Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI), one of the world’s leading active investment managers, today announced that Deborah Zurkow, its Global Head of Investments, will retire later in 2025. Succession plans, which are in train, envisage public markets and private markets investment responsibilities will be separated, recognising the growing maturity, scale and distinctiveness of the private markets business she has developed.
Zurkow has been with AllianzGI since 2012, when she joined the Group to spearhead its pioneering Infrastructure Debt capability. She proceeded to become the firm’s first Head of Private Markets in 2016, before assuming overall executive responsibility for Investments in 2020.
Commenting on the forthcoming retirement, Tobias Pross, AllianzGI CEO, said: “Deborah has been a hugely committed and engaged colleague and leader from the moment she joined AllianzGI through to this day. Her unrelenting curiosity and solutions-mindset have been well deployed in the service of our clients and colleagues around the world. I will miss her input”.
“That her succession will involve two appointments is a fitting testament to the importance and distinctiveness of the private markets business she has built alongside our very well-established public markets platform.”
Zurkow will remain with AllianzGI until end of September 2025, albeit stepping back from executive responsibilities from the summer.
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