Agenda · Smart Vienna 2026

Alex holds an Executive MBA in International Wealth Management from GSIA Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Geneva. He is also a Chartered European Financial Analyst.

He joined Strategic Investment Advisors Group in January 2006. Previously, he was Head of the Investment Process at Centrum Bank in Liechtenstein. Before joining Centrum Bank in 1999, he spent three years establishing and managing the Eastern European Equity Fund for UBS Asset Management. He began his career at UBS Zurich in 1989.

Mr. Brian McCormick is the lead manager of Jupiter’s $1.5bn Global Value Strategies. He holds a Master’s Degree in Law & Finance from Oxford University, a BCL in Law with Economics from University College Dublin and is a CFA Charterholder.

Mr. John has approximately 25 years of research experience having worked as a senior equity research associate at Credit Suisse First Boston and as a research analyst at Persistency Capital. More recently, as the founder of Phronimos Capital, he has primarily focused on managed accounts with an emphasis on the identification and analysis of global, deep value and special situation opportunities in the micro-cap universe. Mr. John, a CFA charterholder, enjoys teaching and playing tennis in his free time.

Together with his brother Jakob, Tobias founded the portfolio management company TIP. The Austria-based value investment firm implemented the 0/6/25 fee structure from Buffett’s partnership. In their early years, they received several prizes in stock-picking contests.

Tobias enjoys breaking complex questions down into sound equations and is a great admirer of Bruce Greenwald’s theoretical work. He specialises in stock buybacks and share issuance, whose apparent simplicity can confuse the investing crowd.

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