Director, Head of Canada, Institutional Business Development, Allianz Global Investors (Canada)
Stéphane Amara, CFA, CAIA
Director, Senior Relationship Manager
Mr. Amara is a senior relationship manager and a director with Allianz Global Investors, which he joined in 2014. Based in Montreal, Canada, he is responsible for formulating and executing the firm’s strategy for asset management in Canada, across institutional, retail and wealth/sub-advisory and insurance channels.
Mr. Amara has over 20 years of investment-industry experience. He previously worked at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management as Head of Canada in the global client group, where he was responsible for business development and consultant relations. Before that, Mr. Amara held a similar role at Bank of Ireland Asset Management.
Prior to Asset Management, he previously worked at Republic National Bank of New York in corporate foreign-exchange sales, and at BNP Paribas in the equity derivatives group in global markets sales and trading. Mr. Amara has a bachelor’s degree from McGill University. He is a CFA charterholder and a CAIA charterholder.