Professional Expertise
Fixed Income, Private Credit, and Derivatives Investments

Biography:
CFA Charterholder, MBA and Master in Economics with experience in Fixed Income, Private Credit, and Derivatives Investments. Buy-side and sell-side working experience. Lived and worked in Europe and Asia (Hong Kong, Beijing, Manila and Singapore).

Markus possesses profound expertise in multi-asset portfolio management and trading, with strong leadership across Asia and global markets. His most recent position was as Head of Private Credit at AIA in Singapore, where he built an elite team and directed the investment strategy for multi-billion-dollar portfolios, including serving as Lead Portfolio Manager for AIA’s Variable Capital Company (VCC) private credit fund-of-funds. His focus encompassed US, European, and Asia-Pacific opportunities in senior direct lending, mezzanine and opportunistic credit, special situations, specialty finance, structured credit, and liquid credit. Prior roles at AIA included Senior Portfolio Manager, leading Total Return Fixed Income portfolios for Emerging Markets and US Treasuries with an emphasis on corporates, financials, sovereigns, and hedging in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, India, the Philippines, and Singapore; Fixed Income Portfolio Manager in Hong Kong; and Associate Director for Derivatives and Structured Investments, specializing in structured credit, equity/FX/rates derivatives, and hedging.

Prior to his fund management roles, Markus served as Head of Sales and Trading at Merit Group, handling orders on major exchanges like CME, EUREX, LME, NYMEX, HKEX, and SGX while developing hedging strategies for financial futures, commodities, and equity indices, and providing market analyses on natural gas, metals, and agricultural products.