Narayan Naik

Professor Narayan Naik is recognized as one of the leading experts in hedge fund investing. Over the last decade he has authored a significant body of work in benchmarking of active managers,  tail-risk hedging, life settlements-longevity risk and market microstructure. His work has been published in the top finance journals, leading practitioner journals and financial press. Professor Naik’s teaching includes Strategic Investment Management, Equity Investment Management, FinTech, Climate Investing, and Project & Infrastructure Finance.

Since joining London Business School (LBS) in 1991, Professor Naik has played a key role in the development of the finance group at LBS, most notably in the role of Director of the PhD Programme in Finance, Director of the School’s Investment Management Programme, Director of world’s first Hedge Fund Research Centre and more recently, one of the Academic Directors of the AQR Asset Management Institute and the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital at LBS. 

Professor Naik has designed, and taught tailor-made courses in corporate finance, strategic investment and risk management for development banks and financial institutions. He sits on Investment Advisory Boards of Family Offices in the USA, UK, Middle East and India. Professor Naik’s most recent innovation has been the creation of FinTech and the Financial Services Industry Transformation elective, as well as the Climate Finance & Investing elective which is based on the report titled “New Approaches to Climate Finance: Models for the Global South” that he recently co-wrote.

Professor Naik has appeared many times on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, the BBC, ITV and other news channels as an expert finance academic.