Altaf Kassam

Altaf Kassam is Managing Director and Head of Equity Applied Research, Americas and EMEAI for MSCI, with responsibility for research to support new and existing indexes and risk models, including factor and economic exposure indexes, as well as performance and risk attribution.Altaf received a first-class joint honors degree in engineering and computing science from St. John’s College, Oxford University and an MSc. in Finance from London Business School. He received his CFA charter in 2005. He has published articles on the relationship between equity volatility and credit spreads, the “optimal” use of protective equity derivative strategies from a risk/return point of view, “how to” guides on call overwriting and analyses of dividend futures markets. Altaf left MSCI in September 2015.