Brighter Mind Asset Management Pvt Ltd – Portfolio Management Services (PMS)

Founder , CEO & MD

Mr. Rajeev Ranjan serves as the Founder, CEO, and Managing Director of Brighter Mind Group. He is a Chartered Accountant with over two and a half decades of extensive and varied experience within the financial services sector. From the outset of his professional journey, Mr. Ranjan has demonstrated a strong inclination towards financial and portfolio management. He has consistently assisted clients with financial planning and investment management, particularly in relation to asset allocation strategies. Mr. Ranjan possesses a profound comprehension of equities as an asset class and their cyclical movements within the Indian market. He has personally experienced and actively participated in three full market cycles of Indian equities. In his capacity at Brighter Mind Group, he actively collaborates with the investment management team, engaging from the initial stages of idea generation through to the assessment phase. His investment philosophy, which emphasizes value investing and is underpinned by a comprehensive understanding of businesses, has been instrumental in Brighter Mind Group's success in meeting client investment management requirements.

Co-Founder & CIO, Fund Manager

With close to ten years of dedicated experience in the Indian equity landscape, Mr. Manoj Mahadeorao Bandre serves as a fund manager. He is also a co-founder of Brighter Mind Asset Management Pvt Ltd and the investment manager for the Brighter Mind Inevitable Fortune Fund, a Category III Alternative Investment Fund (AIF). Academically, Mr. Bandre holds an engineering degree, a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Analysis (PGDFA), and an MBA. His prior professional experience includes significant tenure on the proprietary fund management desk of a well-regarded listed Indian corporation. His expertise encompasses a profound comprehension of business fundamentals, the evaluation of management caliber, and the application of valuation methodologies, which he has consistently applied across diverse market cycles. Mr. Bandre's strategic approach, centered on identifying businesses undergoing early-stage transformation, has consistently yielded exceptional outcomes. This business and value-driven investment methodology distinguishes his contribution to the fund management sector.