Gerold Koch has joined Allianz Global Investor's risklab unit to lead a new team that will advise clients on all aspects of environmental, social and governance and sustainable investing.
Koch joins AllianzGI from DWS, where he was most recently head of ESG investment specialists, Americas.
The new team, based in Munich, will apply and further develop risklab's quantitative analytics framework to incorporate sustainability into the portfolio optimisation and construction processes.