Biography: 

Shamil Pankhania joined Fidelity in 2023 and manages a number of Fidelity’s investment grade (IG) and sustainable bond funds. He has 17 years of investment experience, most recently as a senior credit portfolio manager and Head of UK Credit Solutions at HSBC Global Asset Management where he was lead manager for UK institutional mandates and co-manager of Global and Sterling retail funds. He successfully launched a Climate Transition portfolio with Net Zero ambitions for a decarbonising segregated mandate and was a co-manager on HSBC‘s Sterling Corporate Bond Fund, Global Total Return Bond Fund and Global Short Duration Fund, all managed with sustainability targets.​

Prior to HSBC, Shamil was at BlackRock for over 7 years, most recently as a senior global credit portfolio manager focussed on unconstrained strategies. Shamil started his career at PIMCO where he had wide-ranging exposure to most fixed income asset classes, including investment grade, ABS, high yield, emerging market debt, and rates and FX.​

Shamil graduated with a MA (Oxon) in Physics (including an elective in Climate Physics) from the University of Oxford. He has a Diploma in ESG Investment Management and a Certificate in Climate & Investing from CFA UK. ​