5 Indian-People are in Barron’s fourth annual checklist of the 100 Most Influential Girls in US Finance for reaching positions of prominence within the financial-services business and are serving to to form its future.
The checklist consists of Anu Aiyengar of JP Morgan, Rupal J. Bhansali of Ariel Investments, Meena Lakdawala-Flynn of Goldman Sachs Group, Sonal Desai from Franklin Templeton and Savita Subramanian of BofA Securities.
Aiyengar is the worldwide head of Mergers and Acquisitions at JP Morgan, a task she assumed in January after serving as co-head of the division since 2020.
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In keeping with Barron’s, she “has lengthy credited her love of quantity crunching, authorized contracts, and constructing shopper relationships for bringing her to the mergers-and-acquisitions sphere”.
Bhansali, 55, chief funding officer and portfolio supervisor of Ariel Investments’ international fairness methods, sees the present state of the market as a time when traders ought to reposition their portfolios, as a result of what labored up to now is “unlikely to work within the subsequent decade”.
She believes that managing cash is what she was born to do, and is obsessed with encouraging ladies to work in finance.
Desai, 58, turned the primary lady chief funding officer in Franklin Templeton’s historical past in 2018. She oversees $137 billion in belongings.
She joined the agency in 2009 after working for the Worldwide Financial Fund, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and Thames River Capital.
Lakdawala-Flynn, Co-Head, World Non-public Wealth Administration, Goldman Sachs Group, wears a number of hats, together with co-chairing the worldwide inclusion and variety committee.
In keeping with Barron’s, her profession in finance started quickly after a sports activities damage. A zealous gymnast who at one level wished to compete within the Olympics, Lakdawala-Flynn needed to keep at George Washington College one summer season to rehabilitate her knee.
She did an internship at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, engaged on the institutional fairness gross sales desk.
Subramanian is head of US fairness and quantitative technique at Financial institution of America Securities. She is liable for recommending US sector allocations for equities and figuring out forecasts for the S&P 500 and different main US indices, in addition to creating and advertising and marketing the agency’s quantitative fairness technique to institutional and particular person purchasers.
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