Ashish Chugh

Ashish Chugh is a portfolio manager and head of global emerging market equities at Loomis, Sayles & Company. In this capacity, Ashish manages long-only and hedge fund portfolios and a dedicated team of equity research analysts. Ashish joined Loomis Sayles in 2018 from Och-Ziff Capital in Hong Kong, where he was a managing director and manager of an emerging markets portfolio for the firm’s multi-strategy hedge fund. Prior to this, Ashish spent a decade at the Wellington Management Company in Boston as a managing director of the firm’s flagship hedge fund, where he focused on investing in long-short equities in global emerging markets. Previously, he was an associate at Blue Chip Venture Company, where he was responsible for venture capital and private equity investments. Earlier in his career, Ashish was an engineer at IBM in Toronto and an analyst at Hitachi in Tokyo. He earned a BASc in electrical & computer engineering from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from Harvard Business School.