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Investment articles written exclusively for FinEdge by senior experts from across the investment industry, on the decisions that shape long-term investing outcomes.
Most investing decisions get better when you have seen more than one experienced way of thinking about them.
So FinEdge asks senior people from across the investment industry to write here, under their own names, about the questions investors actually face. What they write is their own view. FinEdge’s own thinking stays clearly ours and separately signposted — so you can tell the two apart, and use both.
Listed alphabetically. Each expert is an external investment professional writing in their own name — not a FinEdge employee, representative or reviewer.
Aditi Kothari Desai is Chairperson of DSP Asset Managers and leads its financial wellness and digital initiatives, including Winvestor.
Article for FinEdge
Women often start investing late and after life events; deliberate goal-setting and a support network close that gap.
Women & Investing
Avi Satwalekar is President of Franklin Templeton Asset Management (India), leading the firm's retail and institutional business in India.
2 articles for FinEdge
India's structural growth rewards those who stay invested; behaviour, not timing, decides the outcome.
Correct Investing Practices
Seek optimum, not maximum, returns — judge a fund by durability and by people, philosophy and process, not by the last cycle's chart.
Correct Investing Practices
Kalpen Parekh has over 19 years of experience across sales, distribution and marketing in Indian asset management, previously at IDFC, Birla Sun Life, and ICICI Prudential.
2 articles for FinEdge
The returns gap is real — investors earn materially less than the funds they own, because of entry and exit driven by emotion; resilience is the real alpha.
Investing Behaviour
Portfolio construction begins with filtering noise, clear goals and a risk profile — then diversification, not tips.
Correct Investing Practices
Nilesh Shah is Managing Director of Kotak AMC and a part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.
Article for FinEdge
Invest first, spend later; wealth is grown patiently — told through his own early tip-driven loss.
Mutual Funds
Radhika Gupta, MD & CEO of Edelweiss Mutual Fund, is a transformative leader in the Indian financial landscape whose work has significantly shaped the asset management sector.
2 articles for FinEdge
Financial inclusion has to move from access to engagement — the question is not whether a woman has an account, but whether she feels confident to decide; and purpose-first investors tend to hold on longer.
Women & Investing
Fund selection follows goal horizon and risk tolerance, not a rankings table.
Mutual Funds
S Naren is Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer at ICICI Prudential AMC, where he oversees the investment function across its Mutual Fund and Specialised Investment Fund businesses.
Article for FinEdge
Resilience is engineered — multi-asset diversification, dynamic rebalancing, a pre-set allocation reviewed annually and an emergency reserve.
Portfolio Review
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Invesco Asset Management (India) Pvt. Ltd.
LinkedIn profileSaurabh Nanavati is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Invesco Asset Management (India) Pvt. Ltd. He oversees business strategy, investments, operations and sales for Invesco India.
Article for FinEdge
Easier access and better information solved friction, not judgement. Saurabh Nanavati argues that a better investor is defined by a clear objective, a repeatable process, realistic expectations and the discipline to tell a genuine change from ordinary market movement.
10 min readInvesting Behaviour
Taher has over 31 years of experience in the Indian equity markets. In his role as Chief Investment Officer, Taher is responsible for the firm’s equity and fixed-income investment function.
Article for FinEdge
Before trusting an investment strategy, look beyond novelty, complexity and recent performance. Taher Badshah explains what he would want to understand first: what the strategy is trying to do, where its returns should come from, how decisions are made, what risks are being taken and when it may struggle.
14 min readSIF Investing
Industry Experts on Investing brings together articles about investing, written for FinEdge by external experts. Industry Leaders on FinEdge presents attributable views about FinEdge, shared by senior industry leaders. The same person may appear in both collections in these different roles.
The experts above write across 9 subjects. On each one, FinEdge has its own page and its own view — that page remains the owner of the subject.
Every article in Industry Experts on Investing is commissioned and written exclusively for FinEdge by a senior investment-industry expert, and published under their own byline and publication date.
What each expert writes here is their own view on investing. It is not FinEdge advice and not a recommendation of any product.
