Devang Mehta

Director, Head – Equity Advisory

Centrum Wealth

Profile:

A JBIMS alumni, Devang has more than two decades of experience in the areas of investment advisory, equity research, equity sales & portfolio management. He has been at the forefront of managing portfolios of top promoters/family offices & UHNI clients both based out of India & overseas. His core competence is in creating & managing personalized, scientific & holistic portfolios. A strong advocate of ethical investing & firm believer in wealth creation, preservation & multiplication through long term fundamental equity investing, Devang has been the face of his organizations & has been able to establish a lot of conviction on equity markets amongst the HNI & retail investors. He is an eminent speaker at a number of Investor Camps & events and a regularly sought after face in the Electronic Business, Print & Digital media. He has addressed around 200 large sized Investor Camps attended by thousands of investors, traveling across the length & breadth of India, right from large cities to small towns like Karur, Tirunelveli, Madurai, Erode, down South to Patiala, Panipat, Bhatinda & Jammu up North. Investor awareness & empowering the new age investors has been very close to his heart. He is admired for his oratory skills & has a strong connect with the investing community. Devang regularly features on channels like CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz, ET Now, Zee Business, Bloomberg TV & CNBC Bazaar. His writing skills are evident from the fact that his authored articles & quotes are carried in publications like The Economic Times, Mint, Business Standard, Hindu Business Line, Business World, Business India, Fortune, Wall street journal etc. He often contributes his authored articles on Moneycontrol & ETMarkets. Mr. Mehta is frequently invited in prestigious industry forums like Outlook Money Panel discussions, flagship events of Capital markets & institutions like Rotary Club etc. He is a speaker on eminent panels for Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Visiting & Guest Faculty at reputed Business Schools like IIMs, IIT, JBIMS, BSE Institute of Capital Markets, Sydenham Institute, N. L Dalmia etc.  He is more than happy to contribute to the community in every possible way with a slogan “Knowledge is Power”. He was also one of the founder member of the Knowledge Sharing forum.

Professional Journey: 

Currently working with Centrum Wealth as Director & Head of Equity Advisory & NDPMS – since last 5 years: He has been responsible for creating a very strong & robust Equity Advisory/NDPMS platform for Centrum Wealth & today he along with his team manages top Indian promoters/family offices/UHNI clients/Top NRIs. Prior to Centrum Devang worked with BNP Paribas Wealth Management (the top French Bank) for 3 years, as Head of Equites for their India Division: Once again he was responsible for starting the Advisory platform which provided customized portfolio solutions to clients based out of Hongkong, Singapore, Dubai & India. These were mega wealth clients & who’s who of the Indian diaspora in Asia pacific region. Previously Worked with Anand Rathi Financial Services as Sr. Vice President & Head – Equity Advisory for 6 years: Instrumental in Setting up a Pan India Equity Advisory Desk which provided research support & Portfolio Advice to UHNI, Corporates clients & Business Partners. Previously worked with Angel Broking as an Investment Advisor for 5 years: He was involved in setting up important processes for research based advisory & hugely successful portfolio restructuring initiative.

The latest articles from Devang Mehta

India

Centrum’s Head of Equity Advisory on Safely Riding the Indian Equities Bull Market The Indian equity market has been on a roll, rising more than 100 per cent from the pandemic-induced 25% plus slump to below 30000 in early 2020 to trade at very close to its all-time high of 60000 in late October. Hubbis met recently with Devang Mehta, Head of Equity Advisory at Centrum Wealth, to....