As a managing director and fixed-income strategist, Amar works closely with clients and investors of Wellington Management and Hartford Funds on fixed-income allocations, market dynamics, and strategies. Amar publishes a monthly fixed-income strategy commentary for Wellington Management and Hartford Funds. He brings more than two decades of experience in fixed-income markets across both the public and private sectors, having served as a credit researcher, portfolio manager, derivatives structurer, and policy maker at the US Treasury Department. Over the course of his career, he has worked in the European, Asian, and US fixed-income markets.

Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2018, Amar worked as a strategist at Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo in fixed-income and asset-allocation strategies. Previously, he served as the deputy director of the Office of Debt Management at the US Treasury Department (2011–2015). He also held roles in fixed-income markets as an investment-grade portfolio manager at UBS Global Asset Management (2008–2011), a fixed-income derivatives solutions strategist at Merrill Lynch (2006–2008), and a credit analyst at UBS Investment Bank (2000–2003).

Amar holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2006), a master of science in European political economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2000), and a bachelor of arts from Vassar College (1999). He currently serves as the external observer for the United Nations Development Fund’s Investment Committee.