Apoorva Shah

BofA Securities India Ltd. is the Indian broker/dealer subsidiary of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) in the US. The firm was formerly known as DSP Merrill Lynch Ltd. It provides capital raising solutions, M&A advisory, securities research, sales and trading capabilities to corporates, financial institutions, multinationals and foreign government entities. The company was founded in October 23, 1975 and was headquartered in Mumbai, India.

DSP Asset Managers Pvt. Ltd. (DSP AM) is a mutual fund management firm headquartered in Mumbai, India. The firm was founded in 1996 as DSP Merrill Lynch Fund Managers through a joint venture between Hemendra Kothari’s DSP Group and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. They were renamed DSP BlackRock Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd. in 2008 when BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) bought out Merrill Lynch's stake. The firm changed their name to DSP Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd. in 2018 and DSP Asset Managers Pvt. Ltd. in 2023. DSP AM manages the DSP BlackRock mutual funds for individual and institutional investors. They also sub-advice offshore funds.