About us

Erste Asset Management is an international asset management company with a strong position in Central and Eastern Europe. Our activities are backed by the financial strength of Erste Group Bank AG.

We offer our clients a broad spectrum of high-quality investment funds and asset management solutions. We apply the highest quality to our clients’ assets. This also goes for the comprehensive risk management of Erste Asset Management, which covers all our business areas.

Erste Asset Management attaches particular importance to providing responsible products and services. As a company we have dedicated ourselves to socially and environmentally agreeable behaviour.

We are proud of our employees and have become the employer of choice for specialists who wish to prove their talent in the various departments of Erste Asset Management. 

Erste Asset Management GmbH, branch Czech Republic

In the course of the restructuring of the Austrian investment company Erste Asset Management GmbH,  a cross-border merger of Investiční společnost České spořitelny and Erste Asset Management GmbH took place in autumn 2015. Due to the merger, all rights and obligations of Investiční společnost České spořitelny will transfer to Erste Asset Management GmbH, which operates in the Czech Rebuplic through its branch Erste Asset Management GmbH, pobočka Česká republika.

Erste Asset Management GmbH is an international asset management company with a strong position in Central and Eastern Europe. Our activities are backed by the financial strength of Erste Group Bank AG.

Throughout the time ISCS is operating on the capital market as part of Česká spořitelna  and its Financial Group.

Our Management

 

Heinz Bednar

CEO


Responsibilities:

  • Investment Division
  • Finance
  • Communications and Public Relations
  • Human Resources
  • Legal Services

Winfried Buchbauer

Member of the Executive Board


Responsiblities:

  • Risk Management
  • Information Technology
  • Back Office
  • Compliance*

*The Compliance department is directly responsible to the whole Management Board. Compliance is independent from all other departments of the Asset Management company and does not underlie to any instructions.

Peter Karl

Member of the Executive Board


Responsiblities:

  • Operating Office
  • Investments Real Estate

Thomas Kraus

Member of the Executive Board


Responsiblities:

  • Institutional Sales
  • Retail Sales
  • Product Management
  • Internal Audit (administrative)*

*The Internal Audit department is directly responsible to the whole Management Board. Internal Audit is independent from all other departments of the Asset Management company and does not underlie to any instructions.

Contact

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