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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.