Rico Höntschel

Rico Höntschel is Head of Volatility Strategies and Digital Assets at FERI, a position he has held since June 2023. In this role he reports to Carsten Hermann, who as Managing Director of FERI Trust carries overall responsibility for the firm's volatility concepts. His mandate covers the Volatility Strategies and Digital Assets department, though the specific products or initiatives he directly manages beyond this scope are not stated in available sources.

Höntschel has been with FERI since 2008, joining initially as Senior Risk Manager at Feri Institutional Advisors GmbH. From July 2016 to June 2023 he led the firm's Risk Management Overlay function. Prior to his time at FERI, he held risk management roles at Conservative Concept Portfolio Management AG from 2003 to 2008 and again from 2011 to 2015, including as Leitender Risikomanager. Between those two tenures he served as Director Risk Management at FERI Trust GmbH for five months in early 2016. Earlier in his career he worked as an application developer at Direcct AG from 2000 to 2003, and held student positions at Fraunhofer IGD and Garban Intercapital. He holds a degree in Wirtschaftsinformatik with a focus on risk management from AKAD University, completed between 2003 and 2006.