve reliable excess returns while maintaining a robust safety net for your portfolio’s most challenging moments.
Workshop Objectives: Learn how to:
• Improve performance by systematically capturing risk premiums.
• Remove guesswork with objective, forecast-free strategies.
• Ensure flexibility through high liquidity and simple structures.
• Protect capital during extreme crises with an integrated safety net.
Company Profile: FERI was founded in Bad Homburg in 1987 as Germany’s first multi-family office.
Since then, we have grown to become one of the leading multi-asset managers in the German-speaking world, with more than €60 billion of assets under management and over 280 employees at eight locations. We offer private and institutional investors something unique: first-class asset management based on our own in-depth research.
At the heart of our investment approach lies a deep commitment to alternative asset classes. Our Volatility Strategies Team is widely regarded as one of Germany’s premier units, having defined the standards for excellence and innovation within the sector.
Speakers
Horst Gerstner
Lead Portfolio Manager
As the Lead Portfolio Manager of the Volatility Strategies department at FERI, Horst Gerstner is responsible for trading decisions and the development and refinement of quantitative investment strategies across FERI’s volatility funds: OptoFlex, US EquityFlex, and EuroEquityFlex. He has been trading derivatives for various client mandates since 2001.
Prior to joining FERI, Horst was the Lead Portfolio Manager for six years and Co-Portfolio Manager for four years of the Athena Volatility Strategies, a family of hedge funds that pursue option strategies on the S&P 500 and EuroStoxx 50 equity indices. He was also responsible for the Athena Volatilitätsstrategie UCITS funds during this time.
Dr. Stephan Bongartz
Portfolio Manager
Stephan is a Portfolio Manager in the Volatility Strategies department. He joined FERI in 2015, originally in its Hedge Fund department. Stephan holds a M.A. (HSG) in Banking and Finance (MBF) from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and a PhD in Finance from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the CFA Society Germany.
Representatives
Nunzia Thiriot
Director Institutional Clients
As a Director Institutional Clients at FERI, Nunzia Thiriot is responsible for the coverage of international institutional clients. With over 20 years of industry experience, Nunzia is a very well skilled professional. Before joining FERI, Nunzia has worked for different global Asset Managers amongst others Credit Suisse and Commerzbank where she was primarily responsible for developing business with Fund of Funds, Pension Funds, Insurance companies and Corporates.
Nunzia holds a Master Degree in Business Administration from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and has working experience abroad (Italy, USA).
Michael Barroilhet
Sales Manager Institutional Clients
Michael Barroilhet is responsible for relationships with institutional investors across France, Benelux, and Iberia. He joined FERI in 2021 as a hedge fund analyst, specializing in fund selection and due diligence. He was part of the portfolio management team, advising institutional clients on €2B in hedge funds allocation, before transitioning to the sales team in January. Michael began his career in 2018 at ED&F Man (demerged from Man Group), a leading commodity trading house in London. His expertise spans commodities and hedge funds, with strong experience in fundamental and quantitative analysis for trading desks and institutional clients.
Fluent in French and English, he holds a double BSc in Finance and Business Management, graduating cum laude from the University of Charleston, and a Master of Finance from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
How short dated credit can offer stability in turbulent times
With heightened geopolitical risk and volatility in markets, where can investors find relative safety? Fund manager Matt Russell explains how short dated credit can provide a defensive allocation in your portfolio.
Short dated credit is an asset class offering resilience to credit events and rates events. Meanwhile, it sits in a sweetspot on the credit spectrum that offers long term outperformance over cash through harvesting the credit premium. As a structural allocation, short dated credit can sit effectively alongside other fixed income holdings, stabilising the overarching portfolio throughout market cycles. M&G take a differentiated approach to short dated credit, with a global opportunity set, and access to off-benchmark positions such as floating rate notes and ABS.
Workshop Objectives: To understand how short dated credit can offer a low volatility solution within fixed income, deliver outperformance against cash over time, and M&G’s differentiated approach.
Company Profile: M&G Investments is an international asset manager with an active, long-term investment approach. For over 90 years, the firm has helped its clients prosper by leveraging their capital and understanding their needs. In response to an ever-changing financial environment, M&G has developed a wide range of investment solutions in equities, fixed income, real state and multi-asset. Headquartered in London, M&G employees over 2,300 professionals, covers 28 markets and manages assets in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Speakers
Matthew Russell
Matthew Russell joined M&G in 2007 as a fund managers’ assistant covering fixed income funds.
He became co-manager of the Short Dated Corporate Bond strategy in 2011 and, two years later, was appointed lead fund manager. In June 2021 became lead fund manager of the European Inflation Linked Corporate Bond strategy and co-fund manager of the UK Inflation Linked Corporate Bond strategy. In 2024, he took on management of the European Investment Grade Strategies.
Matthew has a BSc in economics from the University of Birmingham and is a CFA Charterholder
Representatives
Alicia García Santos
Country Head Iberia
Alicia has an experience of 15 years in the investment funds industry. She joined M&G Investments in 2006, and she is currently the Country Head of Iberia. Previously she worked at JP Morgan Asset Management in the Customer Service and Operations department in Luxembourg for 4 years, and 2 more years in New York in the Institutional Sales Team for the Latin America clients. Alicia has a degree in Law and she obtained the Diplôme de Grande Ecole de Commerce.
Smart momentum investments in the US stock market
Our presentation is structured into three sections. We will begin with a general overview of our group, with a particular focus on the asset management division. We will then move on to an analysis of US equities, including the current economic backdrop and market environment. This will provide the appropriate context to introduce the presentation of our Algo Trend US fund.
Workshop Objectives: Explain the investment process, the risk management principles, and the fund’s current positioning, while providing an overview of the strategy, its performance drivers, and its potential role across the market cycle to illustrate its relevance.
Company Profile: ODDO BHF is an entrepreneurial European financial group with more than 3,000 employees and a long-term, family-driven vision. We serve over 70,000 clients, including institutional investors, corporates, distribution partners and large private clients. In total, we advise, manage and invest 156 billion euros through our four core businesses: Private Wealth Management, Asset Management, Investment Banking and Corporate Banking. Our mission is to grow and safeguard our clients’ assets through high‑quality expertise and a disciplined approach. We are strongly committed to attracting and retaining talent, notably by offering professionals the opportunity to become shareholders of the Group alongside the Oddo family. Together, they hold 90% of the share capital, fostering alignment and long-term engagement.
Speakers
Leonardo Lopez
COUNTRY HEAD IBERIA & LATAM
Representatives
Cristina Garcia de Sola Riera
SENIOR SALES MANAGER
Agenda
08:30 - 09:30
Registration and Breakfast
09:30 - 09:45
Welcome Session
09:45 - 10:15
Fund Group Workshop 1
10:25 - 10:55
Fund Group Workshop 2
11:05 - 11:35
Fund Group Workshop 3
11:45 - 12:15
Fund Group Workshop 4
12:15 - 12:45
Panel Session
12:45
Lunch
