Brief introduction

Gerald Hörhan, born on October 28, 1975 in Vienna, is an investor from Austria. As a graduate of the Mathematics and Statistics route at Harvard, he’s recognized as “Investment Punk”.

Early life

He have become recognized for his first ee-e book Investment Punk, a bestseller in Germany and Austria. Hörhan could be very frequently a visitor of German and Austrian tv programs, wherein he explains the way to make investments your cash and turn out to be a multimillionaire. His rebellious picture and information make him an odd person. Before he changed into 30, he have become a millionaire and owns extra than two hundred residences in the biggest towns in Germany, however additionally in Vienna in Austria. Hörhan finished the Phi Beta Kappa route in 1997 and studied at Harvard in 1998, wherein he studied arithmetic and information earlier than receiving his degree with very honorable mention.

Career

He labored for 365 days as an funding banker at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York and as a control representative at McKinsey & Co. in Frankfurt am Main. He suggested numerous groups including Goldentime at the IPO. He additionally controlled the worldwide business enterprise Pallas Capital in Vienna. Gerald Hörhan additionally labored on Wall Street, wherein he completed a complete transaction of 1 billion euros. His ee-e book Investment Punk made him recognized to the German and Austrian audience. Hörhan has been a visitor on diverse tv structures on account that 2010: for instance on SWR, on NDR / Radio Bremen or on ZDF with Peter Hahne. From 2011 he taught on the economic college with Harald Psaridis. On January 31, 2013, withinside the very famous Galileo software in Germany, he changed into given a complete document on “How to Get Rich Despite the Crisis”.

He looks after his punk appearance and provocative style, which could be very uncommon for someone with the sort of stage of obligation and education. Hörhan additionally based his personal college, “Investment Punk Academy”, wherein he teaches individuals the way to get rich. For Hörhan, the center instructions are the largest losers in monetary development. Average profits personnel eat thru money owed that result in ruin. This development, which changed into first recognized withinside the USA, changed into accompanied through Austria and Germany. This fashion brought about the 2007 crisis.

He explains his conviction in a completely provocative manner that humans lack monetary training. According to him, younger humans look at history, poetry and artwork and overlook finances, which dangers them and does now no longer permit them economic independence: for instance to stay from passive profits.

Gerald Hörhan is an unbiased funding banker and has been the proprietor and handling director of the Danube Advisory Group on account that 2003. Previously, he labored as a statistical assistant at Harvard University. Gerald Hörhan changed into additionally a representative at Monitor, a merger and acquisition analyst at JP Morgan New York and a representative for company finance initiatives at MCKinsey & Co. Frankfurt in addition to a companion and co-proprietor of the Qino Group London / Zug-CH / Vienna and a companion in a Swiss non-public fairness Funds.

Gerald Hörhan additionally fulfills many different vital functions. Among different things, he’s co-proprietor and member of the Board of Directors of Holding Pallas Capital AG, member of the supervisory board and constituent board of diverse groups, co-proprietor of one in every of the biggest ee-e book publishers in Austria and actual property investor in Germany. At the Math Olympiads, he gained gold in Austria and silver worldwide. Gerald Hörhan has additionally posted diverse guides in German and English. Mr. Hörhan additionally offers lectures on the Vienna University of Economics and Business, on the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and on the German Academic Foundation.

Career highlights

Hörhan acquired a bad reaction in a evaluate through the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, wherein writer Philippe Kron wrote that the understanding of his ee-e book may be saved in a ten-web page folder. In his very last assessment, he referred to as Herkhan’s paintings a ee-e book for masochists. Kristof Kapalschinski, a reviewer of the Handelsblatt, shows that the reader of the ee-e book hopes to turn out to be a sufferer of satire. In his opinion, the ee-e book is much less offensive to the center magnificence than to the intelligentsia. The response withinside the Austrian media changed into milder. The each day newspaper “Die Presse” interviewed the writer considerably at the theses of his ee-e book. In the Wiener Zeitung, Christian Ortner defined Hörhan’s 2d ee-e book “Gegengift” as an effortlessly understandable, extraordinarily beneficial ee-e book, mainly for economically unknown readers. The recommendation changed into credible and trustworthy, despite the fact that the ee-e book changed into written in a darkish style.

For his present day publication, Hörhan changed into seeking out new allies, particularly the Austrian Economic Center, that is presently vastly selling his ee-e book Null Bock. Franz Wolf Wolfart, General Director of Novomatic, is a member of the Scientific Council of the Liberal Think Tank. This is an offshoot of Frederick A. v. Hayek Institute. Barbara Colm, former marketing consultant to the FPÖ in Innsbruck, is an indispensable a part of this “institution”. Of route Herkhan has tailored the “message” of his new ee-e book to what his buddies in commercial enterprise want to hear: “At the instant we’ve got a completely uncommon redistribution: from“ hard-operating to lazy ”and from“ terrible hard-operating ”to“ badly lazy ”. This is risky due to the fact productiveness is now no longer rewarded.