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Prakash Kapadia has over 16 years of post-graduate experience in capital markets and is an MBA Finance from Institute of Technology and Management, Mumbai. He is the Principal Officer at Anived and reports to the Board of Directors and is the functional head of Portfolio Management Services. His is responsible for determining sector allocation & portfolio weightage, actively managing the portfolio, understanding the risk to business and generation of new ideas to build a differentiated PMS. Worked with iAlpha Enterprises(a partnership firm) as Head Investments for 4.5 years where the scope of work included managing portfolio of the firm, with concentration in portfolio not more than15 stocks- portfolio has exposure to specific sectors only, responsible for entire research, building financial models and investment decisions purely on valuation with margin of safety. Worked with Navneet Publications as AVP- Strategy and Corporate Planning for a year. Worked with Edelweiss Securities Ltd as AVP- Institutional Equities- Research, for almost 5 years where he headed small and midcap equity research team (team was ranked 4th by Asia money polls in (2008/09) Worked with Crisil Market Wire Ltd, (a 100% subsidiary of Crisil) a real time newswire focusing on company analysis, stock market review and outlook Worked with Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India Pvt Ltd in Mumbai as an Analyst for almost 5 years preparing: the Business Information Report(BIR), used as a risk management product for evaluating new accounts, assessing existing customers and learning more about prospects
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Hiral Desai has over 10 years of experience in capital markets spanning across areas of equity research and portfolio management. He is an MBA Finance from Mumbai Educational Trust and an avid travel enthusiast. Working closely with Principal Officer, Hiral is responsible for ideation, portfolio construction & sector allocations, managing client portfolio, benchmarking and overseeing the research function. He is also a part of the stock review committee at Anived PMS. He along with Principal Officer report to the Board of Directors. Prior to joining Anived, Hiral was with iAlpha Enterprises (a partnership firm) as Vice-President Investments for 4.5 years managing the proprietary portfolio of the firm. He was additionally responsible for ideation, research process and performance benchmarking. In the past, Hiral has worked with Renaissance Group as Head of Strategy and Corporate Planning and Edelweiss Securities as Equity Analyst, Capital Goods and Sugar .
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Anurag Purohit, CFA has more than 9 years of experience in capital markets. Before his association with Anived and ialpha, he co-founded Vector Research, an independent equity research boutique. Prior to that, in his role as sell-side equity analyst he was responsible for covering the Indian technology and media sectors as well as small/mid-cap companies. Tracking the Indian technology sector was a natural extension given that he has hands on experience in the sector prior to joining capital markets. He has worked with leading brokerage houses such as Religare, Alchemy and Brics Securities in institutional as well as private client set-up. He holds an engineering degree in computer science and an MBA from a leading Indian business school. He is also a CFA charter holder from the CFA Institute, USA. Additionally Anurag enjoys running and cycling in his spare time.
