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 strategies that are focused on risk mitigation, inflation and energy transition. 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 MFE from the University of California, Los Angeles; and an MBA from the Indian School of Business, India. 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.
Recent forces have made a broad group of commodities attractive. But risk and return patterns vary widely, so the key to commodities exposure is accessing opportunities in a diversified mix.
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?