Shrikant Bhat

CEO, Investments Linked & Pension Business

AIA

Profile:

Shrikant Bhat is the CEO of the AIA Group’s Investments Linked & Pensions Business that includes over $40B of investment assets across the 18 markets that AIA Group serves. Shrikant Bhat joined AIA group over 4 years ago, as the Head of Funds as part of AIA Group Investments team to set up and oversee the funds strategy. Asia has amongst the fastest growing and largest pools of savings and investments. As a veteran wealth management professional with almost 3 decades of business experience across sales management, product management, retail banking, wealth management, business transformation, treasury and credit cards, Shrikant has leveraged his expertise to establish the funds business to drive the AIA Group’s ambition to help customers save and invest better for the long term. In his career, he has held various senior positions covering client segments from High Net worth Individuals to Mass Affluent and across diverse functions. Prior to joining AIA Group in 2019, he was Managing Director and Regional Head of Investments, Citibank overseeing 17 markets in Asia, Europe and Middle East. In that role he was responsible for overall P&L and products strategy covering mutual funds, fixed income, structured products, equity brokerage and portfolio finance for consumer banking clients. Since his appointment in AIA he has led the Funds business strategy. Starting with establishment of funds vehicles in Luxembourg and Singapore across traditional (listed equity and fixed income) and private assets respectively, he now heads the Unit Linked and Pensions Business for the Group to drive the Group’s foray into Savings and Investments market Shrikant holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University as well Post Graduate from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM, Calcutta)

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