Allianz GI hires head of equity Europe core and value from UBS AM

Kayvan Vahid joins

Allianz Global Investors has hired Kayvan Vahid as head of equity Europe core and value, Investment Week can reveal.

He will be based in London and will report to head of investments equity Europe Jörg De Vries-Hippen. AllianzGI poaches GSAM head of China equity Vahid will lead efforts to strengthen and expand the company's capabilities in the fundamentally-managed European core and value space, as well as establishing core and value as an "additional pillar" of the Allianz GI equity platform, it said. He spent over 20 years at UBS Asset Management where he most recently was deputy head of global value equity and head of European mid-cap equities. Prior to this, Vahid was a portfolio manager for ...