Bernd is an experienced CIO and academic writer. He currently works as the Head of Portfolio Implementation at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds. He has more than 20 years of experience in senior management positions for various hedge ...more

Bernd is an experienced CIO and academic writer. He currently works as the Head of Portfolio Implementation at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds. He has more than 20 years of experience in senior management positions for various hedge funds, asset management companies, and banks in New York, London, Vienna, and Frankfurt, where he designed and implemented quantitative investment strategies, products and processes and successfully reorganized investment teams. Bernd is also a former Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School, where he taught and researched asset pricing, machine learning, portfolio construction, and risk management. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles in leading academic and practitioner journals, and he currently serves on the editorial board of the Financial Analysts Journal.less