Amol Sahasrabudhe is an expert in investment risk management and portfolio construction. He has worked in the multi-portfolio and multi-strategy asset management space for several years, building asset management products. His knowledge covers various asset classes, such as stocks, bonds, credit, and quantitative strategies. At AllianceBernstein, he helped start the AB Arya Partners fund and was the Chief Risk Officer for the SBU. Amol has worked in foundations, pensions, and private wealth management for over 22 years. He has built financial portfolios, made investment products, and maintained good investor relationships. Sahasrabudhe has also been very involved in choosing managers, putting them in charge of different tasks, and making new technologies for asset and operations management.
Career History
Amol has a lot of degrees and certificates, and he also has a lot of real-world experience and high-level investment knowledge.
As Chief Risk Officer, Sahasrabudhe's primary job at A.B. was to work on the AB Arya Partners Group. He made long-term plans for Arya Partners' risk and other Arya strategies and built tools to measure performance. Sahasrabudhe cut the firm's internal and external risks by setting up rules for hiring, defining investment strategy mandates, and developing talent.
Amol Sahasrabudhe helped Arya develop complicated plans to increase profits and lower risks. He made frameworks to measure qualitative and quantitative inputs and develop the best investment recommendations.
Before joining AB, Sahasrabudhe did the same job at Visium Asset Management, where he helped equity funds grow to be worth billions of dollars. At Visium, he developed investment strategies, helped build risk management protocols into portfolios, and set up internal processes to make operations run smoothly and better. He also had to guide investments toward alpha and develop analytical methods to measure alpha decay.
Sahasrabudhe also worked at Goldman Sachs, Sandell Asset Management, Caxton Associates, and Hapoalim Securities USA, where he was in charge of portfolio construction and risk.
Skills and Experience in the Workplace
Sahasrabudhe has worked at several high-level investment firms where he was in charge of managing risks. To do this, he has developed strategies, used technology and analytics, and advised portfolio managers worldwide on how to get their investment portfolios to alpha.
The experience garnered throughout his career includes: Constructing complex portfolios, Establishing volatility frameworks and gross exposure bands, Performing in-depth analyses, Modernizing data management systems, and Maintaining relations with investors and portfolio managers through due diligence, business development skills, and marketing techniques.
Amol Sahasrabudhe has experience with multiple specialized programs and technology types, including Systems: Algorithmics; RiskMetrics; Bloomberg; Imagine; Deltix; Murex; Axioma; FinCAD; and Barra Software development: Matlab; Perl; Unix Shell; C#; SQL; and Excel/VBA.
He also knows how to use Advent Geneva, Morgan Fund Services, MIK Fund Solutions, EZE Castle/ConvergEx, Paladyne, and Novus.
The Global Association of Risk Professionals, or GARP, has given Sahasrabudhe certifications as a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and an Energy Risk Professional (ERP). This certified specialization is about understanding and interpreting market, credit, operational, and liquidity risk in investment management across asset classes. The energy risk certification goes into more depth about how the energy industry handles risks.
Sahasrabudhe has been given the title of Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, or CAIA, by the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association. This means that he deeply understands how to evaluate alternative investments like private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds.
The CFA Institute has given Sahasrabudhe the title of Chartered Financial Analyst, or CFA. He also has a CQF, which stands for Certificate in Quantitative Finance.
Academic History
Amol Sahasrabudhe has a Bachelor of Engineering in mechanical engineering from India's Maharaja Sayajirao University. He got a Master of Science in computer science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration in finance from New York University. (School of Business at Stern).
Giving back: Sahasrabudhe has helped several groups.
Project for Educating Women
This program gives young women on the edges of Indian society the education and skills they need to start careers and become change agents, business owners, and valuable employees. In the Leadership Academies of this program, women come together to form a sisterhood that gives them the power to go beyond social expectations and pressures to build the life they want.
Pratham US
Pratham was started in 1994 to help break the cycle of poverty in Mumbai's poorest neighborhoods. This program began with the opening of preschools that allowed students who were having trouble in elementary school to catch up. Pratham made the Annual Status of Education Report a way for education programs and ordinary people to work for education reform.
Akshaya Patra Foundation
The Akshaya Patra Foundation in Bengaluru wants to eliminate hunger in many parts of India. They have a program to feed kids in the classroom at lunchtime. This group's lunch program has grown to provide more than 2 million children in India. This group also has programs that serve breakfast and lunch new and expecting mothers, children, homeless women without families, and women who are homeless and don't have families.
Interests and Hobbies
Amol Sahasrabudhe is interested in many things besides investments. He plays cricket and also helps put together teams. He is part of Masters USA, an American cricket team for people over 50 that plays in high-level tournaments like the Cricket World Cup. Sahasrabudhe is putting together a New Jersey team that will compete in more than 50 Master tournaments in the region. He also likes tennis, and so does his son. Ashok also sings. Bollywood songs are more his style.
Portfolio of Sahasrabudhe.
