Vijay Chander

Mr. Vijay Chander is Head of Research at Income Partners Asset Management (HK) Ltd.
Mr. Chander has extensive experience on both the Buy and the Sell Sides in the treasury, financial markets and market risk management areas, where he has held a variety of roles in credit strategy, credit research, fixed income portfolio management (both in the real money and hedge fund areas), market and credit risk management and FX trading.
He began his career with Citibank in India in 1986, where he joined the Mumbai treasury as an FX trader, before moving to Taiwan and Hong Kong, where he was the Head of Market Risk Management in both these countries.
After leaving Citibank in 1995, Mr. Chander developed extensive buy side portfolio risk management experience in the FX, rates and credit areas at Lehman Brothers and the Prudential.
Following his buy side experience, Mr. Chander performed a number of key sell side credit research and strategy roles at BNP Paribas, Daiwa Securities, Bear Stearns and Standard Chartered.
Prior to joining Income Partners in 2013, Mr Chander played a key role in developing the CNH (China offshore renminbi bond market in Hong Kong) in his last role at Standard Chartered, where he was Head of Credit strategy.
Mr. Chander has an undergraduate degree in commerce from the University of Madras in India and an MBA in Finance from Vanderbilt University in the U.S.