Balancing portfolio management, enhancing returns, and measuring performance

PanelGlobal financial markets

2026-06-10 | 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM

Information

  • Recalibrating the definition of ‘safe assets’ within reserve management strategies
  • How are reserve managers assessing and balancing asset allocation strategies under sanction risk and uncertainty?
  • Discuss asset classes, portfolio duration and alternative assets.
  • Allocating to gold: hedging, diversification and sovereign confidence.
  • Approaches for measuring reserves performance: benchmarks, duration targeting, absolute return strategies, and indexing.
  • ESG integration: what has changed?

Speakers

Bank of Portugal

Liliana Jerónimo

Bank of Portugal

Deputy head of the markets department

National Bank of Slovakia

Michal Zajac

National Bank of Slovakia

Head of investment reserves risk management section

BNP Paribas Asset Management

Johanna Lasker

BNP Paribas Asset Management

Head of official institutions and CEO North America

Central Bank of the Seychelles

Vanessa Mussard

Central Bank of the Seychelles

Director of financial markets

Bank of Latvia

Raivo Vanags

Bank of Latvia

Head of market operations

Central Bank of the Philippines

Dr Edna C. Villa

Central Bank of the Philippines

Senior assistant governor, financial markets

Partners

BNP Paribas Asset Management

BNP Paribas Asset Management