Fixed Income Management Team

Christian Bettinger

Christian Bettinger has been with the company since June 2009 and heads the Portfolio Management Fixed Income department. As fund manager of the mutual funds Berenberg Euro Bonds and Berenberg Financial Bonds, he is responsible for the selection of corporate bonds. He trained as a banker and then studied business administration at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. In 2010, the business graduate was taken on early from the Berenberg trainee program as a fund manager with a focus on derivatives and bonds. Bettinger is a CFA Charterholder, Certified Financial Engineer (CFE) and authorized Eurex trader.

Felix Stern

Felix Stern joined the Asset Management division of Berenberg in 2000 as a fixed income portfolio manager. Currently he is heading the fixed income selection team within the Asset Management and is responsible for institutional mandates. As a senior portfolio manager he is responsible for the selection of corporate and financial bonds as well as short-term bond market investments. He is also the lead manager for several of Berenbergs institutional mutual funds. Prior to joining Berenberg, he worked several years for the Market Research department of British American Tobacco, Germany. Felix is a CCrA - Certified Credit Analyst (DVFA) and also has a German Diploma in business economics from the Fernuniversität in Hagen.

Wei Lon Sung

Wei Lon Sung has worked in fixed income portfolio management at Deka Investment since 2018, with a focus on emerging markets. He joined Berenberg in 2023 and contributes his expertise in the fundamental selection of emerging market bonds in local and hard currencies. He holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in Mathematics from Goethe University Frankfurt.

Gerald Deutsch

Gerald Deutsch has been with the company since 2021. As fund manager of the mutual funds Berenberg Financial Bonds and Berenberg Euro Bonds, he is responsible for the selection of corporate bonds, with a focus on high-yield and financial bonds. As part of his graduate programme at Berenberg, he held various positions in discretionary equity and bond portfolio management, fixed income research and institutional fund sales in Germany and Switzerland. The CFA charterholder exited the Berenberg graduate program early in 2022 and became a portfolio manager with a focus on corporate credit. He holds a Master of Finance from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and a Bachelor of Psychology from the University of Kent.

Maria Ziolkowski

Maria Ziolkowski has been with the company since September 2023. She has been a co-portfolio manager since then and focuses on interest rate products and defensive bonds from the investment grade segment as well as short-dated bond strategies.

Before joining Berenberg, she worked at Flossbach von Storch as a portfolio manager in the fixed income area and trader in the multi-asset area, at BNP Paribas in London and Lisbon and at Allianz Investment Bank in Vienna. In addition to her Bachelor in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Master in Monetary and Financial Economics from the University of Lisbon and Master in Gender Studies from the University of Vienna, Maria Ziolkowski is a CFA Charterholder

Dr. André Meyer-Wehmann

André Meyer-Wehmann has been with the company since October 2024. His focus is on the quantitative selection of investment grade bonds. Before joining Berenberg, he worked as a quantitative multi-asset portfolio manager at MainSky Asset Management and as a Credit Risk Methodology Specialist at Deutsche Bank. He holds a PhD in Finance and a Master of Science in Quantitative Finance from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where he is a lecturer. Prior to that, he completed a Bachelor of Science in General Management at EBS Business School. Mr. Meyer-Wehmann is also a CFA charterholder.

Sebastian Burbank

Sebastian Burbank has been with the company since October 2024. Before joining Berenberg, he worked for 3 years at Deka Investment as a portfolio manager for global bonds and currencies. He focused in particular on local and hard currency bonds in the emerging markets. He holds a Master's degree in Finance from Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Essen.

Yannick Lahmann

Yannick Lahmann joined Berenberg in December 2017 as a product specialist. In this role, he is the first contact person for product and client-specific matters for all Fixed income investment solutions & mutual funds. After his apprenticeship at Hamburger Sparkasse, he worked in several positions in the advisory business and most recently as an investment advisor. Following his banking apprenticeship, he studied at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and graduated with a degree in banking management (FS) in 2016.