Horia Braun-Erdei, General Manager and President of the Board of Directors of Erste Asset Management Romania, is one of the speakers of MIRSANU SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE 2025.
Erste Asset Management Romania is part of Erste Group and is the largest asset management company in Romania, having over 5.5 billion RON assets under management through 9 Open-end investment funds registered in Romania and discretionary portfolios management. Moreover, the company offers to Romanian customers a range of over 40 Open-end investment funds managed internationally by its parent company Erste Asset Management GmbH.
Horia joined Erste Asset Management Romania in the current position as of November 2019 and Erste Group in 2017, when he was appointed Chief Economist and Head of Research within BCR, the largest Romanian bank at the time. Before that, Horia spent 9 years in NN Group (formerly part of ING Group), where he held various management roles, including that of Investments Head within ING Pensions, the market leader in private pension funds management in Romania, that of General Manager and Chief Investment Officer of the local branch of NN Investment Partners, as well as a stint filling the role of Chief Investment Officer of NN Investment Partners in the Czech Republic, as an asset manager with over 4 billion EUR of assets under management. Horia’s career began within the National Bank of Romania, where he held positions in various departments specialized in macroeconomics and monetary analysis and where he also acquired his first experience in management as head of departments within the newly founded Macroeconomic Modelling and Forecasting Division.
Throughout his career in the financial industry, Horia was involved in a number of important projects among which: the setting up of the required economic modeling, analysis and forecasting framework for the Romanian central bank’s adoption of the inflation targeting monetary policy regime under which it has been operating since 2005, the setting up from scratch of the investment department of the ING Pension Fund, the launch and the bank distribution of the first mutual funds of ING Group invested in the Romanian market, the centralization of the management of insurance and mutual fund portfolios from 4 countries (Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania) on a common, state-of-the-art platform.
On October 2, 2025, the MIRSANU.RO transaction journal is hosting MIRSANU SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE 2025, an exclusively ONLINE event for business leaders, entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, advisors and other important stakeholders involved in sustainability, investments and real economy.
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