Jacqueline Hunt

Jacqueline ("Jackie") Hunt (born April 27, 1968, in Johannesburg) is a British financial services manager. Since 2016 she has been on the management board of Allianz SE, overseeing the group's asset management and US life insurance divisions. 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”.

Early life Hunt, who holds British and New Zealand citizenship,

Education At school she was a gifted pupil, with particular passions for geology and English literature. was funded by a bursary from a mining company, for which she worked during vacations; Here she gained experience in financial services, including spells in New York and Zürich, eventually becoming director, global capital markets.

In 2013, she was recruited to be chief executive of Prudential UK and Europe, with responsibility for asset management and US life insurance. ); Allianz's US life insurance business; and California-based asset management business PIMCO, which was struggling when she joined, but which she was credited with turning around. Altogether, the division has around $2.25 trillion under management.

Hunt resigned from her position at Allianz SE in September 2021. According to press reports her resignation was due to the loss of billions of euros in certain structured funds managed by the Allianz asset management unit.

She is also a Member of the Board of Trustees, American Institute of Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and a former Commissioner for the UK's Independent Dormant Assets Commission. She sits on the executive committee of the US Council on Competitiveness; and is a member of the Women In Africa Club.

After joining Allianz, Hunt spoke about her “personal crusade” to bring more diversity into the companies she managed, and was described as “passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion initiatives”. and believed that, although “some organisations are making real progress on diversity” in financial services, “some others are not making progress or are going backwards”.

She also spoke about the importance of responsible capitalism and sustainable growth, arguing that companies like Allianz are stewards of our society with a responsibility to help “build a more equal world”

Hunt, who describes herself as a “pragmatist”, At Allianz, she has been noted for her “calm, reserved manner”, saying at her first official presentation that “I would rather deliver results than be known for big announcements that I can then not fulfil.” and is reported to use a coffee mug that carries the word “integrity” in six languages. while Bloomberg News described her as “one of the most important people in global finance” and dubbed her “the $2-trillion woman”. lives mainly in Munich but spends about half of each month visiting Allianz's other operations around the world.