Mr. Aki Kostiander
Portfolio Manager/Managing Director (MSc Finance, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki/Vaasa), has over 20 years of professional experience from Investing and the asset management industry. He has held many executive level and senior partner positions in more than half a dozen different organisations (e.g. Gyllenberg/SEB, Mandatum and Pohjola Asset Management). He has besides many portfolio management duties been the managing director of two mutual fund companies and two asset management companies. During the whole career he has managed different types of portfolios ranging from private individual portfolios to mutual funds. He has covered most types of asset classes during that time but the emphasis has been on global real assets (REITs) for the last ten years. Aki has founded and managed the UB REIT funds since inception.
Mr. Pekka Niemelä
Portfolio Manager (MSc Economics, Helsinki School of Economics), has over 25 years of professional experience from the asset management business and the finance industry. He started his career as a sell side analyst and then after a few years of experience moved to the buy side. He has worked as a buy side analyst and managed a number of stock portfolios and mutual funds over the years (e.g. in the Pohjola group and Mandatum Asset Management). Since 2004 he has been focusing on European listed stocks and global infrastructure companies. Pekka has founded and managed the UB Infrastructure mutual funds since inception.