Member of the Management Board of SIGMA Investment AG
Markus Braun studied financial mathematics and actuarial mathematics, specialising in structured products, complex derivatives and risk management. He successfully implemented risk assessment and measurement systems as a consultant of the management boards at different Austrian insurance companies such as Volksfürsorge Jupiter Versicherung, Wüstenrot Versicherungs-AG and Union Versicherungs-AG. During this time, he was also a member of the Austrian insurance committee for the assessment and accounting of complex-structured products at the European level. He delivered numerous lectures on risk management and index-linked life insurance at various insurance conferences and holds seminars and lectures for actuarial and financial mathematics at the Department for Management and Economics of the Danube University Krems. In the late 1990s, Markus Braun developed a trading strategy for share-based funds, which was successfully implemented for German and Austrian insurance companies as part of UCTIS IV-compliant investment funds in the year 2004 and has since been awarded three international prizes. Since 2006, Markus Braun and his team have specialised in corporate refinancing and have since structured financing of roughly EUR 2.5 billion for companies in Europe.
