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Gavin Counsell, FIA, is a Director and Senior Portfolio Manager, Allianz Global Investors Multi Asset Europe. He joined Allianz Global Investors from Aviva Investors in 2018 to support the growth of our UK domiciled multi asset portfolios. This includes the flagship RiskMaster Multi Asset Fund range, which targets volatility and is designed to deliver a specific level of risk to the client. At Aviva Investors, Gavin was senior fund manager across a range of multi-asset portfolios, his role focused on portfolio construction and active asset allocation. Gavin started his financial career at Aon, before moving to Willis Towers Watson as an Investment Consultant. Gavin graduated from The University of Warwick with a First Class Masters in Mathematics (MMaths), and is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, FIA. |
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Dr Friedrich Kruse is a portfolio manager in Allianz Global Investors‘ Multi Asset team located in Frankfurt. He is also a member of the Multi Asset Research & Development group. Previously he worked in the locations Tokyo and New York for the firm. Prior to joining Allianz Global Investors in February 2011, he worked as research assistant at the university chair of finance at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management where he obtained his PhD. He has been a PhD visiting scholar at New York University Stern School of Business. His doctoral research is focused on nonlinear predictions, portfolio optimization and discrete time finance. Friedrich has made work experience with Bankhaus Metzler and Dresdner Kleinwort. He holds a master’s degree in business economics from the University of Passau and was a BA visiting student at the University of Lund in Sweden. Friedrich is also a CFA charterholder. |
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Biography |
Hartwig Kos, co-investment manager of the Baring Dynamic Emerging Markets
Fund and member of our Global Multi Asset Group, could have ended up as an
archaeologist, unearthing ancient tombs and temples, if it hadn’t been for the
intervention of his grandfather. ‘Grandpa’ Kos had been a budding economist at
the University of Basel, and recommended both the Swiss college – and the
comparatively modern discipline – as a way of satisfying young Hartwig’s thirst
for knowledge and abstract thought. “I had studied Latin and Greek at school
and dreamt one day I’d become like Indiana Jones, but my grandpa said I was
more suited to economics than ancient languages, and the rest is history.” |