Eli Koen

Portfolio Manager, Emerging Market Impact Equities

London, United Kingdom

English, Turkish

Eli is a senior portfolio manager in the Emerging Market Impact Equity team and co-portfolio manager of UBP’s Positive Impact Emerging Equity strategy. He joined UBP in 2010.

Eli has over 25 years’ investment experience and specialises in emerging equities. Previously he was the co-head of Emerging Europe Equities at Fortis Investments in London where he managed the Fortis L Fund Equity Turkey from inception in 2005 until 2010 and co-managed the Fortis L Fund Equity Europe Emerging during the same period. Prior to fund management, Eli was a research analyst in emerging markets at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers in London and Finansbank in Istanbul between 1993 and 2001. 

He holds a master’s degree in International Economics and Finance from The Brandeis University at Waltham, Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Bogazici University in Istanbul.

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25.08.2024

The cost of transition: what are the implications of tariffs?

In a bid to preserve their own industries and reduce their dependency on China, the US and EU recently raised trade barriers against Chinese companies, sparking concerns about the cost and pace of the West’s energy transition. The debate is complex, and environmental and social externalities are a crucial part of it.