Arjuna Sittampalam hsa been appointed as research associate at the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre.
Sittampalam’s experience encompasses the banking, insurance and specialist fund management fields, with a particular interest in derivatives and other innovative portfolio management techniques.
Sittampalam is the managing director of investment company Sage & Hermes Ltd., which he founded in 1994 to advise leading financial institutions in the USA and Europe on investment management business strategy and operations.
Having started his investment career at Schroders, the leading merchant bank, he subsequently moved to Abbey Life, where he established the international investment department and managed global bond and equity portfolios. Following a move to Touche Remnant to establish fixed income management, he then went on to spearhead independent fund management subsidiaries of Swiss Bank Corporation and Sanwa bank.
Sittampalam has authored several books, including “Coming Wars in Fund Management”, “Evolving Techniques in Fund Management”, and “Corporate Governance Activism Desirable Doctrine or Damaging Dogma?” He also acted as editorial advisor to EFAMA in the publication of their inaugural Fact Book.
He was the founding editor of Funds International in 1994, a global financial newsletter aimed at senior executives of large financial institutions worldwide. In April 2005, Sage & Hermes launched the Investment Management Review magazine, of which Sittampalam is the editor. In November 2005, he was awarded the Wincott Foundation prize for the best article appearing during 2005 in Professional Investor, the journal of the UK member society of the CFA Institute.
In recent years, he has also contributed to other leading publications including the Financial Times, the Irish Institutional Investment Journal and Private Banker International.
He has spoken at major international conferences and has delivered lectures to top financial institutions in Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia under the auspices of the Banking Institutes of Singapore and Thailand, and the Central Bank of Indonesia.
Sittampalam is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in the UK, and holds a PhD in Sub-Nuclear Theoretical Physics from Imperial College, London.