IIFL Securities today announced three senior management appointments to bolster its Wealth management platform / equities broking business. IIFL Securities currently manages $23billion worth of AUM (appx INR 1.9 lac crores). It has appointed career Private Bankers Mr. Raghav Gupta and Mr. Prakash Bulusu as Joint CEOs to manage and grow their HNI & UHNI wealth business and Mr. Amit Srivastava as Senior Managing Partner to run Investments & Product for the firm.Mr.
Raghav Gupta and Mr. Prakash Bulusu were previously Senior Managing Partners at ASK Asset and Wealth Management (majority owned by Blackstone, world’s largest Private Equity Fund), managing North, South, East businesses in India and offshore markets. Mr Amit Srivastava was helming the managed equity product platform, asset allocation and portfolio analytics desk.
He was also involved in managing investments for key UHNI client relationships pan-India.These three have helped build the Wealth practice for ASK Asset & Wealth Management and have been instrumental in taking it to great heights in eight years. The business grew 6x in 8 years with more than 50% contribution to the overall firm. They had joined ASK with significant equity ownership and it was later followed by investment from global Private Equity players like Advent and Blackstone into ASK.
All three have worked in the financial services industry for over 25 years and have been together in the Wealth Management space for two decades (across Citi and ASK). Commenting on their appointment in a joint statement, Raghav, Prakash & Amit said, “We are thrilled to join hands at IIFL Securities with the pioneers of the Indian financial services industry, Mr. Nirmal Jain and Mr.
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