Portfolio Management & Structuring

Vice President
Portfolio Management & Structuring

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Clemens Haas is Junior Portfolio Manager of the Portfolio Management & Structuring Division at Assenagon. He is involved in the portfolio management of ETFs at Assenagon. Prior to this he studied mathematics with focus on financial mathematics at the University of Munich. He wrote his diploma thesis on "Local Volatility and dynamic Hedging". He gained first practical experiences during several internships in the financial industry.

Senior Vice President
Portfolio Management & Structuring

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Irmin Hauke is Senior Portfolio Manager of the Portfolio Management & Structuring Division at Assenagon. In this function he trades the in-house Assenagon funds as well as external funds. With a degree in Business Administration (FH), he has contributed to Assenagon his far-reaching knowledge in trading with OTC derivatives, swaps, listed futures & options and bonds since January 2008. Before joining Assenagon, he worked as financial engineer at Bayerische Landesbank in the area of structured products. There he was responsible for the issuance of in-house structured retail products for the German market, in particular for the development of complex bonds and certificates and the hedging of swaps from the equity, raw materials and interest-rate sectors. From 1999 to 2004 Irmin Hauke was the responsible trader of futures and options for equities and interest rate derivatives at BayernLB.

Senior Portfolio Manager

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Thomas Koschitzki is Senior Portfolio Manager at Assenagon. In this function he pursues a value multi-asset strategy. He studied mathematics at the University of Munich and has employed the value approach as portfolio manager since 1999. Before that he had worked at Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank AG and – after the merger – at Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG. Professional landmarks were equity research, private wealth management, CIO of asset management as well as the responsibility for equity and derivatives business and propriety trading of the bank. He held board and advisory board positions for various HVB subsidiaries in CEE and New York. From 1995 to 1999 he was a member of the Advisory Committee of Deutsche Börse AG.

Managing Director

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Vassilios Pappas is a founding partner of Assenagon and the manager responsible for the areas of trading, portfolio management, risk management and trading infrastructure. In 2001 he received an MBA from the University of Chicago. Until March 2007 he was a member of the Markets & Investment Banking Operating Committee of UniCredit Group, heading the Global Structured Derivatives Division. In addition, he served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of INDEXCHANGE Investment AG and as a member of the Supervisory Board of HVB Structured Invest S.A.

Director
Portfolio Management & Structuring

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René Reißhauer is Senior Portfolio Manager at Assenagon. In this function he is responsible for Absolute Return products. Before joining Assenagon he worked for Allianz Global Investors in Frankfurt in the Systematics department. He had started his career in 2001 at cominvest Asset Manage­ment. In the Financial Engineering department there he was responsible for the management of structured products and actively managed derivatives funds. René Reißhauer has a degree in Business Mathematics and is a Chartered DVFA/CEFA Investment Analyst und Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).

Senior Vice President
Portfolio Management & Structuring

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David Rudolph is responsible for the portfolio management of ETFs as well as structured funds at Assenagon. Prior to this, he studied Finance & Information Management with a specialisation in Finance at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Augsburg from where he received a Master of Science degree (with honours). He spent one term at HEC Lausanne and is co-author of the paper "Bank Management Using Basel II-Data: Is the Collection, Storage and Evaluation of Data Calculated with Internal Approaches Dispensable?" published in the 2007 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium Monograph (edited by the Society of Actuaries). He completed various internships at Allianz, IBM, and McKinsey.

Managing Director
Head of Portfolio Management & Structuring

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Dorian Ruffini is Manager of Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Munich Branch and Head of Portfolio Management & Structuring. He applies his well-founded derivatives experience to the development of structured investment solutions. The university educated mathematician began his career at the Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG (UniCredit Group), where, from 1997 to early 2007, he was responsible for the trading and structuring of exotic options and derivatives. Before joining Assenagon, he worked for JPMorgan in London in the area of structured investment products.

Senior Vice President
Portfolio Management & Structuring

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Philip Seegerer is responsible for the portfolio management of in-house Assenagon UCITS funds as well as further SIF mandates across different asset classes. Before joining Assenagon, he gained first practical experience during several internships in the financial industry (Nagler & Company, HVB/UniCredit). His diploma in Mathematical Finance and Economics at the University of Munich focuses on stochastics and capital markets. In cooperation with UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking, he wrote his diploma thesis on "Pricing Correlation Sensitive Cross Asset Portfolio Derivatives". He spent one term at the James Cook University in Townsville (Australia) and contrib-uted the article "Cross Asset Portfolio Derivatives" to the book "Alternative Investments and Strategies".

Portfolio Management & Structuring

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Florian Schmid is Junior Portfolio Manager of the Portfolio Management & Structuring Division at Assenagon. He is involved in the portfolio management of ETFs and structured fund at Assenagon. Prior to this he graduated from EADA Business School with a Master's degree in Finance, focusing on financial markets. In addition he spent one term at EDHEC Business School, focusing on financial markets and products. He wrote his master thesis on "Setting up a Hedge Fund to invest in the BRIC economies". He gained first practical experiences during several internships in the financial industry.

Senior Portfolio Manager

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Kurt Wilhelm Szesny is Senior Portfolio Manager at Assenagon. In this function he pursues a value multi-asset strategy. He has contributed his long-time capital market experience, especially in the area of Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, to Assenagon since 2008. Prior to this he worked for many years in various top positions at Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank AG and at Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG (UniCredit Group). As a managing director of HVB and member of the Operating Committee of the Division of Markets & Investment Banking of the UniCredit Group he most recently was in charge of and expanded the Division of Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange. In addition, from February 1999 to March 2001 he was a member of the Executive Board of SKWB Schoellerbank in Vienna. Kurt Szesny began his career at Bayerische Hypo- und Wechselbank in 1970. In 1979 he moved to Chemical Bank doing foreign exchange trading in Frankfurt and London. He completed the MIT Senior Executives Program at the Sloan School of Management in Cambridge/Massachusetts.