Allianz (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. About this sound Allianz (help info) SE (formerly Allianz AG) is a global financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core business and focus is insurance. As of 2010, it was the world's 12th-largest financial services group and 23rd-largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine. Its Allianz Global Investors division ranks as a top-five global active investment manager, having 1,443 billion of assets under management (AuM), of which 1131 billion are third-party assets (as of 2010-09-30), with specialized asset managers such as PIMCO (Bond fund), RCM (Equity fund), AAAm (Fund of Hedge fund), Degi (Real estate fund), etc. Allianz sold Dresdner Bank to Commerzbank in November 2008. As a result of this merger, Allianz gained a 14% controlling stake in the new Commerzbank Group.