United States $250 Billion Lazard Asset Management Appoints Eric Van Nostrand as Chief Investment Officer in Newly Created Role, 16 Years Experience at United States Government (Department of Treasury, The White House), BlackRock, Credit Suisse & Lazard and Held Senior Roles Including as Global Head of Markets & Chief Economist, Head of Research for Multi-Asset Strategies & Sustainable Investments
9th January | Hong Kong
United States Lazard Asset Management ($250 billion AUM) has appointed Eric Van Nostrand as Chief Investment Officer in newly created role. Eric Van Nostrand has 16 years experience at the United States Government (Department of Treasury, The White House), BlackRock, Credit Suisse & Lazard and held senior roles including as Global Head of Markets & Chief Economist, Head of Research for Multi-Asset Strategies & Sustainable Investments. Announcement (6/1/26): “Lazard Asset Management (“LAM”) today announced that Eric Van Nostrand has been appointed Chief Investment Officer (CIO), a newly created role established to strengthen the cohesion, discipline, and effectiveness of LAM’s global investment platform. As CIO, he will be responsible for investment oversight and for advancing the processes that support consistent, longterm outcomes for clients. In this role, Eric will partner closely with LAM’s investment leaders to strengthen portfolio construction standards, deepen research rigor, and elevate coordination across strategies globally. His remit includes oversight of investment processes, driving economic and investment debate across the platform, and ongoing review of strategies and risk frameworks. Portfolio managers will report to the CIO but remain responsible for the investment decisions in their portfolios. Eric most recently served as Global Head of Markets and Chief Economist at Lazard Asset Management. Prior to joining Lazard, he served as Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, where he led the office responsible for analyzing domestic and international U.S. economic policies and received the Alexander Hamilton Award, the U.S. Treasury’s highest honor. Previously, he was a portfolio manager and Managing Director at BlackRock, where he managed systematic equity funds and served as Head of Research for Multi-Asset Strategies. Eric holds a JD from Yale Law School and degrees in economics and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. The introduction of the CIO role reflects Lazard Asset Management’s commitment to scalable, research driven processes that strengthen connectivity across teams, deepen integration of risk analytics and technology, and create greater consistency in how the business applies its investment discipline to deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients.”
“ United States $250 Billion Lazard Asset Management Appoints Eric Van Nostrand as Chief Investment Officer in Newly Created Role, 16 Years Experience at United States Government (Department of Treasury, The White House), BlackRock, Credit Suisse & Lazard and Held Senior Roles Including as Global Head of Markets & Chief Economist, Head of Research for Multi-Asset Strategies & Sustainable Investments “
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Chris Hogbin, CEO of Lazard Asset Management: “Establishing the CIO role marks an important evolution in how we support our investors and deliver for clients. Eric brings a unique combination of investment experience, analytical depth, and organizational leadership. By unifying elements of our investment oversight, we can strengthen analytical rigor, build greater collaboration across teams, and enhance the consistency of our process—all with the goal of driving better and more repeatable outcomes for our clients.”
Eric Van Nostrand, CIO of Lazard Asset Management: “Lazard has long been defined by its commitment to intellectual research and rigorous portfolio management. Our opportunity now is to harness that expertise even more effectively across our platform to deliver alpha for our clients—elevating our best ideas and sharpening our processes across discretionary and systematic portfolios. I look forward to partnering with our investors to reinforce the culture of curiosity and innovation that has always been at the core of Lazard’s analytical approach to investing on behalf of our clients.”
Lazard – Founded in 1848, Lazard is one of the world’s preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms, with operations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Lazard provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and capital solutions, restructuring and liability management, geopolitics, and other strategic matters, as well as asset management and investment solutions to institutions, corporations, governments, partnerships, family offices, and high net worth individuals
United States $250 Billion Lazard Asset Management Appoints Eric Van Nostrand as Chief Investment Officer in Newly Created Role, 16 Years Experience at United States Government (Department of Treasury, The White House), BlackRock, Credit Suisse & Lazard and Held Senior Roles Including as Global Head of Markets & Chief Economist, Head of Research for Multi-Asset Strategies & Sustainable Investments
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