FINVIA People & Culture
Dr. Benjamin Moritz
Head of Investment Research
Biography
Dr. Benjamin Moritz is responsible for investment research at FINVIA.
After completing his degree in business mathematics at Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, he worked at Sal. Oppenheim in Cologne from 2008 to 2018. There he managed the cross-divisional investment processes for the bank's strategic asset allocation and annual investment outlook. He was also jointly responsible for tactical asset allocation for institutional and private clients and was the portfolio manager responsible for five public and special funds.
In addition to his work, he completed his doctorate at the LMU Munich under Prof. Stefan Mittnik from 2012 to 2018. He presented his research work in the field of computer-based text analysis for asset allocation and machine learning for stock selection worldwide and received two awards. In 2018, he continued his career at the newly founded HQ Asset Management. There he developed an investment platform and cross-divisional investment processes for asset allocation and stock selection, where he integrated his research results.
Since 2017, he has regularly supervised students from LMU Munich, UC Berkeley and TU Munich, for example, on master's theses and industry projects on current investment research topics.
