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Asia focused research insights & advisory, Asia Advisors

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>More often than not it takes a financial crisis to engineer tough reforms required for a country and not just in terms of economic changes but also changes to its foreign policy &amp; international alliances. Pakistan is at a similar inflexion point currently with the new PM Imran Khan having to take radical steps to get the country out of a balance of payment crisis. The country has been a chronic patient for IMF with 12 bailouts in last 30 years and another one likely this year. Pakistan hardly…</p>

More often than not it takes a financial crisis to engineer tough reforms required for a country and not just in terms of economic changes but also changes to its foreign policy &amp; international alliances. Pakistan is at a similar inflexion point currently with the new PM Imran Khan having to take radical steps to get the country out of a balance of payment crisis. The country has been a chronic patient for IMF with 12 bailouts in last 30 years and another one likely this year. Pakistan hardly…

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