Vinod Chathlani
11 Years at AB|17 Years of Experience
Vinod Chathlani is a Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Researcher on the Multi-Asset and Hedge Funds Solutions team. In this role, he is responsible for designing, constructing and managing investment solutions focused on dynamic and cost-effective hedging of growth and inflation risks in portfolios. Chathlani joined AB in 2013 as a quantitative researcher and assistant portfolio manager on the Dynamic Asset Allocation team, where he helped research and develop quantitative tools and systematic macro strategies. Prior to that, Chathlani held roles in investment risk and corporate strategy. He holds a BTech in information technology from the University of Madras, India; an MBA from the Indian School of Business, India; and an MFE from the University of California, Los Angeles. Location: New York
Published Work
Climate-change risks can threaten investment returns, but carbon allowances can help defend and potentially grow a diversified strategy.
Inflation protection needs to evolve with a changing investment world. A style-balanced strategy of future-resources stocks may be an effective addition to classic inflation hedges.
With inflation on the rise in the post-pandemic recovery spending power for plan participants near or in retirement could be vulnerable. Target-date funds have tools at their disposal to battle inflation, but if they’re not deployed effectively, it could end up exacting a performance cost.
Sovereign bonds have long been the prime defensive asset for multi-asset portfolios. But in today's extraordinary market conditions, should investors make more extensive use of other defensive choices?