Ali Naqvi

Mr. Syed Ali R.
Naqvi is a Chief Executive Officer at Aletheia Capital (Hong Kong) Ltd.
For over 25 years, Mr. Naqvi has been a key advisor to governments, corporates and global investors in the dramatic transformation of the economies and capital markets of Asia in general and China in particular.
Until June 2018, Mr. Naqvi was with Credit Suisse as an Executive Chairman of Global Markets, Asia Pacific.
In his twenty years at the firm, he ran businesses.
He spent the first ten years of his professional life as an Investment Analyst.
In 1994, he created the most impactful research report of that time for the then largest Telecom Deal ($900mn, PTCL) in global emerging markets.
In 1998, he moved to Credit Suisse and became one of the first 2 analysts to get ranked within the firm in Asia.
In 1999, he took over the Singapore team and took the team from #16 to #1 (Institutional Investor) within 18 months and stayed at #1 for 3 consecutive years.
He then moved to Hong Kong to run the entire regional research team in 2003.
Mr. Naqvi introduced a number of product and business innovations which became industry benchmarks starting from CLSAs Stress Test during the 1997-98 Asia financial crisis (AFC), which was trademarked by CLSA. He also introduced the US$ equivalent Financial modeling system during the foreign exchange crises in 1997-98 to look beyond the FX volatility while valuing companies.