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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.

UTI Master Index Fund (1998), India's first index fund

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UTI Master Index Fund, launched in 1998 by the Unit Trust of India, was India’s first passive index-tracking mutual fund. Structured as an open-end scheme that replicated the composition of the BSE Sensex (the Bombay Stock Exchange’s benchmark 30-stock index), the fund offered investors proportionate exposure to India’s large-cap equity market at lower cost than active equity funds, without relying on a fund manager’s stock-selection decisions. Its launch predated the Nifty BeES ETF of December 2001 by approximately three years, making it the foundational product in the history of passive investing in India.

UTI Mutual Fund

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UTI Mutual Fund is an Indian asset management company, formally incorporated as UTI Asset Management Company Limited (UTI AMC), and the institutional successor to the market-linked mutual fund business of the Unit Trust of India following the statutory bifurcation in 2003. The AMC manages assets across equity, debt, hybrid, passive, and solution-oriented categories. As of March 2024, UTI AMC managed assets in excess of Rs 2.8 lakh crore and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange following its IPO in September-October 2020.

UTI Mutual Fund direct portal

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The UTI Mutual Fund direct portal at utimf.com is the AMC-operated investment platform for direct plan investments in schemes managed by UTI Asset Management Company Limited (UTI AMC), one of India’s oldest and largest asset management companies. UTI AMC traces its institutional lineage to the Unit Trust of India, the government-sponsored investment entity established under the Unit Trust of India Act 1963, which dominated Indian mutual fund investing for several decades before deregulation.

UTI Mutual Fund IPO (2020)

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The UTI Asset Management Company Limited IPO of October 2020 was the initial public offering of India’s oldest and historically most prominent asset management company, bringing to public markets an institution that traced its lineage to the Unit Trust of India Act of 1963. The IPO listed UTI AMC on both the National Stock Exchange of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange on 12 October 2020, at a price of Rs 500 per share, implying a market capitalisation of approximately Rs 6,357 crore at the time of listing. The offering followed the HDFC AMC IPO of 2018 , which had established a market precedent for the valuation of asset-light fund management businesses in India.

Vetri Subramaniam

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Vetri Subramaniam is the Chief Investment Officer of UTI Asset Management Company Limited (UTI AMC ), one of India’s oldest and historically most significant mutual fund houses, a position he has held since 2017. Before joining UTI AMC, he served as Head of Equities at Invesco Asset Management India (formerly Religare Invesco AMC). He is known for his disciplined, valuation-conscious equity investment philosophy, his willingness to hold higher cash or defensive positions during periods of market overvaluation, and his direct and data-driven public commentary on market conditions.