COMINVEST Asset Management GmbHSales Support Officer
Jan. 2008 - May. 2009Emirates
cominvest was the Asset Management division for Commerzbank, the renowned
German Bank. Was only a rep office, all functions took place from headquarters in
Frankfurt, Germany. Was sent to Frankfurt to visit the headquarters and meet
colleagues in person. Trainings arranged for each department in cominvest to get
a clearer understanding of the business background as a whole.
cominvest Dubai was entirely new to the region; main objective and biggest
challenge was to familiarize the region's major institutional players (banks,
investment companies etc) of who cominvest is and its function. Unfortunately
cominvest was not able to sustain as the economic situation in 2009 started to
deteriorate and just before the crash, cominvest was acquired by another German
bank and the office in Dubai shut down.
Day to day responsibilities at cominvest:
• Research and development of databases for major institutional players in the
region: search for institutional players which seemed to have extra cash which
cominvest could manage.
• Particular focus on inter-regional and supranational organizations in the Arab
world
• Regular marketing of performance-relevant data and product-related mail shots to
the entire contact database: weekly emails were sent out to all contacts on the
database highlighting cominvest's performance and achievements. Also internal
and external workshop events by cominvest were organized and invitations
designed and formatted by myself were sent out.
• Handling of day-to-day administrative office duties: printing, binding, payments
• 'Mutual Funds' training- Luxembourg August 2008: was sent to Luxembourg for a
month of training to get a broader idea of the laws and procedures and to meet in
person the teams.