Navneet Munot


In Feb 1994, he joined Birla Growth Finance, Birla Sunlife Securities, Birla Sunlife AMC - Fixed Income and Hybrid Funds, where he spent nearly 14 years in the group across all spheres of financial services. Before joining SBI Pension funds Ltd., he was the Executive Director & Head of – a multi-strategy boutique with Morgan Stanley Investment Management briefly for a year in 2007. In 2018 joined SBI Mutual Funds, where he spent more than 12 years and served as Chief Investment Officer and became an integral part of HDFC AMC as MD&CEO in 2021.
Navneet Munot, MD & CEO of HDFC AMC LTD. His roots are deepened from a pocket-sized vest city in Beawar, Ajmer district of Rajasthan.
The concept of savings and investments profoundly surged in his veins in his early childhood and taught the insatiable hunger to always widen the horizons of their education. His father believed that Reading edifies the mind; thus, this ideology streamed across Navneet's family. He ended up gathering a bunch of Educational degrees, including M.Com, and is a highly qualified Chartered Accountant to rank
50th in All India Rank, he is also a Charter holder of the CFA and CAIA Institute, along with FRM, to highlight his educational background.
In Feb 1994, he joined Birla Growth Finance, Birla Sunlife Securities, Birla Sunlife AMC - Fixed Income and Hybrid Funds, where he spent nearly 14 years in the group across all spheres of financial services. He staunchly believes that he learned bountiful over the years he served here. Before joining SBI Pension funds Ltd., he was the Executive Director & Head of – a multi-strategy boutique with Morgan Stanley Investment Management briefly for a year in 2007. Life shouldn't get stagnant at a place or position; hence it was his call to do something more, and in 2018 joined SBI Mutual Funds, where he spent more than 12 years and served as Chief Investment Officer. During these years, he was surrounded by the best lot of people driven by passion and who envisioned greatness and success.
His father continuously chanted a vaguely similar recital with words, read more, meet more. Hence he moderately developed a deep sense of curiosity and the never-ending Zeal to learn more than the previous day.
Living in India, every individual, even remotely related to financial services, yearns to be associated with HDFC Mutual Funds Group, and he was among those fortunate few individuals that got this opportunity. As a result, he joined HDFC AMC as MD&CEO in 2021.
In addition, Navneet is the chairman of the Indian Association of Investment Professionals (India society of CFA charter holders with over 2000 members). His articles on matters related to financial markets have widely been published.
Navneet Munot, MD & CEO of HDFC AMC LTD, was born and raised in a compactly clustered city in Beawar, Ajmer district of Rajasthan. He is a highly educated and qualified individual with Educational degrees of varied ranges. His stack of degrees includes M.Com, securing 50th rank in Chartered Accountant All India Rank. He is also a Charter holder of the CFA and CAIA Institute, along with FRM, to bring the spotlight to his educational background.
In Feb 1994, he joined Birla Growth Finance, Birla Sunlife Securities, Birla Sunlife AMC - Fixed Income and Hybrid Funds, where he spent nearly 14 years in the group across all spheres of financial services. Before joining SBI Pension funds Ltd., he was the Executive Director & Head of – a multi-strategy boutique with Morgan Stanley Investment Management briefly for a year in 2007. In 2018 joined SBI Mutual Funds, where he spent more than 12 years and served as Chief Investment Officer and became an integral part of HDFC AMC as MD&CEO in 2021.
- “The fundamental tenets of investing never change.”
- "A new wave of growth in the global economy," driven by accommodative monetary and fiscal policy, is being shaped. Under these factors, there will be a new reflationary cycle, and India will be a big beneficiary.
- My father continuously chanted Read more, Meet more. Where he moderately ignited a sense of curiosity and the never-ending zeal to learn more than the previous day and constantly questioned, "what value can I add for others"?
- An authentic investor is one that remains focused on the long-term goals and achieving real time multiplying success ratios.
- We must rename the Middle class as Middle-Income individuals with Higher values.
- A layman plunging into the market should opt for a fund depending upon its goals, return expectations, risk appetite, time horizon, liquidity preferences, etc. Depending upon them, you need to do the proper allocation and choose the right fund to allocate your money.
- Always remember this quote, Sales is Vanity, Profit is Sanity, and Cash is Reality. Ultimately, a business has to justify its existence by delivering an adequate return on the capital, but it cannot generalize.
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