Sunday, July 29, 2007

Allianz leveraging on its capital markets expertise

Allianz's business as an international financial services provider involves active use of and interaction with the capital markets for itself and for clients.
Allianz Group
Frankfurt, Jul 18, 2007
Allianz invests 200 million euros of its own money newly on the capital markets every day, and in the last 20 years made a substantial part of its operating profit through capital markets driven investments. The lifeblood of Allianz's business in insurance, asset management and banking, and the solutions it offers clients in these segments, are strongly connected to the capital markets.

This was the starting point of Allianz's press workshop held on July 10 in Frankfurt. One aim of the workshop was to show how Allianz is responding to the challenges and opportunities surrounding its relationship with the capital markets. The four speakers were Allianz SE board member Paul Achleitner, CEO of Dresdner Kleinwort Stefan Jentzsch, CEO of Allianz Global Investors Europe Elizabeth Corley and Thomas Puetter, managing director of Allianz Alternative Assets Holding.
At the press workshop (from left): Stefan Jentzsch, Elizabeth Corley, Thomas Puetter and Paul Achleitner
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Examples of Allianz's relationship with the capital markets
Allianz has roughly 1.3 trillion euros in total assets under management, of which some 780 billion are third party assets under management invested for clients on the equity and fixed income markets.

PIMCO’s Total Return Fund is the largest actively managed fixed income fund in the world, with assets exceeding 75 billion US dollars.

Dresdner Kleinwort carries out an average of 95,000 capital markets trades globally per day across all product areas (two million trades per month) for internal and external customers.

Allianz Alternative Assets has nearly 30 billion euros under management, including private equity and infrastructure related investments.

Over the last years, Allianz Risk Transfer has securitized more than one billion US dollars in insurance risk via the capital markets for investors.

The group's competencies in capital markets are central to its ability to both manage risks - whether in motor insurance, natural disasters, demography, longevity or as a lender of credit to banking clients - as well as to optimize capital returns. For example, each day, Allianz earns its customers and shareholders roughly 50 million euros in interest and dividends from its own investments related to the insurance business

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