Arun Kelshiker

Investment Committee at CFA UK

Speaker

Arun Kelshiker is a senior investment leader with extensive experience across multi asset investing, sustainable and impact investing, and global investment advisory.

Arun is the former Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing EMEA at Invesco, a global asset manager. He led the development and execution of sustainable and impact investing across Invesco’s international footprint spanning client engagement, product development, investment delivery, risk management and cross regional coordination across public and private markets.

Previously, Arun was the Head of Asset Allocation and Portfolio Strategy at Standard Chartered Bank where he led an investment advisory and portfolio fund solutions team. He was a member of the bank’s Global Investment Committee and led the multi asset and alternatives thought leadership of the bank’s global wealth publications. Arun’s career includes senior investment roles at Allianz Global Investors and Allianz Group where he served as a senior portfolio manager and Country Chief Investment Officer.

Arun holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Masters in International Economics and Management from SDA Bocconi University. He is a CFA Charterholder and a CAIA Charterholder and lectures at universities on portfolio management, ESG and risk management.

He has a long record of voluntary leadership within the CFA community where he serves on the Investment Committee of the CFA UK Investment Reserves Committee and is part of CFA UK’s D&I Committee as well as Inclusion in Finance (formerly the Diversity Project). He is a Board Member of Philanthropy Impact, part of the Advisory Board of the Asset Owner Diversity Charter and a regular speaker at conferences and for the media.