Allianz Global Investors, one of the world’s leading active asset managers, has appointed Carlos Carranza as Director, Senior Investment Strategist for the firm’s Emerging Markets Debt team.
Carranza will be based in the New York office and report to Richard House, Chief Investment Officer for Emerging Market Debt at AllianzGI. Carlos joins from JP Morgan where he worked for thirteen years, leading the Latin America FX and Local Rates Strategy team as part of the Emerging Markets Research Group.
In his new role at AllianzGI, Carranza will provide macroeconomic, political, and ESG analysis of Latin American countries to develop and maintain country-specific macroeconomic and ESG models for investment trade ideas, portfolio monitoring, and positioning.
Carranza is bi-lingual in English and Spanish and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Buenos Aires and Master’s in Finance from the University of Macroeconomic Studies, both in Argentina.