{"id":14630,"date":"2022-10-10T06:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsindia.co.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/10\/harsh-punjabee-celebrates-his-36th-birthday-by-disrupting-the-bond-market\/"},"modified":"2022-10-10T06:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:04:32","slug":"harsh-punjabee-celebrates-his-36th-birthday-by-disrupting-the-bond-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsindia.co.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/10\/harsh-punjabee-celebrates-his-36th-birthday-by-disrupting-the-bond-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Harsh Punjabee celebrates his 36th birthday by disrupting the bond market!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dsprime\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/primexnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/featured-image-13.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>October 10:<\/strong> Harsh Punjabee is a serial entrepreneur and an investor in multiple early-stage and second-stage ventures across India, the UK, UAE. He is also a fixed-income enthusiast and has been trading bonds for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Harsh saw an opportunity to make bond markets more efficient, transparent and accessible for retail investors and founded his start-up SMEST Capital in 2018. &#8220;SMEST&#8221; is a combination of smart and invest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Indians love the stability and fixed returns while investing, but there are hardly any choices for them. I want to fill the gap between FD and Equity and introduce Indian investors to Bonds, a more stable and inflation-beating asset class.&#8221; says Harsh.<\/p>\n<p>With SMEST, Harsh is shaking up the status quo and democratizing the Fixed-Income corporate bond market. The platform provides users with complete transparency, access best prices, and a simple user interface to trade bonds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23744\" src=\"https:\/\/primexnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/secondary-image-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Niraj Shah, VP of Operations at SMEST, shares the birthday with Harsh. The childhood friends turned business partners are unstoppable in making bond investments accessible to every investor. Niraj says, &#8220;While we both trade bonds, the strongest bond we hold is our friendship which makes it possible for us to ride the toughest tides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SMEST is currently the fastest-growing SEBI-regulated Fixed Income broker in India. It has over 50,000+ active investors and has a wide array of financial products of more than Rs. 10,000 crores in the debt segment.<\/p>\n<p>Niraj shared an update,&#8221; We are currently revamping the smest.in website, and this will be our significant disruption by providing more information and building trust with our customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With SMEST, Harsh is revolutionizing the bond market and empowering a generation of Indian investors. Reminiscing on his journey, Harsh says,&#8221; I have grown a lot since I started SMEST. Every day is a new challenge, but I am more and more energized to face them and solve them. Even though it&#8217;s my birthday and I am turning older, I am growing a lot younger. I am excited about our path forward, and I am eternally grateful to the entire team at SMEST for making what seemed impossible possible!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have any objection to this press release content, kindly contact pr.error.rectification[at]gmail.com to notify us. 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