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Webinar: objective danger in the investment environment

Markets may have reached record peaks earlier this year, but the geopolitical environment is fraught and central-bank oxygen may not prop up asset prices for much longer. We expect more outbursts of pent-up volatility going forward as investors face up to the growing risks in this high-altitude market.

Webinar objective danger in the investment environment

In the following webinar Aoifinn Devitt, Head of Investment Ireland and Tommaso Mancuso, Head of Multi-Asset, take us through some of the charts from the Market Risk Insights, covering longest US economic recovery, leveraged loans by Debt-to-EBITDA ratio, complacency, moving averages of selected volatility measures and treasuries as a predictor of equity volatility.

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Tommaso Mancuso
Head of Multi Asset

Tommaso joined the international business of Federated Hermes in 2008 and formed the Multi Asset team in 2014. The Multi Asset team manages three strategies for which Tommaso is the portfolio manager: a global tactical asset-allocation strategy, a multi-asset ESG strategy, which combine ESG-integrated active stock and bond picking with dynamic asset allocation, and a diversified absolute return strategy with embedded inflation hedge.

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Aoifinn Devitt
Head of Investment – Ireland

Aoifinn Devitt joined the international business of Federated Hermes as Head of Investment – Ireland, located in the Dublin Office, in January 2019. Aoifinn has worked with institutional clients for her entire investment career, which has spanned the US, Europe and  Asia. In April 2016, she assumed the role of CIO of the Chicago Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund. From 2002 to 2006 she worked as a specialist consultant at Cambridge Associates Limited (London and Boston), where she specialised in the hedge fund area and worked with a range of institutional investors on their alternative allocations. In 2006, she established Clontarf Capital, a research and consulting firm with a particular focus on assisting public pension funds. She also developed a particular specialty in Asia-focused alternatives, developing and leading a product focused on that area, as well as in the tactical asset allocation and opportunistic credit areas. Previously, Aoifinn worked in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs in London and as a corporate attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton (New York and Hong Kong).

Aoifinn graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a first-class degree in law and received a BCL (Oxon) and an MBA (INSEAD, Dean’s list).

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