Meet Douglas

Douglas Bennett joined Vontobel Asset Management in September 2012 as a Client Portfolio Manager representing the firm’s portfolio management team in communicating the firm’s philosophy, process, performance and risk management.

Prior to joining Vontobel, in 2012, Mr. Bennett was a senior salesman of European equities for U.S.-based institutions at European Securities Network-ESN, New York. At Société Générale from 1994 to 2011, Mr. Bennett worked as a salesman in the New York location, from 2001 to 2011, and as head of the European cash equities team in the Zurich location, from 1994 to 2001. From 1989 to 1994 he was a salesman at Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS) – SBC Securities Zurich. Mr. Bennett began his financial career in 1983 at American International Group – AIU as an underwriter, a role he continued in, until 1989.

Mr. Bennett received an M.A. in international relations from the Paul H. Nitze School (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and he received a B.A. in the same from Lewis and Clark College. He holds a portfolio management certificate from New York University and holds the following FINRA License(s): Series 7 and 63.