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Aditi Kothari Desai is Chairperson of DSP Asset Managers and leads its financial wellness and digital initiatives, including Winvestor.
Written exclusively 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.
Written exclusively 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.
Written exclusively 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.
Written exclusively 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.
Written exclusively 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.
Written exclusively for FinEdge
Resilience is engineered — multi-asset diversification, dynamic rebalancing, a pre-set allocation reviewed annually and an emergency reserve.
Portfolio Review
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.
Written exclusively 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
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