Feroze Azeez
Joint CEO
As the Joint CEO, Feroze Azeez drives and evolves the company's strategic direction, shaping Anand Rathi Wealth Limited's dynamic business landscape while nurturing a team of leaders to deliver the company's vision to its execution.
Feroze has been influential in expanding the business to 18 locations with an employee size of over 1,100 people. He has been instrumental in scaling the company's growth to over Rs. 95,000 crores worth of assets under influence, of which the assets under management are Rs. 77,103+ crores.
With an experience of 21 years, Feroze has grown exponentially in the banking and finance industry. He is one of the top private bankers with a few thousand crores of assets under his advice for large families and senior management professionals. In addition to this, he manages Rs. 1000 crores of treasury and oversees India's largest derivative book.
His expertise in the nuances of the private wealth business comes from his deep understanding of a client's requirements and being one of the company's largest clients. He is renowned for creating the most efficient portfolio strategy to achieve one of the best risk-adjusted returns.
Feroze's most significant contribution to the private wealth industry is the revolution of Non-Principal Protected Structure Products by applying derivatives as a risk management tool. Due to his vision, Anand Rathi Wealth Limited today has the highest market share of 40% in this area. Feroze has designed over 3,701 such products, of which 1,584 have matured generating an IRR of 14.9%. 94% of the 1,584 products have delivered the desired coupon. This data, when compared, is better than the performance of most fund managers in India.
Feroze's passion has always been to create financial awareness to ensure investors' independent and prudent decision-making.He has been taking investor education by doing over 2,000 educative shows on business channels such as CNBC-TV18, ET NOW and many print publications in the last few years.
Feroze is part of Fortune India magazine's Class of 2019 - 40 under 40 list, which recognizes stalwarts for their unique contributions. Feroze is the only one exclusively featured in this prestigious list by Fortune India from the financial services industry. Feroze is a TED Speaker and frequently appears in the leading business channels and newspapers. Feroze has been a recipient of many awards, some notable ones include 'The Most Innovate Leader' Award, 2020 at the India Business Leader of the Year organised by World Congress Leadership & Awards; Corporate Excellence Award by the Amity School of International Business in 2019. He has been awarded The Young Alumni Award 2024 at The Indian Management Conclave, for the contribution to the growth of the wealth management industry.