Fund Manager

Arun Malhotra

Mr. Arun has worked in the Indian capital markets for over 25 years. Since his boyhood, he has had an interest in stocks and investing. In the early 1990s, he earned trading and research expertise with BLB Ltd before moving to DBS Capital Trust Securities (part of DBS Bank, Singapore) in 1997 to establish their Indian stock broking business from the ground up. He was in charge of their company strategy, as well as compliance and operations. In 2003, he worked with Manning & Napier in Rochester, New York, before returning to India in 2005 to join a US hedge fund in Mumbai. Randal Smith, a pioneer in distressed investment, advocated this fund. He co-managed this fund with a colleague until 2013