Ranji H. Nagaswami
Ranji H. Nagaswami is Chief Investment Advisor to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City. She directs the investment policy and governance efforts within the Mayor’s Office of Pensions and Investments for the $120 Billion+ NYC retirement systems. She has frequently spoken on asset allocation, risk management, and portfolio management issues.
Until 2009, she served as the Chief Investment Officer for the American asset management firm AllianceBernstein. She has held this position since 2004. Nagaswami has responsibility for the firm's growth, value, and core stock, as well as fixed income investments. She chairs the retail investors investment policy group and has been the senior portfolio manager for the US Value Equities fund since 2001. Before joining AllianceBernstein in 1999, Nagaswami was with UBS Brinson, where she held various positions, including co-head of US Fixed Income, managing director, and quantitative analyst.
She is a member of the Yale University Investments Committee, the Yale School of Management advisory board, the CFA Institute Asset Manager Code of Conduct Advisory Panel and a Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute.
Ms. Nagaswami earned an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management, and a Bachelor of Commerce from Bombay University. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.