About Fund Manager – Mr. Abhisar Jain, CFA - 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 15 years of experience in the equity markets with specialization in equity research and 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 Rs350cr. 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 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 fund management business from the wisdom of legendary investors like Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch and Joel Greenblatt.