Annelies Peeters has been an institutional senior fund manager at Candriam since 2016. She began her career in 2004 at ING Wholesale Banking in the framework of a management Trainee Programme. Then she became an analyst and project manager for Credit Portfolio Group at ING. She continued as a portfolio manager for acquisition & leveraged finance at Fortis. In 2010 she joined ING Investment Management (currently GSAM) first as a senior liquidity manager for three years, then as an investment manager and a senior investment analyst ABS PP. She holds two master degree’s: one in Financial Management from Vlerick Business School (Belgium) and the other in applied economics corporate finance from Ghent’s University (Belgium). Since 2009 she is a CFA Charterholder and a CAIA Charterholder (2013).