Dirk leads the CROCI investment strategies team: CROCI, short for Cash Return On Capital Invested, is a proprietary DWS platform for analysing and valuing companies holistically and for building systematic active equity investment strategies based on this fundamental data. He is also responsible for quantitative cross-asset research topics, including the Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions (LTCMAs) forming the basis of the DWS Long View. Dirk has been with DWS since 2012; prior to joining the company, Dirk was a College Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Dirk holds a DPhil (Doctor of Philosophy) in Mathematics from University of Oxford (Merton College) and Math (Distinction) and BA (First Class) in Mathematics from University of Cambridge (Trinity College)