Indian asset management with Swarup Mohanty
In the last 15 years, Indian asset management has grown leaps and bounds. One of the amazing success stories of this period has been Mirae Asset management, which is best known for its well managed equity funds. In this episode, I caught up with Swarup Mohanty, the CEO of Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India). Swarup has been at Mirae since day 1 during a period when both Mirae and the Indian markets have grown immensely. I hope you enjoy listening to the conversation as much as I enjoyed recording it. In this episode, he speaks about: 0:00 - Introduction 2:55 - Influx of young investors into the markets 5:55 - The evolution of Indian asset management 10:15 - Thoughts on the current market cycle 15:05 - The biggest mistakes investors make 20:55 - What’s it like to be the CEO of Mirae? 26:15 - Performance chasing 31:17 - Are there too many AMCs in India? 34:14 - Active vs passive If you have any questions or thoughts about the topics in the conversation, post them on TradingQnA. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, do let us know @zerodhaonline on Twitter.