A BIT ABOUT ME:

Everyone has a backdrop story. So does MoneyMan.

Like most people in India, I also hail from a lower-middle class family, deeply ingrained with the thought process of needing to work at a stable corporate job. I acquired a good education, bagged a great job and put my heart, soul, sweat & tears into my work. Slogged it out a lot like everybody does, and was very lucky & fortunate to be entrusted with a lot of professional responsibilities & promotions at a relatively young age.

Success followed but so did a lot more efforts to remain at the top. Along with the efforts and success came a lot of accolades & acknowledgement as an industry thought leader. Also managed to break the glass ceiling that every lower-middle class person faces & dreams of – getting to the topmost tier of a great organization.

I have had the good fortune to deal with, advise & help manage the biggest corporate & institutional funds in the country (with Assets Under Management running so high that people just keep counting the zeroes) and have helped these funds earn superior, risk-adjusted returns over many years, aided by a benevolent market of course.

(PS: This is why my friends started calling me by this name – MONEYMAN).

GENESIS OF MONEYMAN

Success in the corporate world allows one to make a lot of money. 
A lot of money, yes; but true wealth, no!

For those in a job, even after achieving a lot of professional success & respect, and after earning loads of money, real wealth always seems to be out of reach. You see, a job may pay you really well but eventually a job pays you just enough to lead a super life, not to create true wealth. Those who have created real wealth from their salaries alone would be far and few!

The words spoken by Naval Ravikant are absolute gold and will always resonate in my mind: “You are not going to get rich renting out your time”.

A combination of the above is the genesis of the idea behind MoneyMan Prime Research.

After more than 25 years of helping corporates & institutions manage their money, I thought it is time to focus on true wealth creation at an individual level. And, once I started focusing on this, the realization dawned that one of the biggest ways to do this was through the equity markets directly and not through pooled investments. Along with this dawned a lot of other realizations about how a lot of what has been told to all of us – the general public – about the markets was not entirely true, and how the system was designed to brainwash us into believing that a ridiculously low rate of return earned through pooled funds was more-than-enough.

Earning the standard (also called average) rate of return will help you grow your money in an average manner and will still keep you an arm’s length away from creating game-changing wealth. This led me to study deeply the individuals who have created real wealth for themselves – ace investors across the world.

Being too independent & rebellious to blindly follow what others were doing & also being too passionate about the capital markets, I finessed my own systems and processes from everything I learned. Now, I use these to identify great investment opportunities in the market.

The legendary Rakesh Jhunjhunwala always used to say that the mother of all bull runs is ahead of us. I also firmly believe that India is yet to create the biggest chunk of its real wealth – that phase is not behind us; it is still ahead of us. It is for us to take advantage of the opportunities that the capital markets shower us with. 

I strongly believe that the next 7 – 15 years are getting set-up to be the golden years for India which will bring upon the biggest opportunities of all times for many people to create game-changing wealth. 

This wealth will not be created just by earning salaries or by blind buy-and-hold-forever strategies; rather, it will be created with an intentional & active participation in the biggest wealth-creating machine in the world – the stock markets. I firmly believe that there will be enough great opportunities for the ones who know where to look. 

That is why MoneyMan came into being: to showcase those superb opportunities to you, to help you take advantage of them, to become Your Investing Superpower!

My vision & intent with MoneyMan is to work with a select-few, busy working professionals & help them take advantage of the hugely-asymmetric, upside optionality that the Indian Capital Markets are offering to create Game-changing, Generational Wealth in the coming few years!

Consider MoneyMan as your personal & dedicated ‘Chief Investment Officer’ who will work for you in your Wealth Creation journey.

Enough said; now, let’s make Money!