Interview

Managing risk premia and conducting a brass band

Kari Vatanen is in charge of the cross assets and allocation team at Finland’s second largest pension company Varma. In his spare time, he is the conductor of a brass band and blogs about investing and pensions.

How did you end up working within the asset management industry?In fact, it happened by accident. I was a last-year student of engineering mathematics when I noticed a job advertisement for a quantitative analyst in a local asset management company. I didn’t
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