Our purpose: Invest in a positive society and healthy environment
Team
Christoph Klein
CFA, CEFA
Founder & Managing Partner
- 2018: Foundation of ESG Portfolio Management
GmbH - Partner and Portfolio Manager nordIX AG, 2017-2018
- Head Non-Financial Credit, Head ESG Credit, Senior
Multi Asset Manager at Deutsche Asset Management,
2007-2017 - Credit Hedge Fonds Manager at Credaris and Tripoint,
2004-2007 - Credit Portfolio Manager at Deutsche Bank and
Deutsche Asset Management, 1998-2004 - Visiting Scholar New York University, 2000
- Graduate in Business Administration, University of
Trier, 1999 - Bank clerk at Deutsche Bank Bremen, 1991-1993
- Member of the UN PRI Fixed Income Working Group
- Speaker at DVFA and Moody‘s Analytics
- Member of the DVFA Sustainable Investing
Commission - Volunteer at CFA Institute
Philipp Heigl
Working student
- With ESG Portfolio Management since September 2025
- After completing his bachelor's degree in business administration in Augsburg, he began his master's degree at EDHEC in corporate finance and banking.
Publications Christoph Klein
DVFA Working Group Sustainability Disclosures, Christoph Klein and Dr. Rupini Rajagopalan
Impact Measurement – An update on data providers and their methodologies
February 2024
https://dvfa.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SDG-Wirkungsmessung-Update-2023.pdf
Christoph Klein contributed to these standards:
THE GLOBAL ESG DISCLOSURE STANDARDS
FOR INVESTMENT PRODUCTS
https://www.esg-portfolio-management.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Global-ESG-Disclosure-Standards-for-Investment-Products-Handbook.pdf
An EU taxonomy alignment case study
SDG Impact Measurement – A Brief Overview of Providers, Methodologies, Data and Output
https://www.dvfa.de/fileadmin/downloads/Verband/Kommissionen/Sustainable_Investing/DVFA_SDG_Impact_Measurement.pdf
“Quantitative Credit Rating Models including ESG factors”, Research Report No. 01/2019 ISSN 1864-0125 Stuttgart, September 2019, University of Stuttgart Faculty of Business and Social Science Institute of Business Administration Department III (Corporate Finance),
https://www.bwi.uni-stuttgart.de/abt3/files/forschung/Forschungsbericht-1-19-Klein.pdf
"Steinhoff (Continued)“ in: Shifting Perceptions ESG, Credit Risks and Ratings, Part 2: Exploring the Disconnects, www.unpri.org, 2018
“Integrating ESG into the Fixed-Income Portfolio” in: CFA Institute Conference Proceedings, Fourth Quarter 2015, Volume 32 Issue 4
„Einsatz von Kreditderivaten im aktiven Portfoliomanagement“ in: Kreditderivate Handbuch für die Bank- und Anlagepraxis, 3. Auflage, Burghof, H.-P., et al., Stuttgart 2015
“Institutionelle Investoren - Motive und Bedeutung” in: Nachhaltige Geldanlagen, M. Faust, S. Scholz, S., Frankfurt 2014
“Reduzierung der Marktvolatilität durch Bondkommunikation”, in Praxishandbuch Debt Relations, Hasler, P. T., et al., Wiesbaden 2013
“Erweiterung der Kreditanalyse um ESG Faktoren” in: Credit Analyst, Everling, O. et al., München 2012
„Analysis and Evaluation of Corporate Bonds” in: The Handbook of Finance, F. J. Fabozzi, Wiley & Sons, Hoboken 2008, volume 2
“Eight Relative Value Opportunities” und “Risk Management for Multistrategy Funds” in: Credit Derivatives Strategies, R. Douglas, Bloomberg Press, New York, 2007
„Analysis and Evaluation of Corporate Bonds” in The Handbook of European Fixed Income Securities, F. J. Fabozzi, M. Choudry, Wiley & Sons, Hoboken 2004