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Swiss Life AM In UK Unveils Change At The Top

Editorial Staff

6 October 2025

, which had SFr281.8 billion ($352.8 billion) in assets as at the end of June, has appointed co-CEOs Tim Munn (pictured below) and Eduardo Illitsch (pictured below) for its UK business, effective 1 January 2026. 

They will be taking over from Giles King, current CEO, the firm said in a recent statement.

Munn, who has 27 years’ experience in real estate investment management, joined the firm in 2020, serving as chief investment officer. Before this, he spent more than 20 years at CBRE Investment Management. 

Tim Munn

Illitsch has 31 years’ international financial industry experience. He has been at Swiss Life AM since 2018 as head of international sales. Prior to that, he worked at JP Morgan Asset Management and Credit Suisse.

Eduardo Illitsch

At the end of June, Swiss Life Asset Managers in the UK – part of – had 32 staff and ran SFr2.1 billion of assets across separate account mandates and funds.