Todor Ristov

Todor Ristov, CAIA, is an Amsterdam-based investment professional at Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management (Kempen Capital Management), where he is Senior Quant Portfolio Manager for Global Listed Infrastructure. He joined the firm's Listed Infrastructure team in October 2019 and has since held portfolio-manager roles across real assets, listed infrastructure and non-listed real estate, and co-manages the Kempen (Lux) Global Listed Infrastructure fund. He holds an MSc in Finance from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), an MSc in Real Estate Finance from the University of Amsterdam, the CAIA charter, and describes his focus as the intersection of infrastructure investing and machine learning (Python, SQL, Tableau). A Todor Ristov represented North Macedonia at the IMO in 1999-2001; whether that contestant is the same individual is not established by the sources reviewed.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management (Kempen Capital Management) is a Dutch asset manager/private bank (Van Lanschot Kempen, founded 1737, Euronext: VLK). The profiled Amsterdam individual holds documented, index-listed portfolio-manager roles there: Senior Quant Portfolio Manager, Global Listed Infrastructure (2023-present), Quant Portfolio Manager, Global Listed Infrastructure (2021-2023), Portfolio Manager Real Assets (2019-2021) and Junior Portfolio Manager, Non-Listed Real Estate (2016-2018). Independent fund documents name Todor Ristov as a manager of the Kempen (Lux) Global Listed Infrastructure fund since 1 Sept 2021 and as joining the Listed Infrastructure team in Oct 2019. Employer classification: an asset manager whose equity and infrastructure strategies are described as data-driven/quantitative (not a market-maker, prop or hedge fund). Identity caveat: the employment is well documented for the Amsterdam individual; the link between that person and the IMO 2000/2001 Macedonian contestant rests only on a shared name and Macedonian origin, not on a single source tying the two together.
• A Todor Ristov represented North Macedonia (then FYR Macedonia) at the IMO in 1999, 2000 and 2001, earning bronze medals in 2000 (12 pts, rank 204) and 2001 (17 pts, rank 140); he is listed in the country's IMO Hall of Fame.
• Employer classification: Van Lanschot Kempen's equities team describes combining 'quantitative analysis with qualitative insights', and the firm's Listed Real Estate strategy is run on a 'systemic, risk-aware and data-driven approach' -- supporting that the 'Quant Portfolio Manager' titles reflect genuine data-driven portfolio roles, though the firm is an asset manager rather than a proprietary trading or market-making operation.
• Career timeline (index-sourced, LinkedIn): Senior Quant PM Global Listed Infrastructure 2023-present -> Quant PM Global Listed Infrastructure 2021-2023 -> PM Real Assets (Listed Infrastructure & Non-Listed Real Estate) 2019-2021 -> Junior PM Non-Listed Real Estate 2016-2018; earlier roles at Techno Shop (Gevgelija, Macedonia) and an internship in corporate-banking underwriting at Stopanska banka AD Skopje.
• Co-manages the Kempen (Lux) Global Listed Infrastructure fund alongside Jags Walia (manager since Feb 2019) and Ludovico Cappelli; Ristov listed as manager from 1 Sept 2021.
• Education (index-sourced, LinkedIn): MSc Finance, Bayes Business School / formerly Cass (2013-2014); MSc Real Estate Finance, University of Amsterdam Business School (2015-2016); 'Beyond Smart Cities' short course, MIT (2020); 'Building on Talent' leadership programme, IMD (2019); plus Data Science & Machine Learning Academy (2024-2025) and Front-End Development Academy (2021-2022) at Brainster.
• Self-titled 'Investment Professional | AI & Machine Learning in Finance | Infrastructure & Real Assets | Python, SQL, Tableau', and posts on LinkedIn about agentic AI, LLMs and investment management -- consistent with positioning at the intersection of infrastructure investing and machine learning rather than pure discretionary research.
• Also placed 2nd for North Macedonia at the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad 2001, per a BMO results summary.
• Holds the CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) charter; additional certificates listed include AI Agents in Finance, Python Data Structures and SQL for Data Science.