Narayan Mulchandani, director of India sales at Citigroup, based in Hong Kong, has also joined Mumbai-based Anand Rathi, Mayani said in an interview today. Citigroup's India research head Ratnesh Kumar quit the New York-based company last month to head Anand Rathi's equities business.
Indian brokerages are luring executives from HSBC, CLSA Ltd. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. with signing bonuses and equity stakes, allowing them to directly profit from India's record stock market rally and advisory fees.
Wall Street banks, hit by mortgage losses and writedowns have cut more than 34,000 jobs in the past nine months, the most since the dot-com boom fizzled in 2001. Citigroup, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Morgan Stanley are among the firms that have disclosed headcount reductions so far.
Mayani, who has 14 years of experience in Indian institutional equities, quit Citigroup this month and will join Anand Rathi in April to run equity sales. He worked for four years at Morgan Stanley as a senior analyst after completing a six-year stint as an analyst at HSBC Holdings Plc's Indian securities unit.
Citigroup's spokesman James Griffiths said he would answer questions about the resignations tomorrow.
India's stock market last year posted its sixth straight year of gains and companies in the world's second-fastest- growing major economy raised funds at a record pace.
Citigroup's private equity fund Citigroup Venture Capital owns 20 percent of Anand Rathi's stock, the Indian brokerage said in an e-mailed statement.
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