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Saira Malik, CFA®
About Saira Malik
Saira is Head of Nuveen Equities and Fixed Income, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and a member of the Executive Management Team. She leads a business with more than $1 trillion in assets under management1 across equities, global fixed income, EIC, municipal bonds, multi-asset strategies, private placements, public real assets and C-PACE lending, along with driving weekly market and investment insights and delivering client asset allocation views from across the firm’s investment teams.
Saira also leads Nuveen’s Global Investment Committee (GIC), bringing together the firm’s most senior investment leaders to deliver actionable portfolio allocation ideas for our clients and authoring a weekly market commentary.
Since joining the firm in 2003, Saira has held a variety of positions. Prior to being named CIO, she was head of global equities portfolio management and head of global equities research. Previously, Saira was with JP Morgan Asset Management, where her roles included small cap growth portfolio manager.
Saira holds the CFA designation and graduated with a B.S. in Economics from California Polytechnic State University and an M.S. in Finance from the University of Wisconsin. She frequently appears on financial news networks such as CNBC and Bloomberg. Saira was recognized as one of Pensions & Investments "Most Influential Women in Institutional Investing" in 2023 and has been profiled in Kiplinger’s and Barron’s, which ranked her among the top 100 most influential women in U.S. finance for five years in a row, from 2020-2024. Since 2022, she has been named as one of LinkedIn's "Top Voices in Finance" and can be followed on LinkedIn here .
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1 As of 30 Jun 2024. Nuveen assets under management (AUM) is inclusive of underlying investment specialists.
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