Aneet Chachra, CFA

Aneet Chachra is a Portfolio Manager on the Diversified Alternatives Team at Janus Henderson Investors. Prior to joining Henderson in 2012, Aneet was an equity analyst at Citigroup. Before Citigroup, he was a strategist at Outpost Investment Group, where he generated trade ideas, researched thematic issues and published investment commentary. Aneet also developed quantitative trading strategies and portfolio analytics at JWM Partners. He began his career in 2000 at Morgan Stanley developing tools for interest rate derivatives and corporate bonds. Aneet’s research work has been quoted in numerous financial publications.
Mr. Chachra holds a BASc degree in engineering and a BA degree in economics from the University of Waterloo in Canada. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and the Investment Management Certificate. He has 23 years of financial industry experience.
Articles Written

Ironic – Don’t you think?
Why Canadians should invest more globally, and everyone else should invest more in Canada.

Do fund flows affect market prices?
Is there a statistical relationship between fund flows and market price moves?

Halftime
Updated strategist predictions for year-end and a look at the growing gap between the market and forecasts.

Storing cash
Comparing the maturity profiles on Treasuries with their “risk of loss” history to reach conclusions about where value might lie within shorter maturities.

One Down, Three to Go
Updated strategist predictions for 2022 and a look at the relationship between first quarter and rest of year returns.

Liquidity in stressed markets is more expensive than you think
In this article, Portfolio Manager Aneet Chachra and Investment Director Alistair Sayer consider the cost of trading when volatility spikes, and ask if liquid alternatives provide an alternative for investors to manage their portfolios during periods of uncertainty?

Expected drawdowns – How much money should I lose?
Can historical and simulated data provide some guidance to what scale of asset price swings investors could expect over time? In this article Portfolio manager Aneet Chachra and David Elms, Head of Diversified Alternatives, address the value of drawdown probabilities in helping to calibrate our expectations of price moves.

Solving a hard problem with a simple model
In this article, portfolio manager Aneet Chachra considers the potential benefits of a simple tactical allocation model based on trailing relative returns when looking at US vs emerging markets, and the importance of moving quickly when making investment decisions.

Selling volatility – is the juice still worth the squeeze?
Are investors being sufficiently compensated for taking asymmetric risk? In this article, portfolio manager Aneet Chachra and David Elms, Head of Diversified Alternatives, evaluate changing market conditions for equity volatility in the US and UK.

How do tech IPOs perform in their first year?
Aneet Chachra, portfolio manager within the Alternatives team, takes a quantitative look at US tech initial public offerings (IPOs) and how they have historically performed post-launch.

Equity moves, fund flows and fear
Aneet Chachra, portfolio manager within the Alternatives team, asks whether fund flows affect equity prices.

The alternative view: Fast casual and artisanal alpha
Aneet Chachra, portfolio manager within the Diversified Alternatives team at Janus Henderson, discusses unexpected parallels between the dining industry and investment management.