Ashish Shah

Ashish Ashish Shah is Chief Investment Officer of Global Credit and Head of Fixed Income for AB. He is also a Partner of the firm. As CIO of Global Credit, Shah oversees all of AB’s credit-related strategies, including all global and regional investment-grade and high-yield strategies. In this capacity, he leads AB’s internal Credit Research Review Committee, the primary investment policy and decision-making committee for all credit-related portfolios managed by AB. As Head of Fixed Income, Shah is responsible for the management and strategic growth of the overall business. He is the author of several published papers and blogs, including those highlighting high-yield bonds as attractive substitutes for equities (June 2015), concerns around the bank loan market (November 2013) and the dangers in reaching for yield in the high-yield market (August 2013). Shah joined AB in 2010 as the firm’s head of Global Credit. Prior to that, he was a managing director and head of Global Credit Strategy at Barclays Capital (2008–2010), where he was responsible for the High Grade, High Yield, Structured Credit and Municipal Strategy groups and the Special Situations Research team. From 2003 to 2008, Shah was the head of Credit Strategy at Lehman Brothers, leading the Structured Credit/CDO and Credit Strategy groups and covering the cash bond, credit derivatives and CDO product areas for global credit investors. He holds a BS in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.