About Us
What We Do?
We are born and living for "Making Money More Productive"
We believe we have the power to create more wealth for our people
We believe our people deserve better life, can achieve more and enjoy more in their life with the money they have
We believe we could change the lives of people with our solutions and services
We are passionate about creating, learning and teaching new ideas of "Making money more productive"
How We Do?
Help our clients to make smarter choices through efficient and economic investment options / alternatives delivering more value per rupee
Better investment options, higher yield and more conveniences to our clients
What's our Core?
Who Are We?
The Team:
We are a small, agile and efficient team with people responsible for functions like Sales, Marketing & Customer Relationship Management, Research & Investment Analysis, Sales Support, Back Office Operations and Business Tie-ups & Administration, delivering a meticulous, high-touch, personalized and priority service to our clients.
A jack of all generally but master of one at a time.
Multi-tasker generally but concentrates deeply at times.
Passionate to Addventureprise® but synergizes all the energy in one venture at a time.
Introvert by nature, extrovert by practice.
Organized, Meticulous, Hardworking, Tenacious
Fair, Honest, Confidant
Proactive, Responsive, Responsible, Consistent
Likes to be called Knowledgeable, Hungry to learn, Loves to Educate
Loving father, Charming husband, Caring son, Friendly brother, Helping friend
Past Professional Roles: Tool & Die Maker, Mechanical Design Engineer, Project Manager
Past Hobbies: Poetry, Short Story Writing, Movies
Present Professional Roles: Financial Advisor, Ad-hoc Project Manager
Present Hobbies: Reading,Writing, Speaking about Personal Finance
Obsessed in applying all those learning and experiences of ex-profession and ex-hobbies in one thing he is doing at Hornmerchant® now!
Jagadeesh S Bangarimath, Designated Partner
He spent about two decades in the Mechanical Engineering domain as a Design Engineer and then he couldn't hold back his entrepreneurial urge anymore. He first tired venturing in to an Engineering Services start-up and then joined hands with Girish make Hornmerchant more efficient and powerful. During his work career, personally he was a very disciplined and stoic investor and encouraged many of his colleagues to organize their finances. He had personally experienced and got benefitted of power of compounding trough long term investing and he wants to share is experience and guide many more benefit from his experience and help.
Sangeeta Kodashettar, MBA, Partner
Before starting her professional journey, She worked with Reliance Life Insurance and HDFC Bank in different roles of operations for about 3 years.
She felt and realized there was a lot of scope and opportunity to increase the value to the customers in terms of return on investment, service & convenience and education (awareness).
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Associates & Partners:
We are associated / tied-up with few Individuals, professionals and platforms to provide holistic financial services to our clients, with regards to personal finance. While we are specialists in helping the clients to goal based investing, there are other facets to personal finance (like Insurance, Taxation, Legal) which need different & specialized expertise. So, our associations with the said professionals and experts help the clients to get easy and reliable interface to the said specialists.
Disclosures about Relationship with Associates / Partners:
Ms. Sangeeta Kodashettar: Our parnter in LLP is also associate in her individual capacity as Mutual Fund Distributor, with AMFI Registration ARN-85236 and also for Insurance Business (Disclosure: She is wife of Girish Kodashettar). She is empanelled with various MF Companies (AMC's), BSE Star MF, NSE NMF and Funds India (Wealth India Financial Services) to offer her services. M/s Adapt Fintech Advisors Pvt Ltd., is her vendor of Technology Platforms / Applications, for the use of her clients.
Mr. Lingaraj S Kodashettar & Ms. Vijayalxmi L Kodashettar: Our associate Insurance. (Disclosure: They are parents of Mr. Girish Kodashettar. They are empanelled with Insurance Companies and M/s Bajaj Capital and M/s SBI Capital for offering their services.)
Mrs. Shobha J Bangarimath: Our associate for Insurance (Disclosure: She is wife of Jagadeesh S Bangarimath)
Other Associates: Other associate professionals' (Investment Advisers, Estate Planners, Chartered Accountants, Lawyers / Law firms etc) are independent professionals. They are not named here because there isn't any one or few associates, whose services are used exclusively. Service of such professional will used based on suitability & convenience (location, kind of & level of service needed etc) of the client . (Conflicts of interest and personal relationship discloses will be made, if any, from case to case basis).
Disclosures about Brokerages, Commissions and Fees:
All the details about remunerations are made available to all the clients and detailed info can be seen on Fees & Charges page. Mutual Funds' Brokerage will not exceed the SEBI prescribed limit and Insurance Commission will not exceed the limits specified by IRDAI.