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Motilal Oswal Financial Services was set up by Motilal Oswal and Raamdeo Agrawal as a broking house in 1987. [5] The company entered into investment banking in 2005, followed by private equity fund in 2006. [6] In February 2006, the company acquired Peninsular Capital Markets, a Cochin, Kerala based broking company for Rs. 35 crore. [7]
However, instead of joining the family trade, Oswal decided to pursue formal education. He studied at the SPU Jain College in Falna before moving to Mumbai to study CA. In 1987, during his stay at a Mumbai hostel, the Rajasthan Vidyarthi grih Oswal met Raamdeo Agarwal, his friend with whom he later founded Motilal Oswal Financial Services. [2]
[25] [26] The EOW-Mumbai in its supplementary charge sheet has also accused the three brokerages IIFL, Motilal Oswal & Anand Rathi of cheating clients. [27] [28] In February 2019, SEBI declared IIFL and Motilal Oswal ‘not fit and proper’ as commodity derivative brokers based on the recommendations of SFIO & EOW's report. [29] [30] [31] [32]
Raamdeo Agrawal is an Indian businessman, stock market investor and Chairman of Motilal Oswal Group [1] which he co-founded with Motilal Oswal in 1987. According to Forbes , he has a net worth of $1.7 billion as of April 2024.
The total Assets Under Management (AUM) of the Indian mutual fund industry as of December 31, 2023, stood at a staggering ₹ 50.78 trillion (US$590 billion). This is a significant milestone, marking over a six-fold increase compared to the ₹ 8.26 trillion (US$95 billion) recorded in December 2013.
In 1994, he joined Motilal Oswal to start its institutional desk before moving to UBS in 1996. In 2001, he joined Reliance Mutual Fund. [3] Kela was awarded the Business Standard Equity Fund Manager of the Year (2004) by Manmohan Singh, the then Prime Minister of India. [4]
NSE was set up at the behest of the Government of India, based on the recommendations laid out by the Pherwani committee in 1991 [31] and the blueprint was prepared by a team of five members (Ravi Narain, Raghavan Puthran, K Kumar, Chitra Sankaran and Ashishkumar Chauhan) along with R H Patil and SS Nadkarni who were deputed by IDBI in 1992.
Mehta and his brothers were arrested by the CBI on 9 November 1992 for allegedly misappropriating more than 2.8 million shares of about 90 companies through forged share transfer forms. The total value of the shares misappropriation was placed at ₹ 250 crore (equivalent to ₹ 19 billion or US$220 million in 2023). [16]