Karl joined Resolution Life as group chief investment officer in March 2022. Before that Karl worked at Allianz for 17 years first as head of global fixed income strategy for the group and then as Chief Investment Officer for insurance and regulated clients with Allianz Global Investors.  Karl and his team managed EUR 140 billion of Allianz and third-party assets, invested in fixed income, equity, private debt, and derivatives portfolios.

Karl earned his BSE from Princeton University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany.  He started his career at Morgan Stanley, where he was a private equity analyst in New York and Frankfurt and a fixed income derivatives structurer and trader in London.  He received an MBA from INSEAD and then worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in Munich before joining Allianz.