Girish Kumarguru

Managing Director, Portfolio Manager

Girish Kumarguru is the investment fund manager of Everbright Convertible Bond Opportunity Fund (ECOF). He has been in charge of managing this fund since its establishment in 2014. ECOF is a convertible arbitrage hedge fund focusing on Asian assets and has been providing attractive returns.

ECOF ranked second in the "Fixed Income - Convertible Bonds" category of the 2024 Barclayhedge (Barclay Hedge Fund Database). Mr. Girish Kumarguru won two awards, namely "Hong Kong Market Fixed Income Star Fund Manager" and "Regional Fixed Income Star Fund Manager" in the 2024 I&M (Investment Insights & Mandate) Asia Professional Investment Awards. In 2024, the fund won the following awards in the I&M Investment Insights & Professional Investment Awards:

‘Best Fixed Income Hedge Fund in Asia (Excluding Japan) (10-year Term)’

‘Best Fixed Income Hedge Fund in Asia (Excluding Japan) (5-year Term)’

‘Best Fixed Income Hedge Fund in Asia (Excluding Japan) (3-year Term)’

‘Best Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund in Asia (Excluding Japan) (10-year Term)’

‘Best Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund in Asia (Excluding Japan) (5-year Term)’

In addition, as the head of the fixed-income team, Girish is also responsible for leading and supervising the team of investment managers and analysts, and conducting management supervision on other fund mandates of the team.

Girish joined China Everbright Asset Management Co., Ltd. (CEAM) in July 2012 and has more than 20 years of experience in investment, trading, credit rating, and risk management. Prior to this, Girish served as a director of the Principal Strategies Group of ABN AMRO/Royal Bank of Scotland and a portfolio manager of credit/convertible strategies. Before that, he worked as a hedge fund credit risk analyst at ABN AMRO and a senior credit analyst at CRISIL (now a subsidiary of Standard & Poor's) in Mumbai, India.

He holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering (with a research focus on Operations Research) from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) in Finance from XLRI Jamshedpur (located in Jamshedpur, India). Girish holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) certifications. In addition, Girish was selected by The Asset Magazine as a "Highly Recommended" manager in the 2020 Asia G3 Bond Benchmark Study Wise Investors.