Thilo Kirsten

CTV offers a fund that has a global focus and invests in the most successful equity funds, selecting regions and sector funds from different companies. Their bond fund invests in bonds with fixed and variable interest rates, warrant bonds, reverse floaters, zero coupon bonds, convertible bonds and currency bonds in accordance with the principle of risk diversification. The firm’s mixed fund invests primarily in Europe.

Commerzbank-IM employs active asset management strategies, launched as public or special funds as well as advisory/outsourcing mandate in external funds. Depending on the product or mandate, the investment approach may use fundamental, quantitative and/or technical research. The firm’s pensions and stock selection strategies follows a benchmark universe and make selections utilizing a research overlay on the bond side and a quantitative filter for equities. For their overlay strategies, Commerzbank-IM focuses on active-quantitative asset management across all asset classes with liquid hedging instruments. Their market-neutral option strategies offer investors the opportunity to achieve positive returns regardless of the movements of the stock market.