Morningstar Conference 2014
Held on 11-12 November, 2014 at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai, the 2014 Morningstar Investment Conference was a very successful event. The two day Conference, brought together the speakers from various client companies and representatives from government regulatory departments from around the world involved in all aspects of economic outlook.
The Program commenced with opening remarks by Haywood Kelly followed by the Inaugural Speech delivered by Prashant Saran, whole time member, SEBI.
High quality sessions and brilliant panel discussion were presented. It was great to see so many professionals from different disciplines together in one place which includes Andrew Lill , Deepak Mohanty , Bharat Shah, Kenneth Andrade, Paragparikh, SankaranNaren, Dhaval Kapadia, Grant Kennaway, Chandresh Kumar Nigam, Harsha Viji and Rajesh Krishnamoorthy, Amandeep Chopra, Lakshmi Iyer, Maneesh Dangi, Santosh Kamath, Niranjan Risbood, Michael Coop, Ajay Bagga, Bharat Banka, C. Jayaram, Karan Bhagat ,Nilesh Shah, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Andrew Holland, Madhusudan Kela, Nilesh Shah and Punita kumar Sinha, Aditya Agarwal, Niranjan Risbood, Anoop Bhaskar, Mahesh Patil, Prashant Jain, Sunil Singhania, Abhay Aima, Dean Junkans, Raghav Iyengar, Rajiv Bajaj, Sandip Ghose, Uma shashikant, Mona Agrawal, Ashish Chauhan, Ashish Kehair, Dhruv Mehta, Rohit Sarin, Suneep Sikka sharing their knowledge and ideas on the ‘Global Macro-Economics and Indian Economy’, ‘Product Classes’, ’Asset Allocation’, ’Fixed Income’, ‘Mutual Funds‘ and ‘Fund Rating and Performance’.
Sandeep Ghose, Director of NISM, emphasized the need for rigorous training of investment advisors.
Morningstar Investment Conference 2014 concluded with a ‘Summing it up’ panel discussion. It was concluded that the investment advisory function should evolve with time and the technological developments should be utilised to cater more clients efficiently.