News Broadcasting
Bloomberg|Quint’s The Mutual Fund Show marks one successful year of educating viewers on personal finance
MUMBAI: India’s premier business and financial news company, has recently announced the completion of one successful year of its highly popular series ‘The Mutual Fund Show’. The feature, streamed across multiple platforms to a wide user base, provides critical guidance to India’s new generation of investors contemplating the various forms of financial investment available in the market today. It also raises awareness among Indian consumers about the potential and promise of investing in mutual funds – acknowledged to be one of the safest and most rewarding ways to build wealth – by examining their concerns and helping users connect to experts with the right answers. The series has garnered over 5.5 million views across social media in the last one year.
The program, run in the format of a talk show, features top fund managers and finance experts who leverage their expertise to analyze and provide in-depth insights into mutual funds from micro and macro perspectives. The show also provides a direct response to viewer queries, collecting questions from social media users to get their doubts cleared through direct responses from the invited guests. The show has so far dwelled on such topics as why mutual funds should be an integral part of one’s investment portfolio, the use of mutual funds to repay home loans, and how an investor should evaluate fund performance. The show also deals with the tax-saving benefits of investing into Equity Linked Savings Schemes (ELSS), and choosing between active and passive investing.
The Mutual Fund Show has invited prominent company leaders of asset management companies and mutual funds like A. Balasubramanian (CEO, Aditya Birla Sun Life Asset Management), Kalpen Parekh (President, DSP BlackRock Mutual Fund), Aashish P Sommaiyaa (CEO, Motilal Oswal AMC), Milind Barve (MD, HDFC AMC), and Nilesh Shah (MD, Kotak Mahindra AMC) to offer expert advice to viewers. It has also featured prominent fund managers like S. Naren (Chief Investment Officer, ICICI Prudential AMC), Mahesh Patil (Co-Chief Investment Officer, Aditya Birla Sun Life MF), Gautam Sinha Roy (Sr. Vice President – Fund Manager, Motilal Oswal Associates), Taher Badshah (Chief Investment Officer – Equities, Invesco Mututal Fund)to name a few.
Commenting on the 1-year anniversary of the The Mutual Fund Show, Menaka Doshi, Managing Editor Bloomberg|Quint, said, “The Mutual Fund Show is not the first show of its kind nor the last one. But what it does rather uniquely is to go beyond investment platitudes and bring to viewers useful, indepth and personalised information to aid investment strategies.”
Also sharing his comments Niraj Shah, the Markets Editor and Anchor of the show, said, “The Mutual Fund Show aims to bring lessons of Mutual Fund investing in the simplest possible fashion. Its uniquely placed as an interactive learning platform, and strives to bring an all-round perspective for both new and experienced investors”.
The Mutual Fund Show is one of the many shows available on Bloomberg|Quint, which has been disrupting news content delivery through its innovative and technology-driven approach. By creating India’s first digital business news streaming service, Bloomberg|Quint has captured the attention and imagination of India’s digital natives, who are hungry for the latest insights into the global business landscape, through the channel of their choice. Bloomberg|Quint delivers exclusive news coverage around mutual funds and several other relevant issues from the world of business across multiple social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, WhatsApp, and YouTube. Its state-of-the-art newsroom, cutting-edge analysis, and in-depth coverage of pertinent business news have led to Bloomberg|Quint being rated as the most viewed business news brand on Facebook amongst new-age publishers, and the Business Website of the Year at the Digipub Awards 2017.
News Broadcasting
CNN-News18 to host Fury in the Gulf conclave on West Asia crisis
Three-hour summit to unpack geopolitical fallout and impact on India
MUMBAI: CNN-News18 is set to host a special three-hour broadcast, Fury in the Gulf – War Conclave, on April 7, aiming to decode the escalating West Asia crisis and its far-reaching implications for India.
Scheduled from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, the conclave comes at a time when tensions between Iran and the United States are reshaping global geopolitics and triggering economic uncertainty. With India’s deep energy ties, trade links and large diaspora in the Gulf, the developments carry significant domestic relevance.
Built around the theme ‘Conflict, Consequences, and The Future,’ the programme will feature six curated sessions combining one-on-one interviews and panel discussions. The focus is to cut through the clutter and offer viewers a clearer understanding of the fast-evolving situation.
Key sessions include ‘Diplomacy in Times of War’ featuring Shashi Tharoor, and ‘World After the Iran Conflict’ with voices such as Ram Madhav, Reuven Azar, representatives from the European Union and the Iranian Deputy Envoy. Another session titled ‘Another Dunkirk?’ will bring together K. J. S. Dhillon and Jitin Prasada among others.
CNN-News18 editorial affairs director Rahul Shivshankar said, “In times of war, clarity becomes the most powerful tool. Fury in the Gulf – War Conclave brings together credible voices to address the questions and confusion that arise amid an overwhelming influx of information.”
He added that the initiative is aimed at delivering “facts, perspective, and insight” at a time when misinformation can easily cloud public understanding.
Echoing the sentiment, CNN-News18 CEO– English and business news Smriti Mehra said the conflict marks a defining global moment, with consequences that extend well beyond the region. She noted that the conclave seeks to present the crisis with “depth, nuance and responsibility” so audiences can better grasp its real-world impact.
As geopolitical tensions continue to dominate headlines, the conclave positions itself as an attempt to bring order to the noise, offering viewers a structured, insight-led look at a complex and rapidly shifting global situation.
