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The Marwaris Who Built Indian Finance
Financiers named in Forbes India's survey of the community's place in Indian financial services, listed alphabetically. Seed content — AI-drafted prose, to be replaced by the maintainer. Citations are real.
Forbes India's 2014 Marwari Power survey named Vallabh Bhansali of Enam Securities, Ajay Kayan of C Mackertich and Utsav Parekh of Stewart & Co among those who entered merchant banking in the 1980s; Nirmal Jain of India Infoline among the promoters who became integrated financial service providers; Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and Radhakishan Damani among the value investors who followed; and Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Amitabh Jhunjhunwala and Prashant Jain in a separate sentence identifying the shrewdest people in India's equity markets as Marwaris.
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Named with C Mackertich among the eastern-India merchant banking firms the cited source attributes to Marwari entrepreneurs.
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Named among those the cited source calls the shrewdest people in the markets, in a sentence that ends by identifying them as Marwaris.
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Named as "Nirmal Jain of India Infoline" among promoters from the community who became integrated financial service providers.
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Named among those the cited source calls the shrewdest people in the markets, in a sentence that ends by identifying them as Marwaris.
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Named among the stock pickers and investors the cited interview calls value investors.
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The one entry on this list resting on two sources: named among the shrewdest people in the markets in a sentence that ends "are Marwaris", and separately among the value investors in the finance survey.
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Named as the promoter of Stewart & Co, among the eastern-India merchant banking firms the cited source attributes to Marwari entrepreneurs.
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Named as the promoter of Enam Securities, among the firms the cited source attributes to Marwari entrepreneurs entering merchant banking.
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