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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>Last month for the first time in this bull run one heard reports of people withdrawing fixed deposits from banks and moving funds into equity schemes! This usually is a good indicator of froth in the market when fence sitters convert after throwing the towel. Given large inflows into equity schemes, major wealth firms held conferences last year for their wealth clients across the board on similar lines as the usual broking conferences are held for institutional equity clients. Strong inflows…</p>

Last month for the first time in this bull run one heard reports of people withdrawing fixed deposits from banks and moving funds into equity schemes! This usually is a good indicator of froth in the market when fence sitters convert after throwing the towel. Given large inflows into equity schemes, major wealth firms held conferences last year for their wealth clients across the board on similar lines as the usual broking conferences are held for institutional equity clients. Strong inflows…

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