Fund Managers
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Mr. Ricky Kirpalani
As Founder and Chief Investment Adviser for First Water Capital, Ricky is a logic-based value investor with over 30 years of experience. His investment approach is fueled by His investment approach involves a combination of rigorous due diligence, an intuitive understanding of the correlation between global, industry, and company specific factors, and a macro perspective on the ever-changing landscape of the emerging markets. Prior to launching First Water Capital, Ricky was an independent business analyst and ran a private pool of capital generating alpha with a CAGR north of 30% over a timeline of over 15 years. Additionally, Ricky has seen commerce from an owners viewpoint with interests in various industrial businesses in Africa and as financial advisor to a number of CEOs. This has allowed him to obtain a broader viewpoint of the internal dynamics and conflicts of operating and managing a business.
Mr. Shailendra Kumar
Mr. Shailendra Kumar is associated with Narnolia and has over 20 years of experience in research and fund management. Under Mr. Shailendra leadership, Narnolia has developed a wide spectrum of category-leading onshore and offshore investment products ranging from both capital protection to growth-oriented funds. Mr. Shailendra is also the editor of Market Twitter and India Quant Analytics, a publication on quantitative statistics and structure of the Indian equity market. He has also created over 69 indexes including India's most broad and comprehensive "EW All-Share Index" and the very first "EW Islamic Index". Mr. Kumar holds post-graduate degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Mr. Sunil Singhania
Sunil Singhania, CFA, is the Founder of Abakkus Asset Management, LLP, an India-focused Asset Management Company established in 2018. Prior to this, in his role as Global Head – Equities at Reliance Capital Ltd., he oversaw equity assets and provided strategic inputs across Reliance Capital Group of companies including asset management, insurance, AIF and offshore assets. And as CIO – Equities, Singhania led Reliance Mutual Fund (now Nippon India Mutual Fund) equity schemes. Reliance Growth Fund (now Nippon India Growth Fund) grew over 100 times in less than 22 years under Singhania’s leadership. Furthermore, he led Reliance Asset Management (now Nippon Life India Asset Management)Ltd.’s international efforts and was instrumental in launching India funds in Japan, South Korea, and the UK, besides managing mandates from institutional investors based in the US, Singapore, and other countries. He is currently appointed on the IFRS Capital Market Advisory Committee. (2020-2023). He was the Promoter of The Association of NSE Members of India; a body of stock brokers. He served on the Global board of CFA Institute, USA (2013-2019) and as Chairman of the Investment Committee (2017-2019) of the CFA Institute, USA. He also sat on CFA Institute’s Standards of Practice Council for six years, and was the Founder of the Indian Association of Investment Professionals (now CFA Society India) and served as its President for eight years. He is a CA rankholder and a CFA charterholder and graduated in commerce from the Mumbai University.
Mr. Yashraj Kedia
Mr. Yashraj Kedia is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a MBA degree from ISB (Indian School of Business). He was instrumental in setting up Portfolio Management Services (PMS) desk and Derivatives desk of Kedia Shares. He has vast experience in the field of Equity Research, Wealth Management, Corporate Finance and Derivatives.
Mr.Vishal Khatri
Vishal Khatri has 12+ years of professional experience in Investment advisory and investment banking, having a demonstrated track record for identifying stocks, formulating investment strategies and managing risk. He has been associated with various boutique investment banks and advisory companies such as Indcap Advisors, VT Investment Advisors and AFII Corporate Advisors. Has worked in various domains of financial modelling, equity research and analysis with exposure to multiple sectors, M&A due diligence and have also advised on transactions of foreign infra companies in India. He qualification is BBA, MBA (Finance), and a SEBI registered ‘Portfolio Manager’. Designated as Principal Officer at Valtrust PMS.
Mridul Jalan
An alumnus of The IIM Calcutta, Mridul Jalan got exposed to Equity Market in his teens and got fascinated by it immediately. His inclination to numbers and analysis found the destination and became his first love. Even after his MBA he chose to come back to markets instead of exploring other career options.Having seen the bad delivery scam, UTI scam and Lehman Bros bankruptcy early in his career, Mridul understand the aftermath of risk, thus risk management and returns go hand in hand for him.He strongly believes the edge in research is predicting the future and the rationale for it, by managing the risk at the portfolio level, at Senora Asset Management Mridul leads fund management and research
