Raman Vardharaj is a Portfolio Manager for the US Core Equity team at Invesco. In this role, he manages the dividend growth strategy and provides both quantitative and fundamental research coverage to the team for all its strategies.

Mr. Vardharaj joined Invesco when the firm combined with OppenheimerFunds in 2019. At OppenheimerFunds, he was a portfolio manager and quantitative analyst, leading his team’s quantitative research effort. Before joining OppenheimerFunds in 2009, Mr. Vardharaj served as an assistant portfolio manager and senior quantitative analyst at RS Investments. He began his career as a quantitative analyst at Guardian Life in 1998.

Mr. Vardharaj earned a bachelor of technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Rochester. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) charterholder and member of the CFA Society of New York. Mr. Vardharaj holds certifications in ESG and sustainable finance from the CFA Institute, SASB, and Cambridge University. His research has been published in the Financial Analysts Journal, a publication of the CFA Institute.