The curtains for India's Best Market Analyst Awards 2014 were finally drawn at a grand gala with the guest of Honour Amit Shah, president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, giving away awards to 24 recipients for their contribution to industry, trade and broking research.
Motilal Oswal Securities and ICICI Securities topped the list by bagging two awards each in a row. The awards were received by Motilal Oswal and ICICI Securities's Amit Gupta and Sanjay Manyal, respectively.
While MOSL was recognised for its equity research in IT and commodity (forex) segments, ICICI Securities was adjuged best in the FMCG and derivative equity categories.
Jay Thakkar of Sharekhan was honoured with the best award in the technical category and Siddhartha Khemka of Centrum Wealth Management won it in fundamentals category.
Among the dignitaries present at the occasion were Harsh Vardhan, science and technology minister, Suresh Prabhu, railway minister, Piyush Goyal, minister of state with independent charge for power, coal new and renewable energy, Adi Godrej, chairman Godrej group, Punit Goenka, MD and CEO of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd, and Amit Goenka, CEO, Pan India Network.
In the special category, Ajit Gulabchand (for infrastructure) of HCC, Harsh Mariwala (wealth creator, FMCG) of Marico, Nirmal Jain (for contribution to equity markets) of India Infoline and Chanda Kochhar (best banker) of ICICI Bank won the awards.
Recognising the need for retail participation in investment, BJP president Amit Shah said his party was of the view that every single Indian should reap the benefit of India's growth.
Lauding Zee for the initiative, Shah said Zee has been a leader in addressing investors across the nation through the national language medium Hindi. He said India was on a growth trajectory and the government was aware of the relevance of retail participation hence it launched the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana as a national mission for financial inclusion. The scheme ensures access to financial services like banking, insurance and pension in an affordable manner. He urged the business community to keep their doors open to small investors as well.
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