As a part of its 100th issue celebrations, Moneylife magazine presents "Reliance Mutual Fund-Moneylife Big Ideas Award"
The top 17 entries were chosen from over 100 essays from business schools in western region.
Tweet-- Rising prosperity, changing demographics and higher disposable incomes are leading to a greater demand for financial products. This is a sign of growth and economic development, but is the market infrastructure robust enough to handle this rise and safeguard investor interests? To debate this vital question, Moneylife magazine, in association with Reliance Mutual Fund, has undertaken a unique initiative to identify outstanding talent through a high-profile essay contest among the 80-odd business schools in Mumbai & Pune.
The winners were selected by a very eminent jury comprising:
- Dr Anil Khandelwal, former Chairman, Bank of Baroda, (Jury Chairman).
- Mr Jagan Mohan Rao, Chief General Manager, Reserve Bank of India,
- Mr Madhu Kela, Head, Equity Investments, Reliance Mutual Fund,
- Mr Joseph Massey, Managing Director, MCX-SX,
- Mr SG Kalia, Executive Director, Vijaya Bank,
- Mr Debashis Basu, Editor & Publisher, Moneylife magazine.
The top 17 entries were chosen from over 100 essays from business schools in western region. The finalists were from:
Mumbai
1-Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies - Ms Anshika Malaviya
2-Mumbai Business School - Mr Sanket Desai
3-Welingkar Institute of Management
* Mr Sagar Kulkarni
* Mr Dhrushil Jhaveri
4-SP Jain Institute of Management & Research
* Mr Alankar Garude
* Mr Utkarshraj Atmaram
* Ms Tanya Dhawan
5-Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education
* Ms Nidhi Shah
* Mr Sanket D Chatwani
Pune
1-International School of Broadcasting and Journalism - Mr Binod Anand
2-Symboisis Institute International Business
* Mr Rakesh Sancheti
* Mr Aby Johnson
* Mr Venkataraman
3- Department of Management Sciences, University of Pune - Ms Sakshi Pariharas
4- Suryadatta Group of Institutes - Mr Keval Gopalbhai Patel
5- Institute of Management Technology, Gaziabad - Mr Mrinal Somani
6 - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - Arpita Kar
Prizes
1st Prize: Two return tickets to Dubai (courtesy Bahrain Air) + cash prize
2nd Prize: Holiday package for two (2N3D) to Goa from Mahindra Holidays + cash prize
3rd Prize: Blackberry phone from Media Training Worldwide
A special early bird prize from Goa Tourism Development Corporation Ltd
Plus cash prizes for the first and second rankers and Moneylife subscriptions to all winners[M3]
Moneylife is privileged to have Ms Usha Thorat, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, as the Chief Guest to address the guests and give away the awards.
There will be a panel discussion on the same theme as the contest, i.e.,"Taking Financial Markets to the Masses", followed by a musical event.
The panellists are:
1. Dr Anil Khandelwal, Former Chairman, Bank of Baroda
2. Mr Jagan Mohan Rao, Chief General Manager, Reserve Bank of India,
3. Mr Madhusudan Kela, Head, Equity Investments, Reliance Mutual Fund
4. Mr Madhu Kannan, CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange
5. Mr Shailesh Haribhakti, founder partner, BDO Haribhakti
Notes to Editor
About Moneylife:
Moneylife has been launched by some of India's best financial journalists.
Debashis Basu, a Chartered Accountant by qualification with 25 years of experience as a journalist and the author of several business books is the Editor & Publisher. He has worked with Times of India, Business World, Business India, Business Today, Financial Express and has written columns for Business Standard and The Economic Times. Sucheta Dalal, among the best known financial journalists in India and former Business Editor of The Times of India is the consulting editor. Based on her outstanding investigative journalism spanning two decades, she was awarded Padma Shri in 2006.
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