Current Position
- Head of Asset Allocation, Swiss Re, Zurich, Switzerland (since 05/
2024) - Adjunct Faculty, Chair of International Finance, University of Mannheim (since 02/
2015)
Previous Positions
- Chief Investment Officer at Copernicus Wealth Management, Zurich, Switzerland (09/2023 – 05/
2024) - Managing Director, Deputy CIO, TOBAM, Paris, France (01/2020 – 07/
2023) - Head Equity & Asset Allocation at Swiss Life Asset Managers, Zurich, Switzerland (12/2015 – 12/
2019) - Portfolio Manager Asset Allocation & Equity bei Swiss Life Asset Managers, Zurich, Switzerland (08/2014 – 11/
2015)
Research Interests
- Financial Markets: Investions, Options, Liquidity, Market Microstructure.
- Asset Pricing: Empirical.
- Corporate Finance: Empirical and Theory.
Education
| 09/ | Ph.D. in Finance (excellent with highest honors) at the Swiss Finance Institute of the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 08/ | Visiting Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management (USA) at Northwestern University, Evanston / Chicago (IL), USA |
| 10/ | Ph.D. Student at the Department of Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany |
Further Working Experience
| 2005 – 2007 | M.M. Warburg & CO KGaA, Private Banking Inhouse Consultant and Relationship Manager, Hamburg, Germany |
Publications
- Ahrends, Meike, Wolfgang Drobetz und Tatjana Xenia Puhan, 2018, Cyclicality of Growth Opportunities and the Value of Cash Holdings, Journal of Financial Stability, Vol. 37, 74–96.
- Arnold, Marc, D. Hackbarth, and Tatjana Xenia Puhan, 2017, Financing Asset Sales and Business Cycles, Review of Finance, Vol. 22, 243–277
- Vogel, Rick, Tatjana Xenia Puhan, Edlira Shehu, Doron Kliger, and Henning Beese. Funding Decisions and Entrepreneurial Team Diversity: A Field Study. Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization (JEBO), Vol. 107 Part B, 595–613, 2014.
- Puhan, Tatjana Xenia and Rick Vogel. Solving the Innovation Dilemma by Creating Organizational Think Tanks. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 11(4), 2009.
- Puhan, Tatjana Xenia. Balancing exploration and exploitation by creating organizational think tanks. Gabler Verlag, ISBN: 3834909351, 2008.