MEET THE AUTHOR
Dr. Claude Diderich
, CEFA, FRM, NPDP, is an Executive Director in the
Investment Management department of
UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank.
Before he was a manager in the Financial Services Practice of
Deloitte Consulting in Zurich, Switzerland. Previously he was head
of investment process and portfolio analytics at a major Swiss private bank in Zurich, Switzerland where
he was developing innovative investment solutions for institutional and private investors with a focus on
the underlying alpha generating investment process. Before Dr. Diderich worked at
Credit Suisse Asset Management where he designed and implemented
different successful asset allocation and fixed income investment products and the associated investment
processes. Dr. Diderich holds a doctor es sciences and a masters in computer science engineering from the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He is a certified EFFAS Financial Analyst and Portfolio
Manager, FRM certified, and a certified New Product Development Professional. He is a fellow member of the
Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), a lifetime member of the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),
and a member of the
Product Development and Management Association (PDMA). When not working as an investment
professional, he devotes his time to sports photography. His photos on numerous sporting events, such as the 1998 Nagano,
the 2002 Salt Lake City, and the 2006
Torino Olympic games have been published in Swiss and foreign publications. He is a member of the International
Sports Press Association (AIPS).