Managers To Watch: Allianz GI's Tillett on how not to let the market push managers around

Allianz Global Investors' Matthew Tillett explains how he aligns himself with his clients and why he helped set up the 'Unconstrained Thinking' blog.

After joining the firm's graduate programme ten years ago, 33-year-old Matthew Tillett has since progressed through the ranks at Allianz Global Investors and today manages two UK funds. He first became interested in the asset management industry when his father gave him a book on investing during his degree. Having initially thought the job purely involved numbers and "bankers staying up until 4am", he was intrigued to find there was much more involved. "I soon realised it was a business that combined art and science, which really appealed to me," he said. "I joined the graduate progr...