T he fund management industry in India has had a close association with Crisil, India’s largest debt rating agency. Either they have directly worked in Crisil or there is a very strong chance that they are closely associated with someone who has once worked with Crisil. It has provided some of the best people to financial markets just like HUL provided CEOs to corporates in the past. The credit for building such an institution must go to the late R. Ravimohan who headed Crisil from 1994 to 2008.
(This story appears in the 22 January, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)