Abhisar
Jain is the Head and Fund Manager of Monarch AIF. He has completed his MBA in
Finance from SP Jain Centre of Global Management and is a CFA charter holder
(US). He has been awarded the prestigious 40 under 40 Alternative Investment
Professionals in India 2022 award by Equalifi. He has more than 16 years of
experience in the equity markets, specializing in equity research and a niche
in identifying high-quality businesses. He joined Monarch in 2019 and was
instrumental in setting up the AIF division from scratch and subsequently
scaling it up to its current AUM of Rs1000cr. He has previously worked with
Centrum Broking Limited as a lead analyst for Metals & allied sectors on
the institutional equity business and was associated with it between 2011 and
2019. He earned several accolades in his stint at Centrum, including Best
Analyst awards from renowned Reuters analyst awards for two consecutive years
and Top 10 ranking from prestigious Asiamoney polls for Best analyst in the
small-cap category. He also has the distinction of special recognition for best
stock ideas received from multiple fund houses like HDFC MF (3 times selection
for Best Stock ideas in 5 years), ICICI Pru MF (Special recognition by CIO) and
Aditya Birla MF (2 best stock ideas selections). Abhisar has also worked at
ICICI Securities and TCS earlier in his career. He is highly passionate about
equities and draws his inspiration in the fund management business from the
wisdom of legendary investors like Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, and Joel
Greenblatt
