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    PECUNDUS GmbH is a German company that provides training services to industry professionals. It specializes in conducting on- and off-site training workshops on Finance-related topics. The company was founded in 2012 by Dr. Marcus Schulmerich, Managing Director and Senior Trainer of PECUNDUS.


Dr. Schulmerich has 18 years of experience in the asset management industry. His professional experience covers positions in equity portfolio management, fixed income portfolio management, risk management and product management.

He started his professional career at the asset management entity of Commerzbank (now part of Allianz Global Investors, AGI) and PIMCO. At PIMCO he was Senior Product Manager for active fixed income strategies until 2006.

Between 2006 and 2016, Dr. Schulmerich was Global Portfolio Strategist at SSGA (State Street Global Advisors) in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). SSGA is the third largest institutional asset manager worldwide. In his role he covered active quant equity (AQE) strategies, smart beta equity strategies and quantitative multi-strategy managed futures hedge funds. From 2011 onwards he was head of SSGA’s AQE strategy team in EMEA. He also conducted various internal trainings and trained SSGA’s key clients in the EMEA region, Asia and South America with a focus on Sovereign Wealth Funds and Central Banks.

Since 2016 he is Head of Fund Product Management at Deka Bank, one of the largest asset managers in Germany serving 14000 savings banks. His group is responsible for all retail and institutional fund launches across equities, fixed income and alternative investments. His responsibilities also include oversight of Deka's cooperation asset managers, the private banking strategies and the wealth management products.

Dr. Schulmerich holds a Doctoral Degree from EBS University in Wiesbaden / Germany, an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, MA / USA and an M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Mainz / Germany. He is a frequent speaker at asset management conferences and publishes regularly on a variety of finance topics.

Since 2005 Dr. Schulmerich is a continuous guest lecturer for derivatives, portfolio & risk management, alternative investments and financial engineering at the EBS Business School in Wiesbaden / Germany, one of the top business schools in Europe (EBS Business School Ranking). He also teaches at the Kazakh-German University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and held teaching assignments at the Technical University of Munich, the University of Applied Sciences in Munich and the FOM University in Frankfurt and Munich.

He has published extensively on portfolio management, risk management, interest rate modeling, real options valuation and behavioral finance.



Dr. Schulmerich
Dr. Marcus Schulmerich