THE TEAM
A broad and diverse range of products that is constantly aligned with the market requirements takes talent and highly specialized skills, as well as high experience and a dynamic approach.
The Asset Management of the Private Banking Division boasts a highly competent team that makes independent choices, consistently with a very strict investment process.
Fideuram Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking Asset Management's TEAM |
Asset & Insurance Management |
MARCO PIACENTINI
![]() Currently Head of Asset & Insurance Management in Fideuram Asset Management SGR. His career with Fideuram Asset Management began in 2003 in the Asset Allocation team and later he held the position of head of Retail Management. In 1992 he worked for Banco Ambroveneto, first as equity fund manager, then as bond and finally balanced and flexible fund manager. His career began in 1986 as fundamental and technical analyst, later as private account manager and subsequently as advisor.
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Discretionary Portfolio Management |
LUCA NOTO
![]() Joined Fideuram Asset Management SGR in 2019 as Head of Discretionary Portfolio Management.
From 2005 to 2019 he worked in Anima sgr as Senior Portfolio Manager, responsible for global and Euro area bond funds; he managed and helped to manage absolute return, flexible funds and pension funds. Previously, he was a Fund Manager for Ulpia SA, a Suisse based global macro hedge fund. Prior to that, he worked as Economist in Intesa Asset Management and Nextra Investment Management. He holds a degree in Economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and holds a MSc in Economics at Milan's Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi. He was a Visiting Lecturer for Economics at Milan’s Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. |
Italian funds |
LUIGI DEGRADA
![]() Since 2007 in charge of the Italian Fund division of Fideuram Asset Management and manager of the Italian equity market.
Joined Fideuram Asset Management in 1999 as manager for the Italian equity market and in 2002 was appointed head manager for the Italian equity market. He was awarded best triple A manager in the Citywire fund manager rating, being the only one with the top rating among Italian SGRs in all equity and non-equity categories. He holds a degree in Business administration with major in Finance at Milan's Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi. |
Investment Strategy |
LUCA VAIANI
![]() Since 2016 he is Head of Investment Strategy of Fideuram Asset Management SGR.
In 1998 began his career in Sanpaolo IMI Asset Management SGR as Fund Manager. From 2005 he was Head of Active Strategies and Alternative Investments at Fondaco SGR and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Fondaco Lux S.A. From 2012 to 2015 he was Partner e Fund manager responsible for multi-asset strategies at Dalton Strategic Partnership LLP; before joining Fideuram he was Chief investment Officer at Yellowwoods Associates UK Ltd. He holds a master’s degree in Economics at Milan's Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi. |
Discretionary Portfolio Management for ISPB |
SEBASTIANO CHIARANTANO
![]() Since 2021 he is head of Discretionary Portfolio Management for ISPB of Fideuram Asset Management SGR.
His career in Private Banking began in 2002 when he joined the Private Banking division of Banca Intesa Spa as Portfolio Manager. In 2006 he became Coordinator of one of the two Personal Discretionary Portfolio Management teams within the Bank. Since 2014 he has assumed responsibility for the entire Discretionary Portfolio Management unit of Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking SPA. Previously, since 1995, he worked in a Cariplo Spa branch and subsequently at the Mobiliar Intermediation Service and the Finance Service unit of Banca Intesa Spa, where he held various roles both as an operator in the various operational desks and in the sales area for institutional investors. He holds a degree in Economics at Milan’s Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. |
Advisory Private |
LUCA TAVOLARI
![]() Since 2019 he is Head of Advisory Private at Fideuram Asset Management SGR. He joined Fideuram Asset Management in 1997 as Quantitative Analyst and then he became head of Quantitative Analysis team. In 2005 he held the position of joint head of the Multimanager team and in 2011 he became head of Insurance Products. He holds a degree in Economics at Milan’s Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and a MSc in Finance at Pavia's University.
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Portfolio Construction |
RAFFAELE CARACCIOLO
![]() Currently in charge of the Portfolio Construction unit at Fideuram Asset Management SGR. He joined Fideuram Asset Management in 2003 as joint head of the Quantitative Portfolio Management unit. In 1998 began his financial career as a quantitative analyst at Fondigest. In 1999 he was appointed joint head of the Quantitative Portfolio Management unit at Intesa Asset Management, later Nextra Investment Management. He holds a degree cum laude and honors in physics from the University of Turin and a PhD in theoretical physics. He published several papers in international journals.
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Multimanager & Alternative Investments |
LUCA ANZOLA
![]() Currently in charge of the Multimanager & Alternative Investments unit at Fideuram Asset Management SGR. He joined Fideuram Asset Management in 2016 as head of Fund Research and Alternative Investments. From 2005 to 2016 he worked in Aletti Gestielle and where became head of fund research and due diligence in 2008. He has more than 15 years of experience in the fund selection and analysis both for traditional and alternative funds. He’s also Adjunct Professor in Finance and Risk management for MIP Politecnico of Milano and he holds a PHD at Politecnico of Milano with a thesis and dissertation on Alternative Investment funds. He’s CAIA Charterholder and founder of the Italian CAIA Chapter. He graduated in Business Administration with Finance specialization at Milan's Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
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Macroeconomic research |
FLAVIO ROVIDA
![]() Joined Fideuram Asset Management SGR in 2003 as Chief Economist. Previously, he worked in Nextra Asset Management and Comit Asset Management as Chief Economist and before that in Caboto Holding SIM's Office of Studies as Eurozone economist. From 1994 to 1997 was Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford (UK).
He holds a degree in Economic and Social Science at Milan's Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi and a PhD in Economics at the University of Warwick (UK) in 1994. |
Fideuram Asset Management Ireland's TEAM |
Head of Global Bonds |
PAOLO BATORI
![]() Paolo Batori joined Fideuram Asset Management (Ireland) dac in 2016 as Head of Global Bonds. He started his professional experience in 1994 in Banca Caboto, the investment arm of Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, where he became Global Head of Emerging Markets Trading.
After about 12 years of trading experience he moved to research, joining UBS as Head of CEEMEA strategy, before moving to Morgan Stanley where he became Global Head of Emerging Markets strategy. Paolo was ranked among the top analysts in the 10 years of his experience in research. Paolo is a CFA Charterholder. |
Head of Credit |
UMANG VITHLANI
![]() Umang Vithlani is Head of the Credit team at Fideuram Asset Management (Ireland) dac and joined the investment industry in 1999. He worked at Aviva Investors where he set up, launched, and ran the Global Credit Opportunities Fund focusing on cash, credit, and structured credit derivatives markets. Prior to Aviva Investors, Umang worked at Wachovia Bank in credit trading and structuring and before that at ING Wholesale Bank in a credit trading and strategy capacity. He began his career at TD Securities where he was initially part of the Vanilla Credit Proprietary Trading Group and later was a member of the Structured Credit Proprietary Trading team. He holds a BA in Accounting and Law from the University of Manchester and holds the FSA Investment Advisor and Regulation qualification.
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Head of Global Equities |
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Head of Asia & Emerging Markets Equities |
GIOVANNI DA ROS
![]() Giovanni Da Ros has been Head of Asia & Emerging Markets Equities at Fideuram Asset Management (Ireland) dac since 2007, with direct responsibility for the Equity Global Emerging Markets sub-funds and the Flexible Emerging Markets sub-fund. Giovanni graduated from the University of Bologna in 2000 with a degree in Political Economics and later from the Venice International University with a Master’s degree (with honors) in International Economics and Finance. He joined Fideuram in 2001 as an equity analyst. Giovanni now has more than 20 years’ experience covering Asia and emerging markets as an equity analyst and portfolio manager.
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Head of Quantitative Strategies |
SWANN CHMIL
![]() Swann Chmil is Head of Quantitative Strategies at Fideuram Asset Management (Ireland) dac and sub-fund manager. After graduating in 2002 he started working at BNP Paribas in Paris. From 2003 to 2004 he was a quantitative analyst and junior fund manager at CooperNeff, an Alternative Investment Company of the BNP Paribas Group. Before joining Fideuram, he held the position of quantitative analyst in the Investment Banking division of Société Générale in New York from 2005 to 2006. Swann graduated in Engineering "Diplôme Grandes Ecoles" from Centrale Marseille in 2002, he obtained a post-graduate degree in International Finance from the HEC Paris, leading business school, in 2003. He has a post-graduate with honors in statistical modeling and computer science from the Program at Aix Marseille II of Etienne Pardoux. Swann is a CFA Charterholder. He also holds both Certificates from the Andrew Ng’s programs in Machine Learning from Stanford University online and in Deep Learning Specialization from deeplearning.ai, from which he got the status of mentor.
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Head of London Branch |
RENATO ZAFFUTO
![]() Renato Zaffuto has been Head of Fideuram Asset Management (Ireland) dac London Branch since 2020, moving from a role of Head of Investments at Fideuram Investimenti in Italy held from 2016, overseeing processes for Investment Strategy, Asset Allocation and Investment Committees. During this period, he also supervised the development and implementation of successful investment products with special focus on thematic and factor investing space, as well as the development of new product offering for the International Private Banking business based in Switzerland. Before this he had been Head of Equities at FAMI since 2014. Previously Renato was Head of Investment Strategy and Asset Allocation at Banca MPS between 2010 and 2013. Before that he had worked at ABN AMRO Asset Management for nine years, since 2000, first serving as Head of Discretionary Portfolio Management and then as Chief Investment Officer in Milan. He was Head of Equity Mutual Funds at Capitalgest SGR (then under UBI) in 1999, after he had spent five years at IMI-Fideuram Asset Management as Head of Equities and Fund Manager. He started his career in the business consulting field before moving to Unicredit as a financial analyst. Renato obtained a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Business Administration, and an MA (Hons) in Administration, Finance and Control from the University of Pavia. He used to collaborate with the Imperial College Business School. Renato is also an Italian Chartered Accountant and Chartered Auditor.
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Head of Execution Desk |
SEAN CRAIG
![]() Since joining Fideuram Asset Management (Ireland) dac in May 2007, Sean Craig has been Head of the Execution Desk. Between 1992 and 2006, he worked for NCB Stockbrokers in Dublin, holding the positions of Senior Bond Market-Maker and Head of Bond Sales. In between working at NCB and Fideuram, he took a Financial Services career-break for twelve months, working as Racing Manager for the Irish Sailing Association. Previously, between 1990 and 1992, he worked for BCP Stockbrokers in Dublin, where he set up a new Institutional Bond-dealing brokerage. Prior to this, he began his career in London with Daiwa Securities (Europe) where he worked in Bond Sales from 1987 to 1990.
He holds a Batchelor of Business Studies degree from Trinity College Dublin. |