Markus Brück joined Metzler Bank as Senior Equity Portfolio Manager in 2002. His primary responsibility is the management of Eastern European portfolios. Before joining Metzler, he had various fund and portfolio management responsibilities at Credit Suisse Asset Management, Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Deka Investment Management GmbH; and WestLB Capital Management GmbH, Düsseldorf/Germany. Markus Brück holds a degree in economics from the Justus Liebig University of Gießen/Germany.

Simone Beer is a senior Eastern European equity portfolio manager and a member of the Equity Strategy Team.She is partially responsible for managing the Metzler/Payden European Emerging Markets Fund.She also manages a dedicated Russian equity fund. Prior to joining Metzler,Simone worked at the product development department of Deutsche Börse. Simone also worked as European Equity analyst at CAI Analyses, an advisor to the long/short Copernicus European hedge fund. Prior to that, she worked at DWS Fund Management‟s emerging market equity area, focusing on Latin America, India and the global Emerging Markets. Ms.Beer holds a degree in economics from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany. She has also successfully completed the German Society of Investment Professionals‟Certification program.