Harald Berlinicke, CFA 🍵's Linkedin Analytics

💸 Opinions are my own. My posts focus on the topics of manager selection, special situations investing and asset allocation. Experience as an active investor of 30+ years. Worked as partner & lead PM at a London-based absolute return credit boutique (€8bn AuM & 30+ staff) I co-founded as well as for different banks in London, New York & Berlin. The last 9 years I spent at a large European fund rating agency. Multi-asset expert with background in the complicated stuff...structured credit, hedge funds & alts. Established track record in asset manager selection, credit & fund analysis, portfolio & risk mgt, asset allocation, fund & asset manager ratings. Deep investment expertise across the full asset class spectrum. Conducted over 400 interviews of asset managers & HFs throughout my career, in many cases followed by on-site due diligence visits in the US & Europe, the majority as portfolio manager and, 2014-2023, as ratings analyst of Scope Asset Management Ratings. Acted as lead PM of two public CDO of ABS transactions, New Bond Street CDO 1 & 2, $1 billion each, as well as co-manager of New Bond Street Diversified Credit Strategies, an absolute return credit hedge fund with €50 million of investor capital and a notional of up to €600 million (max. 12x leverage, invested in corporate CDS/indices, ABS, CLOs). Extensive global network & high cross-cultural competence gained during working & studying in 🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸 for 12+ years. Access to a large proprietary database of past asset manager performance data & marketing material. Provision of expert witness services, particularly in cases relating to the fallout from the GFC (structured credit/CDOs). Fully qualified securities advisor & wealth manager. Active volunteer & consultant for the CFA Institute since 2011. 📙Avid reader & podcast listener. 🪤Patient, disciplined, intuitive & confident investor. My mottos „Better vaguely right than precisely wrong“ and „Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been“ have served me well. 📈 Specialties: Asset manager selection & ratings, multi-asset investing, wealth management, institutional investmt mgt, asset allocation, alternative investments, fixed income & credit, structured credit, CDO management, CLOs, provision of expert witness services, securitisation, hedge funds, fund of funds, multi-manager funds, UK investment trusts, permanent capital vehicles, debt funds, AIF, liquid alts, REITs, deep value asset plays, contrarian & special sits investments, private equity & VC, infrastructure debt & equity, inflation linkers, absolute return.