David Hunt, CEO, PGIM: Who will win in asset management

At 12 years in charge of global asset manager PGIM, David Hunt is one of the longest-serving CEOs in the business, anywhere. This tenure might have missed the financial crisis, but it has taken in a global pandemic, a European war, spiralling inflation and fast-rising rates. There is also the never-ending challenge of generating after-cost returns for investors, getting rewarded for taking risks and generating active alpha. Hunt’s visit to the UK co-includes with Citywire’s 25th anniversary, so Selector editor Will Robins begins by asking for his reflections on that period and who the winners and losers in asset management might be in the future. The wide-ranging conversation also features his lessons on leadership and culture, letting fund managers get things wrong, adding more private markets, tackling energy transition and the global economic and geopolitical outlook and how groups like his will respond strategically.