The investment firm, with its strong European ties that go back more than two centuries, is returning to Frankfurt.

J Stern & Co, an investment partnership, has returned to Frankfurt with a new office, 220 years after the S H Stern merchant bank was founded.

The firm, headquartered in London, also has offices in New York, Zurich and Malta. 

Andreas Krebs (pictured) has been named head of Germany, formerly with Mandarine Gestion, where he was managing director in Paris and Frankfurt, and a partner. Prior to this, he worked at Dresdner Asset Management and Commerzbank Asset Management, working in Frankfurt and Dublin. In total, he has more than 25 years’ experience in sales, client relationship management and marketing to institutional investors.

Krebs sits on the board of charities and foundations in Frankfurt, including the Bürgerverein Demokratieort Paulskirche e.V.

“In Frankfurt there are still many memories of our family history, like the Theodor Stern Foundation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, or the Theodor Stern Kai on the banks of the River Main,” Jérôme Stern, managing partner, said.

“As an independent asset management partnership with a long-term investment horizon, we want to become a trusted partner for German investors and sustainably build our German distribution and client management team. We see significant potential in Germany, working on behalf of long-term investors in complete alignment with our partners and my family,” Stern said. 

J Stern & Co manages more than €2.1 billion ($2.5 billion) on behalf of institutions, foundations, families and other long-term investors, through a focused range of specialist investment strategies.

See this interview with Christopher Rossbach, chief investment officer, in November last year.