Raghu Suryanarayan, Navega Strategies
Raghu is a co-founder and partner of Navega Strategies. Prior to Navega, he was an Executive Director at MSCI, where he focused on multi-asset class research. He and his team were responsible for applying new macro finance research to develop and bring to market macro-based risk models. Those models help institutional investors assess the impact of macro scenarios on global, multi-asset class returns. Raghu also developed and implemented models to manage the risk of alternative investments, including direct real estate and private equity. And, he researched portfolio construction methods for investable equity factor (“smart beta”) indices. His paper “Efficient Replication of Factor Returns” won the William Sharpe Award for best research paper. Prior to MSCI, Raghu worked in the Global Economics and Strategy group at Morgan Stanley. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, an MA in Economics from the Paris School of Economics, and an MA in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from ENSAE (Paris, France).