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Vinay Patel

Asia focused research insights & advisory

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>A strong win for BJP in Karnataka as per available trends indicates that support for BJP and especially Modi remains strong among people. The ground level feedback emerging is that campaigning by Modi that started towards the end made a difference to the total vote share of BJP.  Same was also true for Gujarat polls where the BJP win itself is being credited mainly to Modi who started campaigning in latter stages. <strong>We find the current consensus worries around BJP reelection in 2019 surprising and</strong>…</p>

A strong win for BJP in Karnataka as per available trends indicates that support for BJP and especially Modi remains strong among people. The ground level feedback emerging is that campaigning by Modi that started towards the end made a difference to the total vote share of BJP.  Same was also true for Gujarat polls where the BJP win itself is being credited mainly to Modi who started campaigning in latter stages. We find the current consensus worries around BJP reelection in 2019 surprising and…

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