据知情人士透露，印度ASK投资管理有限公司已聘请Akhil Chaturvedi担任其共同基金业务的首席执行官，此前该公司于2月获得监管批准，得以拓展该业务。
India’s ASK Investment Managers Ltd. has hired Akhil Chaturvedi as chief executive officer of its mutual fund operations, according to people familiar with the matter, after the company secured regulatory nod to expand into the business in February.
根据其领英档案，Chaturvedi此前在Motilal Oswal资产管理公司担任首席业务官，任职超过13年，现加入ASK。该公司由黑石集团控股。Chaturvedi和ASK暂未回应置评请求。
He comes to ASK, a firm that’s majority owned by Blackstone Inc., after serving as chief business officer at Motilal Oswal Asset Management Co. where he worked for more than 13 years, based on his LinkedIn profile. Chaturvedi and ASK did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
ASK正在扩大版图，上个月收购SageOne投资管理公司后，其管理资产规模增至约90亿美元。它正进军印度庞大的共同基金行业，该行业目前由印度国家银行和ICICI银行等银行巨头支持的资产管理公司主导。
ASK is broadening its footprint, with its acquisition of SageOne Investment Managers last month taking its assets under management to about $9 billion. It’s entering India’s sprawling mutual fund industry currently dominated by asset managers backed by banking giants including State Bank of India and ICICI Bank Ltd.
自新冠疫情以来，印度共同基金行业经历了爆发式增长，曾钟情于黄金和房地产的家庭开始拥抱金融资产。过去五年总资产规模翻了一倍多，今年股票型基金的平均月度净流入约为30亿美元。
India’s mutual fund industry has seen explosive growth since the Covid pandemic as households once wedded to gold and real estate embrace financial assets. Total assets have more than doubled during the past five years, with inflows into equity funds averaging about $3 billion a month this year.
ASK进军共同基金领域正值印度股市面临挑战之际。今年以来NSE Nifty 50指数下跌近14%，有望录得11年来首次年度下跌，据彭博汇编数据，外国投资者从印度股市撤出逾320亿美元。
ASK’s foray into mutual funds comes at a challenging time for India’s stock market. The NSE Nifty 50 Index is down nearly 14% so far this year, putting it on course for its first annual decline in 11 years as foreign investors pulled out more than $32 billion from the country’s equities, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
但据ASK 9月30日关于收购SageOne的声明，黑石高级董事总经理Ganesh Mani表示，公司“看好印度资产和财富管理业务的长期复合价值”。
But Blackstone Senior Managing Director Ganesh Mani has said the company is “bullish on the long-term compounding value of Indian asset and wealth management businesses,” according to ASK’s Sept. 30 statement on its acquisition of SageOne.