Karishma Kaul

Head of Systematic Fixed Income Strategies Fidelity Asset Management

Karishma Kaul, CFA is the head of Systematic Fixed Income Strategies within the Quantitative Research and Investments division at Fidelity Investments. She and her team drive a quantitative research agenda, developing and running systematic strategies across Fixed Income. Prior to joining Fidelity, Karishma was a member of Blackrock’s Systematic Fixed Income where, as a Systematic Researcher she built various strategies across credit (HY/IG), Core/Core+, Munis and ESG. And as a Systematic Portfolio Manager was focused on generating alpha across investment grade credit mandates using systematic models. Prior to Blackrock, she worked at Barclays Capital and TD Securities building analytics and quantitative pricing models for vanilla and exotic interest rate derivatives. She has a Masters in Financial Engineering from Cornell University, is a CFA® charterholder and has been in the Financial Industry since 2008.