Zahid Ullah Khan

Mr. Zahid Ullah Khan has been associated with the capital markets on the buy-side for over 15 years. Before joining Jahangir Siddiqui & Co. Ltd. as its Chief Investment Officer, Mr. Khan was Chief Investment Officer at JS Investments Limited since 2016, where he was responsible for managing fixed income, money market, equity, venture capital, and pension Unit Trusts.

Previously, Mr. Khan was at JS Bank Limited since 2012, where he served as a Senior Vice President for the bank’s risk management function and then moved on to Corporate and Commercial Credit. His core responsibilities included the development of various risk management frameworks, modeling term structure of interest rates, engineering tailor-made interest rate products for corporate clientele, devising efficient mechanisms for various equity-based margin trading products, and maintaining corporate relationships.

Before joining JS Bank Limited, Mr. Khan served as a senior fund manager at JS Investments Limited from 2010 to 2012 where he managed a suite of equity and balanced Unit Trusts.

Preceding his role at JS Investments, Mr. Khan was associated with JS Group as Senior Vice President in a technical role where he developed and deployed High-Frequency Trading (HFT) platforms for equities. This function involved the extensive development of in-house statistical arbitrage models dependent on instantaneous market variables. Mr. Khan also advised group companies on buy-side risk management and for launching ETFs and Market Making initiatives on the asset management and brokerage side. His other assignments included research work on various greenfield projects in the private equity space.

Mr. Khan started his career with ABAMCO Limited (now JS Investments Limited) in 2004 as a research analyst and covered Banking and Insurance sectors along with following the money market and developing interest rate models on the fixed income side. Additionally, he was given the responsibility to develop and launch new products for the growing AMC. During his tenure at ABAMCO Limited, Mr. Khan developed the first proprietary free float-adjusted market capitalization index in Pakistan and launched the first Open-end index fund based on it. He also carries to his credit the launch of the first Open-end Fund of Funds scheme with an elaborate asset allocation strategy, a Capital Protected Fund, and several other in-house initiatives. In 2005, he was promoted as a fund manager and managed several Unit Trusts.

Mr. Zahid holds a Masters's degree in Business Administration from Lahore University of Management Sciences; a Masters's degree in Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences; and a Masters's degree in Finance from London Business School.