Allianz Global Investors has appointed this week Carlos Carranza as Director and Senior Investment Strategist of its Emerging Markets Debt team.
Carranza will be based in the New York office and report to Richard House, Chief Investment Officer for Emerging Markets Debt. He 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 Allianz GI, 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 bilingual 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.