Kamal Suppal, CFA

Kamal joined NEPC in 2010, and his investment career began in 1996.  Kamal is involved in NEPC’s hedge fund research and due diligence activities, in addition to providing consulting services for the non-traditional asset classes of various public, corporate, Taft-Hartley and endowment/foundation clients.

Prior to joining NEPC, Kamal was Vice President and Portfolio Manager at US Trust Private Wealth Management, responsible for conducting quantitative and qualitative evaluation of managers of separately managed accounts, hedge funds, private equity and real estate funds and for developing portfolio strategy across traditional and alternative investment asset classes for high net-worth and institutional clients.  Previously, Kamal worked in the Private Bank at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) focusing on research of traditional and alternative investments and design of open architecture portfolios.  Prior to his career in asset management, Kamal spent six years as a corporate finance buy/sell side analyst in Canada and in Dubai, UAE.

Kamal completed a dissertation in “Constructing Multi-Strategy Fund of Hedge Funds” and received an M.B.A. in Global Asset and Wealth Management from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.  He received a Bachelor’s of Commerce degree from Calcutta University, St. Xavier’s College in Calcutta, India.  He is a Chartered Financial Analyst designee and holds a Chartered Accountant designation from India.