Investment Outlook 2027 – Helsinki

Stephan Kind (Liechtensteiner) is a Partner on the Liquid Markets team at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is a member of the Executive Committee, the co-chair of the Liquid Markets Management Team and the chair of the Multi-Asset Investment Committee. Mr. Kind is co-responsible for the firm’s Liquid Markets activities. The team is responsible for multi-asset and multi-alternative funds, sustainable fixed income and equity funds, liquid multi-manager funds and institutional mandates. For more than fifteen years, he is responsible for the portfolio management of the LGT Endowment fund.
Mr. Kind started at LGT Group in August 1994 and joined LGT Capital Partners in October 2001. He spent a brief spell in LGT Bank’s Hong Kong office and started in the portfolio management team for the LGT Endowment fund in 2005. From 2005 to 2013, he was also responsible for selecting and monitoring external managers in particular in the area of emerging markets equities.
Mr. Kind holds the Swiss Federal Diploma for Experts in Finance and Investments (AZEK) and is Certified International Wealth Manager (CIWM). He received a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Applied Science (HTW) in Chur, Switzerland. He is fluent in German and English.

Thomas Kyriakoudis (British) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in London, and is the co-head for our Private Credit Solutions team. He is responsible for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of private credit transactions.
Prior to joining the firm in 2021, Mr. Kyriakoudis was a Partner and CIO at Permira Credit, one of Europe’s largest private credit managers. As one of the two initial partners, Mr. Kyriakoudis helped to build the business from the ground up to around EUR 10 billion in assets under management. During his 13 years at Permira, Mr. Kyriakoudis was a member of all Permira Credit Investment Committees, founded the structured credit business, was co-portfolio manager of the CLO business and led a significant number of direct lending transactions. Prior to Permira, Mr. Kyriakoudis worked on the structured credit trading desk of Morgan Stanley in London.
Mr. Kyriakoudis holds an MA in Business Administration from the London Business School and an MSC in Engineering from Cambridge University.

Jetro Siekkinen (Finnish) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is responsible for the Emerging Market Fixed Income team.
Mr. Siekkinen has long-standing expertise in emerging market debt and currencies since 1998. Before joining the firm in 2021, he was with Aktia Asset Management for over 15 years where he was responsible for the Fixed Income Portfolio Management team, management of the portfolio, and development of Aktia’s fixed income mutual fund platform. Prior to that, he worked at SEB on the strategic sell-side and with Nordea and Sampo Banks on the fixed income sales teams.

Mr. Siekkinen holds an MA in Economics from Tampere University. He is fluent in Finnish, English and Swedish.