ABL AMC Management

Mr. Farid Ahmed Khan, CFA

Chief Executive Officer

An accomplished, results-oriented leader, Farid has been involved with capital markets for over 16 years and has a broad-based, global experience with bulge bracket firms in Asset Management, Investment Banking, Investment Research and  Sales, Business Development & International Project Finance. He joined ABL AMC from Credit Suisse, where he was the Country Manager of Credit Suisse Pakistan and a member of Credit Suisse' Asia Pacific Management Committee. Prior to that, he worked for MCB, initially as Head of Investment Banking Group and later as the CEO of MCB Asset Management, where he was instrumental in successfully launching this new business for MCB Bank. Farid has extensive experience outside Pakistan, having worked at Morgan Stanley, ING Barings Securities and CLSA Emerging Markets in Kuala Lumpur, London and Istanbul in a variety of senior positions. He holds an MBA in Finance from IBA, Karachi and got his CFA qualification in 1998. 

 Syed Khalid Husain

Head of Business Development

Khalid brings with him 25 years of rich experience of Banking both in Corporate and Retail sectors. His last position was Head of Karachi City Region of Allied Bank, which is the largest region of Pakistan for ABL in terms of business. He was also looking after the Corporate Deposits of Sind and Baluchistan Province’s .He has participated in Seminars and Training Programs within Pakistan and abroad. He has represented Allied Bank in the International Banking course organized by State Bank Of Pakistan in which 20 Countries Participated. He has also worked as Chief Manager in the “Top Business Branches” of Karachi and under his supervision these branches won the “Best Branch of Pakistan”,‘’ Best Branch of Sind’’, awards. 

Mr. Faisal Nadeem Mangroria, ACA, CMA (UK)

Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary

Faisal is a Chartered Accountant (CA) and an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant Pakistan (ICAP). He has also passed his Chartered Management Accountancy exams from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK, and has completed his article ship from Ford, Rhodes, Robson, Morrow, a member of Ernst & Young International (EYI). He has professional experience at the executive cadre in Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation (PICIC) where he managed the risk of institutional and retail portfolios of the company. He also served at First Credit & Investment Bank Limited (formerly known as First Credit & Discount Corporation Limited) an investment bank owned by National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) where he was involved in the areas of core finance, risk management and internal audit. Before joining ABL AMC he served as the Chief Financial Officer at Khoja’s Capital Management (Pvt.) Ltd. 

 Mr. Saqib Matin, ACA, APA

Chief Internal Auditor

Saqib is a Chartered Accountant (CA) and an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan as well as an Associate Member of Pakistan Institute of Public Finance Accountants. He joined ABL Asset Management Company Limited in January 2008 as Chief Financial Officer. He brings with him more than 10 years of diversified experience in the fields of accountancy, taxation, corporate and audit. Previously, he was associated with Atlas Asset Management Limited as Manager Fund Accounting & Financial Reporting. He also served in SME Bank Limited and Sapphire Textile Mills Limited as Manager Accounts. He commenced his professional career from Hameed Chaudhri & Co., Chartered Accountants. 

 Mr. Muhammad Imran

Chief Investment Officer

Imran has over eleven years of diversified experience in Treasury and Fund Management. He has held different senior positions in leading financial institutions. Before joining ABL Asset Management, he was Senior Fund Manager at MCB Asset Management where he managed funds of over Rs14bn. Prior to that, he was associated with AMZ Asset Management as Head of Fixed Income Funds and was instrumental in establishing the company, developing its treasury systems and successful launching of different open ended funds. He also worked for Arif Habib Investment in Fixed Income Fund Management side and has also had successful stints at Saudi Pak Leasing Company Limited and Pakistan Emerging Ventures Limited. Devising strategies to earn profit from market inefficiencies is his key strength and his views on financial markets are much sought after by participants and regulator alike.

 Mr. Abid Jamal

Head of Research

Abid Jamal is the Head of Research at ABL AMC. Abid has followed the Pakistan’s Capital markets since 2005. He was formerly associated with some prominent brokerages houses like J.P Morgan Pakistan and Elixir Securities. Before joining ABL AMC, he was a senior analyst at SICO Bahrain. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from the Ohio State University, USA.

 Syed Hassan Mehdi

Head of Registrar Services & Manager Operations

 Mr. Hammad Ali Abbas

Fund Manager

Hammad brings with him knowledge and experience pertaining to the mutual fund industry as well as corporate and treasury markets. His expertise lies in the launch and management of Mutual Funds. He has served with institutions such as NAFA where he held the position of an Assistant Fund Manager, a Senior Executive, Corporate & Investment Banking at ORIX Investment Bank Ltd. and a Corporate Dealer at Pak Oman Investment Company Ltd. dealing primarily in equity, debt and money market instruments. He is a Bachelor (Hons) in Business and IT from Birmingham City University, UK and Master in Business and IT from The University of Manchester, UK.

 Mr. Kamran Aziz

Fund Manager

Kamran has been managing ABL Stock Fund (best performing stock fund in 2010) since its inception in June 2009. He strongly believes in ‘value investing’ and is involved in advocating the same at various forums. Prior to joining the industry he ran his own web-based B2B Company, which catered to websites in US and Europe.  Kamran Aziz is an avid learner and takes keen interest in voluntary activities. He’s been an active member of CFA Association of Pakistan for past three years and heads the Newsletter Committee of CFA Pakistan. He is also a member of the local GIPS Committee and led the GIPS implementation process at ABL AMC. He has also been a speaker at various seminars and in-house discussions on stock market.

Kamran Aziz graduated from IBA in 2008 and has cleared all three levels of CFA Program. 

 Mr. Faizan Saleem

Fund Manager

Faizan has over four years of experience in the Investment Management and capital markets. He is an MBA in Finance from SZABIST and has passed CFA Level II examination. Before joining ABL Asset Management, he was associated with UBL Fund Managers for 2 years as an Assistant Manager - Fixed Income Funds where he was the member of core investment team. Prior to UBL Funds, he worked with Akhai Capital Management as a Foreign Exchange Inter bank trader.
He joined ABL Asset Management in 2010 as a Senior Dealer and is responsible for assisting the fund management in strategy formulation, portfolio construction, assessment of existing portfolio and trading of different money market instruments as per the guidelines provided by the investment committee and fund manager. He is also actively involved in deployment of funds, sourcing investment opportunities, evaluating performance of fund with peer group, conducting due diligence (financial and regulatory), structuring and negotiating investment terms for all fixed income funds managed by ABL AMC. He is also responsible for assessment and construction of fixed income discretionary portfolios managed by ABL AMC. Currently, he is looking after ABL Government Securities fund (ABL- GSF)