Andreas Utermann
Andreas Ernst Ferdinand Utermann commonly referred to as Andreas E.F. Utermann(born January 1966) is an Anglo-German businessman and banking executive. Utermann was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vontobel Holding AG at the company’s AGM on April 6, 2022. Utermann led Allianz Global Investors, a global investment company owned by Allianz, for eight years from 2012, initially as a co-head and Global Chief Investment Officer and then as CEO from 2016. Early life and education Andreas Utermann was born in Brussels to German parents and attended the European School of Brussels before moving to the UK to study at the London School of Economics, from which he graduated with a BSc degree in Economics in 1989. He subsequently obtained an MA degree in Economics at the Catholic University of Leuven, having agreed to defer his entry into S.G. Warburg's graduate programme for a year in order to do so. Utermann also holds the CFA's ASIP qualification. Career Utermann joined Mercury Asset Management in 1989, becoming head of pan-European and subsequently global equities over the course of his 13 years there. He left Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (as Mercury became known a couple of years after its 1997 acquisition