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Domicile | Luxembourg | Legal Structure | SICAV | UCITS | Yes | Inception Date | 21/11/2016 | | Fund Advisor(s) | Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC | Allianz Global Investors GmbH |
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Fund Manager | Michael Verhofen | Manager Start Date | 25/07/2022 | Career Start Year | 2003 |
Education | University of St. Gallen, Ph.D. |
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Biography |
Dr. Michael Verhofen is a Director and a Lead Portfolio Manager at the Advanced Fixed Income Global Allocation – Positioning team at Allianz Global Investors. He has been a portfolio manager at Allianz Global Investors since 2007 and joined the Advanced Fixed Income team in October 2012. He is also a part-time Lecturer in Finance at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland.
Michael Verhofen finished his studies at the University of St. Gallen with a PhD in Finance. He was a Post-Doc at the University of California at Berkeley and has published various articles in leading academic journals (e.g. “Tactical Industry Allocation and Model Uncertainty”, “The Effect of Market Regimes on Style Allocation”, “Testing Conditional Asset Pricing Models using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach”). He has been a CFA charterholder since 2009. |
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Fund Manager | Claudio Marsala | Manager Start Date | 21/11/2016 | Career Start Year | 2003 |
Education | University of Turin, Italy, M.A. | University of Pisa, Italy, B.A. |
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Biography |
Claudio Marsala is Head of Multi Asset US and a Director with Allianz Global Investors, which he joined in 2001. Claudio previously led the quantitative efforts of the firm’s Multi Asset team in Italy, focusing on systematic multi-asset products. Before that, he worked in risk management. Claudio Marsala has worked in the investment-industry since 2001. He has a degree in economics and financial markets from the University of Pisa in Italy, and a master’s degree in quantitative finance from the University of Turin. |
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Fund Manager | Friedrich Kruse | Manager Start Date | 25/07/2022 |
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Biography |
Dr Friedrich Kruse is a portfolio manager in Allianz Global Investors‘ Multi Asset team located in Frankfurt. He is also a member of the Multi Asset Research & Development group. Previously he worked in the locations Tokyo and New York for the firm. Prior to joining Allianz Global Investors in February 2011, he worked as research assistant at the university chair of finance at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management where he obtained his PhD. He has been a PhD visiting scholar at New York University Stern School of Business. His doctoral research is focused on nonlinear predictions, portfolio optimization and discrete time finance. Friedrich has made work experience with Bankhaus Metzler and Dresdner Kleinwort. He holds a master’s degree in business economics from the University of Passau and was a BA visiting student at the University of Lund in Sweden. Friedrich is also a CFA charterholder. |
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Fund Manager | Alistair Bates | Manager Start Date | 21/11/2016 |
Education | University of California–San Diego, B.A. |
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Biography |
Alistair Bates is a vice president and a portfolio manager with Allianz Global Investors, which he joined in 2007. As a member of the Retail Unit Linked team in Frankfurt, he manages multi-asset portfolios for insurance-related retail products. He has expertise in asset allocation, volatility targeting strategies and factor investing. Additionally, he works to enhance the multi-asset team’s technological capabilities through his work in the Multi-Asset Global Investment Engineering group. He was previously a Portfolio Manager and Analyst with the Allianz Global Investors Multi Asset US team in New York, where he had responsibility for target-date portfolios and institutional pension funds. Mr. Bates has a B.A. in economics and political science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is a CFA charter holder. |
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Fund Manager | Mikhail Krayzler | Manager Start Date | 30/01/2021 |
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Biography |
Dr. Mikhail Krayzler is a portfolio manager for Allianz Volatility Strategy Fund and a director within the Multi Asset US team at Allianz Global Investors. In his current role, Mikhail is primarily responsible for developing investment strategies in the liquid alternative space as well as in the asset life area. Mikhail has a longstanding experience in derivatives and quantitative finance both in industry and academia. In his PhD Thesis in mathematical finance he was working on exotic option pricing models. Furthermore, Mikhail holds a M.Sc. in “Finance and Information Management” from the TU Munich and University of Augsburg as well as a B.Sc. in “Applied Mathematics and Informatics” from the Technical University of Nizhny Novgorod. Mikhail authored several publications in renowned professional and academic journals and is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on risk and investment management topics. In 2012 Mikhail was awarded the 1st Gauss-prize of the German Society of Actuaries and the German Association for Insurance and Financial Mathematics for his work on Variable Annuities. |
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Fund Manager | Aaron Dutton | Manager Start Date | 25/07/2022 |
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