Atul Lele, CFA

Atul joined Bridgewater in 2018 and is Head of the Portfolio Strategist group. Atul works closely with our co-CIOs, and partners with Bridgewater’s clients on their most important investment priorities, including developing investment strategies to meet their goals and providing insight into the research group’s thinking on global markets and economic conditions. He is also a Partner at the firm.

Atul is a 20+ year investment industry veteran. Prior to joining Bridgewater, he spent five years as the CIO of Deltec International Group, where he was responsible for the investment strategy, portfolio management and analytical processes behind the firm’s strategic and tactical global macro funds, and the primary author of the firm’s global macro research, which focused on the interaction of global growth, liquidity conditions and asset prices. Prior to that, Atul spent five years as the Head of Strategy and Economics for Credit Suisse Australia. Before that, he spent eight years as a Portfolio Manager and Partner at White Funds Management, covering Equities, Credit and Real Assets. Atul has regularly appeared in the financial press and in investment-related books. He is a CFA charterholder and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales.