Chockalingam joined ICICI Prudential AMC in July 2022. He is a senior fund manager in PMS & AIF at IPAMC. Chockalingam has nearly two decades of extensive experience in fund management, investment research and market analysis. He has been instrumental in analysing business fundamentals to derive relevant and actionable analysis that leads to portfolio growth. He is consistently relied upon for providing detailed macroeconomic analysis as well as insights into the financial markets and ESG that serve as key foundation pillars for various investment strategies he has worked on in his career. Before joining IPAMC, he has worked with leading organisations like Baroda BNP Paribas Asset Management India Pvt Ltd, Deutsche Equities India Pvt Limited and Batlivala & Karani Securities. Academically, Chockalingam has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal and a Bachelor of Commerce from G. R. Damodaran College of Science. He has also passed the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, USA.
Strategy aims to provide long term capital appreciation and generate returns by investing primarily in Mid and Small segment of the market by having exposure in companies enjoying some economic moat or undergoing special situations or in the midst of unfavourable business cycle.
The Strategy intends to invest in companies with market capitalization less than the largest market capitalisation stock in S&P BSE Smallcap Index. The Strategy shall follow top down approach in sector selection and bottom up process for stock selection.