Management & portfolio managers

Péter Simon
CEO

Mr Simon graduated from the Collage of Foreign Trade in 1994 and from the University of Economics Budapest with a degree in finance in 1997. From 1995 he worked as a financial advisor at Dunainvest, from 1999 as a bond portfolio manager at CIB Investment Fund Management, later as the deputy manager of wealth management. He joined OTP Fund management in 2004 as a business development manager. In 2007 he became the head of business development and a member of the management board. His area of responsibility is the management of the product development and the professional supervision of subsidiaries. In 2008 he obtained CFA qualification and in 2009 he completed the leadership training program of Common Purpose Meridián. Since 2011 he mentors disadvantaged students in collaboration with Romaster Foundation. CEO of the Raiffeisen Investment Fund Management since 1st October 2020.

Zoltán Váradi, CFA
Head of Mid-Office, deputy CEO

Mr Váradi graduated from the Janus Pannonius University of Pécs with a degree in monetary regulation. After obtaining the degree in business administration from the fall of 1992 he spent a year studying portfolio management in Leuven, Belgium. From 1995 he worked at Investor MKB Investment Fund Management then as equity analyst at Daewoo Securities. In 1998 he joined Rabobank Investment, where he worked as analyst and later as an investment fund manager. He obtained EFFAS degree of Nemzetközi Bankárképző in 1998/1999 and CFA qualification in 2007. In 2000 he took over the asset management of equities at OTP Securities. From March 2001, he performed asset management tasks at Europool Investment Management Rt. He joined Raiffeisen Investment Fund Management in September 2001, where he worked as equity asset manager and from 2020 as the head of mid-office. Deputy CEO since 2009. 

András Pintér
Chief Investment Officer 

Mr. Pintér graduated from Corvinus University of Budapest in finance at the Faculty of Business Administration, while also studying as a scholarship student at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. Since 2004, he has been involved in investments, first as an analyst and then from 2006 as a portfolio manager. As an asset manager, he initially focused on Central European regional equity investments, and later, at Budapest Asset Management and its successor MBH Asset Management, he managed mixed and absolute return strategies alongside equity funds for over fifteen years and was also responsible for the asset allocation of pension fund portfolios. Since early 2020, he has worked at these asset management firms as the head of the investment area, serving as investment director. Among investment analyst exams, he holds the European Union EFFAS and VAP certifications, and he regularly participates as a speaker at domestic economic conferences. Since April 2026, he has been the Chief Investment Officer at Raiffeisen Asset Management.

Ádám Vári, CFA
portfolio manager

Mr. Vári has been a member of the RIF portfolio manager team since January 2025. Ádám joined the team with eight years of experience in international asset management. He worked a Senior Portfolio Manager position in London and managed convertible bond funds until 2024, first at NN Investment Partners and then at Goldman Sachs Asset Management following its acquisition, where he was responsible for managing around USD 2 billion in investor assets. Prior to that, from 2016, he worked in NN's internship program in areas such as discretionary asset management, high-yield bond analysis, and equity research. He completed his higher education at the University of Szeged in finance and accounting and then earned his Master's in Finance & Investments at the Rotterdam School of Management. Additionally, Ádám has been a CFA Charterholder since 2020.

Benedek Vörös, CFA
portfolio manager

Mr. Vörös earned his economics degree at the University of Pécs and his MSc in Statistics at UCL, and he is a CFA charterholder. He started his career at Barclays Capital in London, where he helped launch the quantitative investment management division. Between 2010 and 2016, he worked at JP Morgan in the equity derivatives and commodity derivatives departments as a derivatives structurer and a market risk manager. After returning home, he spent a year and a half at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant, then joined Generali Asset Management in September 2018, where he managed absolute return and emerging market portfolios. Since 2021, he has been back in London working at S&P as an investment strategist, and he joined the Raiffeisen Asset Management team in May 2026. He is the portfolio manager of the Raiffeisen Etalon Fund.

István Borboly
portfolio manager

Mr. Borboly graduated in 2022 from Corvinus University of Budapest with a degree in Finance and Accounting. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in Finance at Eötvös Loránd University. Between 2019 and 2022, he was a member of the Heller Farkas College of Advanced Studies, where he had the opportunity to participate in organizing professional conferences and stock market competitions. From 2021 to 2022, he worked as a financial intern at Morgan Stanley. He joined Raiffeisen Investment Fund Management in June 2022 as a portfolio manager intern and has been strengthening the team as a junior portfolio manager since 2024.

Ádám Pödör
Head of real estate investment

Mr. Pödör completed his studies of economics at the Faculty of Commerce, Hospitality and Tourism of the Budapest College of Economics. Between 2009 and 2017 he performed retail, office, and residential property management tasks at Cushman & Wakefield Asset Services. Since 2017, he has been the real estate asset manager of Raiffeisen Investment Fund Management, where he participated in reforming the internal processes of the Real Estate Fund and worked together with external colleagues dealing with management, operation, and leasing. From April 2023, he is the head of the real estate investment area. Mr Pödör is a committed supporter of sustainable development, energy-saving and environmentally friendly real estate management.

Márton Laczkó
property portfolio manager

Mr. Laczkó graduated as a settlement engineer from the Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture of Szent István University. He joined the real estate team of Raiffeisen Investment Fund Management in 2017, where he currently manages the office and industrial real estate portfolio of Raiffeisen Real Estate Fund. Before this, he performed asset management tasks for a year and a half in the team of DAV Management (a subsidiary of Raiffeisen) at the third phase of Premier Outlet in Biatorbágy and was an active participant in the sale of the property. Previously, from 2013, as a property manager of the international real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield, he was responsible for managing the Hungarian real estate portfolio of JP Morgan (with 52,000 sq.m. of office rental space). Prior to that, he worked for 4 years in the management of residential and commercial properties for foreign investors.

János Dócs 
technical property manager

Mr Dócs graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology in 1988, and then obtained a building energy expert qualification as part of postgraduate training. At the beginning of his professional career, he gained experience as a support structure designer, contractor, project manager and technical inspector in Hungary and abroad, primarily as an employee of international construction industry players. As a project manager for BECCO Ltd. in the construction of the Telki residential park and the Atrinova office building, for DuPont Conoco Kft. in the construction of the JET retail network, then for 15 years as the technical director and then managing director of the real estate development company Bernheim Comofi Ltd.. office buildings, such as the Szépvölgyi Business Park and played a role in the development of the Kálmán Imre Office Building. He joined the Raiffeisen Real Estate Fund at the end of 2018 as technical property manager.

Bálint Törő
strategic procurement

Mr. Törő graduated in 2005 from the Budapest Polytechnic with a specialization in economics. He gained professional experience from 2006 as a procurement associate at DKG-EAST Zrt. In 2023, he joined Raiffeisen Investment Fund Management as a strategic buyer, having previously held a similar position at OTP. He is currently responsible for the procurement of the Real Estate Fund, overseeing compliance with the procurement policy of the Real Estate Fund Manager, managing relationships with external and internal partners, and coordinating procurement activities.

Károly Gyetvai
head of sales support

Mr Gyetvai graduated from the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2007 with a specialization in marketing and marketing communication. In 2008, he joined the team of OTP Fund Management, where he initially worked as a marketing associate and then as a marketing consultant. He joined Raiffeisen Investment Fund Management in 2018 as head of sales support. His responsibilities include the creating and implementing the communication and sales strategy, the coordination of the external and internal communication and marketing activities of the Fund Management, as well as the sales support of the distribution networks. He is the winner of the Raiffeisen Award of Excellence 2022 in the category of retail employee of the year.