Abakkus Emerging Opportunities Fund Portfolio

Mr.Sunil Singhania

Sunil Singhania holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Bombay University and a Chartered Accountancy degree from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Delhi, with an all-India rank. He has also obtained the privilege to utilise the CFA Institute’s Chartered Financial Analyst credential. Sunil has over 25 years of experience as a CFA. He is the founder of Abakkus Asset Management, LLP, an asset management firm focusing on India that he founded in 2018. He was previously a Global Head of Equities at Reliance Capital Ltd. Singhania has guided Reliance Mutual Fund’s (now Nippon India Mutual Fund) equities schemes to be recognised among the top as CIO – Equities. Under Singhania’s direction, the Reliance Growth Fund (now Nippon India Growth Fund) increased by more than 100 times in less than 22 years. He is also the first person from India to be elected to the CFA Institute Board of Governors, where he now chairs the Investment Committee and serves on the Nominating Committee.

Aman Chowhan (Fund Manager )

Aman Chowhan is an MBA graduate of Mumbai University. Aman has over 17 years of experience in the Indian equity market. Prior to joining Abakkus, he worked for Reliance Asset Management’s (now Nippon Life India Asset Management) PMS branch as the Portfolio Manager for all local and offshore schemes. Aman brings a regional and global perspective to investing, having worked in Reliance’s Singapore office. He has a great track record in benchmark, absolute long and long-short strategies. He worked as a research analyst for TAIB Securities, Tata TD Waterhouse, and other brokerage firms before joining Reliance in 2005.

Mr. Deven Sangoi – Senior Fund Manager

Deven Sangoi is Senior Fund Manager at Abakkus. He has experience of 22 years on the asset management side, out of which 10 years in mutual funds space and 12 years in the insurance industry. His previous assignment was Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Canara HSBC OBC life, managing both Equity and Fixed Income with a corpus of around USD 4 bn (INR 25,000 Cr). Previously he worked with many reputed organizations in financial service space which include names such as Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance Ltd, Aditya Birla Sun Life Asset Management Co. Ltd, ICICI Prudential Asset Management Co. Ltd & Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance. He is graduated in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University and holds a post-graduate degree in Finance from Newport University.