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Vinay Patel

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Asia Advisors

Asia Advisors is an independent financial advisory and research firm working closely with corporates and institutions to provide consulting solutions & research insights. We provide advisory services including capital solutions, business strategy and investment insights.
Firm is headed by Vinay Patel who has close to two decades of experience in research and business development at large, international investment banks such as HSBC and ICICI Securities. Led research efforts in areas of Macroeconomics, Asset Allocation & Investment Strategy for close to a decade in global & domestic research teams. As a business head in Singapore, advised top global investment management firms & Portfolio managers in Asia for India related investments.
Vinay was recently joined by Swapnil Manish, an investment banker and ex-ecommerce entrepreneur with more than 12 years of experience. Swapnil was the TMT banker at BNP Paribas and was part of several large M&A and ECM transactions (Bharti-Zain, Bharti Infratel IPO, Schneider-Zicom among several others). He's also had a stint as an ecommerce entrepreneur having launched & led Mumbai's first online grocery player.

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<p>Investors are again looking forward to the results of Karnataka elections and even treating it as a referendum on the BJP. Most observers and also the exit polls are predicting a hung assembly and markets have risen in anticipation of the fact that BJP stands a better chance to form a government as the regional party in the state (JD-S) will support BJP in event of a hung assembly. However, an adverse verdict can lead to a short-term sell-off as questions will be asked over BJPs chances in 2019…</p>

Investors are again looking forward to the results of Karnataka elections and even treating it as a referendum on the BJP. Most observers and also the exit polls are predicting a hung assembly and markets have risen in anticipation of the fact that BJP stands a better chance to form a government as the regional party in the state (JD-S) will support BJP in event of a hung assembly. However, an adverse verdict can lead to a short-term sell-off as questions will be asked over BJPs chances in 2019…

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