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Wells Fargo Asset Management names Matthias Scheiber global head of multi-asset portfolio management

Thursday, January 31, 2019
Opalesque Industry Update - Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM) announced today that Matthias Scheiber has joined the firm as Global Head of Portfolio Management, Multi-Asset Solutions.

In this role, Matthias will be responsible for developing and managing outcome-oriented multi-asset investment solutions as part of WFAM's Multi-Asset Solutions team.

Reporting to Dan Morris, who was recently appointed to head of Multi-Asset Solutions, Matthias brings 20 years of investment industry experience and joins a team of 25 multi-asset investment professionals globally. He is based in London.

"With Matthias's deep industry knowledge and long track record of delivering innovative solutions, we are even better positioned to meet our clients' needs," said Nico Marais, Co-CEO of Wells Fargo Asset Management. "We are excited to welcome him to Wells Fargo Asset Management."

Matthias joins WFAM from Schroders, where he led the Multi-Asset team's complex institutional mandates, involving risk-based investment solutions, Alternative Risk Premia Strategies, and Global Tactical Asset Allocation.

Prior to Schroders, Matthias was a partner and fund manager at Aethra Asset Management, where he was responsible for the qualitative and quantitative investment research process, and managing absolute return products. He has also held senior roles at ABN AMRO Asset Management, and Raiffeisen Bank in Vienna.

The goal of the Multi-Asset Solutions team is to help investors increase, protect, and generate income from capital.

Backed by the complete range of WFAM's global investment capabilities -including leading active management and factor-based investing strategies - the Multi-Asset Solutions team focuses on product development and research to offer future-focused solutions across asset classes, geographies, and investment products. These products incorporate traditional balanced, target date, global tactical allocation, global income, absolute return, alternative risk premia, and inflation-sensitive strategies.

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