Nuvama Equities eXpansion Target

Naveen has over 18 years of experience spanning both sell side and buy side roles. He began his career in 2007 as a research analyst in the captive research arm of one of the world’s largest hedge fund DE Shaw. His early career in the sell side at HSBC involved generating investment ideas in the midcap space, for institutional investors. He covered sectors like Real Estate, IT, Media & Entertainment in his early years. Transitioning to Aditya Birla Capital, his role expanded to cover more wider range of sectors like Autos, Auto Ancillaries, Healthcare, Pharma, Building Materials & Age businesses. During his 11 year stint at Aditya Birla Capital, he led a research team of New 7 analysts and was part of the investment committee, which oversaw investment in two PMS schemes. Naveen’s core strength lies in deciphering intelligence and analytics out of large quantitative data sets and using that to combine top-down and bottom-up style of best of both the investing, making the worlds. At Nuvama, he is responsible for managing the Nuvama Absolute Return Strategy [NARS], and Nuvama Equities eXpansion Target strategy [NEXT] PMS as part of the Listed Equities vertical within Nuvama Asset Management. Naveen has a background in commerce and holds a masters in finance from ICFAI, Hyderabad. He is also a CFA charterholder

Over 18 years of experience in both sell-side and buy-side financial roles.

Combines quantitative data analysis with top-down and bottom-up investing styles.

Mr Nikhil Ranka has over 15 years of investment management experience spanning portfolio management, research and Derivatives trading. Prior to Joining the Investment Manager he was part of the core Equity investment team at Reliance Industries Treasury managing approx USD 1billion portfolio. He has worked as a Research analyst for over 5 years at Lloyd George Management, a Hong Kong based boutique investment management firm with over USD 1.5 billion exposure to India covering oil & gas, capital goods and telecom sector. He has also worked with ICICI securities and Kotak Securities. He holds an MBA degree specializing in finance from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai and has completed his graduation from UICT (Mumbai) with a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering.

Over 15 years of experience in investment management.

Specializes in portfolio management, research, and derivatives trading.

Mr. Ajay Vora has over a 15 years of investment management experience specialising in long only and long short equity strategies consistently generating alpha returns. Prior to joining Investment Manager he was heading Equity Investment team at Reliance Industries’ Treasury managing approx. USD $1 billion portfolio. With the help of an efficient team he managed to scale the portfolio from USD $200 million to USD $1 billion over 5 years. He started his career at Morgan Stanley as a materials sector analyst and then moved to ENAM Asset Management Company Private Limited (ENAM AMC). Over 6 years at ENAM AMC he managed to graduate from an analyst to Head of Research of fund with AUM of USD $1 billion. He was instrumental and part of core team to have managed to raise institutional money at ENAM AMC.

Over 15 years of experience in investment management.

Specializes in long-only and long-short equity strategies for alpha generation.