Rajiv Jain

Rajiv Jain was born in India and earned an MBA from the University of Miami. He spent 22 years at Vontobel Asset Management, where he built the emerging markets and global equity capabilities before becoming co-CIO. In 2016 he left Vontobel to found GQG Partners in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The firm grew at an extraordinary pace: from no assets at founding in 2016 to approximately $100 billion within seven years. In 2021 GQG listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, raising approximately A$1.2 billion in one of the largest Australian IPOs of the year. Jain's investment approach is quality-growth: he seeks companies with durable competitive advantages, strong management teams, and consistent earnings growth, building highly concentrated portfolios of typically 30-50 names. Unlike many growth investors, Jain is willing to make opportunistic contrarian investments — most notably, GQG Partners became a significant investor in the Adani Group after the Hindenburg short-seller report caused a sharp sell-off in 2023, betting on the longer-term resilience of Adani's infrastructure businesses. This trade was widely scrutinised and ultimately proved profitable. Jain is considered one of the most successful fund managers of his generation.