Kaveri Annamalai: Operating A Highly Transparent Firm Maintaining A Long-Term Balance In Clients' Financial Portfolios
Kaveri Annamalai
Managing Director
Established in 1945, ARA is an investment, wealth management and equity broking advisory firm that is strongly committed to guiding its clients in the pursuit of their financial goals. Right from wealth creation, to protection and preservation, ARA supports its customers on the varied aspects of finance. No wonder, the company has, over the last 75 years, built a customer base with more than 900 happy clients. The organization was founded by Shri Annamalai Chettiar, and is ably led today by Mrs. Kaveri Annamalai, his granddaughter, who is poised to take the company to the next level. In an exclusive tete-atete with CEO Insights, Kaveri relives the journey.
Tell us more about ARA as a committed wealth management firm. What are the various services that ARA offers to its clients?
ARA began as a partnership firm, in the name of Trojan and Co at Tennur, Trichy. The company later started its association with BSE in
the 1980s, and with NSE in 1997. In the same year, we started offering DEMAT services. In 2002, we launched the online trading terminal, and in the year 2018, ARA share brokers were upgraded to ARA Wealth, a one-stop shop for all customers’ financial needs. We are now into the 3rd generation at ARA, and as an organization, we are renowned for handing family wealth with great ease.
Today our line of business includes Direct Equity, Advisory Services, Mutual Funds, Portfolio Management Services (PMS), Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) and structured investments that suits the need of the investor. We continue to pursue our quest for providing the finest customer service, maintaining our valued clients with whom we work, and growing by leaps & bounds.
What sets ARA apart from other players in the market? How are your services designed and rendered to help clients achieve their financial objectives?
ARA is a wealth advisory firm built on the strong foundations of hard work, experience, trust and integrity. We are an organization dedicated to offering top-class financial solutions under one roof. At ARA, we always believe in the importance of tailor-made solutions that suit the needs of our clients. While profits are central to our strategy, ARA is also a people-centric organization that has a culture, which first and foremost, focuses on employees and their behavior, and strives hard to offer the finest customer experience. This client-centric focus is a factor that sets us apart in the industry and has also resulted in customer relationships that has lasted for decades and that has spanned generations.
Another factor that differentiates us is our strategy of associating ourselves with solutions and not with products or promotion of any
Today our line of business includes Direct Equity, Advisory Services, Mutual Funds, Portfolio Management Services (PMS), Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) and structured investments that suits the need of the investor. We continue to pursue our quest for providing the finest customer service, maintaining our valued clients with whom we work, and growing by leaps & bounds.
At ARA, we always believe in the importance of tailor-made solutions that suit the needs of our client
What sets ARA apart from other players in the market? How are your services designed and rendered to help clients achieve their financial objectives?
ARA is a wealth advisory firm built on the strong foundations of hard work, experience, trust and integrity. We are an organization dedicated to offering top-class financial solutions under one roof. At ARA, we always believe in the importance of tailor-made solutions that suit the needs of our clients. While profits are central to our strategy, ARA is also a people-centric organization that has a culture, which first and foremost, focuses on employees and their behavior, and strives hard to offer the finest customer experience. This client-centric focus is a factor that sets us apart in the industry and has also resulted in customer relationships that has lasted for decades and that has spanned generations.
Another factor that differentiates us is our strategy of associating ourselves with solutions and not with products or promotion of any
specific product. There are organizations that primarily focus only on business growth and profit, but we on the other hand place our customers’ interests above everything. We have a process-oriented approach at ARA, which is oriented towards dealing with the unique requirements of our clients by developing a resolution model consisting of process entities. Endeavoring to serve our customer by offering them the best solutions in the market is our first priority. Following this, we aspire to become a reliable financial superstore that caters to all the needs of a client regarding financial and wealth management.
What kind of ‘go beyond the norm’ steps do you take to ensure best level benefit for your clients?
I always believe that knowledge is power and our clients should be empowered with knowledge. Hence, we regularly conduct investor awareness programs and investor knowledge series. We try to bring in speakers from different areas, all related to finance and conduct month-on-month meetings, and an annual meeting that is called ARA wealth fest.
The most common questions that arise in every investor’s mind are - When should I enter into the market, how long should I stay and what is the correct time for exit? Though they do have these questions, many don’t have the answers, and they sometimes avoid an important asset class of equity, which heavily impacts the final result. Here is where ARA comes in, as we help them to get the answers for all of these questions, not by timing the market but by creating a discipline for them and a process by which they can accumulate wealth beyond timing the market.
Kaveri Annamalai, Managing Director, Ara Wealth
One of just 1600 CFPs in India, Kaveri is not just the Director of ARA but also a corporate trainer and a public speaker, who is renowned in the industry for her dedicated leadership.
Office: Trichy
Offerings: Direct Equity, Advisory Services, Mutual Funds, Portfolio Management Services (PMS), Alternative Investment Funds (AIF), and more
What kind of ‘go beyond the norm’ steps do you take to ensure best level benefit for your clients?
I always believe that knowledge is power and our clients should be empowered with knowledge. Hence, we regularly conduct investor awareness programs and investor knowledge series. We try to bring in speakers from different areas, all related to finance and conduct month-on-month meetings, and an annual meeting that is called ARA wealth fest.
The most common questions that arise in every investor’s mind are - When should I enter into the market, how long should I stay and what is the correct time for exit? Though they do have these questions, many don’t have the answers, and they sometimes avoid an important asset class of equity, which heavily impacts the final result. Here is where ARA comes in, as we help them to get the answers for all of these questions, not by timing the market but by creating a discipline for them and a process by which they can accumulate wealth beyond timing the market.
Kaveri Annamalai, Managing Director, Ara Wealth
One of just 1600 CFPs in India, Kaveri is not just the Director of ARA but also a corporate trainer and a public speaker, who is renowned in the industry for her dedicated leadership.
Office: Trichy
Offerings: Direct Equity, Advisory Services, Mutual Funds, Portfolio Management Services (PMS), Alternative Investment Funds (AIF), and more