Aflac Incorporated has named Chakravarthi “Chak” Raghunathan managing director and global chief investment risk officer, reporting to J. Todd Daniels, the global chief risk officer.
Aflac said that Mr. Raghunathan will be responsible for identifying and assessing investment risks in an evolving regulatory environment while developing strategies to address those risks. He will assume management of the existing investment risk team and will be based in the Aflac global investments office in New York.
Prior to joining Aflac, Mr. Raghunathan was global head of risk management and chief risk officer at Apollo Management. Prior to his role at Apollo Management, Mr. Raghunathan held positions at TD Bank Financial Group, most recently serving as senior vice president and global head of trading risk and quantitative analytics. He also held positions at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada in the Capital Markets Division and Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec in the Tactical Investments Group.
Aflac noted that Mr. Raghunathan earned his B.S. in pure mathematics from the University of Madras and his master's degree in applied mathematics at Concordia University.
Commenting on Mr. Raghunathan's appointment, Mr. Daniels said, “We believe Chak's expertise in sound risk management principles and practices, coupled with his leadership experience and quantitative background, will be tremendously beneficial as Aflac continually strives to better our asset liability risk management. I look forward to Chak's contributions and believe he will be instrumental to the future success of Aflac's global risk management function.”
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