Sense of deja vu: Here's what makes ICICI Pru AMC's Banthia an outlier

Keeping a cool head during a crisis has helped Manish Banthia outperform his peers

Outperforming peers following a crisis in the debt markets is an act that ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company fund manager Manish Banthia has managed to pull off more than once.

He won the Business Standard Fund Manager of the Year award — Medium- to Long-term Debt category in 2019 in the aftermath of the Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) crisis. The collapse of the financing company had affected the mutual fund industry, which held IL&FS group securities. This time it was Covid-19. The unprecedented shutting down of some debt funds because of the pandemic had put the industry in