Our Team
Prudent Investment Managers is the brain child
of Prashasta Seth. An alumnus of IIT Kanpur and
IIM Ahmedabad he has spent more than 20 years
in the financial services industry.
Prior to founding Prudent Investment Managers, LPP Prashasta was the CEO and CIO at IIFL Asset Management.
Under his leadership the AUM of IIFL AMC grew from less than 500 crores to more than 25000 crores which was
achieved by launching innovative products in the Pre IPO space and new strategies like hedged investments through puts which allowed investors to participate in upsides while being protected on the down side.
He was involved in actively launching and managing various funds at IIFL AMC and during his tenure IIFL funds were rated in the top quartile in terms of performance. IIFL PMS which was started under his leadership was awarded Rank 1 on Risk Adjusted returns* across all categories by PMS AIF World.
PRASHASTA
SETH
Founded by Prashasta Seth – a first generation entrepreneur
An alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Ahmedabad, he has spent more than 20 years in the financial services industry.
Prior to founding Prudent Investment Managers LPP, Prashasta was the CEO and CIO at IIFL Asset Management
IIFL funds were rated in the top quartile in terms of performance. IIFL PMS, which was started under his leadership, was awarded Rank 1 on Risk Adjusted returns* across all categories by PMS AIF.
During his tenure, AUM of IIFL AMC grew from less than 500 crores to more than 25000 crores which was achieved by launching innovative products in the pre-IPO space and hedging strategies for capturing the upsides and protecting the downsides
SANJAY
K CHHABARIA
Sanjay K Chhabaria has more than 20 years of experience in the capital
markets.
Sanjay is a PGDBA ( Finance) and a Chartered Financial Analyst
He has spent around 18 years in fund houses like SBI Mutual fund, Lotus India (now Invesco), and JM Financial.
Sanjay has vast experience of successfully managing the funds through various market cycles.
SUNESH
KHANNA
Sunesh Khanna – Head of Research is an MBA (Finance) and has more than
16 years of experience in the capital markets.
He has been a research analyst for over 10 years with sell side research in firms like HSBC, Antique and Motilal. In his prior role Sunesh was with IIFL AMC (360 ONE WAM) tracking BFSI and Auto sector
Responsible for managing and developing team of research analysts
Keeping track of macroeconomics to gauge market direction and identify
new opportunities
Active engagement with corporates (senior/midmgmt.) model and active
real time channel checks to keep on top of things and creating and
maintaining the portfolio
KAJAL
SETH
Kajal Seth – Chief Compliance Officer: Chartered Accountant with 2
decades of experience
Her work experiences include – working as a partner with an independent chartered accountant firm and handling 401K filings for US clients
As a compliance officer her responsibilities include working with legal / compliance service provider for regulatory guidance and client agreement and Ensure periodic internal & statutory audit of the LLP is conducted
Ensure that the firm is in line with all the guidelines as promulgated by
SEBI from time to time
ARYAMAAN
PAWAR
Aryamaan Pawar – Research Analyst is an economics student and has
previously worked at Julius Baer
He tracks the pharmaceutical and capital goods sector
Interacting with analysts on sell side, meeting companies, attending
concalls and conferences, making site visits.
Assisting the team on various data which may be required for research / fund management.
Tracking various companies across portfolios
URVESH
SHAH
Urvesh Shah – Research Analyst is pursing CFA and has previously worked with Aegon Life Insurance.
He tracks Auto, Auto Anc and Infrastructure sector.
Interacting with analysts on sell side, meeting companies, attending con
calls and conferences and making site visits.
Also tracking various companies across portfolio
RAHUL
PARAB
Rahul Parab – Back Office & Operations has previously worked with BNP Paribas & has more than 15 years experience with back office and operation
activities
Liaise with custodians and bank teams for account opening
Liaise with the channel partners and solve queries for account opening
Servicing requests from channel partners and clients and Ensuring that adequate records are kept for all clients in physical and digital form
Engage with the custodian to ensure trade settlements and fund
accounting are done in a time bound and efficient manner and Create MIS
reports for clients as per regulatory requirements and send it to the clients
SACHIN
YELVE
Sachin is the Equity Dealer.
He has previously worked at Sodexo working in the Operations team and
back office handling
His primary job is to liaise with the empaneled brokerage firms to ensure
order execution and transactional integrity
CHIRAG
PAWAR
Works in Back Office and Operations
He is in an MBA from Vivekanand Business School
His job profile includes liaisoning with custodians and bank teams for account opening Servicing requests from channel partners and clients and ensuring that adequate records are kept for all clients in physical and digital
form.
Engage with the custodian to ensure trade settlements and fund
accounting are done in a time bound and efficient manner.