Sapient Wealth Advisors, the largest individual mutual fund distribution firm, hosted its 11th annual conference in Pune with the theme #towards5trillion this year. The objective of organising this conference was to increase investor’s confidence and awareness towards mutual fund industry, said the company press release.
Close to 730 investors covering the entire spectrum - large corporates, HNIs and retail investors, attended the event.
The company said that keeping in mind the vision of the Prime Minister to make Indian a $ 5 trillion economy and thereby attaining no.3 globally, the theme of the event was “#towards5trillion”.
Sharing the rationale for organising the event, Amit Biwalkar of Sapient Wealth told Cafemutual that he aims to connect investors with fund officials who manage their money. “Investors usually meet with us for financial investments. However, they never get a chance to meet the person who is managing their money. Through this event, we connect our investors with the fund officials to increase their confidence in the mutual fund industry. We are holding another event in Guwahati on February 27. We expect 1000 investors to attend this conference.”
Among the keynote speakers were Navneet Munot, ED & CIO, SBI Funds Management and Anand Kumar, Super 30 Fame, Mathematics Educator.
Talking about the health of Indian economy, Navneet Munot, Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer, SBI Funds Management said, ‘’The Indian economy faces medium term challenges but the reforms undertaken by the current government will take the country to a different trajectory in the coming years. He also stressed upon the fact that these reforms will have a huge impact on our future. He mentioned that the 50s to 70s were dominated by Europe, 80s to 90s by Japan and the last 30 years have belonged to the US, but the next two decades will belong to Asia, predominantly to India and China’’.
Anand Kumar of Super 30 said, ‘’Four things which are important in a person’s life are passion, perseverance, hard work and confidence. Along with all these, one should also have faith in himself and invest time in developing one’s own personality. Like hard work brings success in life similarly its disciplined investing which helps to create wealth’’.
The firm manages over Rs.6000 crore of assets across 5 locations in India.
