Friday, December 24, 2010

Investor friendly: Nilesh Shah - ICICI AMC

“If you want to understand the investor pulse, travel by Mumbai’s evening local trains.” That’s a statement that Nilesh Shah, the deputy managing director at ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, often makes.

But Shah is the kind of man that walks the talk — or in this case rides it: Many recall him actually travelling by a local train when he headed fixed-income funds at Franklin Templeton to hear people’s take on the markets.

Shah is just as involved in issues that impact the MF industry as a whole. During the liquidity squeeze of October 2008, following the collapse of US financial services giant Lehman Brothers, the degree and pace at which investors withdrew money from financial instruments was so staggering, it shoved the domestic MF industry to verge of a collapse.

Shah then took the lead in convincing Reserve Bank of India to lend the industry a helping hand. For the first time on October 14 that year, RBI introduced a Rs 20,000-crore, 14-day credit window for fund houses. Shah's efforts at reasoning with the Securities & Exchange Board of India paid off, too.

Though not an effective stock picker, consistency and steady bets have been Shah’s mantra. This may not have resulted in high-yielding gains for his investors, but their losses too were contained. “I believe in protecting the downside for investors,” he says.

Usually soft-spoken, the 42-year-old fund manager is a much sought-after speaker. Though rarely annoyed at the volley of questions at these functions, on one occasion he asked a member of his audience to shut up. “People have come to hear me and not you,” he had said, snubbing the gentleman.

ICICI’s assets under management have risen to over Rs 70,000 crore in September, from around Rs 15,000 crore when Shah joined the fund house as a chief investment officer in June 2004. ICICI's Discovery, Dynamic and Infrastructure schemes under his watch have delivered higher-than-average returns in the past 3-5 years.

When Shah put in his papers last week, citing “personal reasons”, the industry was curious what he had planned next. His exit comes at a time when MFs are yet again grappling with the regulator on various issues.

Source: http://www.business-standard.com/taketwo/news/investor-friendly/419261/

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