Texas Alternatives Conference 2026 - Agenda
March 9, 2026 - March 10, 2026
Conference
Four Seasons Hotel
Austin, TX
Register
Day 1: Monday, March 9
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Women in finance leadership sessionCo-hosted with SBAI
5:30pm – 8:00pm
All conference welcome dinner
Day 2: Tuesday, March 10
8:00am
Registration and networking breakfast
8:45am – 9:00am
Welcome Remarks
Speakers
Speakers To Be Announced
9:00am – 9:45am
Keynote fireside discussion
Speakers
Speakers To Be Announced
9:45am - 10:00am
Transition break
10:00am - 12:00pm
Institutional Investor Symposium
Invitation only
10:00am – 10:30am
Macro masterclass: Winning in an era of policy whiplash and market volatility
General Session
Speakers
Speakers To Be Announced
10:30am – 11:00am
Capital in crossfire: Geopolitics, trade dynamics and emerging investment frontiersGeneral Session
Speakers
Speakers To Be Announced
11:00am – 11:30am
Capital raising and institutional investing trends
General Session
Speakers
Speakers To Be Announced
11:30am - 12:00pm
Beyond the traditional: Navigating alternatives in private wealthGeneral Session
Speakers
Speakers To Be Announced
12:00pm - 12:45pm
All conference lunch and networking
12:45pm - 1:15pm
TAIA lifetime achievement presentation
Honoring a distinguished leader whose contributions have shaped alternatives investing
Award Recipient
To Be Announced
1:15pm - 1:45pm
Keynote fireside discussion
Speaker
Speakers To Be Announced
1:45pm - 2:15pm
Panel discussion
Speaker
Speakers To Be Announced
2:15pm - 2:45pm
Private markets in focus: Strategies for long-term value
Speaker
Speakers To Be Announced
2:45pm - 3:00pm
Networking break
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Charity award: Kerr County Relief
3:15pm – 3:45pm
Taking stock in Texas: TXSE’s emergence as a capital markets hub
Speakers
Speakers To Be Announced
3:45pm – 4:45pm
Pitch perfect 2026: Emerging manager pitch contestTexas-based emerging managers pitch their best investment ideas to industry leaders in a live contest format.
Judges
To Be Announced
Pitchers
To Be Announced
Moderated by
To Be Announced
4:45pm – 5:30pm
The LP CIO perspective: Building durable portfolios amid economic shifts
Speakers
Anne-Marie Fink
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Chief Investment Officer, Private Markets and Funds Alpha
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State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Anne-Marie Fink serves as the State of Wisconsin Investment Board’s Chief Investment Officer for Private Markets and Funds Alpha. With SWIB since 2020, she is responsible for overseeing more than $75 billion across private equity, real estate, hedge funds, externally managed accounts, private debt, and venture capital portfolios, and a team of 40 professionals.
Anne-Marie has more than two decades of investment management experience. She served as the chief investment officer for the Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island and for a large family office. Anne-Marie started her investment career at JP Morgan, where she spent more than 16 years as an equity and hedge fund analyst. Before SWIB, she was at State Street Global Advisors as the portfolio strategist for alternative investments.
Anne-Marie earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She is also the author of The Money Makers: How Extraordinary Managers Win in a World Turned Upside Down, which draws on investors’ experience to identify best practices in business management across companies and industries.
John D. Skjervem
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CFA, Chief Investment Officer
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Utah Retirement Systems
Jason R. Safran
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CFA, Chief Investment Officer
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Texas Christian University
Moderated by
Jens Foehrenbach
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CFA, President and Co-Chief Investment Officer
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Graham Capital Management
Jens Foehrenbach, CFA, is the President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Graham Capital Management, L.P. (“Graham”), an alternative investment manager with approximately $20B AUM as of November 1, 2025. Mr. Foehrenbach jointly oversees and supervises Graham’s discretionary and systematic portfolio manager teams, trading, and research, alongside Pablo Calderini, Vice Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Foehrenbach is also a member of the firm’s Executive, Investment, and Risk committees. Prior to joining Graham, he worked at Man Group from September 2008 to February 2025, most recently as Head of Public Markets within Discretionary Investments at Man Group. Mr. Foehrenbach has served in several capacities for the Man Group during his tenure at the firm, including Chief Investment Officer of Man Solutions and Chief Investment Officer of Man FRM. Prior to joining Man Group, Mr. Foehrenbach worked at Harcourt Investment Consulting AG as Senior Analyst and Head of Relative Value. Prior to Harcourt Investment Consulting AG, he was employed by UBS AG, where he worked on the bank’s fixed income derivatives trading desk in Switzerland and London. Jens Foehrenbach received a Master’s degree in Business Economics from the University of Basel, Switzerland in 2001.
