She is responsible for managing assets worth more than $2 trillion, leading Bloomberg News to describe her as “one of the most important people in global finance”.
[6] Here she gained experience in financial services, including spells in New York and Zürich, eventually becoming director, global capital markets.
[3] In this capacity she helped transform the life insurer into a diverse savings, pensions and asset management business.
[1] Starting in the role that July,[1] she took over a division that includes Allianz Global Investors (which manages €338bn of third-party assets[9]); Allianz's US life insurance business;[10] and California-based asset management business PIMCO, which was struggling when she joined, but which she was credited with turning around.
[14] She is also a Member of the Board of Trustees, American Institute of Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University,[15] and a former Commissioner for the UK's Independent Dormant Assets Commission.
[22] Hunt, who describes herself as a “pragmatist”,[20] believes that her gender brings her under special scrutiny: “On the one hand, it is an honour to take on a kind of pioneering role for women, but you are also much more closely monitored.
[2] Hunt, who is married with a son and a daughter,[28] lives mainly in Munich but spends about half of each month visiting Allianz's other operations around the world.