Karthik Sankaran
Portfolio Manager & Managing Principal, Covepoint Capital Advisors LLC
Mr. Sankaran is a Managing Principal of Covepoint Capital Advisors LLC and a Portfolio Manager of the Covepoint Emerging Markets Macro Fund. Mr. Sankaran has been active in foreign exchange strategy since 1997. Before joining Covepoint Capital Advisors LLC, Mr. Sankaran had joined BSAM in 2006, where he was a Portfolio Manager for the Bear Stearns Emerging Markets Macro Fund. Prior to joining BSAM, Mr. Sankaran worked at Bank Julius Baer, where he served as Vice President of Emerging Markets FX Strategy and Sales. Earlier, he was at AIG Trading Group, where he was a currency strategist specializing in the foreign exchange regimes of developing nations. He has published pieces on global economics and politics in the Financial Times, Absolute Return, SwissHedge, Latin Finance, AIG World Markets Advisory, and Emerging Markets magazine. Before entering the financial markets, he served as Managing Editor of Emerging Markets magazine. He also authors the periodic research series Covepoint Perspectives. He holds B.A., M.A., and M.Phil degrees in Modern European History from Columbia University, with a thematic specialization in the political economy of modernization.
