Fidelity poaches HSBC manager as Sajiv Vaid retires

Sajiv Vaid to depart

Elliot Gulliver-Needham
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Fidelity International has hired Shamil Pankhania as portfolio manager in preparation for the upcoming retirement of Sajiv Vaid.

Pankhania joins the firm from HSBC Asset Management, where he was a senior credit portfolio manager and head of UK credit solutions. Vaid is set to step down as a named portfolio manager on all his strategies on 30 September, remaining at Fidelity until the end of 2023 in an advisory perspective. Fidelity platform restricts new investments into abrdn PE Opportunities trust Following Vaid's departure Kris Atkinson will assume lead portfolio manager responsibility for several of the funds he has co-managed with Vaid in the past five years. Atkinson began at Fidelity in 2000 in...

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