Established in 1999, NWI Management is a New York-based hedge fund manager owned and operated by Nellapalli Hariharan and Jayachandrika Hariharan. Specializing in global macro advisory, the firm focuses on investing with a strong emphasis on emerging markets.
Hari N. Hariharan serves as the Chairman and CEO of NWI Management LP (NWI). NWI currently oversees approximately $4.3 billion in assets across private investment funds and accounts. NWI’s flagship fund, the NWI Emerging Market Fixed Income Master Fund, achieved recognition as #40 on Barron’s list of Best 100 Hedge Funds, based on three-year performance through December 31, 2013. Mr. Hariharan also holds the position of Chief Investment Officer at Blackstone NWI Asset Management L.L.C., a joint venture investment advisor specializing in long-biased emerging markets fixed income, co-owned by NWI and Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. Before his roles at NWI, Mr. Hariharan spent 17 years at Citibank N.A. from 1976 to 1993, where he established and led several highly successful global business units. In 1993, he founded the hedge fund group Santander New World Investments Group, which later evolved into NWI Management LP upon its spin-off in 1999. Mr. Hariharan's educational background includes Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development, an MBA in Finance from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from the University of Madras. He actively participates as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Foreign Exchange Committee and holds membership in the Council on Foreign Relations.
NWI Management is a hedge fund managing $2,539,093,052 in discretionary assets under management (AUM) as reported in their Form ADV dated April 30, 2024. Their Q1 2024 13F filing disclosed $3,276,404,000 in managed 13F securities, with a concentrated top 10 holdings representing 90.6%. The firm's largest position is in Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1, with 4,000,000 shares held