Vijoy Paul Chattergy
Practice Areas: Investment Performance
Vijoy P. Chattergy has over 25 years of experience in financial markets with stints in the United States, Asia and Europe. Mr. Chattergy served in leadership positions with public, private, and nonprofit sector financial services entities, covering major asset classes such as equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and alternatives (hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure). He is the founder and president of VMLH, LLC, a consulting firm for global institutional investors. He also started Sakala Portfolio Solutions, LLC to assist with the development of portfolio construction capacities for clients. Clients have included a $1 trillion AUM US private asset manager, state agencies for economic development, national investment industry trade associations, start-up alternative boutiques in Asia, SEC registered mutual fund and ETF firm, minority owned SEC Registered Investment Advisors, among others. He is often invited to speak at financial management conferences or to comment on industry trends by the financial media and expert networks.
During 2011-2018, Mr. Chattergy was primarily the Chief Investment Officer at the multi-billion dollar Employees’ Retirement System of the State of Hawai‘i (“HIERS”). Recognized as an innovator and thought leader, he restructured the investment program and office, improving performance to become a top quartile performing pension fund. He was awarded the 2017 Industry Innovation Award for the Public Defined Benefit Plans Between $15 Billion and $100 Billion. In 2017, he was listed on both the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute Public Investor 100 List (#11) and the Chief Investment Officer Power 100 List (#29). In 2018, HIERS was recognized as the Hawaii Venture Capital Association Investor of the Year. Mr. Chattergy was honored by Institutional Investor with a 2015 Investor Intelligence Thought Leader Award. In 2013, he was designated a Rising Star of Public Funds by Money Management Intelligence.
Prior to joining HIERS, Mr. Chattergy worked as a senior analyst investing globally in hedge funds at SPARX International Limited based in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Before relocating to Asia, Mr. Chattergy worked in New York City for Andrew Kalotay Associates and at The Bond Market Association. His financial industry career began at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the Markets Group.
He earned an MBA from Cornell University and an MSc from the London School of Economics. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude from the College of the Holy Cross, where he was a Harry S Truman Scholar and a Charles A. Dana Scholar. He holds a charter from the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA). He was a 2014 Omidyar Leadership Fellow, a 2009 Asia Pacific Leadership Fellow of the East-West Center, a 1991 Harry S. Truman Institute Scholar, and a 1989 Leadership America Fellow. He completed training in the NAIC 2021 Next Generation of Private Equity Firms.
Thought Leadership Examples
https://files.constantcontact.com/dd7da80d301/8ecc51ed-51b2-4fab-8e03-e64e72cc008f.pdf
https://i3-invest.com/podcasts/i3-podcast-interview-with-vijoy-chattergy/
https://www.ai-cio.com/events/2017-cio-industry-innovation-awards/?pid=aw&eday=2
