Azhar has 24 years direct experience of investing in an array of strategies across the Global Fixed Income and Leveraged Finance arenas. He trained as a chartered accountant with Deloitte before starting his investment career as a high yield credit analyst at Gulf International Bank. He subsequently became Head of Corporate Debt being responsible for IG & HY absolute and relative return strategies. He left to join Insight as Head of HY & Leveraged Loans before joining RLAM initially as Head of Global High Yield where he has successfully launched funds across the Global HY & Multi Asset credit strategies. Azhar holds a BA in Economics & Law from SOAS, University of London and recently obtained an MSc in Behavioural Science from LSE.