Nimesh Shah, MD and CEO of ICICI Prudential AMC

My guest for today in Nimesh Shah, MD and CEO of ICICI Prudential AMC. Nimesh joined ICICI Prudential AMC (IPAMC) in July 2007 as the MD & CEO. Under his leadership the AMC has emerged as one of the largest, most respected, and trusted Investment Managers in India; having contributed significantly to the growth of the Indian Mutual Fund Industry. Over the past 14 years, under Nimesh’s leadership, IPAMC has transformed into India's premier investment manager aligned to investor interest and leveraged digital innovations to improve its customer’s investment experience. Under his leadership, the AMC has won several prestigious and globally recognized awards from time to time.. The most recent awards include the globally recognized Morningstar Awards 2021- Best Fund House: Debt, The Economic Times Best Brands 2020, India Today most preferred Brands. Nimesh has been honored with the prestigious Global Banking & Finance Award for Best Asset Management CEO India in 2017 and the CEO of the Year 2014 by Asia Asset Management. In 2018 he was the Elected Chairperson of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI). He is currently a Director with AMFI and also serves as a Governing Council Member with ICICI Foundation. Nimesh has nearly three decades of experience in the banking and financial services industry and most of which has been with ICICI Group. He holds degrees in Chartered Accountancy and Cost Accountancy. This episode is brought to you by multipie.co where we believe Investing is an ignored life skill. Multipie is building up a platform where people can form communities and learn, share , collaborate on growing their wealth using the right tools. We want your hard earned money to work for you Show notes: 0:00 - Intro 2:34 - Journey with ICICI 6:06 - Navigating an AMC through 2008 11:25 - Views on Indian markets and an RBI induced rally 16:40 - Understanding the Indian investor 18:45 - Designing products for the Indian investors’s psychology 19:40 - Responsibility of an AMC as part of the larger group 21:50 - Being a supermarket of Mutual Funds 24:10 - Outlook for passive funds in India 26:37 - Creating an AMC for the “retired school teacher of Guwahati” 28:00 - How to choose funds & trusting “big brands” 34:03 - ICICI Prudential’s leadership structure to manage diversity in investing strategies 39:20 - Opportunity presented by digital penetration to the MF industry in India 41:50 - Understanding the behaviour of the millennial investor 44:35 - Advice to a young investor on asset allocation 47:14 - Views on investing in global equities 52:10 - Nimesh’s routine after the day in the office ends 52:55 - Who does Nimesh look up to? 55:00 - Advice to 20yr old self 56:25 - Closing

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