Given that Indian markets had gone through a boom-and- bust cycle in the past three years, find out how India's mutual fund pros manage your money - and deliver the goodies.
Soft spoken and calm. These are the two characteristics that best describe Apoorva Shah.
Meet Prashant Jain, the 42-yearold Chief Investment Officer with HDFC Mutual Fund. Jain keeps it simple and adheres to the golden rules of investing.
He is fanatical about waking up at 5:30 a.m. and hitting either the gym or the jogging track.
He loves squash. Half an hour of the strenuous game every day relaxes the 35-year-old Anand Shah, Canara Robeco Asset Management Company's Head of Equities, and fund manager for Canara Robeco Infrastructure Fund.
He is a Bollywood buff and loves to watch films. He brings the same keenness to his job as a fund manager.
Arpit Malaviya has been a sportsman - he represented Rajasthan in sub-junior hockey - and is not daunted by a punishing schedule that begins well before daybreak.
Ritesh Jain is an avid half-marathoner. But the 35-year-old Head of Fixed Income and fund manager with Canara Robeco seems to prefer the 100-metre dash as a touchstone for his investment philosophy.
If you thought fund managers were stodgy, obsessed with number crunching and poring through balance sheets, think again!
An adventure sports enthusiast, speed thrills Devesh Thacker. Supersonic jets, he says, fascinate him. Well, in his profession, too, Thacker has lived life in the fast lane.