Mr. Vlaić was born in 1967 in Ljubljana where he graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 1993 he is employed as a teacher of physics in Secondary school of chemistry in Ljubljana. In 1994 he transfers to brokerage house Ilirika, where he stared as a broker, and later becomes portfolio manager and trade manager. In 1996 he moves to Zagreb where he becomes the first fund manager in the Republic of Croatia in the first Croatian investment fund Kaptol Proinvest. Later on he works as a trade manager in IB Austria, upon which he transfers to the position of fund manager at the Central National Fund, a private investment fund. In 2001 he becomes the management Board president of Adriatic Invest d.o.o. for managing Mandatory Blue Pension Fund. In late 2003 Erste MRF and Helios MRF are merged with the Blue Fund and the fund changes its name to Erste Blue Mandatory Pension Fund, and the management company changes to Erste d.o.o. for management of mandatory pension fund.
Petar Vlaić was a long year journalist, associate for the Ljubljana daily paper Delo with the subjects of Croatian capital market, he gave lectures at a number of financial conferences, he attended a number of expert seminars in Croatia and abroad, and during the period he worked at the company for managing the privatization investment fund he was a member of several supervisory Boards in Croatian companies (Brodospas, Laguna Novigrad, TPK Orometal, Adriatica Poreč, Chromos boje i lakovi...).
He holds a license for performing broker activities and portfolio management in Ljubljana, a license for trading in the derivatives market in Ljubljana, a license to perform the activities of an authorized broker in Zagreb and a license of an authorised pension fund manager.
CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) program organized by an American Association of Investment Professionals ICFA.