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Saira Malik · San Francisco, California, United States.
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About
Saira is Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and a member of the Executive Management Team. She manages a business with more than $2 trillion in assets under management across global equities, global fixed income, global infrastructure, municipal bonds, multi-asset strategies, private placements, global product, public real assets, C-PACE lending, energy infrastructure credit and Brooklyn AI, along with driving weekly market and investment insights and delivering capital allocation perspectives from across the firm’s investment teams. Saira also leads Nuveen’s Global Investment Committee (GIC), bringing together the firm’s most senior investment leaders to deliver actionable investment ideas for our clients and authoring a weekly market commentary focused on navigating markets, risk and decision making under uncertainty. Since joining the firm in 2003, Saira has held a variety of positions. Prior to being named CIO, she was head of global equities portfolio management and head of global equities research. Previously, Saira was with JP Morgan Asset Management, where her roles included small cap growth portfolio manager. Saira holds the CFA designation and graduated with a B.S. in Economics from California Polytechnic State University and an M.S. in Finance from the University of Wisconsin. She frequently appears on financial news networks such as CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg. Saira was recognized as one of Forbes 50 over 50: 2025, Pensions & Investments "Most Influential Women in Institutional Investing" in 2023 and has been profiled in Kiplinger’s and Barron’s, which ranked her among the top 100 most influential women in U.S. finance for seven years in a row, from 2020-2026. Since 2022, she has been named as one of LinkedIn's "Top Voices in Finance" .Saira can be reached at [email protected].
Experience
Chief Investment Officer and EVPCurrent
Nuveen, a TIAA company · San Francisco, CA
Jan 2022 – Present
Managing a global investment business totaling more than $2T in assets under management and leading the firms’s business and investment management activities. Chair of Global Investment Committee and member of Executive Management Team.