Pulling the inflation trigger? Panel discussion on fiscal stimulus during the Covid-19 pandemic

Mirko Cardinale

Head of Investment Strategy & Advice
USS Investment Management Limited

About

Mirko Cardinale is Head of Investment Strategy at USSIM where he is responsible for the design of USS’ strategic asset allocation processes.

Prior to his role at USSIM, Mirko was Head of Asset Allocation-EMEA at Russell Investments where he was responsible for designing model portfolios and reviewing the asset allocation of EMEA funds. Before his appointment at Russell, Mirko was Head of Strategic Asset Allocation and Multi-Asset Fund Manager at Aviva Investors, where he was overseeing the asset allocation positioning of UK life and pension funds, as well as managing the DC default fund for the Aviva Staff Pension Scheme. Prior to his role at Aviva Investors, Mirko was also a senior investment consultant at Watson Wyatt (now Towers Watson), where he built an offshore research team in Uruguay, and a Research Manager at Financial Times Business.

Mirko holds a PhD in Finance from Imperial College, London with a thesis on the interrelationships between pension funding and capital markets, an MSc in Economics from Universitat Pompeu i Fabra, Barcelona and a BSc in Economics from Università Bocconi, Milan. Mirko’s mother tongue is Italian and he is also fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Lukas Daalder MD

Chief Investment Strategist for the Netherlands
BlackRock

About

Lukas Daalder is the Chief Investment Strategist for the Netherlands within the BlackRock Investment Institute. In this role he acts as the go-between for clients and the views of the BlackRock Investment Institute.

Prior to joining Blackrock in 2018, Mr. Daalder was the Chief Investment Officer of Robeco Investment Solutions, heading the multi-asset team for Robeco. At earlier stages of his career he has worked as a Delta One trader within a Dutch derivatives market making company, Head of Research of an sell-side equity team, Strategist of a fixed income team and Economist, amongst others. Mr. Daalder has over 25 years of experience in working in financial markets. Within the Dutch financial sector he is well known for his column in the financial newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad, for which he has been writing a weekly contribution for the past seven years.