Prior to founding Arbel with Gabriel Low, Amir was Deputy CEO and the Chief Investment Officer of Harel Insurance and Finance, Israel’s largest insurance group, for 16.5 years.
Amir founded the investment division in the year 2000, and under his leadership the division personnel grew from 5 employees to 85 with Asset Under Management from 12 billion NIS to 145 billion.
Over the same period the investment portfolio, which originally constituted exclusively of Israeli listed bonds and shares, was diversified and developed to include circa 40% Foreign assets and over 30% alternative assets, including inter alia, a domestic private credit operation catering to business clients set up to compete with the corporate divisions at the domestic banks, the creation of an global income producing real estate portfolio invested in the USA, Europe and Israel, and investments in both Infrastructure and Private Equity transactions in hundreds of projects, companies and funds.
During his tenure, Harel’s investment portfolio achieved a return of 8% leading the entire insurance and pension fund industry.
Prior to joining Harel, Amir served as an Analyst, Deputy CEO and Head of Research and Betuha, at the time Israel’s largest brokerage firm.
Amir holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Business and Economics from Tel Aviv University, both with honors.