Biography

Having joined OMERS Asia in January 2021 in the Capital Markets team, Ani is responsible for building out the public and private credit capabilities for OMERS in Asia. Working closely with the regional and global OMERS teams as well as with external counterparties, the Asia credit team looks to build a diversified and sustainable pan-Asia performing credit strategy focused on absolute returns.

Prior to joining OMERS, Ani was a portfolio manager at Nexus Investment Advisors HK where he managed long-biased absolute return credit funds, and was a senior member of the team managing private credit capital. Ani has over 18 years of research and investing experience in the Asian credit markets, and has previously worked at long-short Asian credit funds as well as led industry-leading teams at Bank of America Merrill Lynch looking at public and private credit. Ani started his career in India in 2001 with ICICI Limited, and has a keen interest in understanding and underwriting the regional growth story in Asia.

Ani is a Chartered Accountant by training, and holds a Post-Graduate degree in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad.