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Allianz Global Investors Selects thinkFolio Managed Service to Drive Global Fixed Income Platform Evolution
12 August 2020
Allianz Global
Investors, a leading active asset manager, has adopted IHS
Markit's leading investment management platform, thinkFolio,
as the strategic decision support solution for its global fixed
income business. The firm will leverage thinkFolio as a managed
service hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
Allianz GIobal Investors' fixed income team, responsible for
managing EUR 193 billion, has broadened and deepened its
capabilities significantly over many years and recently evolved its
business model into an integrated, global structure. As part of
this evolution, the organization is embarking on an ambitious plan
to enhance and enrich the decision support platform and toolkit for
its global portfolio management and cross-functional investment
teams.
thinkFolio will provide Allianz Global Investors with enhanced
decision support, portfolio modelling and trade generation. As part
of the managed service delivery of thinkFolio, IHS Markit will
manage upgrades and real-time feeds, and execute overnight data
loads and start-of-day processes.
"We are very happy to have selected thinkFolio as our decision
support tool for fixed income at Allianz Global Investors. The
functionality and customization capabilities that thinkFolio offers
are complementary to our unified investment process, and
thinkFolio's ability to handle all instruments within the fixed
income asset class is important in helping our diverse range of
strategies meet the expectations of our clients," said Franck
Dixmier, Global Head of Fixed Income at Allianz Global
Investors.
"Allianz Global Investors is embarking on a substantial and
strategic initiative to upscale and improve our fixed income
operating model," said Markus Lohmann, Global Head of IT at Allianz
Global Investors. "We see thinkFolio as a cornerstone of the
program to enable and unlock our ambitious target state investment
workflows, business processes and integration flexibility. We have
a long standing and productive relationship with IHS Markit,
including our use of their Enterprise Data Management (EDM)
solution, and look forward to partnering with their senior team to
execute on this operating vision."
"Given its impressive and long-standing footprint across global,
actively managed strategies, we are delighted to support Allianz
Global Investors over the course of their exciting transformation
journey and beyond," said Brett Schechterman, Managing Director and
Global Head of thinkFolio at IHS Markit.
"As asset managers face an increasingly competitive market and
challenging operating margins, IHS Markit is well-positioned to
provide the technology solutions and services required to enable
Allianz Global Investors to scale efficiently including accessing
new markets, deploying new cross asset investment strategies, and
growing assets in private and public markets without disruption,"
said Keith Viverito, Managing Director, EMEA Sales for Financial
Services Solutions at IHS Markit.
Concluding, Schechterman added, "thinkFolio, with fixed income
investing at its foundation, will continue to advance its suite of
portfolio management and modelling capabilities and open
architecture to suit the next-generation requirements of our
clients."
About thinkFolio
thinkFolio from IHS Markit is a leading multi-asset investment
management platform delivering sophisticated capabilities across
Portfolio Modelling, Order Management & Trading, Cash & FX
Management, Compliance and the Investment Book of Record (IBOR).
The platform is delivered as a managed service, supporting
investment firms that want to reduce costs, maximize flexibility,
enhance scale and achieve time-to-market objectives.
About Allianz Global Investors
Allianz Global Investors
is a leading active asset manager with over 760 investment
professionals in 25 offices worldwide and managing EUR 538 billion
in assets for individuals, families and institutions.
Active is the most important word in our vocabulary. Active is
how we create and share value with clients. We believe in solving,
not selling, and in adding value beyond pure economic gain. We
invest for the long term, employing our innovative investment
expertise and global resources. Our goal is to ensure a superior
experience for our clients, wherever they are based and whatever
their investment needs.
Active is: Allianz Global Investors
IHS Markit provides industry-leading data, software and technology platforms and managed services to tackle some of the most difficult challenges in financial markets. We help our customers better understand complicated markets, reduce risk, operate more efficiently and comply with financial regulation.