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Dr. Michael Verhofen is a Director and a Lead Portfolio Manager at the Advanced Fixed Income Global Allocation – Positioning team at Allianz Global Investors. He has been a portfolio manager at Allianz Global Investors since 2007 and joined the Advanced Fixed Income team in October 2012. He is also a part-time Lecturer in Finance at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland.
Michael Verhofen finished his studies at the University of St. Gallen with a PhD in Finance. He was a Post-Doc at the University of California at Berkeley and has published various articles in leading academic journals (e.g. “Tactical Industry Allocation and Model Uncertainty”, “The Effect of Market Regimes on Style Allocation”, “Testing Conditional Asset Pricing Models using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach”). He has been a CFA charterholder since 2009. |
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Klaus Kusber is a Director and a Senior Portfolio Manager at the Advanced Fixed Income Global Allocation – Positioning team at Allianz Global Investors, where he is responsible for foreign exchange and fixed income mandates. Klaus has been an investment professional since 1994. He joined the group in June 2007 as senior portfolio manager, specializing in the area of Foreign Exchange (FX), focus on emerging as well as developed FX markets, with a model-informed approach. Before joining the company, Klaus headed the FX management team of Pioneer Investments in Dublin, Ireland, for more than two years, where he was the lead Portfolio Manager of Pioneer’s dedicated currency fund. Previous to that Klaus worked as a Portfolio Manager at Helaba Invest, Frankfurt for five years specialising in FX management and asset allocation for balanced funds. Prior to that, he held the position of FX Strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson where he worked for six years. Klaus graduated in Economics from the University of Mainz, Germany and he is a certified EFFAS financial analyst (1997). |