As Head of Infrastructure Investments at Swiss Life Asset Managers, Mr. Manser is responsible for a team of 16 investment professionals and assets under management of over €5.6 billion. Prior to joining Swiss Life Asset Managers in 2012, he was a member of the Global Executive Committee of AXA Investment Managers, where he ran the firm’s $6 billion hedge-fund business. Before that, he was Head of Alternative Investments at Winterthur Group and Credit Suisse Financial Services, where he was responsible for a $5 billion private-equity and hedge-fund portfolio. He started his career at UBS as a fixed-income portfolio manager.

Mr. Manser is a board member of German TSO Amprion and Cellnex Switzerland. He holds a master’s degree in physics from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and is a CFA charterholder.