How Institutions Play Their Game

Institutional Investors are the lifeline of capital markets across the globe. Atul Mehra, MD & Co-CEO, Investment Banking , JM Financial, Sampath Reddy, Chief Investment Officer (CIO), Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance, Neelesh Surana, CIO, Mirae Asset Investment Managers and Rajat Jain, CIO, Principal Asset Management, explain the role of institutional investors in providing price discovery, stability and volatility to economies and an investment mechanism for retail investors, during an interview with Yagnesh Kansara. Edited excerpts: What is the real role of institutional investors, given they are powerful because of their size? Atul Mehra: With developments globally as well as in India, capital markets have become highly institutionalised.. Some of these institutional investors have achieved a size and scale that is larger than the economies of some countries hence they carry...