Rishav Jha Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Worked at Haitong International as part of their Asian Institutional Equities Business
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• Supervisory Analyst appointed with the exclusive mandate to ramp up India equity market coverage for a new platform with ambitious CY17 target of 85-90 initiations. Supervised a talented but upcoming analyst team transitioning from a simpler platform of Haitong Bank in Europe to a more complex platform of Haitong International due to restructuring. Enforced regulatory and compliance rules to achieve high research standards. Worked against tight deadlines often managing competing priorities to publish reports before India morning meeting and stock market opening for trade. Exercised a combination of judgment, technical skills and soft skills to negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes with analysts, at times exercising diplomacy and tactfulness and yet being assertive

Accomplishments

• As the lone SA on the Haitong India Securities platform, I helped the institutional equities business achieve its target equity research coverage of 87 rated stocks at the end of December 2017 from a low of 8 stocks at the beginning of 2017. The year also saw several India analysts break through top AsiaMoney, Institutional Investor (II) rankings for the first time on quality and commercial recall. Not rated small cap coverage also ramped up to around 20

Mumbai Area, India

• Conducted SA review and approved Pan-Asia research products (HK, Japan, Korea, India, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia) including approval of third party research from Essence Securities in China• Supervised a number of analysts (covering analysts and junior analysts) and successfully coordinated and project-managed co-authored global research efforts never missing a deadline or publication or marketing plan

Paris Area, France

• Ensuring timely publication of the widest product suite including global equity research reports, economics research, commodities research, fixed-income, econ, quant, FX research reports ahead of European morning breakfast and investor teach-ins (twice a day), often working against tight deadlines under pressure and multi-tasking frequently between multiple reports, exercising judgment involving competing priorities. Review of research from non-independent research disciplines. Supervised a team of 50 India-based research analysts from across research disciplines as additional charge

Bangalore, India

Hyderabad Area, India