Investec India

We hosted Mr Guruprasad Srinivasan, Chief Operating Officer – India Region, Quess at the Investec India Manufacturing Virtual Conclave. Quess is a leading business services provider.

We hosted Pramod Gupta, CFO and Vikas Gupta, Director - Operations, PG Electroplast at the Investec India Manufacturing Virtual Conclave. PG Electroplast is one of India’s leading players in the EMS, Plastic Injection Moulding and Printed Circuit Boards space.

We hosted Manish Sharma, Chairman and CEO, Panasonic India and South Asia at the Investec India Manufacturing Virtual Conclave. Panasonic is a leading consumer durable and home appliances company in India; CEO also chairs FICCI Electronics Manufacturing Committee.

We hosted Mr Vinod Sharma, MD, Deki Electronics at the Investec India Manufacturing Virtual Conclave. Deki Electronics is a leading manufacturer of wide range of film capacitors.

We hosted Mr Jasbir Singh, Chairman and CEO, Amber Group at the Investec India Manufacturing Virtual Conclave. Amber is the largest Room AC ODM/ OEM players, with widest product offering.

We hosted Mr Ramachandran Ramamoorthy - Head - India SCM Division, Bharat FIH, a Foxconn Technology Group Company at the Investec India Manufacturing Virtual Conclave. Bharat FIH, a Foxconn Technology Group Company, is the largest Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) Company

Aditya Jhawar, Auto Analyst, Investec India had hosted Mr. Yadvinder Singh Guleria, Director - Sales & Marketing, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) as part of our Investec Auto Expert series. While the increase in Covid-19 intensity recently has resulted in a slight dip in enquiries, rapid vaccination, continued economic activities and a night-only lockdown could help insulate demand to some...

Strong rural demand saw a healthy financial performance across the FMCG sector in FY21. The year that grappled with lockdowns also saw the unprecedented rise of the online channels for distribution and sale of goods. However, with the second deadly COVID-19 wave spreading across smaller towns and villages, will the rural demand be sustainable in FY22? What would be the impact on gross margins due...

As India grapples with the devastating and deadly Covid-19 second wave, the vaccination drive has come as a glimmer of hope. But there are many questions surrounding this biggest drive in the world primarily around capacity and pricing. To answer these questions Swapna Bhandarkar spoke with Anshuman Gupta, India's leading pharma analyst. Anshuman recently released a research report titled - India...

Investec India had hosted the 5th Annual Insurance Conference on March 22 - 23, 2021. Swapna Bhandarkar spoke with Nidhesh Jain, Insurance Analyst on the key takeaways from the conference which focussed on the Life Insurance and General Insurance segments in India.

Mukul Kochhar, Co-Head Institutional Equities spoke with Investec’s Chief Economist, Philip Shaw to discuss the latest Global Economic Overview - inflation dynamics – whether the excessive money printing globally results is currency debasement, and inflation in real asset prices. This dynamic also has substantial implication for Equity prices, as reflation of Equity multiples for high growth stock...

Everyone on the street is awaiting for the true picture to unravel post the deadline of moratorium on August 31. Swapna Bhandarkar spoke with Nidhesh Jain, NBFC Analyst, Investec India to share some insights from his latest report - SFBs and NBFCs: COVID credit costs seem manageable.

Every year, Indian summer shines brightly on the electricals sector. However the severe lockdown across the country caused an impact on some of the companies. To give us an overview on the lockdown quarter for the electrical sector is with Aditya Bhartia, Industrial Analyst for Investec India.

Amid the Covid shock, the bad loans are likely to mount to 12-15 per cent region. With the deadline for moratorium approaching, many rating agencies have issued red flags on how the financial institutions may suffer. To understand on what ails Indian banks and what the next few quarters will look like, Swapna Bhandarkar spoke with Sri Karthik, banking analyst for investec.

As covid stands prolonged, Swapna Bhandarkar spoke with Ritesh Shah, Materials analyst, Investec India to understand his perspectives on the Indian building material and resources sector

Nidhesh Jain, NBFC Analyst, Investec India hosted Sadaf Sayeed, CEO of Muthoot Microfin, the 6th largest MFI with a GLP of Rs49bn and active client base of 1.9mn as of Mar’20. The company has witnessed improvement in collections improving from ~18% in May to 50% in June. Rural is showing marginally better collections than urban. Interestingly, in Muthoot’s experience, customers on monthly collecti...

For the past three months auto sales have been negligible, with volumes improving gradually month-on-month. With the country now opening up, people, aware of social distancing norms, are shifting gears to buy their private vehicles. If a recent auto survey is to be believed, auto sales are going to pick up pace post the lockdown, though there could be higher demand for cheaper pre-owned cars. At t...

Investec India hosted Mr Harsh Srivastava, CEO - MFIN, an Indian microfinance sector association. So far, most listed players have indicated as high as 50%+ collection efficiency in the first half of June’20. However, Mr Srivastava believes that this could still be limited to a few large players while most of the system might continue to struggle with collections of ~25% currently. This is expecte...

Investec India hosted Mr. Sanjay Sinha (MD, M-Cril) & Mr. Sudhir Narayan (ED, M-Cril). M-Cril is a research & analytics firm with a focus on inclusive microeconomics and microfinance. Highlights of the discussion include a) MFIs continue to face liquidity constraints which, if not addressed, could be catastrophic, b) Collection Efficiency (CE) improved in June, c) Rural is performing well where CE...

Digital has become a big part of the IT services business over the last decade. However there are winds of change that could impact the way these spends are done. While the role of the CIO has been diminishing over the last many years with technology decisions being taken by other CXO’s, there is now a resurgence in the role of the CIO. Nitin Padmanabhan, analyst, Investec India spoke with Rajan K...

Every crisis has redefined the technology services industry and the post COVID world is likely to be no different. Nitin Padmanabhan, IT Analyst, Investec India hosted Dr. Deshpande, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Persistent Systems to understand this across four vectors – Technology, People, Client and Investor. Navigating his business through two significant crisis in this millennium...

COVID-19 has imposed several challenges on the FMCG and Retail sector across the world - social distancing measures in factories, changing consumer behaviour, loss of sales at important spots like vending machines, school cafeterias, workplace, etc can have a long term impact on the sector. Different markets are likely to behave in different ways given where they are in the cycle of the COVID-19 i...

Up until the beginning of this year, the Indian food and service industry was all set to register about 10.4 per cent Compound Annual Rate Growth (CAGR) over the next five years to reach Rs 5.5 trillion by 2022. Then the unexpected occurred, and with the ongoing pandemic, most of the restaurants in India downed their shutters for over two months now, and are facing serious challenges even to pay r...

The impact of COVID-19 has been severe on the job market. CMIE data suggests unemployment in India has risen to ~27%, with jobs losses in the informal and formal segment running into several millions. To understand whether the data is as bad as that, how much of this will be permanent job losses, which sectors are hardest hit and what changes in labour laws are needed, Investec India had hosted a...

The magnitude of impact of Covid-19 could be very different from urban to rural India. To get a better perspective on the rural economy, and implications of the recent pay deferral by state governments on consumption, Investec India hosted Ms Sujatha Muthadi, Assistant Director – Dept. of Agriculture, Government of Telangana to understand the impact of unprecedented uncertainty around Covid-19 on...