Hock, Christoph

Christoph Hock has taken on the new role of Head of Tokenisation and Digital Assets (PM) at Union Investment on January 1, 2024. In the industry, he is a well-known advocate of blockchain technology and the tokenisation of assets. Christoph has already played a key role in shaping the development of this area within Union Investment in the past. In his role, he is driving the development and expansion of the digital asset strategy in combination with digital payment mechanisms both within the portfolio management business unit and company-wide across the entire value chain. Christoph Hock is responsible for coordinating all activities in portfolio management related to the implementation of tokenisation and digital assets. He represents the portfolio management business unit in Union Investment's Blockchain Steering Committee. Christoph reports directly to the Union Investment Executive Board member responsible for the business unit portfolio management.

Christoph graduated with a bachelor’s degree in banking and obtained an MBA degree from St Galler Business School in 2022. He has more than 25 years of international investment banking, trading and management experience, having worked for companies on the buy- and sell-side.

Christoph joined Union Investment in 2014 as Head of Multi-Asset Trading Desk. Before that he was head of Execution Sales at Barclays Bank. He was founder, partner and co-CEO/ Head of Portfolio Management and Trading at Tungsten Capital Management, a hedge fund company. Prior to this, Christoph was Head of Proprietary Equity Derivatives Desk at J.P. Morgan.