Press Release
Zurich, May 2
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2012
Plenum Investments Ltd. to launch PULSAR® product line, adds
to Portfolio Management Team
Plenum Investments AG, the Swiss asset management boutique specialising in alternative investment strategies, has amalgamated its non-insurance-linked investment solutions into a new
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product line called PULSAR . Dr. Rainer Gruenig, CEO of Plenum Investments: "The split will
strengthen our two brand names: While the Plenum brand remains focused exclusively on insurance-linked funds and mandate solutions (ILS), all other alternative and traditional strategies will
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be managed and marketed under the new PULSAR product line."
Plenum has enhanced its portfolio management competence for existing and new products by
bringing on board the experienced team of Dr. Heiko Bailer and his colleagues Simeon Stoitzev
and Simon Otziger. In the same way that the Plenum ILS solutions are geared towards peak risk
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management, the PULSAR product line has a strong risk-oriented investment approach. "Plenum's experience in dealing with extreme risks was very attractive for us. Our expertise in tail risk
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management creates synergies that we can offer to our clients within the PULSAR framework. In
addition Plenum's long-term track record and its savoir-faire in the alternative space is of great
importance for us", summarises Dr. Heiko Bailer as one of the main reasons for joining Plenum.
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The start date for the PULSAR product line is May 2 2012.
For detailed information please refer to:
Plenum Investments Ltd.
Dr. Rainer N. Gruenig, CEO
Bellerivestrasse 33, CH-8034 Zurich
Phone: +41 43 488 57 10
eMail: rainer.gruenig@plenum.ch
Short CV‘s
Dr. Heiko Bailer, Ph.D., Fund Manager
Dr. Bailer began his financial career in 1999 at Deutsche Bank Global Markets Fixed Income in New York. In
2002, he resumed his doctoral work with support of the Endowment Fund of the University of Washington,
for whom he developed key quantitative investment models. In 2005, after receiving his Ph.D., he joined
ABN-AMRO’s Delta One Trading Group in London, and in 2007, he moved to Switzerland to begin his role
as Deputy Chief Risk Officer at Zurich based Harcourt Investment Consulting AG, a $5 Billion Fund of
Hedge Funds. In October 2008, he left Harcourt to co-found PinInvest and to act as the investment manager
of the BluePin Fund – a multi-strategy off-shore fund. In 2009, he co-founded Corepoint Capital AG and then
served as its chief advisor when he joined Credit Suisse's Private Bank as Head of Quantitative Solutions in
May 2010. Since September 2011, he has been fully focused on Corepoint Capital AG as its Chief Investment Officer. He is also an adviser to Pleinert & Partner AG.
Dr. Bailer graduated from the University of Munich with a Master’s in Mathematics and Physics, and holds a
Ph.D. as well as a certificate of Financial Engineering from the University of Washington.
Simeon Stoitzev, CFA, Portfolio Management, Sales
After his studies in 2004, Mr. Stoitzev completed the HSBC Private Bank's international graduate program
taking on various assignments in New York, Geneva, and Zurich. In 2006, he joined Harcourt Investment
Consulting AG as an analyst and advisor to institutional clients. He was promoted in 2007 to manage portfolios covering Asia partially working out of the Hong Kong office. In 2010, he left Harcourt for Unigestion SA
in Geneva, where he was responsible for institutional mandates in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. In
2011, he joined Corepoint Capital AG and is responsible for the quantitative long/short equity fund and business development with institutional clients.
Mr. Stoitzev graduated with a Master's Degree in Political Economics from the University of Lausanne and is
a CFA charter holder.