Robeco appoints global head of thematic investment

Ralf Oberbannscheidt joins

Valeria Martinez
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Robeco has appointed Ralf Oberbannscheidt as global head of thematic investment to lead a team managing €18.7bn of assets.

Effective from May, his role will focus on further developing the firm's active thematic investing offering. From Zurich, he will report to Mark van der Kroft, CIO fundamental and quant equity. Oberbannscheidt joins from New York-based firm Global Thematic Partners, where he was a founding partner and portfolio manager of the global thematic and global agribusiness strategies for institutional mandates and sub-advised retail funds.  Prior to that, he was senior global equities portfolio manager at DWS, formerly known as Deutsche Asset Management, from 1999 to 2010, based in Frankfurt ...

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