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Apostolos Bantis
Investment Specialist
Zurich, Svizzera
English, French, German, Greek
Apostolos is a Fixed Income specialist in UBP’s Advisory Team who joined UBP in 2019.
With 15 years of experience, he has been active in managing and advising UBP’s private clients on fixed income investment ideas, which includes mostly Eurobonds and other debt instruments, with a focus on emerging market and core-European bonds.
Prior to joining UBP, Apostolos was the Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income research at Commerzbank AG both in London and in Dubai covering a broad range of emerging market bond issuers across the CEEMEA region. His previous assignments included corporate banking credit analyst roles in London and in New York.
Apostolos holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Baruch College in New York.
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