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CFC 2015: Outlook of Commodity Finance: Key Game Changers by Mr. Akhilesh Tilotia, Kotak Securities. You can watch the video here: YouTube Mr. Akhilesh Tilotia, currently working as an Associate director with Kotak Securities. Mr. Tilotia has worked with the Boston Consulting Group and was a co-founder of Park Financial Advisors. He has been an investment banker, a consultant and a personal finance advisor, even while pursuing his interests in astronomy, mythology, securities law and languages. He has been invited as a Keynote Speaker in the strategy sessions of various corporate houses in India and has also presented to senior investment teams of various global fund houses. He has completed his post-graduation from IIM-Ahmedabad and is also a Certified Financial Analyst and a graduate of St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta.

Akhilesh Tilotia speaks about how the entire online e-commerce digital industry is panning out in India. In his point of view there is a bit of dichotomy, but as India becomes more digital there are immense business opportunities beginning to open up. You can watch the video here: YouTube

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Akhilesh Tilotia, associate director with the Kotak Institutional Equities says that the business world will need to adjust to digitized world as e-commerce and data analytics is reshaping business models. You can watch the video here: Link

Colloquia, IIM-Calcutta Colloquia, the oldest club of IIM Calcutta, organized the first guest talk of the current academic session. Mr. Akhilesh Tilotia, Associate Director, Kotak Institutional Equities spoke on ‘Making of India-Game Changing Transitions’ this month. The speaker, an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, is also an author of a recent book by the same name. Mr. Tilotia leads thematic research under the Game Changer brand and co-authors market strategy reports on the Indian equity markets. He has worked with the Boston Consulting Group and was a co-founder of Park Financial Advisors. He has been an investment banker, a consultant and a personal finance advisor, even while pursuing his interests in astronomy, mythology, securities law and languages. The talk focused on the opportunities and challenges that India faces as it seeks to reap the benefits of its demographic dividend. The talk was structured on the key highlights of Mr. Tilotia’s recent book and was highly informative

The Free Press Journal Friday, July 17, 2015, 12:48 AM IST Looking all around, it appears that Mumbai’s infrastructure has developed tremendously in the last few years. Bridges, flyovers, expressways–these are all major changes in the way the city moves. But yet, commuters travel for hours to get to their destinations. Why is that and what more should be done?, says Akhilesh Tilotia. Has infrastructure in Mumbai been a game-changer for the city? The idea set me thinking about how one judges whether the infrastructure that has been created is indeed enough, forget being labeled a game-changer. I reflected on my 12 kms daily commute from the new business district of Bandra Kurla Complex to my home on the Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR) which takes about 60 and 80 minutes. This is almost the same time taken by my wife from her work place in Airoli to home, a similar distance. This translates into an average speed of between 9km/hr and 12 kms/hr, not very far from the officia

Hindustan Times Making of India: From 1947 to 2015, the complexities of our country Is the idea that India should be a hub of manufacture beset with problems of infrastructure? Updated: Jun 06, 2015 14:29 IST In 1857, the lavishly wealthy 330-year-old subcontinental Mughal empire was conquered by British imperialists who created their own empire. The British followed the maxim that conquered land belonged to the conqueror. So over the next decades, ships laden with booty crossed the seas to transfer untold riches to Britain. The name of the conquered land was Anglicised from Persian to English as India. The latter was ruthlessly colonised. By the time the British rule ended in 1947, 'natives' were bequeathed a hapless 'tryst with destiny' (the emotional words of independent India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru) with an impoverished, desiccated, partitioned India whose pyrrhic victory lay in downgrading the British monarch's title fro

IAIP event at ISB, Hyderabad SPEAKER SESSIONS AKHILESH TILOTIA, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR KOTAK INSTITUTIONAL EQUITIES (KIE),Akhilesh Tilotia leads thematic research under the Game Changer brand and co-authors market strategy reports on the Indian equity markets. He started KIE’s thematic research product, Game Changer. Through data and discussion, the series digs deep to offer perspectives on ideas and developments that can potentially alter the course of the markets. The Game Changer series provides institutional investors with a macro overview of opportunities and challenges in India. His debut book, The Making of India – Game Changing Transitions, draws upon his years of analysis of the social, economic and political changes in India. May 8, 2015 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM | Friday AC2MLT, Hyderabad, India OPEN TO PUBLIC The Making of India chronicles the journey of India's demographic dividend through the varied transitions taking place in the economy. The forces shaping India

The Hindu Business Line India needs to diversify its agriculture, break out of the cereals trap The country's agriculture has mostly revolved around inputs required to make farming viable and successful. But it is high time that agriculture is viewed from the perspective of the output that country wants from the sector. Nutrition guidelines that the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) lays down specify food calories and portions for individuals in various age, gender and work categories. NIN guidelines go into great detail on the quantum of calories that Indians of various work-profiles and gender need and the food source from which such calories should come from. Looking at the NIN-recommended portions of food for each category of people alongside data from census and NSSO, it is easy to determine the country's annual food quantity requirements. It is worth noting that the peak recommended calorie requirements in India for men and women (3,490 and

CSIS event, Washington, DC, USA Panelist at Smart Cities as Innovation Hubs Wednesday, April 15, 2015 5:00 pm - Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:30 am Center for Strategic and International Studies 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 We are pleased to invite you to a special U.S.-India business collaboration conference taking place at CSIS on April 15, co-organized by the Ananta Aspen Centre and the Wadhwani Foundation. This full-day conference will convene senior policymakers, business leaders, and other stakeholders from both countries with the aim of generating practical policy recommendations that enhance economic cooperation. The session will include expert-led discussions covering some of the Modi government's most important economic initiatives including the Smart Cities concept, the Make in India campaign, and Skills Development. The conference will feature a keynote address by India's Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley. You can watch the video here: Yo

IAIP Mumbai speaking event The Making Of India - Game Changing Transitions Leading Thematic Researcher and Market Strategist in Indian Equity Markets Indian Association of Investment Professionals (IAIP) is pleased to announce the upcoming Speaker event with Mr. Akhilesh Tilotia, CFA, Associate Director, Kotak Institutional Equities (KIE). Day, Date: Friday, March 13, 2015 Time: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm [Registration begins at 6:30 pm] Venue: NSE Auditorium, NSE, BKC, Mumbai 1.5 CE credit hours for participation in this program will be automatically recorded to CE diary of IAIP Members. “The Making of India” chronicles the journey of India's demographic dividend through the varied transitions taking place in the economy. The forces shaping India's job market, its cities, its industry and agriculture and its equation with the rest of the world come from expected and unexpected places, heralding massive opportunities and challenges for citizens, the government and invest

Akhilesh Tilotia, associate director, Kotak Institutional Equities, says if he were FM he would try to kick start the capital cycle. You can watch the video here: LiveMint

Arun Shourie launching and commenting on the book 'The Making of India' at the annual Kotak Institutional Equities conference in 2015. You can watch the video here: YouTube

Uday and Akhilesh talk about how the job scenario has changed due to the evolving manufacturing sector and how the current demographic dividend forms a part of a large labour market. You can watch the video here: YouTube

Akhilesh Tilotia talks about the current market pricing and its impact on India and how it is affecting the Indian economic landscape. You can watch the video here: YouTube

India is no longer a land of villages. Uday Kotak , Executive Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Kotak Mahindra Bank and Akhilesh Tilotia talk about urbanization in India. You can watch the video here: YouTube

Uday Kotak introduces talks about The Making of India, a book by Akhilesh Tilotia that narrates the story of Indian economy with a wide variety of facts, figures, analysis, anecdotes and insights. You can watch the video here: YouTube

Akhilesh Tilotia, author of The Making of India talks about the inception of this insightful book and the efforts that went into it. You can watch it here: YouTube

The Making of India - book launch Uday Kotak observes, “Markets and economies worldwide are in a state of constant tumult led on by a string of known and unknown unknowns. In a connected world, the ever changing global flows of money, ideas and people, has led to unpredictability being the new norm. This timely book makes meaning of the many seemingly disparate, yet interconnected sequences that inform these events, to help the reader benefit from this creative chaos. February 4, 2015 17:14 IST Uday Kotak, Executive Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited launched ‘The Making of India – Game Changing Transitions’ – a book by Akhilesh Tilotia, Associate Director and thematic analyst with Kotak Institutional Equities. The book traces the arc of India's demographic dividend through the varied transitions taking place in the economy from their finding of jobs to making their homes. The book documents and forecasts the forces shaping India's employm