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girish kumarguru
managing director, portfolio manager
girish kumarguru is the portfolio manager for everbright convertible opportunities fund (ecof) and has been managing it since its inception in 2014. ecof, an asia focused convertible arbitrage hedge fund, has consistently delivered attractive returns during these years. ecof has won several awards including “best asian ex-japan hedge fund five years” and “best asian ex-japan fixed income hedge fund three years” and “best asian ex-japan fixed income hedge fund five years” in i&m asia investment awards 2023. as head of fixed income and convertible bonds, girish oversees the team of portfolio managers and analysts responsible for managing various funds and mandates at ceaml.
girish has over twenty years' experience spanning investments, trading, credit rating, and risk management. girish has been with china everbright assets management limited (ceaml) since july 2012. girish was previously a director in the principal strategies group (psg) at abn amro / rbs, where he was the portfolio manager for credit and convertible strategies. prior to that, he was a hedge fund credit risk analyst at abn amro. girish worked as a senior credit analyst at crisil (now, an s&p subsidiary) in mumbai (india).
girish has an integrated masters of technology in mechanical engineering from iit bombay with specialization in operations research and management; and pgdbm in finance from xlri, jamshedpur (india). girish holds chartered financial analyst (cfa), financial risk manager (frm), and chartered alternative investment analyst (caia) certifications. girish has been voted in the “highly commended” category by “the asset” magazine in asset benchmark research for the most astute investors in asian g3 bonds for 2020.