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About Renaissance
Our life revolves around investing and long-term wealth creation. In our quest for identifying great investment ideas we focus on high quality businesses that can deliver superior growth over the long term. We like to think about ourselves as Owners of businesses, rather than stockholders. We believe that risk management is central to any investment approach and strive to generate superior risk adjusted returns.
Pankaj Murarka
CIO
Pankaj is the founder and drives the investment process at Renaissance Investment Managers.
Pankaj Murarka
Pankaj is the founder and drives the investment process at Renaissance Investment Managers. He has over 21 years of experience in Equity Research & Fund Management with credible track record of performance over his professional career.
In his last role, Pankaj was associated with Axis Mutual Fund as the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) managing over $2bn in Indian Equities. He was part of the team that set up Axis Mutual Fund in 2009 and over the years built it into one of the leading AMC in India on back of excellent investment performance. He was responsible for the performance of all the equity funds of Axis AMC and during his stint as Chief Investment Officer, Axis AMC was recognized as the best Equity Fund house of the year by Outlook Money for 2014.
He was also awarded as Best Fund Manager – Runner up Award for Axis Midcap Fund by Outlook Money in 2014. The fund delivered a CAGR return of 24% (2011-2015) significantly outperforming the benchmark and was a top decile fund for 2012 & 2013 and was ranked the No1 performing fund in India across all funds in 2014 on 3 year basis. He was also recognized by Outlook Money as a Leading Fund Manager with 5 years of track record of consistent performance in the year 2015.
Pankaj has also worked with Merrill Lynch as India Portfolio Manager for Strategic Investment Group. He has also worked with Rare Enterprises, MotilalOswal Securities and UTI Mutual Fund. During his career apart from delivering superior risk adjusted returns consistently over 20 years in public markets, Pankaj has also been instrumental in executing various PIPE and Private Equity investments.
Pawan Parakh
Portfolio Manager
Pawan has over 10 years of experience in investment research.
Pawan Parakh (Portfolio Manager)
Pawan has over 10 years of experience in investment research. He started his capital markets career with Edelweiss Securities as an equity analyst in 2007.
Prior to 2007, Pawan did 3 years of internship at marquee organizations like Deloitte (Audit - 2 years) and HSBC Bank (Financial Control - 1 year). However his passion for equities made him join the research team at Edelweiss.
Since then he has covered multiple sectors like Capital goods, Infrastructure and Power across different organizations. He has depicted ability to understand different business models across several sectors.
Over last several years, he has actively interacted with company managements and industry experts to write several thematic / company reports. His work has been well appreciated by fund houses.
He also presented to company management on his view of the market dynamics and strategies suitable for them.
Pawan is a meritorious Chartered Accountant (all-India 48th Rankholder). He has also cleared all levels of CFA program conducted by CFA Institute (Virginia, USA).
RAMYA RAMAN
Company Secretary and Compliance Officer
Ramya has over 3 years of experience in corporate legal
Ramya Raman (Company Secretary and Compliance Officer)
Ramya has over 3 years of experience in corporate legal, secretarial services. Prior to joining Renaissance Investment Managers, she was working with Fabtech Technologies International Limited for a period of two years with good exposure in Compliance and Legal including Corporate Secretarial matters.
Ramya is a qualified Company Secretary & L.L.B (General)