Raimond Maurer is the Chair of Investment, Portfolio Management, and Pension Finance at the Finance Department of the Goethe University of Frankfurt. He is also Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. His research focuses on asset management, life-time portfolio choice, real estate, and pension finance. Previously he visited the Wharton School as a Metzler Vising Professor, and he serves in several professional capacities including the Union Real Estate Investment group, the Society of Actuaries (academic chairman of AFIR), the Association of Certified International Investment Analysts (academic director and member of the International Examination Committee). He earned his Habilitation, PhD, and Diploma in business administration from Mannheim University, and he received an honorary doctorate from the State University of Finance and Economics of St. Petersburg.