Ridham Desai & teamMorgan Stanley
The buy side says: “Their coverage is broad; their research, thorough.”
Mumbai-based Ridham Desai, 44, and his 16-member squad at Morgan Stanley return to the winner’s circle after a year in second place. The analysts, who “keep their finger on the pulse of the market,” in the words of one portfolio manager, report on 135 companies. They reduced State Bank of India from equal weight to underweight in May 2011, at 2,768.37 rupees, citing concern over potential loan defaults. The Mumbai-based lender’s shares tumbled 24.3 percent, to Rs2,096.35, and underperformed India’s broad market by 15.6 percentage points, through March. In June the researchers slashed Adani Power from overweight to underweight, at Rs111.40, owing to the Ahmedabad, Gujarat–based utility’s rising cost of capital and domestic coal deficits, among other considerations. By late March the share price had skidded 38.5 percent, to Rs68.50; during the same period the broad market slipped just 4.7 percent. Desai, who earned a master’s degree in management studies at the University of Mumbai, moved to Morgan Stanley from UBS in 1997. —Ben Mattlin
The buy side says: “Their coverage is broad; their research, thorough.”
Mumbai-based Ridham Desai, 44, and his 16-member squad at Morgan Stanley return to the winner’s circle after a year in second place. The analysts, who “keep their finger on the pulse of the market,” in the words of one portfolio manager, report on 135 companies. They reduced State Bank of India from equal weight to underweight in May 2011, at 2,768.37 rupees, citing concern over potential loan defaults. The Mumbai-based lender’s shares tumbled 24.3 percent, to Rs2,096.35, and underperformed India’s broad market by 15.6 percentage points, through March. In June the researchers slashed Adani Power from overweight to underweight, at Rs111.40, owing to the Ahmedabad, Gujarat–based utility’s rising cost of capital and domestic coal deficits, among other considerations. By late March the share price had skidded 38.5 percent, to Rs68.50; during the same period the broad market slipped just 4.7 percent. Desai, who earned a master’s degree in management studies at the University of Mumbai, moved to Morgan Stanley from UBS in 1997. —Ben Mattlin