Varinder has over 15 years of work experience in equity research. Prior to the Foundation of Omkara Capital, he was the fund manager of a AMC and prior to this, Corporate Editor & Head of Research at CNBC – TV 18. He holds a degree in MSc Finance and MBA, Finance. VB has spent the last 15 years in Mumbai, learning from people across the spectrum, some of whom are his mentors, and applying his strong fundamental skills and hard-nosed number crunching and analytical skills to identify investment ideas. His strength is years of experience in identifying not-so-fashionable stock ideas. Most of these ideas have had a bedrock of strong fundamentals, superior balance sheets and boasted of high-quality promoters. He has coupled this approach with the strong feedback mechanism, which is effective due to his deep-rooted connections with equity-market veterans and leaders of corporate India.