Dr. Andreas Sauer

Dr. Andreas Sauer, CFA is founder and principal of ansa capital management. The company specializes in systematic global macro strategies.

For 25 years, he has dedicated himself to researching and developing quantitative asset management methods and putting them into practice for the benefit of institutional investors. His doctoral thesis at Karlsruhe University (TU) addressed this topic early on. In 1999, he was one of the co-founders and partners of what is today Quoniam Asset Management, and as CEO and CIO he turned it into the most successful investment boutique in Germany in the space of 13 years. When he stepped down in December 2012, the company had approximately EUR 18 billion in funds under management for global institutional investors. All global equities, bonds and asset allocation mandates were managed exclusively using proprietary quantitative strategies.

He was a founding board member of the German CFA Society in 2000 as Vice President and became President. He is a regular speaker on a diversity of topics in quantitative Asset Management and teaches "Asset Management" at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).