Prof. Dr. Raimond Maurer – Biography

Prof. Dr. Raimond Maurer currently holds the Chair of Investment, Portfolio Management and Pension Finance in the House of Finance at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His main research interests focus on asset management, life-time portfolio choice, and pension finance. He received his habilitation, dissertation, as well as diploma in business administration from Mannheim University and has various experiences in policy and industry consulting (e.g for the Worldbank, ECB, FED).

Dr. Maurer holds several professional positions like at the Union Real Estate Investment  (Member of the Supervisory Board), the Society of Actuaries (academic chairman of AFIR group), the Association of Certified International Investment Analysts (academic director and member of the International Examination Committee), and the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (member of advisory board). He holds the degree of an honorary doctor from the St. Petersburg State University of Economics. In the academic year 2013 he was the Metzler Visiting Professor at the Wharton School.

Dr. Maurer has published in various international journals, including Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Risk & Insurance, Journal of Portfolio Management, and JEDC. Dr. Maurer serves since 2011 as a member of the academic Senate of the Goethe University Frankfurt.