Biography
Manuel Puerta da Costa graduated in Economics in 1987. In 1991 he completed his Master’s degree in International Finance at the FEP and in 1995 he obtained his CFA – Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute. After four years teaching at FEP and working at CISF and BPA, he moved to Madrid to develop an Iberian project in the capital markets. The following year he joined BPI-Banco Português de Investimento, where he has held various technical, managerial and administrative positions since 1992 in the areas of Equity Markets & Research, Brokerage, Investment Management for Private Banking and Real Estate Fund management and Advisory. He is currently a director of BPI Gestão de Ativos with responsibility for Real Estate Management, a position he has held since 2008. At the same time, in 2015 he became President of APAF – Associação Portuguesa de Analistas Financeiros (Portuguese Association of Financial Analysts) and then joined the Board of Directors of EFFAS – European Federation of Financial Analyst Societies, becoming Treasurer from 2020. He was a member of APFIPP’s Board of Directors until 2022 and is the Chairman of the association’s Real Estate Investment Funds Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the Forum for Competitiveness and the Financial Analysts’ representative on the Profession Council of the Economists’ Association.