I am Atharva Yeole, a third-year undergraduate in the Chemical Engineering Department. I’m from Pune and a finance enthusiast. I have previously served as Design Secy at ChEA

About the Internship

The internship was from 8th May 2023 to 14th July 2023. The office was located in Marol, Andheri East, Mumbai and it was a small office with a staff of about 20 and focused on detailed work in small teams
Renaissance Investment Managers is a public equity firm focused on long-term investments. They work on identifying potential investment opportunities in the Public equities in various sectors like Consumer Goods, Automobile, IT, Banking and Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, and Chemicals.
I was assigned to prepare a detailed report on the Indian Pharmaceutical Market containing the market size, major players, top drugs and brands, and understanding business models & financials of top pharmaceutical firms in India

Work Experience

I worked in the research division of the firm which included 5 people (1 Fund Manager and 4 full-time analysts) and I was the summer intern. Each analyst was allotted one sector to look out for and we were overlooked by the Fund Manager. I was guided and mentored by Mr. Pawan Parakh, the Fund Manager, who used to hold a weekly one-on-one meeting to see the progress of my report and always used to give me his perspective for that domain and how we should think in terms of investments
My timings for the job were from 9:30 AM - 6 PM, so was not left with a lot of time on weekdays Mostly I used to sleep during weekends but explored a lot of new food places in the city. My office was around 6 km from the Institute, so I used to commute by auto every day with one senior from the institute who was also interning in the same corporate complex
Also, it was very beneficial to have a real on-site professional experience, because your interviews can just go round and round about that point only and it becomes more of a conversion + 4 good lines on your resume :)

My Sophomore Year

I’m not pursuing any minor, but I always wanted to explore finance and was not sure what to start with as it has so many domains Trading, Quant, IB, Public and Private Equity, and Venture Capital. I was not sure what to start, so I tried in almost all fields and got an opportunity in the Public Equity space.
I was Design Secy at ChEA and Creatives Coordinator at Techfest. I used to participate in almost all competitions and workshops organized by the Finance Club. These included Finsearch, Equity Research, Investment Banking, and Algo Trading Competition