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Koye Somefun

Head of Multi-Asset and Solutions, Quant Research Group

Bio

Koye has been Head of Multi-Assets&Solutions in the Quant Research Group since the creation of the team in 2017. In this role, he oversees a team that designs and develops solutions used by the Multi-Asset and Solutions teams. The solutions cover a broad spectrum ranging from target risk solutions, potentially with protection strategies, to the incorporation of broader balance sheet considerations.

Koye joined Fortis Investments, a predecessor company of BNP Paribas Asset Management, in 2007 as a quantitative analyst for strategic asset allocation. From 2010 to 2014, he was Head of Quantitative Alpha Generation for the then Multi-Asset Solutions team. From 2014 to 2017, Koye was Head of Retirement Solutions&Innovation in this team. Prior to joining Fortis Investments, Koye was a quantitative analyst for structured products at IRIS (Robeco). He also worked for the Dutch National Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science as a researcher. He started his investment career in 1998 with ORTEC as a consultant.

Koye holds a PhD in computational economics and a master’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Notre Dame in the US. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Erasmus University in the Netherlands. In 2007, he obtained the Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF) in London.

Koye is based in Amsterdam.

Location Amsterdam