Albin Kakou

Mr. Albin Kakou is Portfolio Manager at Silk Invest Ltd.
He is focused on quantitative models implementation and covers a number of markets in Africa.
He joined Silk Invest in 2013.
Prior to joining Silk Invest, he was at Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking in the Pension Fund Advisory department.
He was modelling European Pension Funds’ assets and liabilities, and providing them with tailored Equities and Fixed Income solutions.
Before that, Mr. Kakou was with HSBC Corporate and Investment Banking in the FX derivatives quantitative team.
He was working on the trading floor pricing FX options and implementing internal models.
He started his professional career as an FX quantitative strategist at Lehman Brothers.
He worked on models designed to assess FX Options volatility for illiquid EM markets.
Mr. Kakou holds a MSc in Quantitative Finance from Ecole Polytechnique in France.