TEAM

CHRISTOPH FRANK

Christoph Frank is managing partner of pfp Advisory GmbH and as such is responsible for advising the DWS Concept Platow and pfp Advisory Aktien Mittelstand Premium. Frank has managed the DWS Concept Platow since its launch in 2006, since 2016 together with his business partner Roger Peeters in pfp Advisory GmbH, which was founded in 2016. Like pfp Advisory Aktien Mittelstand Premium, which was launched in 2021, the fund is managed using an investment strategy developed and constantly refined by Frank. Frank studied economics with a focus on capital market research at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. After graduating with honors, he qualified as an international investment analyst (CIIA). Frank now has more than 25 years of practical experience in the capital market. In his private life, Frank, who was born in Munich in 1972, is a fan of FC Bayern Munich.

Roger Peeters has been a managing partner of pfp Advisory GmbH since it was founded in 2016 and as such is responsible for advising on the DWS Concept Platow and pfp Advisory Aktien Mittelstand Premium. Peeters has more than 25 years of professional experience in the Frankfurt financial centre with a focus on German equities. For example, Peeters was the sole director of Close Brothers Seydler Research AG for seven years before he integrated the award-winning team, which had grown to over 20 employees, into the French private bank Oddo. Prior to this, in 2005, as Head of Stock Market Reaction at the specialised service Platow, he designed the DB Platinum III Platow (later DWS Concept Platow) fund together with Deutsche Bank. Peeters studied economics and business administration in Bonn and Cologne in the 1990s and has been a certified CEFA investment analyst since 2002. Peeters has been a member oft he board of  the DVFA professional association since 2018 and Deputy Chairman of the Board as of 2024. In his private life, the Rhinelander, who was born in 1973 and has six children, is a fan of 1. FC Köln and keeps fit by running.

Simone Steymann is assistant to the management of pfp Advisory GmbH. As such, she is jointly responsible for the organization and other activities except fund advisory. Born in Hamburg, she joined pfp Advisory in July 2018 and has twenty years of experience as assistant to the Management of various financial ínstitutions. Her last position was in Private Banking at Oddo BHF Bank. Prior to that, the trained foreign language secretary worked as assistant to the board of directors at Close Brothers Seydler Research AG, Close Brothers Bank AG and Deutsche Boerse Group, among others. Privately, Steymann, born in 1977, enjoys spending time with her husband and two children in the Austrian province of Carinthia.