Bhargav Buddhadev is the Co-Fund Manager of Ambit Emerging Giants Small Cap Portfolio at Ambit Asset Management. He has over 18 years of experience in Equity Research. Prior to joining Ambit, he worked with Kotak Mutual Fund where he was part of the investment decision-making process for identifying mid and small- cap funds. He also worked with Ambit Institutional Equities and was entrusted with the responsibility of researching mid-cap stocks. Bhargav was recognized in Asiamoney polls in 2017 and ranked as the 4th best analyst for Consumer Discretionary, 4th best analyst for Small Caps, 7th best analyst for Utilities and 10th best analyst for Conglomerates. One of his major contributions was the creation of a small-cap product called Beachcombing Series at Ambit Institutional Equities that identified undiscovered names and helped his team rank in the top 3 in Asia Money polls. The secret sauce to this was the extensive channel checks which were conducted by talking to competitors, suppliers and channel partners like distributors. Bhargav is a qualified Chartered Accountant, holds an MBA in Finance and is currently pursuing American CFA level II certification.
*Returns less than and equal to 1 year are absolute and returns above one year are annualised
Trilok Agarwal
Manager Rank 14 Out of 14
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Rank is based on 3-year return
Schemes Managed 3
Total AUMUndisclosed
Highest Return In 1 Yr 4.34%
Profile
Mr.Trilok Agarwal is the Fund Manager of Ambit Good & Clean Midcap Portfolio and Ambit Emerging Giants Portfolio at Ambit Asset Management. He has over 16 years of experience in Investment and Equity research. Before joining Ambit, he worked with Dymon Asia Capital and Aditya Birla Sun life limited. (ABSLI). He was the core member of the investment team that overlooked equities over $2bn. In the initial phase of his career, he tracked research across various sectors Auto, Telecom, Consumer, Discretionary, chemicals, and Cement to name a few. His cross-sector exposure and eye for detail ensured his progress to becoming a fund manager quickly. Due to his superlative & consistent performance and contribution, he won serval accolades and was appreciated on various platforms, nominated as a Young leader three years in a row across Aditya Birla Financial Services group. At the time of his departure from ABSLI, he was managing funds of over $500mn. During his tenure, funds generated an average alpha of 280bps over 5-year tenure with consistent outperformance vs benchmark. He has also played a pivotal role in launching and scaling up funds for ABSLI during 2016-20 and garnered over Rs. 1000cr of AUM. At Dymon Asia Capital, he was looking at alternate Investment funds with a mandate to generate alpha by doing long/ short.
Investing in the highly rewarding yet challenging world of small caps through our good & clean framework.
Investment Approach
Ambit's Emerging Giants portfolio aims to invest in small-cap companies with market-dominating franchises and a track record of clean accounting, governance and capital allocation. The fund typically invests in companies with market caps less than Rs2,500cr.
Ambit Investment Advisors Pvt Ltd manages assets worth Rs 2294.75 crores. Its current offering of PMS schemes includes 1 Large Cap, 1 Mid Cap, 1 Small And Mid Cap and 1 Small Cap schemes.