Mark, born 1980 in Moedling, Austria is Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charterholder and Certified Portfolio Manager (CPM). He studied business administration and finance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Following graduation, he participated in various courses in Austrian Economics.

From 1999, Mark worked at Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) as an intern in the Equity Trading division and at the private banking unit of Merrill Lynch in Vienna and Frankfurt.

In 2002, Mark joined Raiffeisen Capital Management. He was ultimately part of the multi-asset strategies team, with total assets under management of more than EUR 5 bn. His responsibilities included fund selection of alternative investments and as well as inflation protection strategies. In this role, he was fund manager of an Inflation Protection Fund as well as fund manager of various alternative investment funds of funds. In 2014 he published a book on Austrian Investing („Österreichische Schule für Anleger – Investieren zwischen Inflation in Deflation“)

His favourite books are ‘Gold Wars’, by Ferdinand Lips, ‘End the Fed’ by Ron Paul and ‘What has Government done to our Money’ by Murray Rothbard. His favourite quote is ‘Out of knowledge of money comes freedom.’