Corporate Treasury & Balance Sheet Management in volatile markets
In the fifth episode of the 2026 edition of Gamma Explains, we explore the topic of Corporate Treasury and Balance Sheet management in volatile markets – essential functions and tools for the successful management of liquidity, risks, as well as assets and liabilities for any type of company.
Against this backdrop, Andrea Beltratti (Chairman of the EFG Gamma Foundation and Full Professor at Bocconi University) and Kurt Haueter (Head of Global Markets & Treasury, EFG International) define what the corporate treasury function does and what role treasury and balance sheet play within a company’s actual operations. They also discussed how corporate treasury and balance sheet should be managed in volatile markets in order to support a company’s financial health as well as sustainable growth. They also emphasised that a successful company not only makes great products and services, but it also manages financial resources in a way to balance the short-term need and the long-term growth in the interest of both shareholders and stakeholders.
Andrea Beltratti
Andrea Beltratti is Full Professor in the Department of Finance at Bocconi University, Academic Director of the Executive Master in Finance – EMF at SDA Bocconi School of Management, Chairman of Revo Insurance and Chairman of the EFG Gamma Foundation.
He had been Chairman of Eurizon Capital until 2024 and of the Management Board of Intesa Sanpaolo until May 2013.
Andrea has a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University, where he wrote a dissertation on financial market volatility under the supervision of Prof. Robert Shiller.
He has been member of the Board of Directors of EFAMA (European Fund and Asset Management Association), President of the FEDUF (Fondazione per Educazione Finanziaria), and part of Investment Committees of institutional investors.
Kurt Haueter
Kurt Haueter is the Head of Global Markets & Treasury and member of the Global Business Committee of EFG International since 01 January 2020. In addition, he is a member of the Executive Committee of EFG Bank AG, EFG International’s wholly owned subsidiary in Switzerland.
Kurt Haueter has been with EFG since 2009 and has an in-depth knowledge of the bank and its businesses, as well as extensive industry expertise. He has held the role of Global Head of Treasury & ALM since November 2016. From 2011 to 2016, he was Head of Financial Markets and prior to that served as Head of Treasury at EFG Financial Products (Leonteq) and EFG Bank. Before joining EFG, he worked as Senior Treasury Officer at Swiss Re in Zurich and London from 2000 to 2009.
Kurt Haueter is a Swiss citizen and was born in 1972. He holds an Executive Master in Corporate Finance from the Institute for Financial Services of the University of Applied Sciences of Central Switzerland, and a BSc in Business Administration from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
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