Meet Kerstin

Kerstin Hottner CFA®

Head of Commodities, Portfolio Manager

10 years investment experience

9 years with Vontobel

Zurich

Vontobel Asset Management AG

Genferstrasse 27

CH-8022 Zurich

Switzerland

Kerstin Hottner joined Vontobel in 2016. In January 2024, she was elected Head of Commodities within Quantitative Investments.

Prior to joining Vontobel, she worked as a portfolio manager starting in 2014 at Vescore (integrated into Vontobel in 2016), where she invested in commodities both as a stand-alone asset class and in a multi-asset context since 2015. Her commodity views have been published by various media outlets over the past years, and she has been a regular contributor to the Xtra Gold podcast.

Kerstin holds a Master of Science in Economics from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany). She is also a CFA® charterholder.

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How to harvest returns from commodities

In this paper , we make the case for incorporating commodities investments into a broader multi asset portfolio by answering the three questions that clients ask us every week: 1. Why commodities? 2. Is there value? 3. How should I invest?