Fund Managers
Discover all of the fund managers
Paras Bothra
Mr. Paras Bothra completed his PGDBM from Wigan & Leigh College (UK) & B.Com (Hons) from Calcutta University. He is at present the Chief Investment Officer of Ashika Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd. and manages "Ashika India Alpha Scheme Fund", a Category III AIF. He has been with Ashika Group since 2005 and has vast experience of in-depth research in Indian equity markets. He is instrumental in setting up the equity research vertical at Ashika Group and has experience in heading Institutional research and Retail & HNI research. He is quoted on various newswires and has represented the company on shows with ET Now, CNBC Awaaz, CNBC TV18, Zee Business, NDTV and on various other forums. He is credited with initiation of "Ashika Monthly Insight", a monthly magazine on financial markets, which is widely read among investors and the business community.
PAWAN BANSHI PARAKH
Pawan Parakh is a Fund Manager at Geojit Financial Services. Pawan has 18 years of experience in Fund Management & Institutional equity research. During this period, he has worked with marquee organizations like Edelweiss, HDFC, HSBC & Deloitte. As a fund manager, Pawan has a track record of managing large PMS schemes and has generated sustainable wealth on a consistent basis. As a sell-side analyst, Pawan has been amongst the top-rated analysts in Asia money and other such ranking platforms. Pawan actively interacts with company managements and industry experts to have a better understanding of ground realities and future emerging trends.
Pawan Bharaddia
Mr. Pawan is the driving force of the company and spearheads all investments at Equitree. He has been an astute investor with over 20 years of successful investing experience across private & public markets. His calm and patient demeanor with a dogged attitude to detailing profoundly assists in identifying niche investment opportunities early on and taking long term bets. Prior to co-founding Equitree, he has held senior positions in private equity firms like Nine Rivers Capital, Axis Holdings & Frontline Ventures. In early part of his career, he has also worked with global organizations like Chase Manhattan Bank and ABN Amro Bank. Pawan is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Bachelor of Commerce from Mumbai University and is based in Mumbai.
PAWAN KUMAR
As the visionary founder of Finnso Stock Brokers Pvt Ltd, I have spearheaded a pioneering force within the contemporary financial services realm. With an unwavering commitment to delivering impeccable, transparent, and impartial financial solutions, I established Finnso to transform the investment advisory paradigm for a diverse clientele.
Piyush Shah
Piyush joined ASK Group in September 2023 as CIO & Fund Manager, Hedge Fund Solutions to build and manage the Alternate Investment platform. His current role, is setting the investment style and strategy of the firm’s investments managing the various alternate offerings, including the flagship, India long-short strategy as well as complete oversight over the investment team and business management. His key responsibilities include sourcing, managing, and monitoring investment, establishing investment policies and collaborating with the fund management team to optimise investment performance. With an experience spanning over two decades in the financial services industry, Piyush is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience in the Indian equity markets, known for his extensive knowledge of derivatives and fundamental analysis. His disciplined and process-driven approach has consistently yielded positive risk-adjusted returns across various market cycles.
Pluswealth Capital Management LLP
Pluswealth is a proprietary quantitative high frequency trading firm
Prabhakar Kudva
Prabhakar Kudva is a successful long only growth investor. Prabhakar has been selected as one among 40 under 40 Investment managers by AIWMI (Association of International Wealth Management of India. He has been generating market beating returns across multiple years by cherry picking a number of high growth businesses which have turned out to be big winners. He has been authoring a popular blog (Investment Insight India) on investment ideas for the past several years. He has also worked in the financial technology product space designing products for the capital markets. Prabhakar in his capacity as the founder director of Samvitti focuses on unearthing long term investment opportunities for the various long-only portfolios that Samvitti manages. He also manages the investment research and technology teams.
Pradeep Gokhale
Pradeep is a qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute in the USA. Prior to joining Green Lantern Capital LLP, he worked as the Head of Equity at ITI Asset Management Ltd. for 4 years. He has also worked with Tata Asset Management Ltd., CARE Ratings Ltd., Bombay Dyeing, Tata International, and Lubrizol India Ltd. With over 23 years of extensive experience in fund management, equity research, and credit evaluation and ratings, Pradeep brings valuable expertise to the company and supports portfolio construction.
Pragati Khadse
22+ years of public market investing experience across sectors. Previously with JP Morgan Services, Citi Investment Research & IIFL Institutional Equities .MBA Finance, IIM-C, BE from Amravati University.
Pranav Mise
Over 6 years of experience in Portfolio Valuations and Portfolio Management. He is with Tata Asset Management Pvt Ltd. since the last 3 years in the Investments team of Portfolio Management. Prior to joining Tata Asset Pvt Management Ltd., Pranav was with Daiwa Portfolio Advisory, India in the Investments team covering the India and Indonesia Investments. He has also worked with ICRA Management Consulting leading the valuations for credit papers. Pranav is a Postgraduate in Management Studies (MMS) with a specialization in Finance from N L Dalmia Institute of Management Studies, University of Mumbai. He has done his Bachelor’s in Engineering (BE, Information Technology) from University of Nagpur
Prathmesh Agrawal
Prathmesh Agrawal is an experienced Buy-side professional with over 13 years in the Listed Indian Public Equity markets, specializing in Portfolio Strategy, Risk Management, and Investment Analysis. Prior to joining ACMIIL, Prathmesh was Vice President (Investments) at ENAM Asset Management. His earlier stints include key roles at Varanium Capital, Religare Portfolio Managers and Moody’s Analytics, where he played a crucial role in Investment Strategy and Portfolio Management. Prathmesh is a Qualified Chartered Accountant and NISM XXIB Certified Portfolio Manager. His expertise spans across multiple business functions with a strong track record in Alpha Generation and Portfolio Optimization.
Pratik Karmakar
Pratik Karmakar, MBA (FMS Delhi), B. Tech. CS, NIT)
Praveen Dwarakanath
Praveen Dwarakanath is experienced in formulating exposure model designs, co-relation models, and capital market listing Sold his first research-based start-up for USD 4 Million after starting with USD 600, in three years time. An Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science Engineering An MBA from IIM, Lucknow
Priyankar Sarkar
Priyankar has been focusing on the Indian equity market for over a decade. His professional career started as a buy-side analyst with Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company (MOAMC) in 2014. He has had the privilege of learning the basic tenets of invest management under the tutelage of Mr. Raamdeo Agarwal (Chairman of MOFSL) himself. During his stint at MOAMC, he covered technology, media, telecom (TMT) and cement sectors. In May 2019, he moved to HSBC Global Asset Management as a consumer analyst. This helped him gain a thorough understanding of the consumption sector in India. He worked closely with the offshore fund management team (led by Mr. Sanjiv Duggal) based in Hong Kong, which in turn gave him a good understanding of how FIIs invest in India. In September 2021, he began to manage a part of the equity portfolio at Ananta Capital. Here, he covered diverse sectors such as healthcare, music streaming, manufacturing etc. Tracking and understanding of several sectors is essential before one becomes a fund manager. This knowledge enables a fund manager to appreciate different business models and their key drivers. Over the years Priyanka has had the privilege of being mentored by some exemplary stock pickers of India viz. Mr. Vinod Sethi (ex-MD, Morgan Stanley) and Mr. Ramesh Damani, a veteran investor. His style of investing is largely a result of such insightful mentorship. Priyankar has a bachelor’s in engineering (Hons) from University of Liverpool, UK and an MBA (Finance) from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Bengaluru.
Puneet Jain
Puneet has more than 19 years of experience in marquee firms like Goldman Sachs and Kotak Institutional Equities comprising distressed assets, operational turn-around and equity research. He has invested US $ 1bn across more than 25 debt acquisition/ funding opportunities. He has done more than 25 debt acquisition/fresh funding deals across different structures with broad spectrum of large financial institutions. Involved in marquee debt deals across industries like steel, paper, and real estate in the Indian distress industry.
