My Career Insights
High Fidelity
A phone call that changed my career The year was 2004. I was fresh off the launch of Franklin India’s Flexi Cap Fund, one of
Login FinTech
Fortunately for me, the tailwind of Fintech had just begun in 2014. So I was lucky to get a phone call from Mr Karan Datta,
Does M&A help retail investors?
An engineering conglomerate acquiring the world’s largest asset manager assets L&T enters the ‘turbulent’ mutual fund business without an edge. I read this article in
India’s First Fund Supermarket
Today for an Indian retail investor, many investment platforms are available online. In 2006, many platforms / administrative tools existed in the U.K. market to
A fund which gave 10x returns in 10 years (1993-2003)
Mutual Funds > Insurance During one of my sales calls in 2002 at HDFC Standard Life with one of the financial consultants, I discovered product
bizarre: Career switch from “Tech” to “Life Insurance.”
Having experienced the hardships of an early-stage startup, I aspired for a prominent brand in the IT sector. Therefore I was working on getting leads
Jumping into the dot-com bubble
Demand for Tech > Supply In 1996, I graduated in Commerce from a Tier II college in Bangalore. However, my dad wanted me to enter