Vinay Nair is a serial entrepreneur (55ip, TIFIN, Magnifi, Clout, Positivly, Louise) and academic. He is involved as an advisor or board member in several companies in

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, across investment management, venture capital and fintech. He is also involved in technology-enabled solutions that link Israel, India and the US. He is the founder and chairman of TIFIN, a platform to create and manage a portfolio of fintech brands and companies in areas of investments, wealth management and asset management, as well as founder and chairman of 55ip, a fintech firm with offices in

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and

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. Nair is also a visiting professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the

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Early life

Vinay Nair grew up in

and completed his undergraduate studies at the

Indian Institute of Technology The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are central government owned public technical institutes located across India. They are under the ownership of the Ministry of Education of the Government of India. They are governed by the Institu ...

, where he was awarded the Governor’s, Gold Medal. He received his PhD in financial

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

from New York University Stern School of Business, and was awarded best thesis.

Career

Nair began his career as a faculty member at The Wharton School as an Assistant Professor of

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. He has also taught courses at INSEAD,

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, Indian School of Business, and

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. In 2008, Nair authored ''Investing for Change'', published by

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, on the use of social variables in investment management. He is a regular speaker at financial conferences across the globe on topics including financial engineering,

behavioral economics Behavioral economics studies the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social factors on the decisions of individuals or institutions, such as how those decisions vary from those implied by classical economic theory. ...

, and

sustainable investing Socially responsible investing (SRI), social investment, sustainable socially conscious, "green" or ethical investing, is any investment strategy which seeks to consider both financial return and social/environmental good to bring about social ...

. Nair founded Ada Investments in 2010. He was named a

hedge fund A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as sho ...

rising star by Institutional Investor in 2012. ''FINalternatives'' noted that Ada Investments' investment approach grew from Nair's original academic investigations, and uses fundamental and behavioral insights to identify return drivers in

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markets. In 2014

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acquired a minority stake in Ada Investments. Ada Investments was sold to 55 Capital Partners (renamed to 55ip), a firm he helped launch in June 2016. Prior to founding Ada Investments, Nair was a

research Research is "creativity, creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular att ...

director and portfolio manager at Old Lane Partners, a fund acquired by Citi Alternative Investments. He founded 55ip, a fintech platform for tax management and remains chairman. On December 2nd, 2020, JP Morgan Asset Management announced that it was acquiring 55ip. The deal value was not disclosed. In 2018, he formed TIFIN, a fintech

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. TIFIN conceives, creates and operates fintech companies in the areas of wealth management, investments and personal finance. Its operating companies leverage the combined power of investment intelligence,

data science Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge from data across a br ...

, and technology to make investing a driver of financial wellbeing.

References

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