Vishal Jain
About Vishal Jain
He has over 25 years of experience in financial services including 20 plus years building ETFs and passive products. He started his career in the AMC industry as part of the founding team of Benchmark AMC which launched India’s first ETF in 2001 - Nifty BeES, as a Fund Manager. Post the acquisition of Benchmark AMC by Goldman Sachs AMC India in 2011, he was Chief Investment Officer of the Passive business. After a short entrepreneurial stint in the food business, he joined Nippon Life India Asset Management Ltd (earlier Reliance Mutual Fund) in 2016 as Head of the ETF business where he oversaw scaling of the Passive business from Rs.7,500 crore to Rs.55,000 crore. He has been part of various committees and groups relating to development of passive products in India. Recently, he was part of the “Working Group on Passive Funds” constituted by SEBI to recommend changes in Regulations and Market Infrastructure to foster the growth of ETFs and Index Funds. He is extremely passionate about passive strategies and how they can help investors build simple, consistent and meaningful long-term portfolios and believes that its the way forward for India to achieve a high level of financial literacy.