‘Catch FIRE before you get burnt’: Mutual Fund Research expert

Author: Vedant Mimani

Vedant Mimani is a current student of the EPGP 2019-20 batch at IIM Bangalore. He graduated with a B.Com (Hons.) degree from St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata and completed his Chartered Accountancy along with his graduation. He worked in the statutory audit department in KPMG Bangalore, where he handled audits of various listed and unlisted entities in the Services, Manufacturing and e-commerce sectors. He moved on to take up a position in the Global Internal Audit team of Accenture after four years in KPMG. His stint at Accenture allowed him to not only remotely work with global peers, but also travel to many countries.

01 June, 2019: this the stone that will turn all your lead into gold. Remember that money is of a prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more – Benjamin Franklin For the class of one-year MBA students at IIM Bangalore, a talk by Vidya Bala, Head of Mutual Fund Research at fundsinida.com, was an eyeopener. Early retirement might be an objective for a few in the cohort, but financial independence was relevant to all. ‘FIRE’, as Ms Bala explained, is an acronym for ‘Financial…