Vikaas M Sachdeva

Thanks so much @MFBALA and all my colleagues at AMFI for acknowledging me and my team's contribution to the MF industry, especially the ETF segment. It's a very nice gesture indeed...

I have a secret to share After your first $2–$3 million, a paid off home and a good car, there is no difference in quality of life between you and Jeff Bezos. Both of you have limited amount of time on earth; you have twice if not more than Jeff, so you are richer than him. A cheeseburger is a cheeseburger whether a billionaire eats or you do. Money is nothing but a piece of paper or a number in your app. Real life is outdoors. Become financially independent; that’s usually 2–3mil. Have good food. Enjoy the relations. Workout. Sleep well. Call your parents. That’s all there is to life. Greed has no end. Repeat after me: Time is the currency of life. Money is not. Sooner you figure this out, happier you will be.

“11% is a big number.” “Am I offending you if I call it a money market fund?” - @SullyCNBC Digital Credit is redefining yield. Today we discussed Stretch $STRC on @PowerLunch.

A motorist traveling near Lonavala successfully foiled a potential scam after being intercepted by two unidentified men on a motorcycle. The suspects aggressively signaled the driver to stop, falsely claiming the vehicle had an outstanding bank loan of ₹10 lakh. Sensing a trap, the driver remained inside his car with the windows rolled up and contacted the police, causing the suspects to flee. Authorities are now warning car owners to stay alert against such high-pressure intimidation tactics on isolated road stretches. #Lonavala #RoadSafety #ScamAlert #PunePulse #StaySafe

One of the funniest renditions of the dhurandhar saga.... ....Dhurandhar Cricket 🤪

“The moment investors got a choice, everything changed.” 🎯 @mohanty_swarup from @MiraeAsset_IN on why digital distribution was needed. ▶️ Full episode - youtu.be/DXk2w0uXZX0

Why is it so difficult to get a kyc done on @PayPal ? Frustrating two days, and yet no solution Need to send money urgently, but this app is making me run around in circles We tend to underestimate the convenience indian apps give us...

Ask and you shall receive

Amazing and courageous journey....normalising the narrative a parent goes through in times like these, is so inspiring... @sangeetha89317 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/par…

@NG_Exhales @cryptoamanclub @EconomicTimes @moneycontrolcom @smtgpt @CoinDCX @neerajKh_ Initial assessment : the headlines and body copy are probably disjointed. @BWA_Ind should step in and help these smart, respected entrepreneurs - even if the industry association is still not formally recognized. Sad to see them in police custody over the weekend

It is not a certainty that they have been arrested. They have been brought in for questioning, yes. Unless you have confirmation of the arrest, @EconomicTimes says "arrested," while @moneycontrolcom says "questioned." @smtgpt @CoinDCX @neerajKh_ It will be great if you can clarify.

🚨 COINDCX FOUNDERS ARRESTED! ​CoinDCX co-founders (Sumit & Neeraj) have been arrested from Bengaluru by the Thane Police and are in custody until Monday. ​An investor has alleged a fraud of ₹71.6 Lakh, where a false lure of 12% monthly returns was given through fake sites. ​CoinDCX has called this Brand Impersonation—according to them, scammers have tarnished their name by creating 1,212+ fake websites.

Greatness is not in just winning a game, it's in winning heart.💞 She turned sadness into smile. Her parents deserve credit for bringing her up beautifully.

Sixteen years ago, one man stood alone on a grassy hill at a music festival in Washington State, USA, and started dancing by himself. People glanced over and looked away. Some laughed. His roommate leaned in and warned him people were filming him. He did not stop. Then one stranger got up and joined him. Then another. Then the hillside tipped. Within minutes, hundreds of people were sprinting from across the field to be part of something that, thirty seconds earlier, had been one man being laughed at in a field. Someone filming from higher up the hill said quietly: "See what one man can do. One man can change the world." The clip spread across the internet in 2009. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers played it at a TED conference to explain how movements actually begin. Not with the first person brave enough to start, he argued, but with the first person willing to join them. Collin Wynter, the man dancing alone, later said he had no idea he had done anything special. He was just tired of watching everyone sit still.

I have to thank you @vikaasmsachdeva For including me in your series #Mfchronicles It was wonderful exchanging views on global AMCs in India under the backdrop of our journey in India This one will always remain special for me. 😊🙏 x.com/i/status/20348…

Dear @mohanty_swarup , Your point on why global AMCs left India too early was eye-opening. Easy to exit. Hard to come back. A strong reminder that in this industry, patience isn’t optional. - Vikaas ▶️ Watch the full episode here - youtu.be/DXk2w0uXZX0 @MiraeAsset_IN

Javed Miandad said, “Bowlers like Irfan Pathan are found in every street of Pakistan.” Next day Pathan took a first over hat trick against Pakistan in Pakistan.

Worth thinking over this...timely article by @ssmumbai ....

@vikaasmsachdeva @mohanty_swarup @MiraeAsset_IN Deep insight. As Hyeon-Joo Park highlights—progress begins when we stop living in yesterday.India has the talent, the edge will come from letting go faster and moving forward smarter.

“The more you hold on to the past, the less you see the future.” ⏳ A powerful takeaway from @mohanty_swarup from @MiraeAsset_IN , inspired by his conversation with Mr. Hyeon-Joo Park. ▶️ Watch the full episode for more insights - youtu.be/DXk2w0uXZX0

India has always been a long-duration story. Many global players exited when markets were shallow and participation was low. Those who stayed (or returned with patience) benefited from financialisation, rising SIP culture, and structural growth. In India, time in the market often beats timing the market.

“Leaving India was easy. Coming back? Not so much.” 🇮🇳 Several global AMCs exited in the 90s. My conversation with @mohanty_swarup from @MiraeAsset_IN explains why patience in India often beats perfect timing. ⏳📊 ▶️ Watch the full episode here - youtu.be/DXk2w0uXZX0

A man in Sydney just built a personalized cancer vaccine for his dying dog. Using AI. With no background in biology. Paul Conyngham adopted Rosie, a staffy-Shar Pei cross, from a shelter in 2019. She’s been with him through some of the worst stretches of his life. “She’s my best mate,” he says. In 2024, Rosie got diagnosed with mast cell cancer, the most common skin cancer in dogs. He threw everything at it. Surgery. Chemo. Immunotherapy. The tumors slowed down but wouldn’t shrink. Vets gave her one to six months. Conyngham works in AI and data science. So he did what he knows. He opened ChatGPT and started asking it what else was possible. That conversation led him somewhere wild. He got Rosie’s tumor sequenced at UNSW’s Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics, basically converting her cancer from tissue into raw data. Then he ran that data through AlphaFold, a Google AI tool that predicts the 3D shape of proteins (it won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024). He used it to pinpoint the exact mutations driving the cancer and match them to drugs. A genomics professor at UNSW was, in his own words, “gobsmacked” that a guy with zero biology training had pulled together a complete analysis. And then the really hard part started. Not the science. The paperwork. You can’t just create a vaccine and inject your dog in Australia. He spent 3 months writing a 100-page ethics application, two hours every night after work, just to get permission to treat his own pet. The red tape was harder than the actual drug design. Once he cleared that, he connected with Páll Thordarson, director of the UNSW RNA Institute, who built a custom mRNA vaccine (same tech behind the COVID shots) from Conyngham’s data. Sequencing to finished vaccine: less than two months. Conyngham drove 10 hours to the lab with Rosie for her first injection in December. Within a month, the tumor on her leg, roughly tennis ball sized, shrank by up to 75%. Her coat got glossier. She started acting like herself again. The treating vet called it “magical.” Conyngham is now sequencing a second tumor that didn’t respond to the first vaccine, trying to figure out why it’s resistant. The part that keeps rattling around in my head: Moderna and Merck are running billion-dollar Phase 3 trials on a human version of the exact same idea. Their vaccine, mRNA-4157, sequences a patient’s tumor, identifies mutations, and builds a custom vaccine to teach the immune system to attack that specific cancer. Five-year data shows it cut melanoma recurrence by 49%. Expected cost per patient when approved: $100,000–$300,000. Expected approval: around 2027. Over 120 similar trials are running worldwide right now. Conyngham did it for tens of thousands of dollars with free AI tools and university lab access. The tools to build personalized medicine already exist. The bottleneck is a regulatory system still calibrated for a world where designing a treatment took a decade, not eight weeks.