AGF Logo
  • Home
  • Industry and Expert Views
  • Investing and Market Views
  • Capitol Insights
  • Français
  • AGF.com
Skip to content
AGF logo
Insights and Market Perspectives
  • Industry and Expert Views
  • Investing and Market Views
  • Capitol Insights
  • Contributors
  • Français
  • Search
Search
Close
background image tall buildings

About Abhishek Ashok

Abhishek Ashok

Abhishek Ashok, M.A., MFE, CFA®

Analyst

AGF Investments Inc.

Abhishek Ashok is an Equity Analyst covering the Global Consumer Staples Sector.

He began his career with AGF Investments as part of the Highstreet* Investment Management team and has progressively taken on more responsibility to expand his role. Most recently, Abhishek was an Analyst on AGF Investments' Quantitative Team and was involved in developing and interpreting a broad suite of quantitative tools distilling company fundamentals, factors and the macroeconomic environment into investable outcomes.

Abhishek earned a Master of Financial Economics from Western University, an MA in Economics from York University, and a B.Sc in Economics and Management from Purdue University. He is also a CFA® Charterholder.

*Highstreet Asset Management Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AGF Investments Inc. CFA® and Chartered Financial Analyst® are registered trademarks owned by CFA Institute.

Recent Articles from this contributor
post image Food For Thought on Consumer Staples Stocks

  • Investing and Market Views

Food For Thought on Consumer Staples Stocks

April 30, 2025

AGF Investments analyst Abhishek Ashok talks about the nuanced performance of one of the best-known defensive sectors so far this year.

post image Explaining the Rotation in U.S. Consumer Staples Stocks

  • Investing and Market Views

Explaining the Rotation in U.S. Consumer Staples Stocks

September 10, 2024

AGF Investments Inc. analyst Abhishek Ashok explains the lingering consumer impact of higher inflation.

post image Investor’s Guide to GLP-1 Drugs: Food for Thought

  • Investing and Market Views

Investor’s Guide to GLP-1 Drugs: Food for Thought

July 30, 2024

In part three of a four-part series, analyst Abhishek Ashok looks at the possible impact of GLP-1 drugs on the food industry.

post image U.S. Consumer Staples Stocks and the Pursuit of Pricing Power

  • Investing and Market Views

U.S. Consumer Staples Stocks and the Pursuit of Pricing Power

April 3, 2024

AGF’s Abhishek Ashok talks about the impact of inflation on U.S. consumer staples stocks.

post image Big Picture: Investors Not on the Defensive, Despite Talk of Recession

  • Investing and Market Views

Big Picture: Investors Not on the Defensive, Despite Talk of Recession

September 26, 2023

Consumer staples, healthcare and utilities sectors have underperformed this year.

post image Big Picture: Growth Vs Value

  • Investing and Market Views

Big Picture: Growth Vs Value

September 19, 2023

The performance spread in favour of growth stocks has rarely been larger than it was earlier this summer.

post image Anatomy of a Narrow Equity Market

  • Investing and Market Views

Anatomy of a Narrow Equity Market

June 26, 2023

Every month (or so), AGF’s quantitative team highlights the investment factors that are helping shape equity markets. Today’s focus is market breadth (or lack thereof) in the current environment.

post image Why Last Year’s Stock Market Laggards Are This Year’s Early Winners

  • Investing and Market Views

Why Last Year’s Stock Market Laggards Are This Year’s Early Winners

March 3, 2023

Every month (or so), AGF’s quantitative team highlights the investment factors that are helping shape equity markets. Today’s focus is the reversal of fortune in what constitutes momentum stocks.

post image Yes, Markets Are Oversold. But Investors Still Need to Be Cautious

  • Investing and Market Views

Yes, Markets Are Oversold. But Investors Still Need to Be Cautious

November 24, 2022

Every month (or so), AGFiQ highlights the quantitative investment factors that are helping shape equity markets. Today’s focus is oversold conditions and the risk of weakening economic and earnings data.

post image Three Takeaways from the Summer Rally in Stocks

  • Investing and Market Views

Three Takeaways from the Summer Rally in Stocks

September 9, 2022

Every month (or so), AGFiQ highlights the investment factors that are helping shape equity markets. Today’s focus includes the risk on/risk off nature of the rebound in stocks and what the PMI cycle means for factor performance going forward.

AGF Logo
  • Industry and Expert Views
  • Investing and Market Views
  • Capitol Insights

Follow AGF

© 2025 AGF Management Limited. All rights reserved.

  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy
  • AGF.com