The ‘BT Market Today Summit’ will be organized by Business Today and will bring together top investors, practitioners, policymakers, global experts, business leaders, and other stakeholders from the Indian capital market ecosystem.

On January 24, the summit will be held in Mumbai.

The summit will examine key trends and challenges that will enable the capital market to play a larger role in India’s growth, as well as provide speakers with the opportunity to share their unique experiences and ideas. Participants from the capital market ecosystem will discuss and debate key trends and issues to better position the Indian capital market to contribute to the country’s economic growth.

The BT Market Today Summit 2023 will feature discussions and debates on a wide range of topics concerning capital markets, which have undergone significant structural transformations in the three decades since deregulation.

The BT Market Today Summit 2023, a flagship initiative supported by Business Today, is being held against the backdrop of India’s financial markets, which have steadily improved, particularly when compared to other Asian countries. Government initiatives, regulatory reforms, improved demand-supply dynamics, sustained economic growth, and pension, insurance, and mutual fund money all contributed to this expansion, the company said in a statement.

On a panel titled ‘The Coming of Age of Retail Investors,’ industry leaders Nilesh Shah, MD, Kotak Mahindra AMC; Vijay Chandok, MD, ICICI Securities; Basant Maheshwari, Investor, and Author: The Thoughtful Investor; and Dhiraj Relli, MD and CEO, HDFC Securities will also share their insights.

 

In another debate, Manisha Girotra, CEO of Moelis India, and Sanjay Mehta, Founder, and CEO of 100X.VC will discuss Private Equity Investment Trends in Emerging Markets. The Market Today Summit will also include a panel discussion on Mutual Funds: Future Trends, with speakers including Sankaran Naren, Executive Director, and Chief Investment Officer, ICICI Prudential AMC, A Balasubramanian, President, AMFI, Sundeep Sikka, ED and CEO, Nippon Life India Asset Management, and Rajeev Thakkar, CIO and Director, PPFAS Asset Management.

A roundtable discussion on ‘Will India Continues to Surpass Its Peers?’ will take place in the evening session. Ridham Desai, Managing Director of Morgan Stanley India, Saurabh Mukherjea, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Marcellus Investment Managers, Kenneth Andrade, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Oldbridge Capital Management, and Devina Mehra, Chairperson, and MD of First Global are among the industry luminaries.

In a session titled the Fiscal Overhang, Pranjul Bhandari, Chief Economist, India, HSBC; Soumya Kanti Ghosh, Group Chief Economic Advisor, SBI; Shubhada Rao, Founder, QuantEco; and Samiran Chakraborty, Chief Economist, India, Citibank will discuss the much-anticipated Union Budget 2023-24.

Neil Parag Parikh, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PPFAS AMC, Pratik Oswal, Head (Passive Funds), Motilal Oswal AMC, and Raamdeo Agrawal, Chairman and Co-founder, Motilal Oswal Financial Services, Shankar Sharma, Founder, GQuantInvestech, and Nikhil Kamath, Co-founder, True Beacon and Zerodha Shah will speak on Investing Beyond Indian Horizons.