If my memory serves me right since a very young age I loved solving puzzles. As I grew up this love transcended into solving math problems and taking up challenges to analyse and solve problems. Considering my interests were quant heavy I decided upon pursuing MBA with a degree in Economics bridging the gap. As I landed up at MDI I was overwhelmed by the culture of serious focus on Finance and Investing. Monetrix, the Finance and Economics club of MDI had conducted a session and it took my interest in the subject to another level. Even Delta, the quant-derivative trading club of MDI conducted a session and introduced me to a whole new world of derivatives. But the experience that was really eye-opening and will stay with me for the rest of the life was a session by Unnati. Unnati is the first and largest student-driven mutual fund in the country with an AUM north of 40 million. Unnati’s members made me aware that Unnati follows the ‘value investing’ strategy for investing. Before this, I had a faint idea about the term ‘value investing’ and had heard it mostly in relation to Warren Buffet. This particular session drove up my interest in learning the basics of investing. Since that session, I have been reading a lot of material as suggested by Unnati’s members and I hope to have a comfortable grip someday on the subjects that are a pre-requisite for investing. What was indeed a very striking discovery in that session by Unnati for me was that Unnati or even investing, in general, is not exactly finance rather it is basically the art of understanding business. What made me fall in love with it, even more, is that irrespective of whether one’s domain is marketing or finance or strategy or some other, investing is a skill which anyone can master if one is eager to put in those hours of reading and thoroughly understand the methodology of analysis. Investing is a life-skill that I would like to hone and keep practicing throughout my life.
Having already had an enriching experience of working in the prestigious conglomerate Aditya Birla Group, as I have interned in the Corporate Economics Cell of Aditya Birla Group for a month in July 2016, I must say I absolutely loved the employee-friendly culture of the group and also the constant challenges that ABG provides its employees which helps them to grow. Continuing along the similar lines of finance and investing I would love to work in one of the many financial services businesses held under Aditya Birla Capital Limited, in particular Aditya Birla Finance Limited and Aditya Birla PE Advisors Limited. I believe ABCL and the businesses under it will provide me ample growth opportunity and a steep learning curve.
