Markus Barth, Anatase

Markus Barth, CFA is Founder and CEO of Anatase, a specialised index consulting organisation, providing rules-based investment strategy design, index development and back testing services. He has developed more than 400 proprietary indices, including, in 2007, one of the first to overlay low carbon emissions to a proprietary Deutsche Bank valuation methodology, and, in 2014, an index which applied a next-generation ESG overlay to systematic active value funds at DWS Asset Management. More recently, Barth designed the world’s first water risk measurement methodology and created the ‘Water Footprint’, which was incorporated into his design of the Thomas Schumann Water Security Indices.