William Blair Investment Management Launches Global Leaders Select Strategy, Appoints Chandan Khanna as Co-Portfolio Manager
William Blair Investment Management today announced the launch of the Global Leaders Select Strategy, with the appointment of Chandan Khanna as Co-Portfolio Manager alongside Hugo Scott-Gall, Head of William Blair’s Global Equity Team.
The Global Leaders Select strategy is a concentrated portfolio of 25-35 leading global companies which combine quality and growth characteristics. The strategy is benchmark-agnostic and aims to deliver strong long-term returns for investors through conviction, concentration, and compounding.
Global Leaders Select combines William Blair’s established global equities capabilities with an investment approach that Khanna has applied since 2021. The strategy’s focus on a concentrated portfolio of high-quality global companies with durable growth closely reflects the philosophy and portfolio-construction approach Khanna employed before joining William Blair. While Global Leaders Select is a newly launched strategy, Khanna brings a five-year track record of delivering strong performance with the strategy.
Khanna will work alongside Hugo Scott-Gall and William Blair’s global equity team to manage the strategy, drawing on the firm’s deep fundamental research capabilities and long-standing experience in quality investing. Global Leaders Select is part of William Blair’s Leaders platform, a series of actively managed equity portfolios focused on high-quality companies with strong competitive advantages, pricing power, and earnings growth. This includes William Blair’s Emerging Market Leaders, International Leaders and Global Leaders strategies.
