Around five or six years ago, IDFC Asset Management Company fund manager Anurag Mittal was looking to try his hand at adventure sports. After some research, he settled on doing them in New Zealand, a country which he found to have an exceptional safety record when it came to such activities. He ended up doing both bungee jumping and skydiving.
A similar ‘safety first’ approach to his investment portfolio helped him win the best debt fund manager award (short to medium duration) at the Business Standard Fund Cafe 2019 held earlier in August. He managed the IDFC Banking and PSU