Fund Managers
Discover all of the fund managersRAHUL VEERA
Mr. Rahul Veera currently serves as the Fund Manager (Equity) at Nippon India AIF, boasting over 14 years of extensive experience encompassing Equity Research and Fund Management. He has previously worked with renowned organizations including Abakkus Asset Managers, Morgan Stanley, Edelweiss, and Elara Capital.
Rajesh Bhatia
Qualification: CFA, AIMR, Associate of Cost and Management Accounting, B.Com . Experience:Mr. Bhatia joined ITI Asset Management Limited (ITI AMC) in December 2022 and has over 31 years of work experience in capital market. Past Experience: Prior to joining ITI AMC, he was Managing Director and CIO of ITI Long Short Equity Fund (AIF) from June 2017 to December 2022. He was also associated with SIMTO Investments as CIO from September 2013 to June 2017.
Rajesh Kothari
Mr. Rajesh Kothari is the Founder and Managing Director of AlfAccurate Advisors which is one of the leading Investment Advisory firms in India. With a CWA and an MBA by qualification, he has a rich experience of more than 20 years in the Indian Capital Markets and has handled several investment projects in premier investment institutions. AlfAccurate Advisors PMS has delivered 24% compounded annualized returns since its inception in 2009 by one of the highest in the industry. During his tenure as a Fund Manager at DSP Merrill Lynch Fund Managers (now DSP BlackRock Mutual Fund), the equity assets under management flourished from USD 100mn to USD 1.5bn. All through this period of five years, the equity schemes often ranked in its 1st 'Quartile Ranking’ by CRISIL, a Standard & Poor’s affiliate. This is a testimony to his financial acumen and vast knowledge of investments. He is the recipient of several awards for delivering superior and consistent risk-adjusted returns. He won the CRISIL Mutual Fund of the Year Award in 2006 for DSP Merrill Lynch Equity Fund. Economic Times rated him as a b Platinum Fund Manager. During his tenure, the fund house also received the Lipper India Fund award for the Best Equity Fund Group for three years. He is also honoured with CMA Young Achiever Award 2014 by ICMAI. Moreover, he has also been a keynote speaker at several international conferences/summits like Maharashtra Economic Summit, Institute of Directors, TradeTech Asia conference and The World Council for Corporate Governance. He has also invited a guest speaker on business channels like CNBC-TV18, ETNOW, and Bloomberg. Mr. Kothari is also actively involved with Arham Yuva Seva Group - a philanthropic initiative with several significant programmes for a better world for the youth.
Rajesh Kumar Rawat
With over nine years of experience in Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Business Valuation, and Financial Modeling, he possesses strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of financial numbers and investment products. He has played a key role in developing business models and conducting valuations across diverse sectors. He brings proven expertise in managing critical projects and has extensive experience as a Research Analyst in PMS services. Before joining Acepro, he worked with reputed organizations such as Kotak Securities, Kredent Capital, and Majortrend Capital in various capacities.
Rajesh Kumar Tiwari
Over 3 decades of experience in banking, equity and debt investments Established CCSPL in 2008. Acted as the advisor to Acacia Partners, one of the largest FIIs in India (Ruane Cunniff & Goldfarb) between 2010 to 2017 for the India equity portfolio over USD 2 billion Prior to starting CCPL, Mr. Tiwari was President (Credit) at UTI / Axis Bank. During his 7 years stint, he led expansion of the bank’s corporate credit portfolio from INR 1500 crores to INR 32,000 crores, simultaneously reducing NPA percentage from 6.50% to 0.30%. At UTI / Axis Bank, he led the turnaround of the corporate credit business of the bank to a quality and market leadership position. Between 1992 to 2001, Mr Tiwari spent 9 years at Unit Trust of India (UTI) where he pioneered and led professional equity research. He is also credited with turning around the India Fund to make it reach the top quartile among Indian offshore funds. He was a part of initial team from IDBI that established the SEBI in 1988. Mr. Tiwari hold PGDM (IIM-A) and Ph. D. (Finance) from University of North Texas Co – founder of Lumens and director of Micasa Education Pvt. Ltd. that runs K-12 schools under the brand name ‘Lumens School’. Its first school was established in 2011 at Vapi, which now has over 600 students and has become known for its quality of education.
Rajesh Pherwani
Rajesh Pherwani began his investment career in 1996 with HDFC Ltd. He has been an investment analyst during his initial years and a Head of Research and Fund Manager in the later years.During his career, he seen multiple market and economic cycles and have identified multibaggers along the way,he has worked with large institutions such as HDFC Ltd., HDFC Mutual Fund and L&T Mutual Fund, as an integral part of their investment teams. The overall 23+ years of experience of Rajesh Pherwani in the investment field has given a strong foundation to the investment processes of Valcreate.At Valcreate, he continues to excel as an investment professional as his portfolio strategies have beaten most indices with one strategy giving > 33% returns over the last 1 year.
Rakesh Parekh
Mr. Parekh has over 25 years’ experience in equities and portfolio management. He heads the Equity PMS business at JM Financial Services (JMFS). Before joining JMFS, Mr. Parekh was part of the Templeton Emerging Markets Group headed by Dr. J. Mark Mobius. He was responsible for co-managing the portfolio of Templeton India Growth Fund (TIGF) and a private institutional portfolio-OMERS, a Canadian pension fund based out of Mumbai, India. He has gained varied experience across a number of emerging markets, principally India and Israel, during his tenure within Templeton Group. He has also worked with several other large investment organizations both FII’s and DII’s as a research analyst. Mr. Parekh is a qualified Associate of Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII), UK and holds a degree in MBA, Finance from the University of Stirling, UK.
Rakesh Vyas
Qualification: B.E (Electrical) and PGDM (Business Management) from XLRI Jamshedpur.. Experience:Prior to joining HDFC Mutual Fund in 2009 he has worked with Lehman Brothers and Nomura.
Rakshit Ranjan
Rakshit spent 6 years (2005-2011) covering UK equities with Lloyds Bank (Director, Institutional Equity Research) and Execution Noble (Sector Lead analyst). During these six years, he was ranked amongst the top-3 UK Insurance analysts (Thomson Reuters Extel survey) in the mid-cap space. Since 2011, Rakshit led Ambit Capital’s consumer research franchise which got voted as No.1 for Discretionary Consumer and within top-3 for Consumer Staples in 2015 and 2016. He launched Ambit’s Coffee Can PMS in Mar’17 and managed it till Dec’18. Under his management, Ambit’s Coffee Can PMS was one of India’s top performing equity products during 2018. Qualifications :Rakshit has a B.Tech from IIT (Delhi) and is a CFA charter holder.
RAM KALYAN KUMAR MEDURY
Ram Kalyan Kumar Medury - 25yrs Industry Experience, MBA, IIM Bangalore, BS Comp Sc
Ramakrishnan TB
Mr. Ramakrishnan T.B., commonly called Ramki, is a registered Research Analyst with SEBI and holds a Post Graduate Program in Portfolio Management from NISM. He was a Cochin Stock Exchange member and a governing board member during 1998-2000 and ex-Treasurer during 1998-1999. He was the Regional Head of Sharekhan (2002-2006). With over 32 years of experience in financial markets, Mr. Ramki plays a key role in organizing various investor awareness programs in Kerala and other states. He actively participates as a speaker in investment awareness initiatives organized by NSE, BSE, MCX, NSDL, CDSL, and SEBI. He is also a frequent panellist in public media discussions related to Financial Markets. Since May 2023, Mr. Ramki has conducted numerous investor awareness programs throughout Kerala, focusing on "AI and its impact on the stock market." His profound knowledge and extensive experience in stock market analysis greatly enrich these seminars with valuable insights. In addition to his speaking engagements, Mr. Ramki regularly contributes articles to publications such as "Sampadyam" by Malayala Manorama, "Dhanam" Magazines, and "Business Deepika." These contributions aim to keep the investing public informed about the Financial and Commodity Markets.
Raman Nagpal
Eminent Computer Scientist, Social Entrepreneur and Corporate Executive. Raman holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from Delhi and a Masters in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, is an MBA and a CFA(ICFAI.) He is also a certified Corporate Director from Insead Business School. He was on board of Adobe India and Mopria Global Alliance. He has over 20 years of experience of running global businesses – large enterprise as well as his own startups. Was running a $200M technology business for Adobe before deciding to pursue Accuracap fulltime. He has more than 8 years of public fund mgmt. experience and 20+ years of investing / business experience As founder and CIO of Accuracap, he launched 3 public PMS/AIF Funds since 2011, totaling an investment of over Rs. 11 billion
Ramesh Rachuri
Mr. Ramesh Rachuri brings in over 14 years of experience across markets ranging from forex, equity derivatives and quant, to the entire panoply of debt sub markets ranging from g-secs to credit and structured products. Post his PGDM from IIM, Indore, he worked with Securities Trading Corporation of India Ltd, Reliance Mutual Fund and Reliance PMS, and BOI AXA Mutual Fund. He has demonstrated excellence in operationalizing new verticals while scaling them up into sustainable & profitable operations. A particular focus has been to incorporate quantitative techniques in fund management, and fund strategy to extract value from size and trading environmental changes.
Rashi Talwar Bhatia
Head of Ashmore’s India office and is responsible for managing long-only India equity mandates. Rashi joined the Ashmore India team in 2007 as a senior research analyst and became a Co-Portfolio Manager in 2011. In January 2022, Rashi became the lead Portfolio Manager and is also Chair for the India sub-Investment Committee. With over 20 years of Indian equity market experience, she is skilled in combining macro top-down view with a bottom-up analysis to generate investment ideas for the portfolio. Before joining Ashmore, she had worked in multiple roles in Kotak Institutional Equities and Motilal Oswal from 2001 to 2007. Rashi holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Hindu College, Delhi University and an MBA from Owen School of Management, Vanderbilt University, USA
Ravi Dharamshi
Founder of ValueQuest , Cumulative 23 years of experience , Education: MBA in Finance, McCallum Graduate Business School-USA , Prior Experience: RARE Enterprises, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s Family office.
