Key developments in our company’s history

Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager with over 700 investment professionals in 25 offices worldwide and managing over EUR 500 billion in assets for individuals, families and institutions.

We see investing as a journey and we seek to create value for our clients every step of the way. We invest for the long term, employing our global investment and risk capabilities and sustainable investing expertise to create innovative solutions that anticipate future needs. We believe in solving not selling – our goal is to elevate the investment experience for clients, wherever they are based and whatever their investment objectives.

Since 2012, AllianzGI has operated as a globally integrated investment manager. Its global investment platform brings together professionals from across asset classes and investment styles, enabling them to collaborate on unique insights for clients while maintaining distinct investment processes.

Over this period, AllianzGI has invested in its global active investment offering in line with the needs of its clients, adding Asian fixed income (2012), infrastructure debt (2012), renewables infrastructure equity (2012), emerging market debt (2013), European private debt (2015), global fixed income (2016) and global private debt (2016) solutions. In 2018, Allianz Capital Partners joined the firm.

AllianzGI has established strong, fast-growing alternatives capabilities alongside its equity, fixed income and multi-asset capabilities.

The foundations for AllianzGI today were laid through a series of acquisitions of well-established investment management companies, supported by organic growth.

2000-2001: In the US, the purchase of PIMCO Group (2000), including NFJ Investment Group and Oppenheimer Capital, as well as Nicholas-Applegate (2001). In Europe, Dresdner Asset Management Group, including Dresdner RCM Global Investors, was purchased in 2001.

2009: Integration of Cominvest into Allianz’s German asset management arm.

2011: The integration of Allianz’s asset management businesses (ex PIMCO), following a decade of growth, paved the way for AllianzGI to become a globally integrated investment manager.

1890: Allianz Insurance starts business in Berlin.

1920-1970: By the beginning of the 1920s, it already offered all the property insurance policies typical of the times. Allianz Life was founded in 1922 and soon became one of Germany’s largest life insurers. After reconstruction and the economic miracle in Germany following the end of World War II, Allianz became Europe’s largest insurance company in the early 1970s.

1985: To ensure Allianz’s ability to act internationally, the holding company Allianz AG was created in 1985 (today Allianz SE).

1998: Driven by the globalisation of financial markets, Allianz defined asset management as a core business activity. It started to build a global asset management business called Allianz Asset Management, which would serve external clients as well as Allianz’s own investment needs.