Equity Fund Manager on WebNotes

Anand Radhakrishnan

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Anand Radhakrishnan is the Chief Investment Officer for Equities at Franklin Templeton Asset Management (India) Private Limited , the Indian subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Investments, the global asset management company. He has been with Franklin Templeton India for over a decade in senior equity investment roles and has been a visible presence in Indian financial media as a commentator on equity markets and investment strategy. Prior to his current role, he had an earlier career phase associated with Sundaram Mutual Fund (the Sundaram Asset Management Company, part of the Sundaram Group).

Lalit Nambiar

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Lalit Nambiar is a fund manager at UTI Asset Management Company Limited who has served in equity investment roles at the AMC for an extended period, with responsibility for mid-cap and diversified equity schemes. He has been a contributor to UTI AMC’s equity research and investment process under the oversight of Chief Investment Officer Vetri Subramaniam .

Early life and education

Lalit Nambiar holds a postgraduate management qualification and is a CFA charterholder. He pursued his education in India. He is based in Mumbai.

Madhusudan Kela

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Madhusudan Kela is a veteran Indian equity investor and former Chief Investment Officer of Reliance Capital Asset Management, the asset management subsidiary of Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group that was subsequently restructured and rebranded as Nippon India Mutual Fund following Nippon Life Insurance of Japan’s acquisition of a controlling stake. Kela is regarded as one of the most accomplished mid-cap and small-cap equity investors in India’s mutual fund history, with a career at Reliance Capital AMC spanning more than a decade and a half during which he oversaw some of the best-performing equity schemes of their era. After leaving Reliance Capital AMC, he has operated as an independent investor and occasional media commentator.

Mihir Vora

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Mihir Vora is the Chief Investment Officer of Trust Mutual Fund (formerly TRUST Asset Management Private Limited), a SEBI-registered mutual fund. He is a veteran Indian equity fund manager with a career spanning over three decades across HDFC Asset Management Company , Max Life Insurance, Standard Chartered Asset Management (India), and other financial institutions.

Early life and education

Mihir Vora is a Chartered Accountant (CA) and holds a CFA charter. He pursued his professional education in India. He is based in Mumbai.

Nilesh Shah

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Nilesh Shah is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Company (Kotak AMC), one of India’s five largest mutual fund houses by assets under management, a position he has held since January 2014. One of the most publicly prominent figures in Indian asset management, Shah has been associated with capital markets for over three decades, having previously served as Deputy Managing Director at ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company and as a key figure in fixed income markets at Franklin Templeton Investments India. He is a past president and current board member of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) and a prolific commentator on equity markets, investor education, regulatory reform, and India’s long-term economic trajectory. His tenure at Kotak AMC has been marked by sustained growth in assets under management from approximately Rs 30,000 crore at the time of his joining to over Rs 3.5 lakh crore by the mid-2020s, a strong emphasis on systematic investment plan (SIP) culture across the retail investor base, and outspoken advocacy for deepening domestic equity participation as a mechanism for household wealth creation.

Prashant Jain

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Prashant Jain is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of 3P Investment Managers, a SEBI-registered portfolio management and investment advisory firm established in 2023. He is best known for his 21-year tenure as Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer at HDFC Asset Management Company , one of India’s two largest mutual fund houses, which he left in 2022. During his time at HDFC AMC, Jain was the lead fund manager for HDFC Equity Fund, HDFC Top 100 Fund (formerly HDFC Top 200 Fund), and HDFC Flexicap Fund (formerly HDFC Equity Fund), among the most widely tracked actively managed equity funds in Indian mutual fund history. He is regarded as one of the defining figures of Indian equity fund management over a career spanning more than three decades.

Sailesh Raj Bhan

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Sailesh Raj Bhan is the Deputy Chief Investment Officer and a senior equity fund manager at Nippon India Mutual Fund (Nippon Life India Asset Management Limited), one of India’s largest mutual fund houses. He is known for his long tenure managing Nippon India Growth Fund (formerly Reliance Growth Fund), one of India’s older actively managed equity schemes with a strong historical performance record, and Nippon India Multi Cap Fund. Bhan’s association with the fund house dates to the Reliance Capital AMC era, making him one of the longest-tenured senior equity fund managers in Indian mutual fund history at a single organisation.

Samir Arora

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Samir Arora is the founder and chief investment officer of Helios Capital Management Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based hedge fund that invests primarily in Indian equities. He is one of India’s most recognised foreign-domiciled India-focused fund managers and a highly active social media commentator on Indian equity markets. Before founding Helios, he served as Managing Director and Head of Equities for India and South Asia at Alliance Capital Management (later AllianceBernstein), managing large foreign institutional investor (FII) positions in Indian equities.