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Venkateshwar (“Venk”) Lal
Mr. Lal has over 25 years of experience in global investing and investment risk management, with experiences including portfolio management, hedge fund management, fundamental research, macro analysis, asset allocation strategy, as well as derivatives trading and structuring.
He is a Co-founder of EverKey Global, a unit of Allspring Global Investments. As a portfolio manager of global equity and equity-long short funds, Mr. Lal has generated differentiated investment performance through multiple bull and bear market cycles. Serving on Allspring’s Spectrum Investment Committee of multi-asset class risk-takers and strategists, Mr. Lal has overseen strategic and tactical asset allocation investment strategies across equity, credit and fixed income, commodity, currency and alternative investments. Allspring Global commenced operations as an independent asset management firm in 2021 after the closing of the privatization of the asset management business of Wells Fargo & Co., which acquired EverKey Global in 2012.
Prior to his 2007-2024 investment and risk management experiences at EverKey Global and Allspring, Mr. Lal served in a variety of roles in equity arbitrage, capital markets and derivatives as an Executive Director in the Institutional Equity Division of Morgan Stanley from 1995-2007. In these capacities, Mr. Lal advised leading hedge funds, private equity funds, long-only managers, institutional investors, family offices, corporations and regulatory agencies.
Mr. Lal began his career as a financial analyst in the Investment Banking Division’s Financial Institutions Group at Goldman Sachs (1991-1993), where he advised asset managers, banks and insurance companies on capital markets and mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Lal received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (1995) and an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (1991). He has also served as a Term Member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
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