Fixed Income Management Team

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.

Christian Bettinger

Christian Bettinger, CFA, has been with the company since June 2009. As fund manager of the mutual funds Berenberg Euro Bonds and Berenberg Credit Opportunities, he is responsible for the selection of corporate bonds in the Multi Asset area. After apprenticeship as a banker and studying business administration at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, he first went through the trainee program at Berenberg. In February 2010, the business graduate was taken over early as a junior fund manager with a focus on derivatives and fixed income. Bettinger is a CFA-Charterholder, Certified Financial Engineer (CFE) and admitted Eurex trader.

Gerald Deutsch

Gerald Deutsch joined Berenberg in 2021. He started his career in the Berenberg Graduate Program with assignments in discretionary equity and fixed income portfolio management, fixed income research, as well as in institutional fund sales both in Germany and Switzerland. He exited the program early in 2022 and became a fixed income portfolio manager with a focus on corporate credit. He holds a Master of Finance from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and a Bachelor of Psychology from the University of Kent.

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.